
Beatport Mannheim's Ray Okpara recently shared his Weekend Weapons with Beatportal. Percussive house fans should definitely check his picks out: http://bit.ly/65uvlT
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Like [[Johnny D]], the driver of the Mannheim house movement, [[Ray Okpara]] too attributes his hypnotic house drums and bongo dexterity to his old African roots. It's the Nigerian in me man, or something like that. ...

Beatport Resident Advisor's Top 50 Tracks Of 2009
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one of the leading voices in the electronic music world, has concluded its year-end coverage with the top tracks from the past 12 months. The RA staff, editors, contributors and selected DJs have aggregated the results, taking the temperature of dance floors across the globe. ...

Beatport Beatport's top selling mainstream tracks of 2009
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Super producers like Pryda, Deadmau5, Fatboy Slim, Mark Knight and John Dahlback had another phenomenal year, while the Swedish House Mafia crew and friends seemed to dominate the charts alongside big wigs like Wolfgang Gartner, Kim Fai and Jerome Isma-Ae. ...

Beatport Beatport's top selling underground tracks of 2009
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Super producers like Dubfire, Gui Boratto, Luciano and Joris Voorn had a phenomenal year in 2009. They held firmly to their crowns from years prior while fresh faces like Alan Fitzpatrick, Nick Curly, Coyu and Tony Lionni burst onto the scene, giving them a run for their money. ...

Beatport Remix contest update: Today is your last chance to vote for your favorite Yello remix entries. You may now also upload your remix entry of Armand Van Helden’s House classic ‘Witch Doktor’.
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Beatport New Talent: Tom Budden. We interview Southampton's new kid on the block about his record label Alive, his squiggly tech house tunes, and his friendship with James Zabiela: http://bit.ly/7VwwDU
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[[Tom Budden]] has risen up the ranks of the UK club circuit in recent years via his solo productions, record label Alive, and club gigs, which includes warm-up sets for fellow Southampton boy James Zabiela. ...

Beatport Beatport Presents Paul van Dyk's Vonyc Session Awards
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German trance giant [[Paul van Dyk]] wants the listeners of his worldwide syndicated radio show to vote for their favourite tracks, guest mixes, and artists as part of his annual VONYC Sessions Award. ...

Beatport Pioneer, Beatport, DJ Magazine, and LetsMix.com team up for the world's biggest ever DJ talent contest. The prize? Career-changing gigs, huge press coverage, CDJ-2000s, a compilation release on Beatport, and more! Details: http://bit.ly/59gPbC
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Pioneer, Beatport, DJ Magazine and Let’s Mix have joined forces to launch the world’s biggest DJ talent contest. ‘Next Generation DJ’ (NGDJ) aims to unearth the next superstar DJ and give them a life changing prize.

Beatport This is your chance to remix Armand Van Helden’s House classic ‘Witch Doktor’.
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Throughout 2009 Beatport has brought you a string of epic remix contests, including tracks from the best of the underground and mainstream producers around the globe. To end 2009, we are proud to partner ...

Beatport Video: It's 5.50am and Richie Hawtin finishes his DJ set at The Warehouse Project in Manchester with 10 minutes of amazing techno. http://bit.ly/75eqq8
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It’s 5.50am on a cold Sunday in Manchester. In a sweat-covered warehouse, Canadian techno DJ Richie Hawtin winds up a set for 2000 clubbers with 10 minutes of mind-bending rhythms and pumped up electronic sounds, as captured brilliantly here by visual artist Ali Demirel.

Beatport Label profile: Quintessentials. The founders behind British deep house label Quintessentials want their music to do the talking, so they don’t want you to know who they are. But they agreed to speak about the label, its sound, artists, and core ideals for this profile. http://bit.ly/64kMYW
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Quintessentials is a new British label full of opposites. Its sound is classic yet futuristic deep house, as close to Chicago and New York's sound of 10 years ago, as it is to the new deep house axis that includes Jus Ed's Underground Quality and Spain's Deep Explorer Music. ...

Beatport What's in Moodymanc's DJ box? With his latest funk filled house 12” ‘Omlette’ having just dropped on Steve Bug’s Dessous, we asked Moodymanc for a peek inside his bountiful record box. As expected, we found plenty of drum fun. http://bit.ly/8OgHVP
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Manchester's Danny Ward loves drums. It's more of an obsession really. He can talk for hours about legendary jazz drummers like Art Blakey, Philly Joe Jones, and Billy Higgins, even though he has never seen any of them play live. ...

Beatport Dutch techno pioneer Miss Djax has flown the flag for techno for over 20 years - here she talks about her legendary imprint Djax Records, the hard techno, acid, and Chicago sounds it is known for, and how it is still going strong all these years later: http://bit.ly/6Bc1zN
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Miss Djax is proof that age doesn't necessarily always bring peace. For 20 years now, her Eindhoven record label has stomped on the face of techno with hard punishing beats, radioactive acid sounds, and distorted kick drums. ...



























