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Cocoon Closing Party Review – Amnesia 2011

October 7th, 2011 at 3:34 pm (Clubs, Selekt, Tech House)

 As you would expect, Cocoon Heroes Ibiza closing was nothing short of monumental with Amnesia packed to the rafters for the all-star line-up. The night saw Loco Dice kicking of the proceedings, working into a powerful hour live set from 2011's hottest talent Maetrik (aka Maceo Plex) before Sven Vath stepped in to drive the energy right the way through to the early hours. On the terrace, Ricardo Villalobos was joined by Raresh, Onur Ozer and Tobi Neumann with the whole thing going to an unprecedented back-to-back session with a midday finish.

Cocoon Main Room:

Bekeke - Italoboyz & Blind Minded
Arriving at cocoon at 1.30, Loco Dice was already blazing the main room with huge tech house techno hybrid hammers. Amnesia's ice cannons firing causing pandemonium as dry ice viciously attacked the dance floor like a science fiction fog before evaporating into the increasingly sweat-filled din.

Crush On Me – Maetrik
Maetrik moulded the room into his unique style, using halluciognetic vocals, hypnotic beats and a power that is deep and latenly noisy at the same time to put the dancefloor over the edge of insanity. For those who weren't there, A recording of his hour long Live set will be released as a CD on Cocoon Records!

Icon - Christian Burkhardt & Einzelkind
This big tech house hybrid production released on Cocoon Compilation Cocoon emerged early in Svens Vath's set, the electro groove bassline warming up the crowd and paving the way for some hard ripping electronic techno that was set to thunder through the main room. 

Cocoon Terrace:

Mauersegler - Andre Galluzzi
Onur Özer casually warmed the terrace with the more spaciously percussive side of his sound, playing a series of summery raw house tracks building the tempo for later shenanigans. Andre Galluzzi himself is no stranger to the cocoon amnesia terrace and neither are his productions which frequent the terrace sets of Vilallobos, Carola, Raresh, and Onur Ozer. 

Street Movement (Olene Kadar Tool Edit) – Samuel Deep
With the terrace really beginning to kick of after 7.30, Villalobos began to really work his magic, upping the tempo and dropping some spanking techno and house anthems such as 'Luvstuffs – Sagat' and even a edit of 'ABC – Look of the Love'. The break rhythms of this tune stormed through the main room with frequencies emerging across Amnesia's custom built  phazon soundsystem.

Lombardo – Dirty Harris
In a textbook Villalobos terrace style, he reverted briefly to dropping into a free form splatter of beds of noise, diffused chattering, distressed horns, off kilter sound effects and unexpected crunching drops before launching back into a pounding groovy fiesta with Raresh. 

(5 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Pioneer CDJ 850

July 9th, 2010 at 8:11 pm (Clubs)

This new release from Pioneer looks like a hybrid of the CDJ 800 and 900:
It is compatible with Recordbox and can play mp3′s off USB Sticks
It has Midi & USB HID Integration to allow control of Laptop mixing programs without need for control discs.
Native Instruments have not announced if it will be Traktor Certified like the CDJ 900 or 2000.
Features a simplified waveform display and intuitive scroll wheel.

Product Page
 

Price – Roughly £750-800
Available from August 2010

High Resolution Front Photo

(4 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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D.I.Y Downloading – Speedyshare

April 5th, 2010 at 4:54 pm (Clubs)

Chaotisch Serie – Max Cooper

Techno

I'm Burning Inside (Paul Ritch Remix) – Fuckpony
Melodic Techno

Dirty Jam 96 – Tato, Tucillo & Tania Vulcano
House

Blue Note (UGLH And Frederico Locchi Remix) – Jean Claude Ades
Tech House

Rise Rhythm (Original Mix) – Willie Graff & Tuccillo
House

(8 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5)
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Timewarp 2010 – The BIG Tunes – Tracklistings

April 1st, 2010 at 1:09 pm (Clubs, Techno)

After going to Timewarp this weekend i thought i would do a dedicated post to some of the biggest tunes and sets!

Line Up:
Sven Väth – Richie Hawtin as Plastikman – Laurent Garnier – Ricardo Villalobos – Loco Dice –Dubfire – Marco Carola – Reboot – Martin Buttrich – Turntablerocker – Chris Liebing –Speedy J – Magda – Monika Kruse – Ellen Allien – Karotte – The Disco Boys – Tobi Neumann – Felix Kröcher – Michael de Hey – Dixon – Lexy – Dorian Paic – Arian – Chris Tietjen – Livio & Roby –seebase – Gerd Janson – Robert Dietz – Matthew Hawtin – Nekes – Federico Molinari – Sasch BBC – Stefen Baumann – Stefano Libelle – Blast Sl – Matthew Hawtin – Scan X
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A final 1pm -3pm back to back set of
Vath, Villalobos, Loco Dice, Carola!
- 3pm Bomb -

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Blaue Moschee – Die Vogel
Smashed by Papa Sven

Auf und Ab und Kinda High (Dustin Zahn Mix) – Chris Liebing vs. Green Velvet
Techno Banger played by Liebing

Points (Mathias Kaden’s Chalet De Verano Remix) – Danny Fiddo & Affkts
Villalobos

Tournicoti (Original Mix) – Julian Jeweil
Vaths Set

Nous Sommes – MMM
Closing Set

 Appartment 4.4 – Nekes & Marquese
Nekes Set

Livio & Roby vs. HIPO – Pitzi Ponc
Loco Dice Set

Login (Original Mix) – Joseph Capriati
Speedy J Set

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Sets:
An Hour long section of Svens 3:00-7:00 set with Tracklisting
Soundcloud

Chris Liebing
Ellen Allien
Speedy J
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HQ Youtube Videos:

Loco Dice
Sven Vath
Magda
Dubfire
Plastikman
Liebing & Speedy J
Tobi Neumann
Garnier in the Glass House
Vath, Villalobos, Carola, Loco Dice B2B
Vaths Massive Closing Track

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Unreleased
In my System – The Gathering (Jef K, Chez Damier & Chris Carrier)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muySAUsJZUg&

(9 votes, average: 4.56 out of 5)
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Speedyshare – Now with Free Rapidshare Account

November 29th, 2009 at 5:08 pm (Clubs)

Speedyshare Premium

-Search all of Speedyshare for Files
- No Download Limit
- No Download Waiting
- Uploaded Files never Deleted
- History of Uploaded files
- Faster Downloads
 

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Now when you have a Premium speedyshare account, you can download directly download from Rapidshare URLS.

So all you do is get the Rapidshare URL and then there is instant download & superfast download speeds!
All for the same price of $5.95 a month!

Use Rapidshare Search engines to find the Links:

Rapidshare Search Engine
Rapid4Me
FilesTube
Rapidshare Searcher

As you probably know, nearly every EP that comes out is uploaded to rapidshare, so having this account means you can download nearly anything you want. Rapidshare also hosts loads of Software, Games, Tv Series and Movies.
I find this rapidshare downloader much faster than bittorrant or limewire.

Sign Up
Worth trying it out even for only a month

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Re-Cap – Essentials

October 15th, 2009 at 9:11 pm (Clubs, Tech House, Techno)

Back and running properly and starting with this massive post of tracks ive been loving over last few weeks:

The DJ (Radio Slave Remix) – DJ Hell feat P.Diddy
Epic 28 min techno track featuring the grinding cut and filtered lyrics from P.Diddy

Death By House (Adam Beyer & Jesper Dahlback Remix) – Len Faki
Heavy whirring techno remix of a allready dark track

Bite The Dust (John Digweed & Nick Muir Remix) – Timo Maas
Deep Techno

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Trust (Adam Port Remix) – Tiefschwarz feat Seth Troxler
Tech

Marc Romboy – Karambolage (Oxia Remix)
Deep Tech

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Honey Bus (Tobi Neumann Remix) – 2000 and One
Minimal Tech

State Of House (Matthias Tanzmann Remix) – 2000 and One
Minimal Tech

IC 19 (James Talk Remix) – Buraka Som Sistema
Tech/House

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Gatex (Fergie Remix) – Umek & Fergie
Techno

(11 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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CDJ 2000 and 900 Release + Photos + Links

September 17th, 2009 at 12:58 pm (Clubs)

Dawn of a New Species
Today Pioneer have released two new CDJs which are set to be the new industry standard.
 

CDJ 2000:
Promo Video
Pioneer Promo
€1799
Available in November

The CDJ-2000 fizzes with fresh DNA and can play music from multiple sources, including CD, DVD, USB storage devices and SD memory cards.

More Photos
CDJ 2000 Large Photo

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CDJ 900:
Pioneer Promo
€1299
Available in December
 

This has the four-beat Emergency Loop and the three CDJ-900 exclusives: the Auto Beat Loop, Quick Return scratch feature and a Slip mode that enables DJs to perform tricks and return to their original flow in an uninterrupted fashion and you have the perfect tool for maximum performance.

More Links:

CDJ 900 Large Photo

Released with both of these is Pioneers Rekordbox. Rekordbox allows DJs to prepare before their performance on their computer and opens a door to tools such as Hot Cue Banks and Quantize, for perfectly synced loops every time. DJs can then export data to a USB or SD device to access vast libraries of music files and perform live. Demonstrated in the Laidback Luke video below.

Feature Favourites:
Videos of DJs using new CDJs

Swedish House Mafia Demo
Laidback Luke Demo
Eddie Halliwell Demo
Roger Sanchez Demo
Paul Woolford Demo
Armin van Buuren Demo

(9 votes, average: 4.78 out of 5)
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Jet Set + Ibiza Dj Competition

June 23rd, 2009 at 4:13 pm (Clubs)

Going travelling through South America (Chile, Argentina, Bolivia & Peru) and so wont be posting for the next month.
Two blogs I would recommend are Global Noises and Week Week which provide full EPs and albums of new releases.

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Ive entered a bedroom DJ competition and could do with some more votes.
Competition closes end of July and I am currently second i think, so may have a good chance.
No Login or Registration required, just vote with 5*!

Vote
Its in association with DJ Awards, PVD and the Dance4Life Charity.
If your a DJ record a mix and enter!

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My Youtube Channel
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Heres a few for the road:

Needin U (Norman Doray Sunset Remix) – The Face vs Mark Brown
Nice remix of one of my favourites

Raindrops (Funkagenda & Paul Thomas Redux) – Basement Jaxx
Tech remix of there new track

In For The Kill (Tristan Ingram & Black Russian Festival) – La Roux
Techno

Let Go Of The Fear (Oliver Huntemann Edit) – Maps
Promo Edit

(13 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Essential DJs

December 15th, 2008 at 6:59 pm (Clubs, Minimal)

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Nesrib – Sis

Rumours are flying about the Sis is actually Ricardo Villalobos, others sayin Luciano or Raresh, however his real name is Burak Sar and he is signed onto a Berlin based label, ‘Sei Es Drum’ and ‘Cecille’ along side Johnny D and Robert Dietz.

Its slanted percolating rhythms and oildrum beat take their time, but soon go echolalia. SIS filters in a dense rush of samples, shards of talk spliced together to sound like too much mouth for two ears. It has a clever abstract sample from 1988 Vanessa Williams track ‘The Right Stuff’. This track along with Trompeta have been marked as tracks of the summer by many of the big name DJs.
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Invisible Man Dub Mix – Stephan Luke
Upbeat Tech.

Deep Beginning (Original Mix) – Karol XVII, MB Valence
Deep House with sax Interlude. 

Don’t believe in Love (Dennis Ferrer Remix) – Dido
Original house track with strong vocals from Dido

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Top 10:
I thought i would put together my favourite DJ/Producers into a current Top 10.
These artists have not been selected on individual ‘one hits’ but rather on overall quality on all their productions and how often i listen to them.

1. EDX
2.Funkagenda
3.Mark Knight
4.Dennis Ferrer
5.Underworld
6.Popof
7.Stanton Warriors
8.Kerri Chandler
9.Bart B More
10.Koen Groeneveld

(8 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5)
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