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Remix Competition: The Thrillseekers feat. Fisher &...

Remix Competition: The Thrillseekers feat. Fisher – The Last Time

We've just got wind of one of the most exciting remix competitions to hit the trance scene this year. Adjusted Music are offering you the chance to remix arguably one of the best vocal tracks of recent years and certainly one of 2008's most memorable releases, 'The Thrillseekers feat. Fisher - The Last Time'.  The prizes are fantastic and this ...

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The EPIC and Inspirational Ronald Jenkees

The EPIC and Inspirational Ronald Jenkees

Words by Rachel Rixham "Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still." - Chinese Proverb Many people, spend years of their life knocking themselves down, thinking they're not good enough to make something of themselves. However they continue to try, they push on, for days, months, and even years. Sometimes they will be happy with their achievements and other times ...

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Love Parade – The sour events of 24/7

Love Parade – The sour events of 24/7

Article Written by: J Massive In music we always said party 24/7 now 24/7 has a different meaning its our 9/11 our 7/7 the day that saw 21 dead and hundreds injured at one of the most iconic dance events in the world the legend that is or should we now be saying was Love Parade. Love Parade was an ...

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Halloween Special

Halloween Special

Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while "some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, whose original spelling was Samuin (pronounced sow-an or sow-in)". The name ...

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ADE 2010: Focus on Brazil – Music Trends, DJs,...

ADE 2010: Focus on Brazil – Music Trends, DJs, Producers & Nightclubs

Last week, one of the biggest EDM conferences & festivals, Amsterdam Dance Event, took place from Oct 20th to 23rd. There were several panels and I’d like to enlighten some interesting points discussed on the one that focused on Brazil – its musical trends, genres, DJs & nightclubs. In spite of the language difference, the country gathers some of the world’s ...

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Are Laptop DJs The Real Deal?

Are Laptop DJs The Real Deal?

“So i'm feeling like people have accepted the Laptop as a means of DJing, i do remember a time when it was very frowned upon... For me i just got kinda bored mixing one record into the next and Ableton allows me to combine loops and tracks together in a more exciting way. I think 90% of people on the ...

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Stefan Girardet Settles His Score

Stefan Girardet Settles His Score

"Stefan Girardet is a successful film and TV composer. Among his big screen work, he collaborated with Goldfrapp on the soundtrack for "Johnny and the Dead", and his music and songs appear on BBC primetime. Girardet's track, "Bloodlines", received accolades from ‘Time Out Magazine’, as "The sexiest slice of art ever". STEFAN GIRARDET IS A FILM COMPOSER, and thus, by definition ...

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Funding Self Expression: Celebrity DJ To Producer

Funding Self Expression: Celebrity DJ To Producer

THE STARVING ARTIST is iconic, existing across cultures and throughout history, where they are sometimes scorned as wasteful, other times revered as martyrs to their cause. 'Suffering for one's art' is a close relative of the oft repeated phrase, 'Money doesn't buy happiness'. Some art is funded, but more commonly, artists are not paid for their creations. Nonetheless, they ...

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