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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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Pop & Rock Go Electro: 20 Remixes Picks

Pop & Rock Go Electro: 20 Remixes Picks

I’ve selected some of rock and pop tracks that have become some EDM gems by the hands of our beloved producers. One guy I find specially incredible at reworking these genres is Blake Jarrell. He’s got the eye – and the skills – to make rock anthems turn into beautiful club-hits. Probably, that's why I couldn't help but mention him ...

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Producers: Push The Boundaries

Producers: Push The Boundaries

Should producers always keep their fan base pleased or push the boundaries and try out new sounds, even if it means loosing some fans along the way? I’m sure that’s a question that often pops up to loads of big producers out there. Building up a faithful fan base is not easy. It takes a long time and hard work to ...

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Is It The End of the Superstar DJ Era?

Is It The End of the Superstar DJ Era?

Unless you’ve been living under a rock or isolated in a paradise island without any access to a single crappy radio for the last year, certainly I Gotta Feeling was a song that got stuck in your head, even if you absolutely did not want to. With electronic-driven beats based around cheerful lyrics, this was the radio hit of 2009 ...

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Journey Into Trance – Part 2

Journey Into Trance – Part 2

The history of trance and its journey is a long one but this is just the tip of it all. The first part of this two part series discussed the journey trance has taken in a relatively short period. It was during the rise of Sven Väth and Oliver Lieb that more and more dj’s in clubs were starting to ...

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Ruckus At The Gala

Ruckus At The Gala

I WAS SURROUNDED by patrons of the arts. Sipping a pear martini, I was struck by moving flashes of an oversized disco ball. Then I dunked a complimentary cookie into a shot glass of whole milk. The location was an overstocked ruby red dessert lounge, and I was partying on the harbor alongside hired dancers gold flecked in Amazonian getups. ...

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Journey into Trance – Part 1

Journey into Trance – Part 1

[caption id="attachment_6043" align="alignnone" width="440" caption="Paul Oakenfold, one of the pioneers, live in South Africa."][/caption] In life music plays an important part in the journey. It’s music that defines the highs and lows, those happy times and those really bad times. Hearing 'Silence' for the first time and remembering distinctly the power it had over you. The joy and happiness of hearing it ...

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