For the first time, Play It Tonight will be heading to Amsterdam to check out the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE). The event takes place in the downtown core of Amsterdam from October 18th until the 20th.

The ADE has taken the place of the Winter Music Conference (WMC) Miami as the ‘go to’ dance music event for music industry business, djs, producers and for great music. Rumor has it that the ADE is a great mix of business and fun which is what the WMC used to be all about 5 years ago. Now South Beach is flooded with party kids from all around North America that go down to get fucked up and party. Thousands are there just because it is the place to be and because they have money and they are not there for the actual conference or for the business. It is the wrong crowd heading down south and less and less business gets done each year.

Navigating the streets, alleys, and water ways of Amsterdam can apparently be a nightmare. Aside from this we have not heard one negative thing about the event or the city itself.

The conference features many different business networking events and conferences along with performances at night from some of the biggest and best artists in the world including:

David Guetta

Love Don’t Let Me Go (Walking Away) Joachim Garraud & David Guettay F*** Me I’m Famous Mix

David Guetta, David Guetta vs The Egg,

Ministry Of Sound 2006-10-27

6:22

$1.48

Erick Morillo

Dance I Said Touche Vocal Mix

Erick Morillo, Erick Morillo feat. Puff Daddy,

Subliminal Records 2006-08-28

6:20

$1.48

Fedde Le Grand

Couldn’t Love You More Fedde Le Grand Remix

The Factory

Toolroom Records & Traxx 2007-05-08

6:40

$1.48

Dirt Crew

Big Bad City Original Mix

Dirt Crew

Dirt Crew Recordings 2007-06-25

8:25

$1.98

Stonebridge

SOS Ortega & Gold Mix

Stonebridge

Stoneyboy.com 2007-02-22

8:49

$1.48

Tiesto

Lethal Industry Richard Durand Remix

Tiesto

Magik Muzik 2006-12-14

8:42

$1.48

If anyone would like to meet the Play It Tonight staff at the ADE please feel free to click here and email us with your contact info and we will set up a meeting with you over a pint or some lunch.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Underworld front man Rick Smith was rushed to hospital in Athens, Greece after a local gang started a riot at the Ejekt Festival at the end of June.

30 men that claimed to be “anarchists”rushed the festival with tear gas, iron bars, baseball bats and masks. The thugs broke through security around the time that the Beastie Boys were set to preform.

The baseball stadium where the dance music festival was being staged had to be evacuated by police because people were being beaten, cars were set on fire and the stadium was being heavily destroyed.

As mentioned above, several people were injured including a number of security staff, volunteers, performers and attendees. Smith was kept in hospital for a number of days in Athens before returning home to England for further treatment.

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Anarchists taking over a dance music event?

More than a million partiers, young and old, are expected to take to the streets for the 2007 Zurich Street Parade.

This event has been taking place since the rave days in August 1992. The event was made in honour of and was modeled after the Berlin Love Parade.

Sander Kleinenberg, Paul Van Dyk, Nic Fanciulli, Richie Hawtin, James Zabiela, and Sander van Doorn will all spin sets on the huge main stage at Bürkliplatz.

The festival will last for two days starting August 10th 2007 and will be held as a celebration for Dance Music.

Japan experiences difficulties with Physical Sales in The First Half of 2007.

Physical sales have sharply declined during the first half of 2007 in Japan. This downturn is a part of a world-wide drop in physical music sales that has been happening over the last 2 years.

Physical formats dropped 9 percent during the first half-year to 129.6 million units, according to the RIAJ - the Recordings Industry Association of Japan. What is interesting about this is that recent stats show that dance music specific sales have been growing in Japan despite the overall downturn of the physical aspect of the industry.

Digital asset sales have not yet been disclosed by the RIAJ but we look forward to seeing the results!

Sander Kleinenberg, superstar DJ and head of Little Mountain Recordings has just announced that he is releasing a new mix CD. The new CD titled “This is…” will be comprised of Tech, Electro and Prog house and will no doubt prove to be rocking in typical Kleinenberg fashion. The mix album is due to come out in August 2007.

The name “This is…” is a play on the highly successful song that he made for the WMC in 2006 called “This is Miami“. The song said the name of the city that the club was in and this made the crowd go so nuts that Sander then made the song for a lot of the cities that he would play in. “This is Toronto”, “This is London”, “This is Ibiza” and so on.

For more information on Sander Kleinenberg click here!

This mix cd follows up a number of other successful CDs by Sander including:

This is Everybody Too - Oct 19 2004
Everybody - Oct 21 2003
Essential Mix - Mar 19 2002
Global Underground: NuBreed - Apr 24 2001
My Lexicon - May 1 2000

On this new mix CD you will find emerging talents Dubfire and David K, recent up-and-comers such as Gui Boratto and Robert Babicz, and other superstars such as Tom Novy and Lutzenkirchen.

CD1 - Left

1. Disk Jokke - Folk I Farta
2. Kraak & Smaak - Loosen Up Children
3. Bad Mouth - Anymore (Phonique Remix)
4. Luckystars - Moscow Traffic (Beep Yeah Mix)
5. Roland Klinkenberg – Dusty Horizon (Interlude)
6. Hypno – Got Bread
7. OHMNA – Police Squid (16 Bit Lolitas Strictly Dancefloor Mix)
8. DJ Smash Presents Fast Food - Moscow Never Sleeps (Tom Novy’s Sanderground Remix)
9. Rossell Feat. Emma - Dancing With Strangers
10. Chymera - Arabesque
11. Pitch & Hold – Battle Of Flowers
12. Robert Babicz – Sin (Gui Boratto Remix)
13. Deep Flexion – Emotions Of The Night (Trent Cantrelle Remix)
14 Gui Boratto – Beautiful Life

CD 2 - Right

1. Siciana Soul – Mutual Dependency (Acapella)
2. Rhythm & Sound With Paul St. Hilaire – Jah Rule
3. Bushwacka! – Remember (Dub)
4. Minz - Chinese Drip
5. Martin Eyerer & Stephan Hinz – Tucan (Nic Fanciulli Remix)
6. David K - Incoming (Motorcitysoul Mix)
7. Blake & Monroe -Summer’s Gone (Bushwacka! Dub)
8. Gutterstylz vs. Rolasoul – Lost
9. Quivver – Dancing In Dark Rooms
10. Lützenkirchen – Last Night In Vegas (Schossow & Sagstad Remix)
11. Roland Klinkenberg & Gerry Menu - Shockadelic
12. BSOD - Game Over
13. Umek – Carbon Occasions
14. Christian Smith & John Selway - Transit Time (Dubfire Remix)

Some tracks from Sander:

This Is Miami Original Mix

Sander Kleinenberg

Little Mountain Recordings 2006-12-22

7:43

$1.48

This Is Miami Funkagenda’s This is The Wetherspoons Remix

Sander Kleinenberg

Little Mountain Recordings 2007-01-04

6:49

$1.48

Buenos Aires Original Mix

Sander Kleinenberg

Little Mountain Recordings 2003-09-08

11:54

$1.48

According to a recent court ruling, ISPs in Belgium are now being held responsible for any illegal file-sharing on their network.

The Brussels-based court of First Instance is demanding that Internet Service Providers in Belgium setup filtering technologies to prevent file sharing.

This ruling is currently only for USPs in Belgium but will shortly be enforced in other countries throughout the EU.

IFPI President John Kenedy said, “This is a decision that we hope will set the mold for government policy and for courts in other countries in Europe and around the world,” according to the Digital Music News on July 9th 2007.

If the filtering technology is not in place within six months (the rumored prescribed window), the court will charge a €2,500 ($3,404) daily fee against the internet service provider.

Is this the first step to the end of internet file-sharing? Or will this just be another useless step that internet users (music listeners and DJs) will find their way around?

For traditional retail stores around the world, prepaid cards are generating billions. All of the big players in the music industry are now starting to offer pre-paid download cards to increase gift giving and to increase exposure to new customers.

Itunes has reported that in December and January of this year they sold 8 times the amount of songs that they did the previous Christmas. Anyone looking at this statistic can only draw one conclusion behind the sudden increase in sales: prepaid gift cards for the Christmas season.

These cards can be increasingly profitable for companies because users usually do not use the full value allotted to the card as well as being an amazing promotional tool.

Play It Tonight will probably be making better use of pre-paid cards just as the big names in the industry already have. But is this really where the industry is heading? Are these cards really going to save the music industry? This may be appliccable for the mom that doesn’t know what to buy her son for Christmas and Itunes but are the buying habits of DJs really conducive for this type of a business model?