As requested, we have taken the time to work through the hundreds of new releases on Play It Tonight this week and have picked the hottest tracks for you to rock this coming weekend.

These tracks have been killing dance floors for the biggest name DJs in the world for the past few weeks.

Click on the play button to listen to samples of and then buy these new releases:

Q For Quality Original Mix

Steve Mill

Urbantorque Recordings 2007-10-08

7:42

$1.98

Credit Card Receipt Original Mix

Lopazz

Get Physical Music 2007-10-08

3:02

$1.98

The Old Days Original Mix

Lopazz

Get Physical Music 2007-10-08

3:55

$1.98

Share My Rhythm Original Mix

Lopazz

Get Physical Music 2007-10-08

4:54

$1.98

Catherina (Polonia) Original Mix

Lucio & Pep

Elektrotribe 2007-10-08

6:46

$1.98

Zeus Jay Lumen Remix

Tasadi and Mike Mikhjian

Curvve Recordings 2007-10-09

7:42

$1.98

Zeus Vadim Zukhov Remix

Tasadi and Mike Mikhjian

Curvve Recordings 2007-10-09

7:57

$1.98

China Story Original Mix

Steve Mill

Urbantorque Recordings 2007-10-08

7:45

$1.98

My BAO Dreams Original Mix

Shlomi Aber

Renaissance 2007-10-07

3:09

$1.98

Frisky ‘Lil Devil Yug Mix

GenderFix, Yug,

BugEyed Records 2007-10-09

6:51

$1.98

Frisky ‘Lil Devil Mr. Rogers Mix

GenderFix, Mr. Rogers,

BugEyed Records 2007-10-09

7:07

$1.98

We hope you enjoyed our picks from this week’s new releases. Let us know what you think.

In this weeks feature focus we look at Deep Linking. Many of you have asked for the direct URL to link to a label, a release or an artist. Now you can do that! On every label, release and artist page there is a link in the left hand nav that reads “Link to this …” By clicking on it, the URL of that page will open up and you can cut and paste it into your email newsletter, your blog, your website, whatever you like.

This is especially useful for artists who want to promote their latest release. It is useful for people who want to email their friends a page of great music. It’s useful for labels who want to promote their label page on Play It Tonight.

Enjoy this new feature!

Holy Recommended Batman!

Our new recommended feature has left me speechless and excited.

I take a lot of pride in keeping up to date with the music on the site. I thought that I had heard most of the tracks on the site that fit my taste (house, deep house, electro house). Then I decided to check out the new “Recommended  Tracks” feature that I found after logging in on the top right of the site near the ‘my account’ button and media player.

If you have made a purchase before with Play It Tonight we will personally choose and recommend similar popular tracks to you that you will like. If you haven’t made a purchase then nothing will show under recommended tracks.

When I logged in for the first time yesterday as a customer and checked the recommended section I was a little concerned that I didn’t recognize any of the tracks shown. I pressed the new ‘Play All” feature (which is also awesome) and started listening while I did other work. Surprisingly, the first song was really good and I had never heard it before. I thought it might have been a fluke and that the rest might be songs that don’t suit my taste, and there ended up being a few of those but the second song was even better and the third song rocked.

Of my recommendations from Play It Tonight, I would have bought 9 of the tracks. Thats 9 tracks generally from lesser known labels and artists that a) aren’t played as much by other DJs and b) I spent almost zero time to find because Play It Tonight did the work for me. Nine tracks is almost an entire short set!

I strongly RECOMMEND that you make a purchase so that you can see all of the hidden gems that Play It Tonight has to offer in the Recommended Tracks section! 

We are very pleased to announce the launch of Play It Tonight 4.0. The site features an entirely new look and a bunch of new features. Play It Tonight 4.0 is a major upgrade from the last version. We listened carefully to your feedback and implemented a lot of your ideas. Enjoy the new site, you helped build it!

Here’s an outline of the new features:

WISHLIST
YOUR # 1 REQUEST IS NOW A REALITY!
This is our most requested new feature! In your crate, you can now move tracks over to your “Wishlist”. This means that you can buy a certain number of tracks and keep possible future tracks in your wishlist. Move tracks back and forth whenever you want. Not sure you want to buy something this week? No problem! Move it to your wishlist so you can come back to it later. Need one track today? You can do that now! You don’t have to delete all the songs in your crate to buy one song, just move them to your wishlist, and buy the song(s) you want today.

FAVORITES
This exciting new feature allows you to add your favorite labels and artist to your “My Favorites” section. When you log in to Play It Tonight, there is an indicator showing you if there are any new releases from your favorite artists and labels. Clicking on this link takes to you a page where you see all the new tracks. You can add up to 4,000 labels and artists to your Faves.

RECOMMENDED TRACKS
Play It Tonight has designed software to recommend music to you based on your preview and purchase history. Click on the “Recommended Tracks” button to view the tracks we think you’ll enjoy.

PLAY ALL
At the bottom of Top 10’s, Top 100’s and Genre pages is a new button that reads “Play All.” By clicking on this button, the player will play EVERY song on that page, in the order that they are displayed. Sit back and enjoy the music. Hear something you like? Click on the “Buy” button in the player and that track will be added to your crate, and the music will keep on playing.

TOP 100 DOWNLOADS
There is a new button at the bottom of each Top Downloads list where you can view not just the top 10 most recently downloaded tracks, but the top 100!. This can be seen on every genre, every label and every artist.

NEW LABEL PAGES
Now you can view your favorite labels in a whole new light. The label landing pages showcase the 6 most recent releases, with the new option to view all label tracks, or all label albums. The top 10 downloads features a link to see the label’s top 100 downloads. A link to “Add To Your Faves” is on every label page as well.

NEW ARTIST PAGES
Now you can view your favorite artists picture & bio, along with their best selling tracks, along with the new feature of viewing all their tracks at once, or all their albums at once. A link to “Add To Your Faves” is on every artist page as well.

CHARTS
There is a newly designed charts section with charts from Big name DJ’s.

LABELS
The new labels page lists the best selling labels, both as a whole, and for each letter of the alphabet.

ARTISTS
The new artists page lists the best selling artists, both as a whole, and for each letter of the alphabet.

GENRE LANDING PAGES
The new genre landing pages showcase the best selling labels and artists within that genre, along with the top 10 downloads and a link to view the top 100.

Aside from having dance music play everywhere, one of the largest differences that I have found with the English culture is that people seem to keep to themselves a lot. In a lot of smaller towns people will greet each other on the street and generally look forward to meeting new people. On the flip side, in the big cities people keep their heads down and generally mind their own business.

As I mentioned above, dance music (mostly house) is everywhere here. Even today I was having lunch in an amazing Chinese resteraunt and heard the following track:

Make Your Move (Dare Me) Club mix

Dave Armstrong

Boss Records 2007-04-06

8:58

$1.48

This is not exactly your typical Chinese restaurant music.

I was pondering why dance music took off so fast and furious over here in the 80s and it wasn’t really making sense. There is so much heritage and culture in England but that doesn’t explain it. People have their own musical tastes in all areas of the world, so that doesn’t explain it.

It didn’t click for me until I was walking down the street in London and someone bumped into me and didn’t say a word. One word jumped out at me “ecstasy”. With such a lack of friendliness and togetherness in day to day street life in the super-cities like London, its no wonder why the feeling of oneness that the combination of dance music and drugs like ecstasy caught on so quickly and took the highly-populated nation by storm.

You will see it in the clubs here in London; kids freaking out with each other, hugging, smiling, laughing and letting all of the stresses and the self mindedness go. People party together when dance music is present and the feelings that it brings up can defiantly be addictive, especially when you are raised in a culture where the people keep a ‘stiff upper lip‘ and their heads down in the big city.

Last week I came over to London to do some business [to meet with dance music labels, distributors and magazines] and to check out the scene here. Coming from Vancouver it has been a shock to say the least! Its like Vancouver’s music scene but on steroids.

As soon as I landed at Gatwick I knew that something was different. Even at the airport I noticed that every shop there played house music over their loud system. In Vancouver it is extremely rare to hear dance music anywhere but in specific clubs on specific nights. Coffee shops, clothing stores, pubs, resteraunts, internet cafes, corner store and many other fine establishments were all playing songs that I recognized from being a Dj. Some of the songs I heard were:

Love Don’t Let Me Go (Walking Away) Famous Radio Edit

David Guetta, David Guetta vs The Egg,

Ministry Of Sound 2006-10-27

3:15

$1.48

My Freedom Original Mix

David Guetta, Joachim Haraud, Chris Willis,

Peace Bisquit/Curvve 2006-08-03

3:59

$1.48

Tropical Soundclash Original Mix

DJ Gregory

Defected 2007-09-23

8:34

$1.98

On my first night in town I decided to check out Sneaky Soundsystem and Nic Fanciulli at Turnmills in Central London. Even though there were some hassles at the door I was in and had a blast. The club was huge! I got lost in it multiple times. I kept finding myself back in the hip-hop/pop room of all places. There were tons of people packed shoulder to shoulder. It was hard to move.

I have never been in a club with so many people and have never seen so many people going off to house music. People were freaking out everywhere!

So far I have been taken back by the size and strength of the scene over here and I look forward to getting into it more and more as the days go on! If you haven’t been to London and love dance music I highly recommend that you come over and check it out!