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.

I always feel anxious before hearing tracks for the first time on a big club system. The tracks never sound the same as they do in my room or in my headphones at home or in the office. Different aspects of each song become more obvious and some get downplayed and are barely noticeable.

As a worst case scenario, a track with what you thought was a sick bassline will sound week in a club or that mid-ranged chugga chugga loop is way louder than you remembered it being killing the dance floor that you have created.

Other times, songs that sound average and bland can come to life on a club sound system. I have seen countless tracks that I would pass up from artist and labels that I didn’t recognize destroy dance floors and have me shaking it.

I was given the opportunity to play at a nightclub called the Red Room this weekend in Vancouver. It is one of our city’s biggest and busiest clubs.

I was playing at the Red Room at the same time when Dan, the other owner of Play It Tonight, was playing at a new Vancouver club called The Modern.

I opened for one of the bigger Vancouver DJs and my set featured two tracks that I was using as ‘fillers’ that surprised the hell out of me and everyone else in the club. Girls were pushing their way through to get to the dance floor and the entire club was heaving.

Here are these two “sleepers” that made my night:

Artefact original

Ale Avila

Portamento Records 2007-09-04

7:19

$1.98

La Discotek Original Mix

D. Ramirez

Underwater 2007-01-01

8:36

$1.48

I recommend picking up these bombs asap!

This past weekend I played another gig at Ginger 62, Vancouver’s hottest club for House Music. It was the most fun I have had DJing in some time and I thought I would share a few pictures and a bunch of the tracks that I played to share the experience.

I still can’t believe that I get paid to drink for free, play awesome tracks from Play It Tonight and have girls come up to meet me while I play. The girls were loving the tracks from our site.

Here are some the tracks I played in the club this night that had the girls shakin’ it and the guys groovin’:

Didn’t Mean To Turn You On Kaskade’s Extended Mix

Colette

OM Records 2005-11-29

6:18

$1.48

Ain´t Nothing Personal Christian Alvarez Bling Bang Hype Mix

DJ Marmol

Diamondhouse Records 2007-04-27

7:41

$1.48

Warrior Andy Caldwell’s Electric ReRub

Andy Caldwell

OM Records 2007-04-13

8:10

$1.48

Lei Lo Lai Original Mix

The Latin Project, Jez Colin, Matt Cooper, Robbie Nevil, Vancho Manoilovich,

T.L.P Musica Records 2006-11-28

4:19

$1.48

Can’t Get Through Original Mix

Miguel Migs

Salted 2007-03-20

5:19

$1.48

A Thousand Nights Original Mix

Gregor Tresher

Great Stuff Records 2007-07-30

7:39

$1.98

2 Doors Down Sax Mix

Kelvin K F. Dom Thompson

Nordic Trax 2006-08-15

6:09

$1.48

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!