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 and here they are fresh for you!

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

A Thousand Nights Original Mix

Gregor Tresher

Great Stuff Records 2007-11-12

7:38

$1.98

Painkiller Original Mix

Gregor Tresher

Great Stuff Records 2007-11-12

5:50

$1.98

Attend 1 Original

DJ Gregory

Defected 2007-11-12

5:58

$1.98

Self Religion (Believe In Me) David Penn Remix

Hardsoul, Fierce Ruling Diva,

Defected 2007-11-11

7:00

$1.98

Self Religion (Believe In Me) Mark Knight Remix

Hardsoul, Fierce Ruling Diva,

Defected 2007-11-11

7:21

$1.98

Pulse Your Hands Audiofly RMX

Eyerer & Koletzki

Kling Klong 2007-11-14

8:06

$1.98

Coma Original Mix

Sasha

emFire Music 2007-11-11

9:10

$1.98

Head Over Heels Ray Roc & Rosillo Club Mix

Sylvia Tosun, Ray Roc, Rosillo,

Sea To Sun Recordings 2007-11-09

8:26

$1.98

Touch My Udder Original

Pennington & Gow

Digiprana 2007-11-13

7:06

$1.98

Blew Beckers Remix

Antix

Iboga Records 2007-11-13

8:18

$1.98

Becoming Insane (Album Mix) Original Mix

Infected Mushroom, Erez Aizen and Amit Duvdevani,

BNE/YOYO Records 2007-03-13

7:28

$1.48

Fly So High Extended Mix

The Disco Boys

Superstar Recordings 2007-11-09

7:05

$1.98

Let us know if you like dislike or have some thoughts on this week’s picks! Keep rockin’ it!

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.

Every morning after a gig I wake up to new messages in my email saying “Katie has tagged you in 3 photos” or “Dan has tagged you in a photo”. Those of you who use facebook know what I am talking about. For those of you that don’t, facebook is a social networking site that allows you to identify (”tag”) friends in pictures to display who is in the picture.

Usually I wake up and find myself on facebook removing some of the photo tags of me for pictures that may catch me at a bad moment. (For example, being passed out in the DJ booth) –> “remove tag”.

These pictures aren’t taken and posted up by facebook though. These pictures - sometimes funny and sometimes nice - are taken by the awesome photographers at Clubzone.com that are sent out to shoot pictures of the best nights in town.

All across North America you will find Clubzone photographers out in the clubs in different cities taking pictures of everything that goes on in a club for your viewing (and laughing) the next day.

For those of you that don’t know what Clubzone is, it is the largest Nightlife, Club and Music community in North America and it is quickly expanding in Europe, Asia and other areas of the world.

Clubzone is by far the industry leader in nightlife photos among other things such as show tickets, club listings and a kick-ass message board.

Go check out Clubzone NOW to see Club and DJing pics from around the world right now. Chances are that you are in some of them!

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 those DJs that are considering buying some sort of CD turntables I want to reinforce a well known fact: Pioneer CD Turntables are amazing.

This past week I showed up to a gig where there were some older “no-name-brand” in deck CD players. The expearience showed me how spoiled I have become playing in the biggest and best clubs in Vancouver, all of which have Pioneer CDJ-1000s.

Taken straight from the Pioneer website:

“The Pioneer CDJ-1000 digital deck is still taking the DJ industry by storm. With the incredible feel and performance of vinyl at their fingertips, professional DJs insist on using this world-famous unit to play out in the coolest clubs around the globe.

Working as closely as ever with these star performers, Pioneer continues to change the face of DJing with the launch of the intuitive CDJ-1000MK2. With the same design and layout as the CDJ-1000, the sleek and polished looks of the MK2 are made unique by the addition of a subtle silver rim on the Jog Dial - the centre of Pioneer’s groundbreaking vinyl emulation technology. And now it’s been fine-tuned to increase sensitivity, creativity and control for DJs, so that cueing, scratching and stretching a track in Vinyl or CDJ mode feels smoother and easier than ever. And recognising the importance of manual Pitch bending, Pioneer has made even finer adjustments to the unit’s tempo control function to make it more accurate than ever before.

The CDJ-1000 MK2 will always stand out from the crowd and its world-beating features include:
Fine-tuned Jog Dial - for improved sensitivity, creativity and control
100% “Wide” Pitch Control - allows beat matching of any track and creates new sound effects
Hot Cue - new instant memory for playback of up to 3 cue points per CD
Extra Bright Display - see track info more clearly and use key features more quickly
Full Feature Digital Out - now all sound control features can be connected to a digital environment
Free Removable Multimedia Card - for storing cues, loops, wave data, etc
All this, plus existing unique features, such as Quick Scratch, Loop In/Out Adjust makes Pioneer’s CDJ-1000MK2 the world’s No.1 digital deck.”

If you are looking at making an upgrade to a professional pair of CD DJ Turntables or are looking to make the switch from vinyl to CDs, Pioneer CDJ-1000s are worth every penny that you will spend.

Sometimes I take our music and our community for granted. By community I mean the people that attend electronic nights and people that all share the common love for electronic music, whatever sub-genre.

Every once in a while I am reminded of how lucky I am to have seen the light. This weekend brought two amazing experiences that put things into perspective. I would like to share these with you:

1) I was leaving my Thursday night residency on the main club strip in Vancouver and recieved a call from a girlfriend. She was at a popular ‘top 40′ bar and wanted me to stop by and say hello. I was walking up towards the lineup and spotted her so I started to waive. As she was waiving back some girl comes flyinging out of the club doors, trips over the velvet ropes and bails on the sidewalk in front of a crowd of people. One of the bouncers had pushed her out and she was so drunk that she fell head first over the rope and onto the sidewalk.

The girl got back up and went at the bouncer. She was trying to fight him by kicking him and swinging her arms wildly at him. She got tangled up in the ropes again and fell face first onto the sidewalk.

She lay there crying in front of a hundred people and then got back up and tried to fight the bouncer again. The bouncer dropped her this time and she cracked her head open on the sidewalk and started bleeding. The police were called and she was also trying to fight the police who dropped her again.

Meanwhile some guys in the line got into an argument and started fighting and ended up hitting a girl by accident. I ended up grabbing my friend (who was crying by this point because of having to watch a girl crack her head open on the sidewalk) and quickly went home.

The point of this story is that I have never seen anything like this happen at a house night. I play at some of the biggest and best clubs in Vancouver and I can honestly say that I don’t think I’ve ever seen a fight. This speaks a lot about the people that are attending and also a lot about the vibe that the music sets.

2) I got a call from another friend that I haven’t seen in a long time. She called me to tell me some terrible news; doctors think she might have a serious form of cancer. Hearing this destroyed my mood and when she told me I was just heading out the door to go on a boat cruise where all of my friends were expecting me. She told me to go because she wanted to be alone and I went to the cruise.

At first I wasn’t my usual self. I was upset and bummed out. I was standing at the back of the boat and the sun cracked through the clouds. The sun was shining so perfectly on the DJ, on the beautiful people dancing and smiling and Vancouver, the most beautiful city in the world, was highlighting the scene in the background. At that moment I remembered / realized that house music is a celebration of life. The music was so warm and it was so great to see all 500 people on the boat smiling. Parties like this are about people getting together to enjoy each other and to be greatfull for being alive and house music is the same for me as well.

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Great people, a celebration of life: House Music.

My fist video: A TRIBUTE TO HOUSE MUSIC…

Ever since I was a puppy I have been obsessed with music. Oddly enough, the first memory that I have of my obsession with music is of myself going to the local music store with my parents. I convinced them to let me buy my first Tape by the one and only MC Hammer. I can remember spending hours and hours listening to the same song(s) repeatedly late at night and having my parents tell me to go to bed. Despite the fact that my musical tastes have changed, I still have not been able to get to bed on time thanks to my old friend Music. She has a nasty habit of keeping me up late at night.

Don’t get me wrong, my relationship with music isn’t all bad. Scattered sleep and eating patterns aside, music has brought nothing but good into my life.

There is nothing as good as dance music at cheering me up when I am down. Music is always there for me to highlight the great moments and to pick me up when challenges get me down. When I walk down the street with good music life becomes a video game. Trees, people, cars all move erratically but are still somehow in rhythm with the music. There is a piece of music that suits and even enhances every moment of life. There is no better feeling than playing a song that you love to a crowd and having them express their appreciation to you for choosing that song. These are the reasons why I felt compelled to make this video:

If you look closely you will see video of Dan (the founder of Play It Tonight) playing on a yacht party half way through the movie and myself playing in a club at the end. All of the video was shot in Vancouver, Canada. If you guys like the music in the video then I recommend checking out the following tracks:

Leave Me Cold Original Mix

Stef Vroljik, 16 Bit Lolitas,

Deep Records 2005-03-01

7:37

$1.48

Lightsource Original Mix

Mindflight

Esho Recordings 2000-11-15

9:32

$1.48

Italian Summer Original Mix

Niquid

Jalapeno Records 2003-10-01

7:07

$1.48

At 15 and 18 years old Chris and Steve can really rock it. I had the pleasure of seeing the Martinez Brothers play live @ Ginger Club here in Vancouver, Canada.

To be honest I wasn’t going to go check them out thinking that it would just be another regular night with another somewhat bland middle range professional DJ. What we got instead was two kids that aren’t even old enough to get into a club rocking it so hard that every girl in the place was up at the DJ booth shaking it.

Check out this video of them from Miami WMC 2007:

Go check The Martinez Bros in your city when they come. Here is their upcoming gig list:

Jul 13 2007 12:00A	Alma @ Sullivan Rooms	New York City, New York
Jul 21 2007 4:00P	Objektivity @ PS1 w/ Dennis Ferrer, TMB and special guests	New York City
Jul 26 2007 1:00A	Vinyl Plaza	Figueira da Foz, Portugal
Jul 27 2007 1:00A	Sascha Beach Sessions	Algarve, Portugal
Jul 28 2007 1:00A	Dennis Ferrer & TMB @ World Fashion Center	Amsterdam
Aug 12 2007 11:00P	Utopia Sundays @ Boston Rocks	Boston, Massachusetts
Aug 24 2007 1:00A	tbc	Seoul
Aug 25 2007 1:00A	Dragon i	Hong Kong