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!

…but you don’t have to.

Make sure to grab this single w/remixes by Roland Klinkenberg feat DJ Remy.

Another great minimal-tech release from the Global Underground label:

Mexico Can Wait Original Mix

Roland Klinkenberg, DJ Remy,

GU[MUSIC] (Global Underground) 2007-08-19

6:22

$1.98

Mexico Can Wait Tom’s Fluf Tool

Roland Klinkenberg, DJ Remy,

GU[MUSIC] (Global Underground) 2007-08-19

3:20

$1.98

I find it so interesting that as a dj you have to start off by opening nights for bigger and more established DJs and yet so few DJs actually know how to open properly.

Time and time again I walk into nights where other DJs are playing and, in typical dj fashion, I think ‘what is this DJ doing? He should be playing this track and not that one’. It is standard for all DJs to think that they can do a better job than whatever DJ is playing, I think it is part of human nature to think you have better taste in music than everyone else.

That being said, there are a few important “what not to do” points that an opening DJ should keep in mind when opening the night:

- Do NOT play tracks of the DJ/Producer that you are playing before. If you are opening for Dubfire DO NOT play any tracks that Dubfire produced or that he has been playing recently.

-128 BPM at 11:00pm is not acceptable when opening for a house dj. A DJ is suppose to read the crowd and play accordingly but the old industry rule is 124 @ 12pm. This means that you should not be playing anything too far over 124 bpm before 12pm. This is so that the headline DJ will have room to speed it up and bang it out if he wants.

-Just because you are playing the right speed (124 @ 12) does not mean that you can just pitch down big name tracks. Big peak time tracks are suppose to be played at peak time. A Richard Dinsdale track or anything that is usually played at 2am and at 128bpm is not opening music. There are always some exceptions to the rule but generally deep house, tech house and even some minimal make for great opening music. Here are some examples of opening music:

I Try AN-2 Remix

François DuBois, An-2,

Urbantorque Recordings 2007-05-14

5:40

$1.98

I Try Original Mix

François DuBois

Urbantorque Recordings 2007-05-14

7:51

$1.98

A Thousand Nights Original Mix

Gregor Tresher

Great Stuff Records 2007-07-30

7:39

$1.98

Seven of Nine Original Mix

Andrew Macari

Nordic Trax 2004-07-13

4:36

$1.48

What God Has Chosen Jimpster Dub

The Rock Solid All-Stars, Pete Doyle,

Defected 2007-04-29

6:52

$1.98

Strategy Original Mix

Joshua Heath

Salted 2007-07-24

7:06

$1.98

Warm, deep, and grooving tracks are what opening is all about.

-Do not hang around in the DJ Booth after the headliner has started playing. If you want to sit back and learn, cool! If you want to have a chat with him or her for a bit, also cool. Do not jump around, play with the eqs or the effects on the mixer or make requests when you are done.

-Do not let all of your friends hang around in the booth with the headliner. There is no reason for them to be up there. Bring them up, show them around, introduce them to whoever but after a few minuets lead them back down to the dancefloor.

-Ask the promoter and even the headlining DJ what style and tempo you should play. Ask the headliner when he is coming on what type of a track he would like to be left off with.

The ironic thing about this industry is that it is generally the DJs that know how to open properly that end up making their way to playing the peak time slots. If you want to be playing to big crowds at decent times, watch the pros, take my advice above and learn how to open.

Best of luck!

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.

This past weekend I celebrated my birthday. Over four different nights we partied with four different groups of close friends.

One night I was lucky enough to play to a packed club called The Caprice with Dan W, the other owner of Play It Tonight. This was a university crowd that aren’t used to house music and people were losing their minds! They had never heard good ‘techno music’ as they called it and wanted to know where they could find more dance music online.

(Sean Gallagher [CEO] & Brent Sutherland [CFO] helping put up the banners)

(Sean [CEO of Play It Tonight] with Olivia)

(Jerin [promoter], Dan [President of Play It Tonight], Sean [CEO] & Brent Sutherland [CFO])

Later on the weekend I played at one of Vancouver’s biggest clubs; the Red Room. There was one moment where I played one of my favorite tracks, Strategy - Joshua Heath on Salted, and there I was looking out at a smiling / cheering sea of people which included my best friends, my brother and countless beautiful women. I looked behind me and three cute girls were dancing around and hanging in the DJ booth with me. At this moment my friend Anna ran up to the booth with tears in her eyes telling me that this was her favorite song and that she hadn’t heard it in a club before. She had a tough day and hearing this song in the club brought up all of the emotions that she had been storing away from her tough day.

(Sean Gallagher [CEO of Play It Tonight] with girlfriends Katy, Coco & Sammy @ Red Room)

The final night of my birthday weekend was a little more relaxed. A friend and I were hosting a dress to impress cocktail party for our close friends. For the occasion I made some CDs from Play It Tonight and they were played throughout the night. At around 11:30 the party was at its peak. All of my close friends were mingling and having a blast. Everyone was smiling and just as I was looking around enjoying the moment my ears clued into the fact that another one of my favorite tracks Les Djinns (Trentmoller Mix) - Djuma Soundsystem on Get Physical Music was being played through the house system. The song fit and highlighted the moment perfectly and it just added to the magic of the evening.

(Sean Gallagher’s Birthday Cocktail party - Sean Gallager [CEO] and Brent Sutherland [CFO] can be seen in the top middle of the picture)

These three amazing experiences reminded me of how lucky I am to be working with music on a daily basis. Sometimes when you deal with music all day you take it for granted; you forget the power that it holds. Dance music has the power to blow people’s minds, it has the power to evoke such emotions that it can bring someone to tears and it can bring any moment to the next level; for this I am thankful.

These are our picks for this week’s hottest New Releases from the world of Dance Music:

“Lift Me Up” - Phil D. [Diamondhouse Records]
Some great house and deep house!

“Milk With Coffee EP” - DJ TR [Dirty Ego Records]
Solid Tech House!

“Washing Machine Re-Cleaned” - Various Artists [Krone Records]
Washing machine!

This week we haven’t had as much upfront content as we usually do because we spent the week upgrading our server system. This means that we couldn’t upload new content all week! This just means that next week is going to be jam packed with thousands of the best dance music releases!

Make sure that you check back on the blog every Thursday so that you can find the hidden gems that other DJs aren’t. Also feel free to leave us some comments to let us know what you think about our recommendations and what you would like to see in future recommendation posts.

People (mostly DJs) in Vancouver continue to be blown away by what they saw in Vancouver when BOOKA SHADE rolled into town.Live PA Concerts aren’t the most popular thing in Dance Music. When they do come to town it is rare to find a good show. Infusion is the only other band that comes to bind that has been worthwhile seeing live. Booka Shade on the other hand was better than any DJ or concert I’ve ever seen before. Simply amazing.

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?

2007 Release of the Hit Single from the Italian DJ (From the Trio L’il Love) that Employs the Sax Riff from the Song DJ Rune Rk’s “Calabria” and the Vocal Track from Gaudino’s Own “Destination Unknown” that Featured the Voice of Crystal Waters. This Edition features Five Different Versions of the Title Track and an Enhanced Element!If you have been in a night club over the past few weeks you have heard this song EVERYWHERE! The sexy saxaphone and amazing vocal are impossible to miss. The is going to be one of THE house music tracks of the summer.I hope it doesn’t get played out like past house hits from summers gone by such as: Lola’s Theme by the SHAPESHIFTERS (which is now cool again) and World Hold On by Bob Sinclair.

Destination Calabria Club Mix

Alex Gaudino Ft. Crystal Waters

Ministry Of Sound 2007-05-18

6:57

$1.98