This MASSIVE remix by German duo “Dabruck & Klein” is one of the biggest Electro House tracks to hit dance floors this year.
Enjoy this track, and expect many more big tunes from these guys.
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Pull Over Dabruck & Klein Mix |
Noel Sinner | Superstar Recordings 2007-11-23 |
6:00 | $1.98 |
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!
Audio Vegas are signed to Benny Benassi’s label Pump-kin, which seems to be doing quite well for itself since starting last year.
Check it Out!
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Admission Original |
Audio Vegas | Pump-kin 2007-05-18 |
6:15 | $1.98 |
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Drama Original |
Audio Vegas | Pump-kin 2007-05-18 |
7:00 | $1.98 |
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Flymobile Original |
Audio Vegas | Pump-kin 2007-05-18 |
6:30 | $1.98 |
“The music, In changes…” These are the lyrics from one of my favorite House Music tracks by Sandy Rivera.
Dan (my business partner in Play It Tonight) and I recently got into a discussion about dance music genres and at the time it got somewhat heated. “Deep house is such a dated sound” said Dan to me - the deep house DJ.
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Strategy Original Mix |
Joshua Heath | Salted 2007-07-24 |
7:06 | $1.98 |
“Electro is played out man” I said to Dan - Vancouver’s biggest and best Electro house and tech house DJ.
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Road Kill Cedric Gervais Remix |
Dubfire | Toolroom Records & Traxx 2007-07-25 |
7:49 | $1.98 |
Eventually cooler heads prevailed and we came to the agreement that in dance music, some genre is cool in some part of the world at any given time. It is all cyclical. I have been told that as a backlash to the minimal movement in places like Berlin, Deep House is “it”. Whereas over here in Vancouver, clubbers are still losing it to the tech and electro house.
After our coversation I thought about it some more and realized how great it is that the ‘in sub-genre’ changes so much . This almost monthly cycle of the cool sub-genre keeps things fresh and prompts creativity becuase the cool genre is always changing.
Furthermore, this phenominon does not happen in other genres of music. In the hip hop world there are different genres of rap music but there isn’t any changing. If you are a fan of underground hip hop, then you will listen to underground hip hop and that is it. When you go to hip hop clubs you hear mainstream rap and it sounds the same as the hip hope that was being played in clubs 5 years ago. I am not in the hip hop scene as much as some of my friends but it seems to me that the genres are static and that everything is stale. There is no new sounds, there is no “in” genre of hip hop. The radio dictactates what is played and that is considered cool (I guess the same could be said for Pete Tong and Dance Music).
In the end I am glad and excited to be a part of a genre of music that is constantly dynamically changing. It is exciting and refresing to hear new sounds and to hear songs that cross sub-genres but still rock the dancefloors. I look forward to the next cool genre this month and a new genre for the following month.
The music, it changes…
Everything is cyclical, and guess who’s next in line… Tech House. I remember Tech House being my favorite through the late 90’s. I could dance to the stuff for hours on end. Then suddenly it became repetitive and my interest shifted to the “newer” sounds being offered by electro and electroclash. Today I’m feeling the pull back towards Tech House as artists like Audiofly and Mark Knight have revived the genre by utilizing the glitchy technical aspects of Tech House and combining them with the underlying groove of proper old school house and electro house bass lines. The result is an undeniably danceable rhythm worthy of head nods by even the most discerning of critics. Although Tech House has remained a constant in dance music, it will be charted and played a lot more this summer. See you on the dance floor.
Recommended Tech House:
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System Original Mix |
D. Ramirez, Mark Knight, | Toolroom Records & Traxx 2007-06-15 |
6:36 | $1.98 |
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Don’t Be Silent ft. Dominique Woolf Audiofly Remix |
Superbass | Toolroom Records & Traxx 2007-07-12 |
8:32 | $1.98 |