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DJ Mag Top 100 2007

It seems that DJMag top 100 DJ list has been a tradition from 1997. Before that time only people in music industry and the ones related to it were able to contribute towards building this annual candidate shortlist.
In case you have extra spare time it would be nice if you could go and cast your vote for your 5 favorite DJs, (preferably house music DJs haha)
It is already well known that past few years trance music DJ's are dominating on the top100 dance music charts. Nothing left us to do but to hope that house music will also broaden its popularity sometime in future ;)

Asle & Anne new single "save me" to be released

Asle Bjørn( Golden sun) & Anne K (Powderdust) names behind danish progressive vocal house project announced new single "Save me" yet to be released. The track will be out on Radio stations from monday the 20th and available for download from the middle of september. As we all remember Asle & Anne received big recognition and a breakthrough with their first single called "Lucky you", which topped charts in eastern Europe last summer. Their new single can be previewed on their myspace page.

New Releases Begining of August

This last two weeks have been loaded with new releases from well established house artists like Roger Sanchez, Chris Lake, Michael Gray, Antoine Clamaran, Sharam and The Shapeshifters. It has really been crazy week so I just had to mention some of the new releases so you wouldn't miss them. It is really weird to have all these famous names summed upon together with new releases within past few weeks.

After their latest single "Pusher" the Shapeshifters did it once again. New track is called "New Day" and thera are currently two versions of the tune available, nocturnal and extended version. Surely this number is going to increase and some of the new mixes will be delivered from Eric E and Mark Picchiotti. After few tech-house and trancy house "experiments" they are going back to the roots again with their recognizable disco house sound. Dreamy violin strings are mainly dominating on this track followed by stunning female vocals. You can hear and read more about the track on Shapeshifters myspace page!

Roger Sanchez recently teamed up with Tom Stephan under his S-Man guise for a hot new electro house record called ‘Hold On Me’ You can read about it more here and also preview or buy the track.

Michael Gray released also a new track under his alias Robotman which was featured in Mixmag as a track of the month. It is a electro style tech-house track with banging vocals. Preview

Man who refurbished Eddie Murphys track "Party all the time" and gained big recognition as a solo artist and not just part of a famous duo Sharam Tayebi, nailed another one and this time it is a rework of one of the songs from celebrated pop artist Daniel Bedingfield, his track called "If your not the one". I must say it is excellent piece of work.

Chris Lake, talented producer behind huge hit "Changes" and a follow up "Carry me away" made a tech-house electro tune named "To the point". Hear the preview on his myspace page.

Kaskade brings new mixed cd

Kaskade has made a new mixed cd called "Bring the Night", a solid mellow vocal house groove with the standard, high level of house music quality expected from Kaskade. It contains some of his new remixes of Nelly Furtado and Floetry and also a Dirty South remix of his track "Sorry". For more info on this mixed cd visit this page where you can also check out his tour dates.

DJ Awards 2007

"The DJ Awards is a celebration of gratitude to honor the peoples favorite DJ. It is not a competition and the results are not to be taken personal. What is very important is the music and the message of love that resonate from generation to generation."

This years DJ Awards will be held at Pacha Ibiza on 27th September, and you can vote for your favourite House DJ. All registered users enters into competition to win 10 vip tickets for this event. Vote and enjoy if you happen to be one of those lucky winners!

http://www.djawards.com/votaciones/index.php

Freemasons Australian Radio Station Interview

Freemasons recently done an interview for an Australian Radio Station called Joy 94.9. Its being aired on Sunday 22nd July 2007 about 2:30pm Australian Eastern Standard Time which will be about 5:30am UK Time.
If you unfortunately miss the interview then you can always download the Podcast or simply listen online but your need the Quicktime plugin installed in your browser. To listen follow this link http://www.joy.org.au and click on LISTEN button. Make sure you have one of these (Windows Media Player, WinAmp, Real Player, Itunes) programs installed before trying to listen to the show.

Alexandra Prince - Queen Of House

Alexandra Prince has a new single gone out called "Rising High". She's a true rising star amongst house music vocalists as she worked with top-notch house artist and music producers. You all probably remember her from massive summer hit "So Many Times" produced by Gadjo in 2005 which really launched her carrier and got her plenty of recognition. She is a Germany, Hamburg based female vocalist with a Brazilian and German heritage. Her latest single "Rising High" was produced by non other than Syke 'n' Sugarstarr and released on Kontor Records. For more info on Alexandra visit her official webpage or her myspace where you can also preview her latest single. You gotta admit she has a nice hypnotizing voice.

Music loudness in clubs can cause serious hearing damage

Youth which often goes clubbing is exposed to high levels of risk for partial or complete deafness caused by high music noise level, new British RNID institute research study showed.
By study results, which involved 1.380 young people, 90% of them said that they had hearing problems after a night spent in the club, stating that they had either a ringing in their ears or "ear numbness".
On concerts or in clubs, young people are often exposed to a 125 dB noise level which is more over 110 dB for example how much average asphalt power drill is making.
"Young people are poorly informed about noise level safety" stated RNID deputy director John Lou adding that they could suffer complete deafness if they are regularly exposed to loud music.
DJs and other people who are working in clubs should be wearing special ear plugs which are lowering down the noise level but not the quality of the sound.

Top 100 House Singles

I've decided to make this top 100 house music singles chart to mark important songs that made some change on the global dance/house scene in 90's and 00's. This list is based on a subjective opinion and does not represent any official music record company or a label. Tracks are not ordered in any particular order and are mainly funky/club/disco/vocal house genre.

1. Eddie Amador - House Music
2. David Morales - Needin' You
3. Bob Sinclar - I Feel For You
4. Spiller - Groove Jet
5. Armand Van Helden - You Don't Even Know Me
6. Hatiras - Spaced Invader
7. Antoine Clamaran - We come to party / Do The Funk
8. Pete Heller - Big Love
9. Junior Jack - My Feelings
10. CZR - I Want You
11. Daft Punk - Revolution 909
12. Paul Johnson - Get Get Down
13. Modjo - Lady
14. Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat
15. Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
16. Ministers De-La-Funk feat. Jocelyn Brown - Believe
17. Joey Negro feat. Takka Boom - Must Be The Music
18. Cassius - Feeling For You
19. Phunkie Souls - Tha Music
20. Phats & Small - Turn Around
21. Superfunk - The Young MC
22. Discotex - I Can Cast A Spell
23. M&S presents Girl Next Door - Salsoul Nugget
24. Daft Punk - One More Time
25. Junior Jack Vs. Richard Grey - U Look Fantastic
26. Silicone Soul - Right On Right On
27. Mojolators - Drifting
28. Azzido Da Bass - Doom's Night
29. Rui Da Silva - Touch Me
30. Ian Pooley - 900 Degrees
31. Big Time Charly - Mr. Devil (Olav Basoski Remix)
32. Galleon - So, I Begin
33. ATFC - Bad Habit
34. Triple X - We feel the same
35. Daft Punk - Burnin'
36. Powerhouse - What U Need
37. Roger Sanchez - Another Chance
38. Live Element - Be Free
39. Mistique 3 - Somethings Going on
40. Negrocan - Cada Vez (Grant Nelson Vocal Remix)
41. Deep Swing - In The Music
42. Funkstar Deluxe - Walking In The Name
43. Demon vs. Heartbreaker - You Are My High
44. Barry White & Funkstar De Luxe - Let The Music Play
45. Cerrone - Give Me Love
46. Cassius - Cassius 99
47. Bob Sinclar & Salome De Bahia - Outro Lugar
48. King Unique - Change
49. Knee Deep - Funky Nassau
50. Madison Avenue - Don't Call Me Baby
51. House Of Glass - Disco Down
52. Robbie Rivera - Funkatron
53. Olav Basoski - Aha
54. Afromedusa - Pasilda
55. Bran van 3000 - Astounded
56. Groove Armada - Superstylin'
57. Junior Jack - Thrill Me
58. Santons - Camels
59. Shakedown - At Night
60. Soulsearcher - Can't Get Enough
61. Tim Deluxe - It Just Won't Do
62. Xpress 2 - Lazy
63. David Guetta - Love Don't Let Me Go
64. Junior Jack - E Samba
65. Room 5 - Make Luv
66. Fused - Saving Mary
67. Underworld - Two Months Off
68. Robbie Rivera - Bang
69. DJ Tonka - Security
70. Lee Cabrera - Shake It
71. Benny Benassi - Satisfaction
72. Kurtis Mantronix presents Chamonix - How Did You Know
73. Tom Novy feat Lima - Now Or Never
74. Pure Orchestra - U & I
75. Stonebridge - Put 'em High
76. Dave Armstrong - Make your Move
77. DJ Flex - Amazing
78. Martin Solveig - Rocking Music
79. The Ones - Flawless
80. Who Da Funk - Shiny Disco Balls
81. Dr. Kucho - Belmondo Rulez
82. Soul Providers - I Don't Know
83. Axwell - Feel The Wibe
84. Horny United - Crazy Paris
85. Boris Dlougosch - Never Enough
86. Eric Prydz - Call On Me
87. Robbie Rivera - Sex
88. Michael Gray - The Weekend
89. David Guetta - The World Is Mine
90. Shapeshifters - Lola's Theme
91. Armand Van Helden - My My My
92. Syke 'n' Sugarstarr - Ticket 2 Ride
93. Gadjo - So Many Times
94. Deep Dish - Flashdance
95. Cabin Crew - Stars to Fall
96. C Mos - 2 Million Ways
97. Rythmo Dynamix - Calinda
98. Mylo - Drop The Pressure
99. Rockefeller - Do it 2nite
100. Mambana - Libre

Dirty South on Axtone Records

Dirty South aka Dragan Roganovic, Melbourne, Australia based DJ and Producer has signed his new track ‘Let It Go’ to Axwell's label Axtone Records. He will be the first artist signing on Axtone label. Ax said "Im proud that we managed to sign his monster track "Let it go" in time for the summer." We hope that maybe we could expect some co-op work from them in future. DS is currently touring the Europe and will be returning to Australia in November.

Benjamin Bates "Recyclomania" New Album

Benjamin Bates released his second album called "Recyclomania" on 8th of june. He's first single of this album "On my feet (This world needs more people like you)" has also been adopted by Dance4Life to support their 2007 aids campaign. All the money raised from sale of this track will go to Dance4Life. Sole album contains eleven carefully crafted Benjamin style tracks, as he believes this album has soul of its own.
If you want to preview, buy and find more about this album head over to his myspace recyclomania page,but also be sure to visit his official website at benjaminbates.com and his regular myspace page.
Enjoy his latest video.

HMB New Template

So finally it is almost done, the new House Music Blog Template. It's the thing you all been waiting for (only kidding). I said "almost done" because there still will be some things needed improving. I've decided to do new tamplete from scratch on my own (graphics, css and xhtml code etc..) since I was already very much into computer graphics this past previous years, only thing i had to learn was CSS and some blogger template code. Luckily I managed to overcome that task pretty well, although it took some time. I have to apologize for some gaps in updates considering this blog. I just wanted to do it after the new design had been finished, unfortunately it was prolonged so updates had to wait a bit. Anyways, I hope visitors and readers of this blog will enjoy it and have better experience browsing it. If you bump onto some design problems or any other bugs feel free to notify me or leave a comment here.

-HMB, Vladimir

Eric Prydz's site is up.

You can visit his site at www.ericprydz.com. It's nice flash based web site done by "good-creative" design agency. Flash web technology is most popular choice for showcasing the work of every artist, especially because its multimedia abilities. So if you wish to find out something new about Prydz or maybe check out what is currently doing just surf right in...

Custom made crystal DJ headphones

Almost everyone knows that custom made jewelry is very popular with music, tv, movie stars and other rich folks, finally this form of expression made it's way into house music scene in a form of customizing precious DJ tools with crystals. Long time ago Technics made gold-plated 1210 turntables. Nowadays, popular dj things are customized crystal DJ headphones. If you look really good you can see them on famous house dj's and producers like Axwell or Roger Sanchez are. Axwell got his headphones as gift ordered by his girlfriend.

Are days near when DJ's will own customized crystal mixer or some other parts of equipment? If you want to order yours headphones, you can visit www.blingaffair.com

Chris Lake - Carry Me Away Promo

Another new single from Chris Lake is coming out, as it is planned it will be out on march 2007. If you are one of the lucky ones who can get a hold of the promo single than you already know what is coming up. For the rest of us, all of you can point your browsers to Chris's myspace page and preview the whole new track there. It is awesome melow melodic house track with beautiful female vocals. It already grabbed my attention and it is highly addictive. Way to go Chris.

Swedish House Mafia Forum!

Yup, Swedish House Mafia Forum is online now. Thought I'd just let you know. Follow the link..

http://swedhousemafia.17.forumer.com/index.php

Steve Angello has a New Web Site and a Blog.

Steve Angello has recently lunched his new website at this address www.steveangello.tv and also a blog found at this address steveangelloswe.blogspot.com. A fellow blogger, who would imagine? According to images of his on his website he looks really lively and full of energy, so we hope he will keep surprising us with new quality house tracks like we used to from him. We wish him happy blogging!

Lots of House Music Videos for download!

Looking over Axwell forum I bumped on to thread with lots of House Music Videos for download posted by user fckr. A Big thanks to his dedicated work. I would suggest checking out tho whole forum and this thread of course, if you want to see and download some of the videos: "Eric Prydz - Proper Education", "Marly - You Never Know", "Groove Cats - Once in a lifetime groove", "Outwerk_Feat.Mr_Gee-Elektro-Version 2", "Bodyrox - Yeah Yeah 2006 Uncensored", "Chocolate Puma - Always and Forever" and so on.. These are just few.

House Videos Download @ Axwell Forum

Soul Avengerz Interview

I would like to refer you to this nice interview with guys from Soul Avengerz, a London based dj/producer duo, made by house-music-inyourface. They have decided to ask them some question about their recent cooperation with vocalist Javine and also their commercial music video breakthrough. Anyways, It is short but interesting interview. I've been enjoying most of my Saturday morning listening to their morning smashing hit, but in an Raul Rincon vocal mix version. :)

In case you missed interview link : http://www.house-music-inyourface.com/pres0678.htm

HMP remix competition

If you'd like to win some Loopmasters house-oriented sample cd's (Funky House Producer , Soulful House Sessions, Disco House Sessions) and producing house music is your hobby (or whatever), I would suggest checking out this link for more info ...

http://www.housemusicproducer.com/viewtopic.php?t=99