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it'll never catch on.... well, not in the underground scene anyway.

this.

Something from Surgeon to ease those Monday blues..... https://soundcloud.com/dynamic-tension/surgeonfreerotation2013

Earlier this week, what might be the most awkward video interview of all time appeared online. Well, as far as dance music is concerned anyway. Posted by iHeartRadio, it featured a bored-looking Major Lazer and a cringe-inducing interviewer. Some ultra-dry humour was deployed by Diplo and his gang throughout, completely dumbfounding iHeartRadio's presenter and making for some wonderful, horrible car crash TV. DJ's can be quite guarded, press-trained creatures, but they also provide some quality wit every so often. Major Lazer's excellent performance made us think of other memorable dance music interviews that have been committed to film. We dug up the 10 best, from Eats Everything's brilliant one-liners to David Guetta inviting Jonathan Ross out to Ibiza, via Skream getting bladdered with Goldie. 10. Major Lazer The most recent upload in this Top 10, and the one that sparked the chart in the first place, comes in the form of this pearler from iHeartRadio. We reported on it this week and we can't get enough of it. The Major Lazer crew are notorious for getting a party riled up but in this cringeworthy and awkward interview with American satirist Kennedy, the three look entirely unimpressed. Expect Kim Kardashian vagina references, Jillionaire's admissions of keeping a dead body in his basement and Diplo conducting his own interview with Walshy Fire. Kennedy loses total control and the Lazer boys run riot. Too funny. 9. Wiley Oh Wiley, you joker. If he's not slagging off Glastonbury for not paying him enough then he's leaking swathes of his own tunes. In this interview with Kiss FM the notorious rapper discusses his thoughts on Kanye, whether he's made a million quid or not and his plans for retirement, including the brilliantly cocky quote, "I'm 34, I don't need to work past 40, I'm that good." And then there's the anecdote about sending his mate to a meeting to decide whether he should sign up for Celebrity Big Brother or not. The Godfather is on fine form here. 8. Eats Everything You only need to watch his DJ sets to know that Bristol favourite Eats Everything is a fun-loving guy. Here he talks to FACT while up a mountain at this year's Snowbombing Festival. Aside from having a bad back, he makes some good observations, especially about the punters at the event: "There's people with stuff round their noses they shouldn't have at all times of the day and night, walking down the street." Good spot. And there's plenty more one liners to dig into, too... 7. Justice This little gem from French electro kings Justice was aired on Finnish TV and from the very first question you can tell that the duo aren't really with it. When the interviewer talks about Finland and asks, "What do you remember from our beautiful country", Xavier's reply is priceless. Completely dead pan, he replies: "We don't remember anything man, he [Gaspard] had an alcoholic comatose." The expressions throughout are gold and exactly what you'd expect from the Frenchmen. 6. David Guetta David Guetta is now a household name thanks to continually smashing up singles and album charts the world over. Here on The Jonathan Ross Show, the French producer receives a few friendly digs from the entertainer. When talking about the numerous amount of houses he owns, Guetta claims it's because he travels so much, to which Ross quips, "Well, I travel a lot, I use hotels". The funniest turn of events is when Ross accepts Guetta's invitation to fly out to Ibiza straight after the show. Nice. 5. Danny Brown He's the gap tooth, fire breathing, profanity oozing rapper and in this short video for Noisey, we get right to the core of what Danny Brown's about. We're talking getting hit by a car, not being able to eat a hot dog, "slurping clitoris" and a freestyle rap about drugs. We love you Danny. 4.Tiësto Another awkward-yet-funny clip, here we have the dance music big dog Tiësto getting mistaken for fellow mainstage man Marcus Schulz on live TV. This one speaks for itself but at least the Dutchman holds a nice big smile throughout. Good sportsmanship and a genuinely LOL-inducing video. 3. Björk The combination of Björk and Simon Amstell is something that we'll never get tired of. His ridiculous questions and her endearing and humorous nature make for perfect viewing. We particularly like it when Amstell tells Björk that his "horse is unwell and that it could be the kidneys" in Icelandic. 2. Seth Troxler Here's a man that everyone in clubland is fully familiar with. His skill behind the decks for selecting superb music is second to none and his funny side is also right on point. Any interview with Seth is likely to be an amusing one but this episode with Rolling Stone at Coachella is a particular gem. He talks about his love for dipping chips in milkshakes, his sadness about the "pressing play" generation and then the spanking money shot. Lighting a shit on Avicii's front door. Check it. 1. Goldie and Skream This is an interview you may not have seen before but it's an absolute blinder. Here we take a trip to Melt Festival with Goldie and Skream as they have dinner together, traipse round the site, play earth-shattering sets and get bladdered. The banter between the two is very strong and as it was filmed back in 2008, we see a young Skream back in his salad days. The two DJs are both heroes in our eyes and this is an hour of your time well spent. Enjoy. Source: mixmag.net

who cares, my kids are paying.

I'm into that...

Aye!

Not available in Australia at the moment however.....

Aimed at digital DJs, the service syncs your library to the cloud and lets you give tracks a spin before buying them outright. Pulselocker is launching a web-based music service aimed at digital DJs. With more than four million tracks in its library, the service bears some similarity to online music retailers like Beatport and streaming subscriptions like Spotify. The difference is in some novel features that are likely to grab the attention of DJs. First and foremost, Pulselocker lets you try out full tracks before you buy them: they're downloaded to a special folder on your computer—your "Locker"—where you can access them through DJ software like Traktor Pro or Serato Scratch Live and play them offline as you would any other digital music files. You can keep up to 1000 of these on you computer at a time, depending on your subscription. If you're into the tracks, you can buy the files. If you're not, you can swap them out for new ones as often as you like. (And if you're not a member, you can still buy tracks as you would through other digital music retailers.) Members can also stream the entire Pulselocker catalog on demand, and they can sync the contents of their Locker with any computer. As it stands, the service has a social-networking component where members can "follow" artists, labels and genres, and this functionality is set to expand over the next year. Have a look at the video below for a quick-and-dirty explanation of how the Locker works. Source: residentadvisor.net

not strictly DJ'ing but anyway...

agreed. I still read a lot of Scottish newspapers, particularly for the football, and there is zero journalism work done by the MSM. They rely on bloggers to break the stories and they simply ignore massive questions that should be asked about the corruption thats clearly evident in Scottish football. It's pathetic, and this ethos runs into many areas of 'journalism'.

At Benirras beach. There is some development of the area in the pipeline so they need to offload the hippy's and the crowds that congregate to see/listen/experience them every Sunday.

pop fans are a scary sort....

Plajta Des Cavallet is one of my favourite beaches on the island. No mention for Benirras either. Always good on a Sunday for the hippy drumming sessions. Although the authorities have now outlawed this. Fortunately for now they don't have the numbers to enforce the ban but it won't be long before this long standing tradition vanishes and Ibiza loses another bit of it's soul to the VIP landscape.

vinyl growth is already slowing? So all those news reports about a 33% rise in vinyl sales in the first half of 2013 were lying?

Pretty decent price tag on those.

Live now. http://www.residentadvisor.net/local.aspx?ai=25 Have missed every one so far this season but i'm onto this one.

http://www.vinylrecorder.com/order.html

this idea would be horrific. Think of the amount of lo-fi youtube rips that would end up on an already horrible (as it stands currently) sounding format.

DJs are making a killing these days as electronic dance music (EDM) is one of the most lucrative sectors of the music industry. Top DJs can demand £50,000 to £100,000 for a gig – and, unlike touring rock acts, they have hardly any overheads. But the scene is hiding a shameful secret – the women who write the melodies and lyrics to the dance hits, as well as sing them, claim they rarely get paid for their work. In the early 1990s, Milli Vanilli and C+C Music Factory found themselves in the midst of a scandal when it was revealed that the vocalists fronting the acts were just lip-synching to other singers' vocals on some tracks. Martha Wash, the actual singer of C+C Music Factory's Gonna Make You Sweat, even sued the label for proper credit and royalties, Milli Vanilli had to hand back their Grammy, and the US introduced rules making it mandatory to credit correct vocals on CDs and videos, in the aftermath. While the pop sector has largely cleaned up its act since then, little has changed in for EDM acts. The featured singers on many club hits, most of whom have also written the "toplines" (melody and lyrics), often find themselves being replaced by someone younger and "prettier" for videos and tours, while seeing no royalties at all. One such singer is Antonia Lucas who, after decades of feeling devalued and disrespected by club music producers and labels, decided to set up the Vocalist Songwriters Alliance (VSA). Lucas's first introduction to the business, almost 20 years ago, was a session for a prominent garage producer. What she thought would be the recording of one track turned out to be a long line of producers coming in, one after the other, with beats without music. Lucas was required to make up melodies and lyrics on top of the beats. "Twelve records came out of that session – six of which were hits – and all I received was £200 and no writing credits," she says, adding that some of the tracks are still being issued. Last year she started a Facebook group for singer-songwriters in the sector, and within days the group had over 60 members, all describing similar experiences. The VSA now has 300 members. One of them is artist and songwriter CoCo Star (real name Susan Brice). In 1996, Brice's track I Need a Miracle was released by Greenlight Recordings in the US and became a club hit. It was then re-recorded and released on EMI's Positiva imprint in the UK a year later. In 1999, a British DJ mashed up her vocals from the song with German act Fragma's track Toca Me. The mash-up was released without Brice's permission on a bootleg white label for which she was never paid. This sparked a buzz in the clubs, and Fragma released their own version of the bootleg, Toca's Miracle, on Tiger Records in Germany and Positiva in the UK in 2000. It went to No 1 in 14 countries worldwide. "[Toca's Miracle] has reportedly sold more than 3m copies, but I've never been paid for any of these remixes," claims Brice. She says that her vocal was credited to Fragma, alleging that an impostor touring as the singer collected her PPL airplay royalties until six months ago. PPL collects performance royalties for recordings, when they're played in public, such as in clubs and on the radio. Of the money it collects, 50% goes to the owner of the recording (usually the label), 45% to the featured artist (usually the singer), and the remaining 5% to the non-featured musicians. Its registration for Toca's Miracle includes a number of studio programmers as "featured artists" as well as another vocalist. Brice is registered as a non-featured artist at a rate of 1%. Tiger Records, claims it owns the copyright to Toca's Miracle, but it has so far failed to produce any sample agreement, licensing agreement or assignment agreement to Brice's label, Universal Music. Brice alleges that this is because what they used is a bootleg, with her vocal sourced from an illegal file-sharing site. When asked about the Fragma Toca's Miracle dispute, a spokesperson for Universal Music Group, which bought EMI last year, said: "There's quite a long chain of contracts behind this, starting with Susan's original deal with Greenlight, which we're looking into so wouldn't want to comment until we've got to the bottom of it." The Guardian also contacted Tiger Records, as well as its distributor Kontor New Media, for a comment, but has yet to receive a reply. Brice is not the only featured artist to have had such problems with Fragma. Kirsty Hawkshaw, former frontperson of Opus III, who's hit It's a Fine Day went to No 2 in the UK charts in 1992, co-wrote and sang Fragma's Radio Waves, but hasn't received any royalties for it. "They never signed a contract with me," she says. Hawkshaw wrote to iTunes about the dispute, and it promptly took the track down, but she says she has no money to hire a lawyer. Like many other artists I've spoken to, she also fears being threatened and blacklisted for speaking out. Both artists have had similar experiences with other EDM producers and labels. "Susan and I could have probably made a million, considering all the compilations that have featured our songs," says Hawkshaw, who has also joined the VSA. "The producers are not all necessarily choosing to be rogues, unfair and dishonest," says Lucas. "Some are just ignorant regarding how the industry works." Hawkshaw concurs. When confronting a producer who had done a mash-up using her vocal, he claimed he had done "millions" of mash-ups and nobody ever told them they needed permission, adding that he had not taken credit or sold it – and so had not abused the artists' rights. "I said, 'If I used your backing track to promote myself without your permission, you wouldn't be happy with me,'" she says. All VSA members have reported not receiving royalty statements from the record labels selling their work – and being "stonewalled" when challenging them on it. Lucas says that this kind of behaviour breaks down the individual – Brice says she suffered a nervous breakdown as a result – and that many members considered leaving the industry, before finding out that they were not alone. "Some of the biggest DJs out there are doing it [to their featured vocalist/co-writers]," she says. "They're making the most money, yet they expect to pay the least. They believe they're superior to us – but without us, what would the fans be singing?" Source: theguardian.com

ha, no pun intended

Ableton's scale device is a good thing to learn too. http://abletonlife.com/midi-effect-tuto ... tons-scale

take your pick.... https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... sic+theory

To be honest it would help heaps if you have some knowledge but you can get by to begin with just by going with what sounds right. Generally if it sounds like it works together then it should be fine. If something is out of key it will sound out of place. there are video's on youtube explaining music theory and also a host of site explaining it too. Dont have any at hand but just do a quick search and your bound to find something.

internet