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CD Spotlight
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Tal M. Klein, along with an impressive array of collaborators,
wrote and produced all of the tracks on Alpha-Beats. Discussing the
inspiration behind the album, he says, "This is me, an organic acoustical evolution that came from my experience as a musician and DJ."
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Digital Spotlight
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Soaring melodies fuel a music time machine launching the listener to the top of a world yet discovered. Reminiscent of the early works of Sasha and BT,
My Piano's uplifting melody, combined with a funky, asymmetrical bass line creates a progressive, feel-good vibe on the floor while providing a memorable
hook to take home until you next adventure in club land.
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Vinyl Spotlight
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Killer Progressive Tribal House from Spain's BeatFreak Recordings. Dark Iberican beast, dense pulsing basslines, it doesn't get much better than this Black Magic!
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../ Edirol Introduces New HD Video Mixer
Edirol, a subsidiary of Roland, introduced a new multi format live video mixer/switcher dubbed the V-400HD. The V-400HD offers a professional
high-resolution video solution for VJs, live events, community broadcast, and club installations.
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../ Numark iPod Mixer
More Than Just A Rumor??
Numark, is allegedly going to introduce an Apple iPod mixer at Summer NAMM. Details are quite thin at this time, but several pictures have
recently appeared online that reveal a computer 3D mock up of what appears to be a dual-dock iPod mixer. Whether or not the picture was purposely
leaked or is just the Photoshop figment of a hoaxer's imagination cannot be determined.
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../ NY Copyright Case Sets Precedent
In a precedent-setting decision, New York state's highest court extended the scope of common-law copyright upholding
the decision that rights to performances recorded before 1972 are protected under state common law, even after those recordings
have been put on the market. The ruling is a huge victory to the major labels that own most of the rights to recorded musical performances.
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../ Combs Finalizes Deal With Warner Music
Sean Combs, CEO of Bad Boy Entertainment, reached an agreement to bring his company over to the Warner Music Group in a multiyear deal valued at
close to $30 million. Warner is the third major label that Combs has moved Bad Boy from since 2002.
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../ Martha Stewart Inks Deal With Sirius
Sirius Satellite Radio and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. announced an exclusive four-year agreement to create and launch a Martha
Stewart-branded satellite radio channel. This pioneering channel will provide original programming specifically designed for women listeners.
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../ IK Multimedia Announces CSR-1
IK Multimedia introduced CSR-1: Classik Studio Reverb, a suite of various reverbs modeled after classic high end studio reverb hardware
masterpieces. CSR-1 offers a suite of reverbs that are modeled to the exact sound of four popular classics with the advantage of full editing
control to perfectly fit any musical need. The four reverbs include: Classik Hall / Room, Classik Ambience, Classik Plate, and Classik Inverse,
each with its own interface and parameters.
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../ Apple Introduces Soundtrack Pro
Apple Computer introduced Soundtrack Pro, a new application that gives audio and video professionals a flexible way to create, control
and fix audio. Soundtrack Pro features a waveform editor with flexible Action Layers that allow users to instantly re-order, bypass or
change any edit, effect or process. Intelligent Find-and-Fix features quickly identify and repair common audio problems such as background
noise, pops, clicks and hum. With full multitrack editing and mixing, over 50 effect plug-ins from Apple's Logic Pro 7, and more than 1,000
professional quality sound effects, Soundtrack Pro provides an intuitive, yet precise way to create quality audio.
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../ Head2Head: Flash Music Players
Apple iPod Shuffle VS. Commodore MpetII
Apple's recent introduction of the iPod Shuffle caused us to re-examine the Flash music player landscape. In the past, we were less than
impressed with many of the MP3 Flash players on the market. Bulky, unreliable, poor sound quality, short battery life, and Windows integration
problems are just a few of the many problems encountered with the units that the leading manufacturers sent us for evaluation...
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../ The 2005 WMC Gear Report
The Winter Music Conference has proved to be a great opportunity for manufacturers to road test their latest gear directly to the DJ/Electronic musician community.
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../ The 2005 WMC Party Report
Sleep deprivation can really free the mind. I've slept about 8 hours total in the past three days, subsisting on house music, Red bull vodkas,
various flavors of beef jerky, and the unrelenting fear that if I stayed in one place too long, I would miss the one track that would carry me
through 'till next year, when I'll inevitably start the process all over again. So I move around a lot. And this takes considerable skill. It
used to be that you could easily get around Miami in cabs or by bumming rides in the back of pickups with various tribes of illegal aliens, but
that hasn't been the case for years. Spring Breakers, Hipster Idiots, and any shuckster looking to cash in on some aspect of the Dance music
industry descends upon Miami for the Winter Music Conference. But the faithful keep coming. They battle all the latest obstacles so they can
have that one transcendent moment...
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../ TestDrive: Wave Arts Power Suite
Wave Arts Power Suite for Mac and PC is a bundle of their five products, TrackPlug, MasterVerb, Multidynamics, WaveSurround and FinalPlug for $499.95 US...
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../ Warner Plans IPO, Merger with EMI
Warner Music Group unveiled plans for a $750 million dollar public offering that will value the company at $4 billion. The planned offering for
May is a huge valuation for a company that was bought by Edgar Bronfman Jr. and partners only a couple of years ago for $2.6 billion.
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../ Universal Posts First Profit in Four Years
Vivendi Universal (Universal) posted its first profit in four years. The reversal is the direct result of lower debt, cost cutting measures
and a rebound in the sales of Universal's top music artists. Universal, the world's largest record label, reported a profit of 338 million
Euro last year almost five times the 2003 numbers.
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../ The Ultimate DJ & VJ Competition
Futuremusic, the cutting edge electronic music company originating The Next Big Thing DJ Mix Contest, has once again pushed the entire
industry forward with its Experiments in Sound DJ and VJ Competition.
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../ The 2005 Winter Music Conference Preview
The Winter Music Conference (WMC) is celebrating its 20th Anniversary with a dazzling array of DJ performances, live PA's, seminars, award shows,
festivals, gear demonstrations and technology exhibits. After a series of major blunders and blatant logistical problems the past few years,
Bill Kelly and his organization have taken a look into the past to attempt the unthinkable: turn the ocean liner that the conference has become
on a dime, and return to the roots of what made the conference so special in the early years.
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../ XM Raises Subscription Fee To Match Sirius
XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. stated that it would raise its monthly subscription fee from $9.95 to $12.95 matching rival Sirius Satellite
Radio Inc. In the land grab for subscribers, the two digital radio services will now compete solely on programming and hardware.
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../ TestDrive: Arturia MiniMoog V
With our arsenal, some would say museum, of vintage synthesizers, we were very skeptical when Arturia sent us their MiniMoog V softsynth.
Coupled with my love for our beloved Model D, I was ready to be a hater and give the MiniMoog V a swift kick in its virtual oscillators.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the studio...
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../ Steinberg Updates HALion Soft Sampler
Steinberg Media Technologies today announced the release of an update to its HALion 3 virtual sampler. HALion 3.1 features new capabilities as well as
numerous enhancements, and is available now for all registered users as a free download.
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../ New Computer Chips To Rock Music
Two new computer chip announcements by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Sony will impact the music industry when they become available in late 2005 and
2006 respectively. AMD demonstrated a new chip that has two independent "brains" on one chip allowing it to perform more tasks simultaneously. Sony
teamed up with Toshiba and IBM to create a new chip called a Cell Processor which they are touting as a supercomputer on a chip.
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../ No Noise Reduction For Dolby's IPO
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. went public yesterday and found its share price soaring 35% from its initial IPO at the end of its first day of trading. Ray Dolby, the
71 year old founder of the company, cashed in big by selling off 17 million of the 27.5 million shares offered. His $306 million windfall ended Dolby Laboratories'
nearly 40 years as a private company.
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../ Wanted: Dead or Alive
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is going to sue you even if you're dead. In it's latest round of lawsuits against individuals who distribute copyrighted works
over the Internet, the RIAA filed a suit against a deceased woman who they allege was sharing over 700 songs on her computer from the great beyond.
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../ The Futuremusic NAMM 2005 Report
The 2005 NAMM Show debuted dozens of new products, upgrades and innovations for electronic musicians. Many of the pre-show rumors and items on our wish list turned out to be true,
while several companies completely surprised the industry with new product announcements that no one was expecting. Futuremusic brings you the most comprehensive NAMM 2005 report for the electronic music and DJ community. After reading our 25 page report, you'll feel like you were canvassing the Anaheim Convention Center in person.
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As the name correctly implies, Experiments In Sound, is Futuremusic's latest endeavor for pushing electronic music technology to the very edge of what's possible.
Experiments In Sound grew out of Futuremusic's avant-garde events in
New York City that featured DJ's taking mixing and live sound reinforcement to a whole new level with the very latest gear and software.
Now Experiments In Sound has become The Ultimate Mix Contest...
After the tremendous success of our groundbreaking The Next Big Thing DJ Contest, Futuremusic has decided to once again create a new paradigm...
Learn more about Experiments In Sound!
TestDrive will feature the lab results of our DJ Experiments so that everyone can get in on the action. Take the latest electronic music releases, mix vigorously
with bleeding-edge DJ production technology in a large beeker, and then cook the hell out of it!
Check out our latest TestDrive of Arturia's MiniMoog V
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PVDJ, PK Graphics, Ableton, The DubHouse, Propellerheads, Technics, FreeFloat, The Church, PCDJ and every DJ who entered this year's event thank you. From the sheer number of
quality mixes, we can tell you that dance music is thriving in the United States. The amount of outstanding talent and creativity really blew us away, and every DJ who's putting
their heart, mind and soul behind the music is a winner. John Digweed has
made his decision and the winner is...
Think you got skills?? Then start practicing! The Next Big Thing 2005 will kick off at the end of the summer!!
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