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An intriguing piece we stumbled across over at Resident Advisor about the art of digging, and how it has evolved.

For music lovers across the world, the Internet has become an almost indispensible godsend. Whatever your background the net provides a resource for any style of music you happen to be into – ambient, dubstep, techno, funk, rap or even Brazilian samba.

Crate Digging The Future

Naples born, London based, DJ & Producer Riva Starr takes control of the Essential Mix. He’s one of 2010’s hottest properties and has recently remixed the likes of Fatboy Slim, The Gossip and Reboot. His new album, “If Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade”, has just been released on Jesse Rose’s Made To Play Records. This Radio 1 Essential Mix features exclusive tracks from his new label ‘Snatch!’ and gives you a taste of what the hype is all about…

DJ Mix: Riva Starr – BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix

The Fool’s Gold European Vacation is now streaming on RBMA Radio for your listening pleasure. Check out some of the hottest names in the scene doing their thing in Paris, France live including artists such as A-Trak, Jokers of the Scene, Nick Catchdubs, Congorock, and more!

Trizzy and the boys stopped in Paris during their European Vacation tour last December, and the night’s highlights are now streaming on RBMA Radio.

Fool’s Gold – One Night In Paris

This past summer we picked up news that the We Rock label was resurrecting. For those of you unfamiliar with the We Rock label, it was essential French House that held its own during the rise of Roule, Fresh Fruit, Work, and other classic funky house labels of the past. Anyhow, the kind folks behind the Discodust Blog seem to have a connection with the French artist Raw Man (the mastermind behind We Rock), and have shared the next update which has us very excited!

We hooked you up with ‘What You Need’ by Priors (involving Raw Man of Crydamoure fame) many moons ago and Eye Industries are finally coming through with a release of remixes, including Discodust favorite Grum and Hey Champ, which you can check out right now! The secret star of this post is the Raw Man remix of ‘Neverest’ by Hey Champ though, which was done in exchange for the ‘What You Need’ remix.

Priors – Remixed

Ms. Pinky has been on the scene for quite a while pushing out various software tools to let you manipulate audio with timecode records. With Max For Live on the scene you can now scratch in Ableton via Ms. Pinky giving some users an alternate to Ableton’s The Bridge. Create Digital Music posted the down-low on this development:

What should DJing in Ableton Live look like? How could conventional vinyl cueing and scratching be integrated with the Live environment? Serato and Ableton gave us one possible answer to that question last week with The Bridge. Their solution: use your Serato DJ set normally, and simply sync the transport of Ableton Live when the two run simultaneously.

That solution could be ideal for some users, but it falls short of what many expected, which was the ability to scratch audio elements from Live as though they were on vinyl. Scratching Live clips would seem to be the best of both worlds: you get all the live sequencing features of Live, but you can still manipulate sound as you would on a turntable.

Ms. Pinky Revised from Mastah Lee on Vimeo.

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Treasure Fingers is a hot name in the nu disco/indie/funky house scene with backing from the likes of Fool’s Gold, and a developing legion of supporters that is stronger than most. Check out what the hype is about with this recent live DJ mix he dropped at Muse – Washington DC for the District Ignition crew and their essential weekly Snatch Rewired!

DJ Mix: Treasure Fingers – Live at Muse

The uprising Italian star re-transplanted in London continues to simply blow our minds – this time with his 2nd single from the critically acclaimed album self-titled release “Phonat”. ‘Love Hits The Fan’ is the new tune and from the moment we heard the album release a few months back, we knew this one was special. Here is what Nathan Taylor of The Young Punx had to say about the release:

The video is cut to ‘Love Hits The Fan’, the next single release to be taken from Phonat’s debut album, ‘Phonat’. Like the video for ‘Set Me Free’ it was directed and produced by Rocco Pezzella, Andrea Staiano, Francesco Castellani for the “Savants Collective”. ‘Love Hits The Fan’ will be released within 10-weeks with a clutch of remixes including cuts from Bestrack and Sharooz, plus a brand-new club version from the man himself and ‘Love Hits The Fan’ Part 2!

Here are FunkyHouseMusic.com we can’t get enough of the “In The Studio…” video series that comes with our monthly gear porn Magazine + DVD from Future Music. Last November, American techno hero Claude VonStroke revealed some of his production secrets in front of the camera and those videos have been re-posted to Youtube. Check ‘em out before they disappear…

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ATFC lays down the next Defected mix CD with a wicked track list injected with personal edits, forgotten gems, and Defected classics!

ATFC delivers 2 discs of the freshest worldwide house music complete with exclusives and classics sprinkled throughout the mix. CD1 includes the brand new ATFC release (‘Computer Love’) as well as an exclusive from Copyright (‘Someday’). Also included is the massive 2009 Ibiza smash ‘I Called U (The Conversation)’, a future house music anthem from Dennis Ferrer (‘Hey Hey’) alongside huge big room sounds from Steve Angello and Erick Morillo.

CD2 kicks off with an exclusive new remix of Reboot’s 2009 hit ‘Enjoy Music’ by rising Italian / Shoreditch talent Riva Starr, Osunlade’s underground killer ‘Mirror Dance’, a brand new cut from DJ Gregory, Mark Knight and Underworlds epic ‘Downpipe’, ATFC’s remake of the Strictly Rhythm classic ‘Spark Da Meth’ before finishing on a classic from arguably London’s biggest dance music act; Basement Jaxx and their 1997 Brixton bomb ‘Fly Life’.

ATFC – In The House – London ‘10

There has been a lot of rumor and excitement about the recently announced Ableton “The Bridge.  Well the guys over at Create Digital Music were able to get some more solid details on the floor of the 2010 NAMM on what’s going to be in the realm of the possible:

We’ve gotten to speak to Ableton and Serato representatives; see the short video of Ableton’s Dennis DeSantis and Ableton’s official overview of the tool, as shot by intrepid CDM NAMM contributor Neil Bufkin. Based on additional conversations, here’s what we know.

Ableton & Serato @ NAMM 2010 – The Bridge from Neil Bufkin on Vimeo.

Surf on over to Create Digital Music for the full info and more videos: When Ableton Met Serato: The Bridge Videos, Questions Answered