DJ Dan & Christopher Lawrence join forces to launch the All Access Tour of America 2006.
Christopher Lawrence and DJ Dan pair up for the inaugural launch of the All Access Tour. The first date of the All Access Tour kicks off in San Diego on February 3rd and will culminate on Feb 25th in Atlanta. Club goers and fans across the country are in for a night they will never forget as they will have a rare opportunity to experience both of these two headlining juggernauts demonstrating why they both have earned their places among the upper echelon of DJ superstardom for over a decade… Read more

Hed Kandi & Enterprise records join the Ministry of Sound fold today in a surprise acquisition.
Today it was revealed that Ministry of Sound had acquired the record label Hed Kandi along with the Enterprise Records division of Smooth FM (formerly Jazz FM) from Guardian Media Group Radio Holdings for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition includes all associated labels of the GMG Radio Records division including One Two Records.

Lohan Presencer, Managing Director of Ministry of Sound Recordings said, “We are very excited at the prospect of bringing our two businesses together. Hed Kandi is a brilliant brand with great integrity, built very skilfully by the team over many years. We look forward to preserving Hed Kandi’s core values while helping to build the business still further.”.. Read more

The boys from Knee Deep USA compile a double mix CD exclusively for Ministry of Sound Germany. If you’re a fan of this duo, your only hope of obtaining this is some serious Internet research…but well worth it by the looks of the track listing. Looks like the UK division of the corporate minded MOS didn’t have much influence on the track selections on this banger!
Testament Of House Vol. 3 – CD 1

Outlines – Just A Lil Lovin (Original Mix)

Reel People Feat. Sharlene Hector – The Rain (Original Mix).. Read more

Artist: Raw Shape
Title: Bodyrock
Label: Voices
Format: Vinyl
Release Date: none
Audio Sample: Listen

Originally released on Villanova over the summer, this record caught the attention of the Pool E Music conglomerate, and more specifically its sub-label Voices. Voices has quickly come up in the ranks of quality labels over the past year, and this newest addition only helps to solidify it’s reputation as a home for quality electro-infused house.

The title track ‘Bodyrock’ is an infectious, dark, electro-driven groover, with just enough atmosphere to serve as an early set builder, and just enough toughness to seem perfectly at home in a funky house set. The light, airy break serves to calm the nerves, and then perfectly segues into the drop, announced by the sample ‘Get your body rocking’. The production and arrangement is not over-the-top in the least, and in fact feels welcomingly subdued. Yes, this certainly isn’t peak-time material here, but it will have the heads nodding and feet moving nonetheless… Read more

Sales of music via the internet and mobile phones proliferated and spread across the world in 2005, generating sales of US$1.1 billion for record companies – up from US$380 million the previous year – and promising further significant growth in the coming year.
The findings have been released in IFPI’s Digital Music Report 2006, a comprehensive review of the development of the digital music market internationally.

Music fans downloaded 420 million single tracks from the internet last year – twenty times more than two years earlier – while the volume of music licensed by record companies doubled to over 2 million songs. Digital music now accounts for about 6% of record companies’ revenues, up from practically zero two years ago… Read more

Artist: Who Da Funk
Title: Shiny Disco Balls 2006
Label: Oxyd
Format: Vinyl
Release Date: 1/24/06
Audio Sample: Listen

Did you really think it would never come back? Well, we all can thank Italy’s Oxyd label for launching two new electro-tinged remixes of the club anthem with one of the catchiest vocals ever laid down on wax.

The ladies will love it, and the headz might just enjoy the warped out Sex On Monday remix with it’s outta’ space synth moments, and heavy crunched out guitar riffs rockin’ this anthem to new heights. Reminding me of recent Coburn remixes, but with a lot more energy, this is tripped out electro clubby rock that dances on the fine line of underground & commercial. Sometimes, these are the records that do the most damage… Read more

01) Joshua – Do It (Shift Mix)
02) Thomas Schumacher – Yara
03) Joshua – Make Me Feel
04) Todd Terry – Can You Party (Steven Mac Mix)
05) Dan Maxam – AHA
06) Lucca Ricci – Musica Vs El Dinero (Xpiritual Pass Remix)
07) Olav Basoski – Elektrik
08) Basoski & Romano – Gusta (Drum Dub)
09) Marc O’ Tool – Gear 2
10) Marcella – Stabbing Sally

The former Radio 1 DJ and man behind the Circus club takes to the decks.
This week BBC Radio 1 Radio brings you the former Radio 1 resident DJ and the main man behind the Circus club.

In 1998 Yousef won Muzik magazine’s Bedroom Bedlam competition. He also went on to win their Best Breakthrough DJ award in 2001.

He’s held down a residency at Cream and has produced tracks with the mighty Paul Woolford as well as Steve Mac.

His Liverpool club Circus was voted the House Rules Club of the Year 2004 by the Radio 1 listeners… Read more