How The Twitter Tracklist App Will Change Everything
Richie Hawtin’s Twitter app announcement this morning hasn’t had much time to properly sunk in yet, but already I’ve been having some major thoughts about how the broadcasting of DJ tracklists in real time will change everything. With Traktor quickly becoming the standard for electronic music DJs, the addition of a Twitter app will bring a level of transparency and fluidity to DJing in one fell software update that is likely to have a long-lasting impact on electronic music culture.
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Steve Angello put together this tasteful video diary of his WMC trip from last month, featuring shots of him and the Swedish House Mafia rocking Ultra Music Festival and Mansion, as well as the moment that him and Sebastian Ingrosso got shut down at the Beatport Pool Party on the Sunday after their epic set.
US deep house hero Kerri Chandler has always been the experimental type, and Southport Weekender in Britain has always been there with open arms welcoming his creativity to the DJ booth. At the 2006 event, Chandler played the keys to ‘Bar A Thym’ and some of his other hits using a laser string (see the video after the jump). Last year he went one better and shocked the crowd by mixing flawlessly using only three consecutive reel-to-reels. And just when you thought you had seen it all, Kerri Chandler has now announced that he plans to incorporate 3D virtual projections of singers performing the exact tunes as he plays them at this year’s Weekender. That’s right. Holograms of the actual original vocalists in the DJ booth, singing along to the songs that he plays. Wow!.. 
This week saw a decent amount of quality house music come out of France, with both underground and established artists from the country providing all manner of different house grooves. None of the music is French house in the traditional Daft Punk electro-rock sense, but the beats do have a certain French sophistication and Parisian elegance to them. Beatportal decided to cherry pick five of the best French releases out this week in order to highlight five producers who are really doing their country proud. Vive la France!.. 
A video of an amazing kid beatboxing electro house and breaks. In the intro he says he wants to be ‘in the beatbox battle’, and immediately the cynic inside you goes ‘yeah right, dream on kid.’ He then goes on to smash it with a fusion of electro house and rock-infused breakbeat… 
Beatportal was forwarded this curious photo of Deadmau5 today, who is sporting a huge neon green tattoo of a pixelated space invader on his neck. Ouch! You can see it’s still red on his neck. Apparently Deadmau5 fancied getting a tattoo and chose that particular space invader image. ‘So what?!’ I hear you say. It’s just another star getting a tattoo, nothing special. Yeah except, the image is actually the logo of French DJ and producer Joachim Garraud![2-Xclusive - All Gone EP [Sweet Cherry Music]](http://www.funkyhousemusic.com/wp-content/v1/news_images/SCM018_144.gif "2-Xclusive - All Gone EP [Sweet Cherry Music]")
Sweet Cherry Music’s latest release features the Miami-based duo 2-Xclusive, who provide a very housey EP just in time for the warming weather.
Steve Porter is up to his naughty video mischief again, this time taking an infomercial for a strange kitchen product called Slap Chop which he’s turned into his own electro breaks track called ‘Rap Chop’. The track may be awful, but that’s not the point – Steve only did it for a bit of comic relief (which is just what the doctor ordered). It also shows how with a bit of vocoder trickery, you can turn any recorded words into a useable vocal.
Rusty B of the infamous Washington DC underground collective – All Good Funk Alliance – speaks on the topic of branding within electronic music culture…
The good folks over at RA spend some time to help you understand in great detail the electronic side of the infamous Coachella west coast annual music festival…
Fresh from his month-long stint in a UK rehab facility for alcoholism, a shadow has been cast over Fatboy Slim’s future in DJing with his wife Zoe Ball reportedly keen to see him retire from the game. Tabloids in the UK have been having a field day with Fatboy’s struggles with booze, the latest updates courtesy of a ‘close friend’ who remains nameless.
Hmmmmm…..you just have to see it!
The facial recognition system is reported by the venue operators to be believed as a worldwide first for the nightclub industry.
‘Hatiras Presents’ is the weekly radio show presented by Hatiras. Each episode features a new 60 minute mix from many of the planet’s finest DJs. Feel free to download the show here every week. And don’t forget – support the music by purchasing downloads from Beatport, iTunes, etc.
RA picks the May festival highlights from across the globe.
