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Rane Sixty-Eight: A Mixer/Controller for Two Laptops

Rane DJ Mixer For all you Serato DJs who’ve ever had a nightmare trying to patch in your laptop at a gig when the DJ before you was also using a Serato setup… well Rane has the solution for you! Create Digital Music has the lowdown on the new Rane Sixety-Eight dual-computer DJ mixer: It had to happen [ READ MORE ]

Defected Records Producer Competition 2010

For all you aspiring house music producers out there… here’s your chance to get some proper recognition and some new kit in the process. Defected Records announces the launch of their Producer Competition 2010, in partnership with Traxsource, Ableton and Loopmasters. Following the success of last year’s Producer Competition, we’re pleased to announce the 2010 contest. The [ READ MORE ]

Juno Interview: Lindstrøm

Juno drops an interview with Lindstrøm — the Balearic goovemaster who has been leading the disco renaissance… It seems Hans-Peter Lindstrøm can do no wrong. His latest album, Real Life Is No Cool, has been rapturously received by every publication from Pitchfork to the Irish Times, and the praise is wholly justified. Whether he’s knocking out [ READ MORE ]

Diplo – February Juno Top 10 Chart

Juno Plus is starting February off right with a hot new chart from Diplo… Mad Decent big cheese and all round nice guy Diplo returns with another featured chart for Juno Plus. He talks us through his top tunes for February, which range from subtle dubstep to outright bangers, and admits dressing like Fever Ray at [ READ MORE ]

Ms. Pinky + Max for Live = Scratch Anything in Ableton

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 [ READ MORE ]

In The Studio with Claude VonStroke

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. [ READ MORE ]

NAMM Update on Ableton’s “The Bridge”

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 [ READ MORE ]

Akai APC20 Ableton Controller

Don’t have enough loot for a full Akai APC40? Well now you can still take your Ableton Live sets to the next level with the Akai APC20 Ableton Controller. Create Digital Music has the full lowdown as part of their 2010 NAMM coverage: Ableton Live-specific controllers just got another addition. You probably could have [ READ MORE ]

Implicit & Suneel – Juno Funky House Podcast 02

Implicit and Suneel from FunkyHouseMusic.com in collaboration with Juno, the world’s largest dance music retailer, are back with their next Funky House podcast episode.  Download iTunes, click the link, and get your groove on!  Here’s what Juno had to say about their next installment: Episode 2 of our Funky House Podcast series continues with tastemakers Implicit [ READ MORE ]

FunkyHouseMusic.com Version 2.0

It’s been just over five years since we first launched FunkyHouseMusic.com and for a while it was becoming clear that it was time to upgrade from our original completely custom website format to a more standard, flexible, and extensible website architecture — one that would allow us to better connect with you our readers in [ READ MORE ]

FunkyHouseMusic.com WMC 2009 Video: Boys Noize (Part 1)

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FunkyHouseMusic.com WMC 2009 Video: Fake Blood (Part 1)

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Going To WMC? — Let Us Know!

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TYP Succumbs To Gearlust

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10 WMC DJ Sets Not To Miss

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Fake Blood Essential Mix

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When DJs Ruled The World

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Beatport Music Awards: Last chance to vote

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Dance music: let’s get pretentious

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Ableton Live 8 Announced

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