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The New Beatport – Designed For DJs By DJs

Suneel — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:35:31 +0000

While we are, at heart, a record store, we like to think of ourselves as a champion of the DJ community. Our customers are at the core of everything we do at Beatport. Our staff is filled with people who are incredibly passionate about Electronic Dance Music and a lot of us are DJs. We like to say that Beatport was designed for DJs by DJs.

Source: Beatportal

News Article: The New Beatport – Designed For DJs By DJs

The 4th Annual Beatport Music Awards

Suneel — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:00:46 +0000

The ceremony took place at the close of five days of sunkissed vibes at the Beatport Beach Party at Miami’s Gansevoort Hotel, where thousands of revelers were on hand to celebrate their favorite artists’ considerable accomplishments. (After all, what’s a dance-music awards ceremony without a party?)

And, in our humble opinion, this year’s results were the finest we’ve seen in four years of the BMAs—a comprehensive overview of the best and brightest in electronic dance music and club culture, from the underground to the superclubs.

Source: Beatportal

News Article: The 4th Annual Beatport Music Awards

Competition: Co-Produce a track with Mark Knight

Implicit — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:11:48 +0000

For all you burgeoning producers out there, here is your chance…

Future Music Magazine,Mark Knight and Toolroom Records have teamed up with Beatport and Sonic Academy to launch a fresh and exciting ‘co-production’ competition – the first of its kind. The idea of the competition is to give up and coming producers the chance to work with one of the industry’s leading artists, launch their music career with the world’s premier dance label and be financially rewarded for their work, receiving 50% of publishing and an equal share of artist sales royalties. Not a bad deal at all.

The mechanics of the competition are simple…

Mark Knight has upload key parts of the project to Beatport and midi parts to Toolroom’s online store.

Beatport: Get the key parts HERE
Toolroom: Get the midi parts HERE

Entrants to finish track, name and upload to Beatport’s SoundCloud by the 15th July.

No un-cleared samples to be used (full T&C’s relating to music for the competition will be avail on Beatport.com & djmarkknight.com)

Winning track, as chosen by Toolroom, will be will announced on July 19th and released in physical & digital format as an ‘exclusive track’ on Mark Knight’s forth coming Toolroom Knights CD (out Oct 2010)

Winner receives:

50% of publishing & equal share of artist sales royalties

$200 Beatport voucher

Focal CMS 40 studio monitors from Future Music Magazine

Soundcloud Pro account

Native Instruments Maschine

Annual subscription to Sonic Academy & 6 months personal mentoring

Full PR & marketing campaign to launch their career

Mark comments:

“There seems to be an over saturation of remix competitions at the moment, but these aren’t really proving a spring board for people careers. With myself as a producer and Toolroom as a leading label, we felt we had the vehicle to offer up something innovative and put something back into the development of up and coming artists. The ethos of Toolroom has been one of finding and nurturing new talent – ala Funkagenda and Dave Spoon. We’re looking for the stars of the future right now, so this co-production competition makes perfect sense. With the 8 bar loop I’ve provided, I’ve laid down the backbone of the track with enough scope for interpretation. What I’m looking for is clever use of the parts, creative sound design with any new parts included and a good arrangement. Over to you guys…”

Log on to www.djmarkknight.com for full details of the competition

Source: Future Music

Beatport Music Awards 2010

Suneel — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:30:09 +0000

The Beatport Music Awards aims to recognize electronic music talent. With nominees based solely on Beatport sales data from March 2009 – March 2010, the awards are broken down by music genre.

There are 36 categories altogether: Best Artists (separated into 18 genres), and Best Track (17 genres, with both originals and remixes), with a final open question asking the public to name the ‘most influential, relevant and forward-thinking person in electronic music over the past 12 months’.

Voting closes on May 19th 2010, with the winners announced on or around May 27th.

Source: http://www.beatportal.com

Beatport Music Awards 2010

DJ Mix: Hatiras Presents Bass Kleph 01

Suneel — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:15:46 +0000

‘Hatiras Presents’ welcomes Australian-based artist Bass Kleph to his weekly online broadcast. 2009 has been his Bass Kleph’s strongest year yet. The commercial and club success of $pend My Money (feat. Stellar MC) in Australia has catapulted him into the top echelons of Aussie talent (he jumped 26 places to #10 nationally in the ITM Top 50 DJs in 2009) and has firmly cemented his position as ‘one to watch’ on the international stage. His success in the ARIA Club Charts has meant that his remixes are in hot demand, but it’s his Beatport success this year that is making the international arena sit up and take notice.

‘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.

MP3: Hatiras Presents Bass Kleph 01

Beatport Presents The Strictly Rhythm Remix Contest

Suneel — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:12:13 +0000

Throughout 2009 Beatport has brought you a string of epic remix contests, including tracks from the best of the underground and mainstream producers around the globe. To end 2009, they are proud to partner with Strictly Rhythm to celebrate the labels 20th anniversary and offer aspiring producers the chance to remix Armand Van Helden’s House classic ‘Witch Doktor’.

Online Link: Beatport Presents The Strictly Rhythm Remix Contest

Are You The Next Superstar DJ?

Suneel — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:12:43 +0000

Pioneer, Beatport, DJ Magazine and Let’s Mix have come together to launch ‘Next Generation DJ’ (NGDJ), a talent competition designed to unearth the next superstar DJ and to give him or her the chance to win a life changing prize!
Video:

Watch on YouTube

Beatport Music Awards: Last chance to vote

Implicit — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:03:05 +0000

Cast your vote for you favorite artists for the 2009 Beatport Music Awards. Voting ends March 19th so get those votes in soon…
Head over to Beatportal for the full list of nominees.

Beatport Pool Party 2009 Daily Line-Up

Suneel — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:02:12 +0000

Here’s the Beatport Pool Party day-by-day breakdown artist lineup for this year’s Winter Music Conference.

With names like A-Trak, Johnny D, Radio Slave and Steve Angello and a whole slew of other top-notch talent on the roster, this is one event not to be missed.

Online Link: Beatport Pool Party 2009 Daily Line-Up

In The Hot Seat: Beatport CEO Jonas Tempel

Suneel — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:01:47 +0000

As a part of Beatport’s 5-year anniversary tour, the website invited readers to send in their questions to Beatport CEO, Jonas Tempel. Of the hundreds of questions received, Beatport chose the most relevant and most pressing ones to pass on to the chief. Here are his answers.

Online link: In The Hot Seat: Beatport CEO Jonas Tempel

2009 Beatport Music Awards Nominees Revealed

Suneel — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:01:41 +0000

Having launched last year to much fanfare (and controversy, not surprisingly), the 2009 Beatport Music Awards have returned with nominees revealed overnight. Aside from some of the more questionable genre/artist classifications, the full list of acts up for awards does encompass a large part of music that made a difference in 2008. This should come as no surprise, however, as Beatport select the nominees based on sales through their store. ‘To keep the awards fair and relevant to the whole electronic music scene,’ they wrote on the Beatportal blog. ‘The nominees were chosen based solely on unit sales on Beatport during 2008 and are broken down into separate genre categories.’..

Online Link: 2009 Beatport Music Awards Nominees Revealed

Beatport Launches v4.0

Dave Cortex — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:01:00 +0000

Beatport launched the fourth full version of their popular online retail service late last night, featuring a redone interface, updated browsing options, and more.

View the new version now at www.beatport.com.

To view a comprehensive tutorial of what the new site has to offer, check out http://www.thenewbeatport.com/.

The New Beatport

Dave Cortex — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:01:15 +0000

On Wednesday 21st January the long-awaited Beatport 4.0 will launch.

Promising to ‘redefine all your senses’, Beatport has created a website entirely for the purpose of previewing the 4.0 store.

View it at http://www.thenewbeatport.com/

Beatport Miami WMC Pool Party: DJ Set Times

Suneel — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:03:06 +0000

Feast your eyes on this line-up, complete with an hourly breakdown, featuring M.A.N.D.Y., Dubfire, Fran�ois K, Mark Knight, Gui Boratto, Richie Hawtin, John Acquaviva, Dirty South, Chris Lake ‘ and many, many more

Online Link: http://www.beatportal.com/feed/item/beatports-miami-wmc-pool-party-dj-set-times/

Beatport Launches Music Awards

Suneel — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:03:48 +0000

Beginning March 18th, Beatport users will have the opportunity to vote for the best electronic music artists of 2007 in the first ever Beatport Music Awards. Broken down into 19 categories ‘ including Best Artist categories from each genre and the multi-genre Best Remix and Best Single ‘ the nominees for the BMAs are based solely on unit sales at Beatport.

Online Link: http://www.beatportal.com/feed/item/beatport-music-awards-nominees?utm_campaign=..

Beatport Announces WMC Daily Pool Party Schedules

Suneel — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:03:01 +0000

It’s time to start mapping out your time between the Technology Partner cabanas and the Beatport stage, because Beatport has just announced its daily Pool Party schedules for Remix Hotel Miami 2008.

Online Link: http://remixmag.com/remixhotel/news/beatport_daily_0228/

Beatport’s Best of 2007 Charts

Dave Cortex — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:12:07 +0000

As 2007 comes to a close, Beatport asked some of their top DJ’s to reveal their favorite tracks of the year, including house maestros DJ Dan, Bush II Bush, and Swayzak.

Check out their Best of 2007 charts by clicking below:

Click here to view all of Beatport’s charts.

Related posts:
1. Beatport @ Remix Hotel Miami 2007

Beatport Sync

Dave Cortex — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:12:53 +0000

A few weeks ago, the ever-expanding Beatport brand added the latest weapon in it’s digital arsenal – Beatport Sync.

Almost like an ‘iTunes for DJs’, Beatport Sync is based on Native Instruments’ Traktor DJ software, letting users seamlessly integrate tracks in a digital recreation of a DJ set, while automatically matching the beats.

True to name, the software can sync up with Beatport’s download store, and can also browse music throughout the user’s computer and any connected storage device…

On top of this, the biggest selling point for the software is that there isnt’ one – it is offered free of charge.

For more info, check out the company’s dedicated

Primary content is sponsored by industry leaders like Motorola, Digidesign, M-Audio, Apple, SAE, Pioneer, Stanton, Korg, Vestax, Cakewalk, Guitar Center and several others. DJ performance events at the Remix Hotels and Remix Hotel-sponsored club events feature leading artists demonstrating different genres while using current gear on the market.

For more info, please visit:

http://remixhotel.com/miami/

Pioneer and Beatport’s Special Offer

Dave Cortex — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:08:51 +0000

Want to buy a CD-J? Now that simple act can get you free tunes from Beatport, thanks to a new joint promotion.

Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. has announced a special promotion with Beatport, the leading premium electronic music download store, for consumers who purchase the CDJ-200, CDJ-800MK2, CDJ-1000MK3 or DJM-800 to receive a gift card for ten dollars towards purchase of music downloads from Beatport’s online music store.

In addition to the gift card, Pioneer customers and fans also will receive a free 10-song soundtrack available for download from www.beatport.com/pioneer. The special promotion extends from September 1, 2006 through February 28, 2007.

“With the increasing popularity of the MP3 audio format and the MP3 playback capability in Pioneer’s digital CDJ turntables, it made sense for us to partner with a leading dance music download store like Beatport,” said Karl Detken, director of product planning for DJ products at Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. “It gives consumers the opportunity to try Beatport’s exceptional service and offerings, allowing them to download, burn and play their chosen music content on the recently purchased Pioneer equipment.”

This unique co-branding initiative brings two of the biggest players in dance music together for the first time. Pioneer has consistently led the way in innovative DJ performance technology, making the CDJ series the industry standard in digital turntables. In the current age of digital downloads, disc jockeys and top club facilities around the world use Pioneer’s CDJ products with dance content largely coming from Beatport. With more than 100,000 songs available and 2,700 label partners, Beatport has become the industry leader in the electronic music download space.

“We are very excited about this promotion with Pioneer. We at Beatport share their commitment to quality and innovation in the electronic music space. This is a great opportunity to introduce the loyal Pioneer Pro DJ customers to the ease of shopping at Beatport,” said Jonas Tempel, CEO of Beatport.

Beatport Upgrades to 3.0

Dave Cortex — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 19:08:33 +0000

The popular online digital store just went through a major overhaul, adding an improved interface and new features.

Some of the features include a ‘My Beatport’ section, which allows a user to subscribe to their favorite artist, label, or genre. Once subscribed, the system notifies the user when one of their subscriptions has new music. Other shopping improvements include new community drive features such as ‘Users Also Bought’ and ‘Email to a Friend’.

A premium design change for version 3.0 is the much-improved landing pages designed to better showcase the genres, artists and labels and their related content. Continued improvements have been made to the navigation adding several powerful filtering tools to improve shopping speed delivering measurable improvements to both our customers and label partners.

“Since our launch of Beatport 1.0 in January 2004, we have been in a constant state of refinement” says Jonas Tempel, Beatport CEO. “Our team is always looking for a better way to serve our growing and avid community of customers and label partners. Beatport 3.0 represents major innovations primarily aimed at making it easier for our customers to find the music they love, faster.”

The previous version of Beatport, while contributing immensely to the store’s amazing success, was also plagued by numerous bugs and glitches. It is unknown whether or not version 3.0 has fixed those errors, or simply added more.

For more info, check out www.beatport.com

Beatport & Microsoft Present: Remix Hotel Miami

Suneel — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:03:16 +0000

Three Days of Total Technology Immersion

March 22-24

Beatport: Soundtrack To Miami (Free MP3 Downloads)

Suneel — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:02:59 +0000

Beatport.com is now offering 10 FREE MP3 downloads from 10 seperate labels in an effort to increase the hype on these WMC clubland weapons of choice.
With producers like Shmuel Flash, Huge-A, Cagedbaby, Grooveland, Def E, The Beginerz, & Matthew E…how can you go wrong with FREE music?

http://www.beatport.com

Beatport Celebrates 2nd Anniversary With FREE Downloads

Suneel — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:01:52 +0000

Happy 2nd birthday Beatport.com! But in a unique role reversal, the public is receiving the free gifts. Click inside to learn more!
In celebration of Beatport.com’s 2nd birthday, the digital download website is offering 10 free tracks for it’s faithful following. Please go to:

http://www.beatport.com

And obtain your birthday gifts ASAP! This is a limited time offer.

Beatport Now Offering WAV Downloads

Suneel — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:12:00 +0000

The entire Beatport music catalogue is now available for download in the original uncompressed format.
WAV downloading is now here!

In an effort to stay two steps ahead of the rest, America’s digital EDM download website – Beatport – is now offering what many digital DJs have been dying for. Below is the message posted directly from the Beatport message forum:

There is an additional charge for downloading and shipping WAV files.

WAV Files will cost $1.00 more per track when downloading…

WAV Files will cost $0.50 more per track when being shipped.

For example:

If an Mp3 sells for $1.49, then the WAV file will be $2.49 when downloading the file.

If am Mp3 sells for $1.49, then the WAV file will be $1.99 when we ship the file to you on a CD.

For more information, please visit:

http://www.beatport.com

Beatport.com

Suneel — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:00:00 +0000

Beatport is the first authentic digital music store designed to service the evolution of the digital music culture, redefining how DJ’s and enthusiasts acquire their music.

Beatport.com allows users to access the world of club music through secure, legal, hi-speed, high quality downloads in MP3, MP4 and WAV formats on a pay per download basis. With hundreds of labels and thousands of users world wide, Beatport is recognized as the leader in online digital dance music.

http://www.beatport.com/