January blog roundup

Our five EDM bloggers.

Here’s top of the Innotune blog of January.

Get to know controllerism. Can we compare digital DJs and controllerists?  Read on and share your opinion.

You may also read about sampling and pick up a few tricks from the Prodigy classic “Smack my bitch up”.

This month we gathered 20 great EDM music videos. Check out both part 1 and part 2.

Ableton and Serato finally launched the first result of their cooperation. Ville Lope wrote about the DJ system “The Bridge” and gave you his first thoughts.

The fifth episode of the Innotune podcast featured Thomas Sagstad, BT, Sami Saari, Dj Eco, Pete Tong and Funkagenda. Plus new music from other great producers. Download, listen or subscribe to our monthly podcast.

January at Innotune also brought you mouth producing, game trance, free nu disco downloads and the true story about the A&R guy.

Stay tuned!

Bang Gang putting out free MP3’s

Here’s an exciting label. The aussies in Bang Gang have released quite a few bangin Nu Disco tracks on regular music download stores. But unlike many others in the business, they are putting out parts of their releases for free download. They most certainly have adapted to the modern way of marketing music.

I liked “Fuck Song” by Cassian, which I perfectly legally downloaded for free from their site. And then I bought the other tracks on the EP at Beatport.

I realise that not everyone will do that, but they get to spread their music and maybe more important create word of mouth (or maybe blogs?).

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Trance producer + a game soundtrack = Frozen Synapse

What would it sound like if a trance producer did a soundtrack for a video game?

Paul Taylor, better known for his trance alias nervous_testpilot and his excellent work for Subtraxx and Bonzai related labels, is also heavily involved in the gaming and game industry.

He has done the soundtrack for the upcoming indie game Frozen Synapse, which is already getting some good feedback from the gaming enthusiasts.

Frozen Synapse is a top-down simultaneous-turn-based tactical game set in the near-future.

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Voice Band: Introducing mouth-producing

Just how easy should music making be? This iPhone app called Voice Band looks awesome, I’ve been dreaming about a feature like this ever since I was a kid.

The principle of using voice to control synthesis in itself isn’t new, but if this is available with all sorts of instruments, imagine how you could use this for putting down fresh ideas when you’re on the move. It may not be a social winner on a plane or when bored at your in-laws. But come on, it’s producing with your mouth!

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The A&R guy: A true story

Thanks to Steve Angello for sharing this link via his Twitter, funniest video in ages. It’s a must see, and I’m pretty sure this will turn out to be a classic.

Podcast 005 – Starring Thomas Sagstad

Another strong Innotune selection of new house, trance, techno and downtempo. And Thomas Sagstad in the mix!

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Thomas Sagstad is one of the five bloggers at Innotune. In this episode he get’s the chance to show you his DJ skills. He has travelled all over the globe DJ’ing for his fans. Now be sure to check out the last half of episode five.

As usual, the first 30 minutes is packed with tunes we believe in. We’ve got BT, Funkagenda, Pete Tong and Dj Eco for you, to mention a few.

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Top 20 Classic EDM videos – Part 2

Here’s part 2 of our “Top 20 Classic EDM videos”. Be sure to check part 1 packed with great music videos right here.

So let’s continue our excellent list of amazing EDM music videos

Antiloop – Start Rockin

Scandinavian duo, and you might recognize one of them: Yeah, it’s David West in his younger days. Would be so cool if this was possible to do.

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Ableton and Serato present The Bridge

When Ableton announced in October 2008 their partnership with Serato I was super excited. I’ve been producing solely in Ableton and I have also tried to DJ with Ableton, controlled by Pioneer DJM-800, but at that point it didn’t feel right, I didn’t feel comfortable with it.

Serato has been in the game of digital DJing for more than 10 years, their Serato Scratch has been a choice of several DJ’s during the years, and especially among hip hop scene, using control vinyls to control music on your laptop, has been “the” way to DJ.

While Serato has been strong name in hip hop, Native Instrument’s Traktor has quickly risen to be the equivalent to Serato in EDM.

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Top 20 Classic EDM videos – Part 1

There are lots of EDM music videos with, let’s say, a bit variety in its qualities. If you get a record company to actually put in some $$$ to create a music video for your track – it usually involves slow-motion nature scenes, a sportscar, some bikini women and the artist standing on various places with some sunglasses.

But during time, there are some gems appearing. Videos with a meaning, or some sort of creative excellence. So here goes nothing; Innotunes Top 20 selected EDM videos  that deserves to be called a “classic”

Chemical Brothers – Star Guitar

Such an mesmerizing video. Everytime I go on a train I try to sync everything outside to the music I’m listening to after this music video.

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The hidden art of sampling

Remember Prodigy’s Smack My Bitch Up? (Spotify link) The video of this track from 1997 was so violent it was banned from day time television and even MTV had to play it only at night time.

The times have gone by, the video itself has got a cult status, but the track keeps living a life of it’s own still being remembered in night clubs all around the world.

Prodigy’s lead man (that usually keeps everything low key) Liam Howlett is known for his sampling. Some music enthuastics have been spotting various samples from Prodigy tracks. Now in the era of YouTube the stuff gets some videos.

In the summer 2009 a very creative video of how to recreate Smack My Bitch Up was posted to YouTube. The spotting of samples was spot on and the way how the data was presented, indeed top notch.

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