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March and April blog roundup

Posted by Endal in Music on 05 1st, 2010 | No Comments

The five Innotune bloggers.

Time to do a small sum up.

If you’re up for retro EDM, check out Håkon’s post about mind.in.a.box and their album R.E.T.R.O. Ville Lope wrote about performing electronic music live. Pick up a few hints from Ville and Steve Helstrip. We’ve also posted news about a new label from Joonas Hahmo. Marcus Schossow created a sick and quite different track that he decided to give away for free to all Innotune readers. Download Tone Diary – Psykopat.

The podcast episodes of March and April gave you loads of kickin’ dance music and trance heads Airwave and Darude in the mix. No need to hesitate, just download and share now.

Free download: Tone Diary – Psykopat

Posted by Endal in Music on 04 15th, 2010 | No Comments

Schossow hast angst. Download Psykopat!

Innotune brings you a special treat from Uncle Marcus.

This is your chance to grab a free download of Psykopat. It’s a brand new and unreleased track from Innotune resident Marcus Schossow. And yes, it sounds just as sick as the title implies.

Here’s his own words about the tune: “If you don’t feel sick, you will when you hear this. Anxiety all over.”

Download, enjoy and share.

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Joonas Hahmo to set up a label

Posted by Ville Lope in Music, Talent on 04 6th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Joonas Hahmo has become one of Finland’s hottest electronic music exporters. In 2004, Joonas’s first productions were collaborations under the successful trance aliases “Alt+F4” and “Avanto”.

Alt+F4 was signed to trance super label Anjunabeats while Avanto was released under a small finnish independent label Electric Sauna Records.

Soon Joonas started to seek for a new sound and his first solo single The Fusion, released on Andy Moor’s Ava Recordings in 2006 gained a lot of attention from trance and progressive trance jocks around the world. But it wasn’t until he got signed back to Anjunabeats, this time on their Anjunadeep imprint until he got lifted to the big league.

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Proper R.E.T.R.O.

Posted by Håkon Lofthus in Music, Talent on 03 3rd, 2010 | No Comments

R.E.T.R.O.

Innotune aren’t known for reviewing all sorts of albums and releases from every corner of the world. When we like something – we put it in our podcast.

However, every now and then something special, different, and fresh pops up. That’s exactly what reached my ears today, and it’s called R.E.T.R.O. by the group mind.in.a.box.

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Six months – The best so far

Posted by Endal in Music on 03 1st, 2010 | No Comments

Five vikings ready to give you more EDM content.

Our electronic music blog and podcast has been around for six months! Here’s the best of Innotune until now.

Top 5 most read:

Dj Mag Top 100 backstage
A video to cheer you up, posted by Håkon Lofthus.
When you put things into perspective
Marcus Schossow wrote about his everyday life as a travelling DJ. An interesting read for any aspiring producer or DJ.
5 great iPhone apps for music production and inspiration
Quick reviews of five apps you should own to boost your musical creativity whilst on the move. Written by Endal.
What is podcasting?
This is our view of the phenomenon podcasting. Written by Endal right after we had to shut down the MP3 feed of our podcast.
OHM 64 – Yet another MIDI spaceship?
The first thoughts of Marcus Schossow after trying the OHM 64 MIDI controller.

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January blog roundup

Posted by Endal in Music on 02 1st, 2010 | No Comments

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

Posted by Endal in Music on 01 29th, 2010 | No Comments

Download Cassian "Fuck song" for free.

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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The A&R guy: A true story

Posted by Thomas Sagstad in Music on 01 21st, 2010 | No Comments

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.