Dubstep from Tony Anthem and Axl Ender.

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Endal is your host, and guests of the episode is Tony Anthem & Axl Ender.

Episode ten is quite special. Here’s why: It’s record breaking. We have never before fitted in 28 tracks into one episode. It contains the very first dubstep guest mix. And we’ve reached the big ten.

The brilliant French label Kitsuné is represented with two tracks. Listeners will also be able to check out new beats from Steve Angello, Pete Tong & Dave Spoon, Stanislav Beta and Eriq Johnson.

Tony Anthem & Axl Ender are two Norwegians with one unified dubstep mind. They have many successful releases behind them, and quite a lot of these will be thrown in your face throughout their guest mix. You’ve never heard anything like this before in the Innotune podcast.

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First half: Selected EDM presented by Endal
1. Two Door Cinema Club -
Something Good Can Work (The Twelves Remix) – Kitsuné
2. Pete Tong & Dave Spoon – Muchness – Size
3. Eriq Jonson – Should I Like This (Avo Remix) – Dandy Kid Records
4. Steve Angello – Knas – Size
5. Wolfgang Gartner & Mark Knight – Conscindo – Toolroom
6. Viani & Menini feat Neni C. – You Don’t Love Me – LoudBit
7. Florrie – Call 911 (Fred Falke Remix) – Kitsuné
8. Dub Foundation – Cosmic Ray – Worldwide Audio
9. Technicolor & Komatic – Daydreamer – Technique
10. Die + Interface feat. William Cartwright -
Bright Lights (Rockers Mix) – Toolroom
11. Alex Rize – When Time Was A Spiral – Silk Sofa
12. Feeltz pres. Johan Vilborg – Summit (Mehilove Remix) – Dangerbox
13. Stanislav Beta Feat Jules – Will I Ever – Captured

Second half: Tony Anthem & Axl Ender guest mix
14. Bad Monkey Mafia & F Troop -
Bar Knuckle (Tony Anthem & Axl Ender Remix) – Bad Monkey Records
15. Bad Monkey Mafia ft Darry Dee & Harry Shotta -
Move Down (Mindflow Remix) – Bad Monkey Records
16. Tony Anthem & Axl Ender – Grimey Forthcoming – Dub Monkey Records
17. Tony Anthem & Axl Ender – Instinct Forthcoming – Rottun Records
18. Excision & Datsik – Boom (Skism Remix) – Rottun Records
19. Future Prophecies – Dreadlock (Tony Anthem & Axl Ender Remix)
20. Boy Kid Cloud -  Flavour – Dandy Kid Records
21. Pendulum – Set Me On Fire – Warner Bros
22. Nero – Innocence – MTA Records
23. Doctor P – Sweet Shop – Circus Records
24. Tony Anthem & Axl Ender – Pressure (Breaks mix) – Pure Filth Records
25. Bad Monkey Mafia -
Fire Bun (Tony Anthem & Axl Ender Remix) – Bad Monkey Records
26.Tony Anthem & Axl Ender – Mammoth Phunk – Pure Filth Records
27.Tony Anthem & Axl Ender – Defination Of A gangster – Pure Filth Records
28. Tony Anthem & Axl Ender ft Darry Dee – Life – Rat/Sludge Records

Loads of DJ choices. Pic: Øyvind Bye Skille.

It’s a jungle out there. A jungle of different digital DJing platforms, controllers, sound cards and all.

Being a “traditional DJ” is much easier. If you play vinyl (like we all did back in the good old days) you had couple of choices, and in 99% of the cases it was a Technics turntable.

Couple of years forward, in the new millennium playing CDs got easier and Pioneer CDJ-1000 became an industry standard.

Now you can play music from your laptop with a digital DJing system, control the music with CDs, turntables or a controller. And that is just why it’s so damn complicated.

There are too many options.

Personally I think digital DJing with CD/vinyl control is just a short phase before everyone is starting to mix within the software with their dedicated controllers. The problem at the moment preventing that is that there isn’t a industry standard like in playing cd or vinyl.

Who’s there?

Ableton Live can be used for DJing, but is in better use when used for live performances or studio production. Serato Scratch Live is one of the best programs out there when it comes to controlling digital music with a turntable.

Their collaboration, The Bridge, gives an artist an advantage to use the best of both programs DJ wise, if you own both the products (and if you got into the public beta, as it’s still not commercially released). Here’s a post about it at Innotune.

If you didn’t understand the previous, don’t blame yourself, the situation is just as complicated as was the sentence.

Oh, Serato also has a program / concept called ITCH. That is pretty much a version Scratch adapted to be used only with the dedicated controllers. More info and a full list of ITCH controllers can be found from their site.

There is a software called Virtual DJ, version 7 soon to be released. It’s affordable, and can be used with controllers and all.

There is Native Instruments Traktor. Native Instruments are known for their virtual studio plugins, synths and recently DJing software. They have slowly but steadily expanded towards hardware industry too, there’s audio interfaces mainly for DJ use. They are steadily releasing dedicated controllers for their Traktor DJ software that takes the playing and performance to the next level.

Their latest performance system is now introduced, yet awaiting for the release date to public. It’s called Traktor Kontrol S4.

Conclusion, concussion, confusion?

I don’t know why, but I feel Native Instruments and Traktor at the moment are taking the role of the industry leader. It might be the software, it might be the controllers under their own name. It might be the german engineering combined with US marketing. It might be the clever use of big-name-artists and social media. It might be the fact that they’ve done a lot of work simplifying the digital DJ platforms easier to understand.

At the moment I could go out there and buy a gigantic amount of different software, controllers, audio interfaces and all – trying to find the right combination just for me. But instead I rather wait for the commercial release of that Kontrol S4 and just burn CDs before that – like I’ve done for the past 7 years.

If you are working for some of the DJ software companies and you are reading this text, please take this little piece of advice or request: Please make it easier to choose your software. Please make it easier to choose the controller to play the music.

Compare the situation to mobile phones. Apple releases one new phone model a year. Just one. Nokia releases, well… Nokia releases several phones a quarter, most of which I’ve never even hear of.

Today, when I’m writing this, Native Instruments is the Apple of DJ Software industry. The others are not.

Make it simpler. Survive.

Sweden: IKEA, blondes and house music.

What do Steve Angello, Spotify, Abba, Pirate Bay, Max Martin and Marcus Schossow have in common?

They are all Swedish musical phenomenons. Some famous for their brilliant music making and some for their sharing of music, both legal and illegal.

According to the latest IFPI figures Sweden now has the world’s fastest growing music market.

The country of the blue and yellow vikings is the third biggest exporter of music around the globe.

Schössow as a kid, planning world dominance.

And while people in the rest of the world  stopped buying albums, the Swedes in 2009 increased their music sales for the first time since year 2000.

Right in the center of this attempt for musical world dominance we find the Swedish House Mafia, Marcus Schossow, John and Jesper Dahlback, AN21, Eric Prydz, Avicii and loads of other talents defining the sound of the dancefloors.

The Swedes has long ago taken over house music.

Listen to this radio story about the subject, done by reporter Sinead Garvan for BBC 6 Music.

Over 80 great chillout tracks for you!

What music gives you that special summer feeling?

It is of course an individual thing, but for me good downtempo sounds like summer. I mean, I listen to slow beats all year long, but there still are some tracks that suits better to sun, smiling people and lazy days.

I’ve made a Spotify playlist with a bunch of tracks I would define as chillout classics. Some obvious picks, like Bent – Swollen and Moby – Porcelain, but also pieces from artists like Jon Hopkins, Røyksopp, Orbital, Air, Boards of Canada, Thievery Corporation and Sebastién Tellier. And many more, of course.

Click here to listen to the playlist “Chillout classics”.

Here’s a video that will make you smile. But it’s also a slap in the face to all those serious faces behind the decks. Loosen up and skip the cool look. This guy sure makes his crowd happy.

A big thank you to Bjørn for the tip.

Innotune resident Thomas Sagstad.

Here’s your summer soundtrack. Episode nine has pounding techno, funky house, chill beats and maestro Thomas Sagstad in the mix.

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The opener this time is a massive D’n'B track from Crooked & Camo: History of the future. From there the road is covered with warm beats across different genres. We even have a mini chillout mix for you.

Innotune resident Thomas Sagstad is back with his second featured episode. He has got a 30 minutes mix ready for you with Sagstad tracks only. Download or listen to episode nine now!

First half: Fresh EDM presented by Endal
01. Crooked & Camo – History Of The Future – Audioporn
02. Joris Voorn – The Secret – Cocoon
03. Danilo Vigorito – Prima – Plus 8 Records
04. Tom Middleton – 10:10 – Toolroom
05. Lauer Canard & Soneec feat Robert Owens -
The Making of You (Tucci & Sahara Mix) – Seamless
06. Funkagenda feat. Big Ed – Afterclub (Riva Starr Remix) – Toolroom
07. TV Rock – I Am Techno – Size
08. Mark Knight – Devil Walking – Toolroom
09. Kobana and Mario Hatchet – Claps – Silk Sofa
10. Solvent – Loss For Words – Ghostly International
11. Charlie Why – Drill – Bang Gang
12. Timo Juuti – Hypoactive – Wicked
13. STERiO vs eleven.five – Planets (Cramp Remix) – Dangerbox

Second half: Thomas Sagstad DJ mix
14. ID – Show them – White
15. Blaze ft. Barbara Tucker – Precious Love (Thomas Sagstad remix) – White
16. Thomas Sagstad – As your are (Big room edit) – Refune
17. Thomas Sagstad & Marcus Schossow – Hypnotizer – Spinnin
18. Trafik – Paid Up in full
(Thomas Sagstad & Hawkins remix) – Global Underground
19. Polarsets – Leave Argentina (Thomas Sagstad & Hawkins remix) – White

Check out Oliver Englafjord – a new and undescribed act from Iceland. There’s not much info to find on this guy, other than the dark, slow and tight sound on a couple of YouTube clips. It’s the soundtrack of Eyjafjallajökull. And since the economy is flat out broken, this might be Icelands way of giving something back to frustrated flight passengers.

Check out our Spotify playlist.

We’ve made a Spotify playlist for you. It contains a bunch of more or less new electronica albums that we think you should check out.

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The new version of Spotify with Facebook integration works quite nice. It’s easier to share your playlists and discover new music through your friends. If you’ve got Spotify, try our fresh playlist and share it with your homies.

At Innotune we feature a lot of single EDM releases through our podcast, but we also enjoy a couple of longplayers every now and then. This playlist gathers some of the most interesting albums of 2010 so far.

Massive Attack and Booka Shade recently released new albums. They are both in there. Orchestral breakbeat masters Hybrid are out with their fourth album Dissapear Here. It’s a neat piece of electronic music, so be sure to check it out.

Since we’re EDM Vikings and all, we had to include a couple of Scandinavian picks. Familjen is a brilliant Swedish act. The guy is out with his second album Mänskligheten, and it’s a great mix of 303s, electro beats, 80s synth stabs and no-way-understandable Swedish lyrics. The Danish compilation Sound of Copenhagen Vol. 4 is an album with fresh electronica from the capital of Denmark.

The Basement Jaxx released Scars last year, and later they gave out what was meant to be the second part of a double album. They decided to split the goods, and the follow up EP Zephyr was a reality. This is the nemesis to Scars. More chilled beats and almost no lyrics, but still as playful as a Jaxx release should be.

And last but not least, Groove Armada is out with Black Light, a darker and more rocked up album than their previous longplayers. The first single Paper Romance stands out as the peak.

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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.

Darude is the guest of episode eight!

Episode eight has got energetic trance, crazy breaks and funky house. Our special guest mixer is Darude.

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Our very own Ville Lope has remixed trance legend Tiesto, so be sure to check out “The Tube” in this episode.

We’ve also got tunes from the fresh albums of both Mr. Sam and Moguai.

Download and enjoy!

First half: Fresh EDM presented by Endal
1. Mr. Sam feat. Esmaya – Gotta Have It – Black Hole
2. Plaza De Funk – Get Crazy – Mofo
3. Winter Face – Frozen Fire – Subtribe
4. The Quemists – Your Revolution (Reso Remix) – Ninja Tune
5. Jacob Henry & Approaching Black -
Yesterday’s Tears (Shingo Nakamura Remix) – Silk Digital
6. Evgeny Bardyuzha – Changeful World (Airwave Remix) – Neuroscience Deep
7. Eleven.Five – Grey (Xspective Sense Dirty Remix) – Dangerbox
8. Tiesto – The Tube (Ville Lope Remix) – Bonzai
9. Moguai – Flex, Rex, Mansion – Mau5trap
10. Vid Vai – Casamiento – Neurotraxx Deluxe
11. Paolo Mojo feat. Ryan Starr –
Crazy for you (Darius Syrossian & Nyra Remix) – Noir Music
12. Dotcomrune – Techtronic Plateworker – CDR

Second half: Darude DJ mix
13. Joonas Hahmo – Brainflush (Original Mix) – Hahmo Recordings
14. Yuri Kane – Right Back (Original Extended) – Premier
15. Jerome Isma-Ae – Hold That Sucker Down – Armada
16. Darude – My Game (Joonas Hahmo Remix) – HMC
17. John O’Callaghan feat. Audrey Callagher -
Big Sky (Markus Schulz Remix) – Armada
18. Da Groove Doctors feat. Duane Harden -
Music Is (Sandy Vee Remix) – Soltrenz Records
19. Solitude – Beautiful Brontosaur (Original Mix) – Ora Recordings