Free download: Tone Diary – 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.”

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Joonas Hahmo to set up a label

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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Podcast 007 – With guest Airwave

Episode seven brings you Airwave in the mix and new dubstep, free breaks, dark house and progressive trance. Download now!

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We’re proud to give you a 30 minute DJ mix from trance legend Airwave. But the first half of this episode also has it’s heights.

The exciting label Bang Gang is featured with two tracks, one of them is the crazy opening “The Ritz”. We pay a tribute to the sax and show you an unreleased remake of the classic “Chase The Sun”.

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How to perform EDM live?

There’s an ever-going debate about if electronic dance music should even be performed live.

We all know you can’t create electronic music just by pressing one button. The music is filled with loads of layers and performing it 100% live isn’t easily going to happen.

Laptop live performances are something we’ve used to see. Some years ago they most likely looked like the artist or the band members are checking their emails rather than performing the music for the people.

With the modern software, midi controllers and synths it is possible to create one man live performance. But how to do it so that it looks something that the artist is really doing something at the stage.

Steve Helstrip, better known as The Thrillseekers gives us a model example how one man EDM live performance is done to the max.

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Proper 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

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

Top 5 most read:

1. Dj Mag Top 100 backstage
   A video to cheer you up, posted by Håkon Lofthus.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. OHM 64 – Yet another MIDI spaceship?
   The first thoughts of Marcus Schossow after trying the OHM 64 MIDI controller.

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Podcast 006 – With guest AN21

Drum’n'Bass, Minimal and Trance + House head AN21 in the mix. Here’s episode six.

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Discover new EDM with another episode of the Innotune podcast. This month our crew have picked out 11 bangers for you, including music from Sub Focus, Hoaxx, Lusine and Mark Pledger!

The second part is as usual reserved for a special DJ mix, this time from Swede AN21.  He’s on fire at the moment with another great Size release with partner in crime Max Vangeli. You may also know his tracks Volodja and Flonko done with his brother Steve Angello.

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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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