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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.

Our own picks:

• Originality and superstardom
  Ville Lope wants more originality in EDM.
• The evolution of the lazy DJ
  DJ math – the numbers behind modern DJ-ing. A funny read from Thomas Sagstad.
• Are you a DJ or a controllerist?
  Computer DJ-ing is pretty much like controllerism, writes Endal. Or is it?
• Top 7 acoustic covers of electronic music
  Håkon Lofthus has found great acoustic remakes of legendary EDM.
• PLUR – Peace, love, unity and respect
  Thomas Sagstad reminds us about the PLUR of dance music.

The podcast episodes:
Our six audio episodes has all featured tracks we believe you should check out. Plus DJ mixes by Marcus Schossow, Mark Knight, Way Out West, Ville Lope, Thomas Sagstad and AN21.

Thank you for your support. We look forward to serving you more EDM buzz in the future.

I was randomly browsing some of my old favourite djs/producers Myspace sites, and I came across a “statement” made by ATB`s agency Dancefield. You can read the whole story here.

But to break it into the short version for the lazy reader out there. It pretty much say that PVD refused to play directly after the German superstar ATB.

Now this brings me back to the term PLUR, which in fact was one of the things I LOVED about the scene when I first got introduced. Going to “rave party” there were never any fights , any bad attitude. Everyone seemed to be on the same level. The DJ were there for the crowd, and the crowd were there for the dj/music, the vibe, the respect and for common belief that what we were doing was different and it was better than what everyone else had. It was like an identity, nobody could take it away from us.

From then till now, which is about 10 years in my case: It changed, it slowly moved into something that’s more common in the commercial music business! So I ask this? Is this what we want from OUR music. Do we want it to be about who’s the biggest star, do we want it to be about bashing other artists because of their sound, their looks? And do we last but not least want two middle-aged, so called superstar djs fighting like two teenage girls about who’s most popular? Frankly, I think both of them should take their head out of their ass! Cause in the end, they fucked over every single one who came to that festival, and they are the ones who paid their salary.

So to all the djs, remember where you came from, and what your job is…

…make people dance

And to all you forum “ravers”…

…remember PLUR

Peace