9 must hear electronic music albums of 2009

Are we even listening to albums nowadays? A lot of you guys are probably just downloading the tracks you like, who doesn’t? But I still find satisfaction in putting on a good full-lengther which is both well composed and has good individual tracks.

I asked Innotune companion Håkon Lofthus if he had any good suggestions for this album sum up. He answered:

R.I.P. albums. When buying online – why would I want to buy an whole album, when I could only grab the tracks I like? (I can listen to them first as well) So, this year has been almost an album-free year for me, and iTunes better start pushing out those iTunes LP features to get me back on buying complete albums.

You have to agree. But I’m giving this list a shot anyway. I realise I haven’t heard enough releases this year to create the complete “top edm albums of 2009 bible”, but here’s nine I would like you to check out.

Maybe you’ll start buying albums again, or at least listen to complete releases on Spotify.

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November roundup

Another month has passed, and all of the Innotune vikings are busy decorating for christmas at the Innotune HQ. But before we stuff ourselves full of christmas food, candy, and viking aquavit – let’s take a look at what we brought you in November.

Marcus showcased the very talented producer Fredrik Ohr from Sweden in his post, and we took a look at a really facinating online production suite (?) called Hobnox. It’s absolutely worth trying out, and you can do so right here. All of the guys at Innotune were born among leather jackets and hairy guys; yes, I’m talking about the 80′s. And guess what, the 80′s are back stronger than ever. Endal showed us this by recommending Relation, a UK based duo making lovely 80′s synth-pop.

We caused quite a few discussions among people on forums and in social media this month (Believe me, we’ve had a LOT of discussions internally as well), and it all started with the fantastic Way Out West podcast that you can download right here.

The source of the discussion was that we received mails from some prominent labels that they mean a “podcast” is defined by Steve Jobs. In other words: Our extravagant, fantastic, fabulous, classy, trashy and smashing (yeah, we’re proud…) podcast was only to be distributed via iTunes. So we had to choose: Drop a very important label and risk to loose even more of them, or drop the mp3 download. Our mission is to bring fantastic electronic music to our listeners, and we need labels approval for doing so. So the result is that you now have to subscribe through iTunes, or stream it on mixcloud. All in all, it’s not what we wanted at first, but in the iTunes version you also get cover art, chapter markers, tracklisting and more. So go subscribe here.

Bring on December, we’re ready for you Santa Claus!

Originality and superstardom

Though being active in this scene for a while now, sometimes I still feel like a newbie. My career as an artist is just beginning. Though being a DJ for years, my network expanded vastly after I started at Finity. Working for Finity, and now for Subtraxx, have given me credibility in international level. Credibility is something people have to work for years in the business at the moment.

Producing is relatively easy these days. Software is cheap (if not free) and easy to use. I’m using 100% software myself and started producing just 3,5 years ago so I should know.

Anyone can these days get the best plugins (legally or illegally, I’m not going there this time) and start producing. Everybody has a computer powerful enough these days. Heck, even I do my music on a laptop.

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Podcast 001 – Starring Marcus Schossow

Over one hour with fresh edm for your listening pleasure. Download the first ever Innotune podcast episode!

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The show contains a nice blend of Drum’n'Bass, House, Minimal, Trance and Chillout. The 30 minute mix in the end is done by Innotune member Marcus Schossow.

Please let us know what you think by commenting this post. Since this is the first episode, we deeply appreciate feedback.

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When you put things into perspective

Now, iv always hated djs who are crying about their jobs, honestly, would you rather work in a storage knowing that the tomates goes into the number 347 in your system and that the spanish sallad always gets in on tuesday night so on wedensday you know you will spend half of the day aranging space for it in the storage ?

Sure, flying can be a hassle and it is very a lonely job (unless you are a top 10 dj so you can force the promoters to pay for your agent to come along…). But does it really matter ? You will be doing what you love and you have to sometimes understand that you are one of the lucky once out of the 28347834374637 other djs that tried to make it.

Im sitting hear in my hotel room in Seoul/Korea and im pretty fucked up by the jetlag and the night before. Iv managed to be in Copenhagen, Vienna, Bratislava, Miami, New York, Frankfurt, Beijing, Tampa & Seoul all within 5 days… Should i complain about my flight shedule ? Erhmm i dont think so, i just got paid for traveling the world and to drink a magnum bottle of champagne for free as “thanks” for coming to a club.

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