Frank Kvitta, chief of the Bullshit family and Mario Ranieri, head honcho of Schubfaktor teamed up for an ambitious project called Tourette 2008. We can safely say this project is something you are not used from the guys! This great and out of the box production features elements of Electro, Breakbeat and Rap! Mario and Frank produced a hilarious video to boost their track into the worldwide charts and trust me, they did a great job (check the video below)! Now, I can imagine that you are curious about how t  Read more...

Well, the summer festival season is near it’s end, we hope you had a great and inspiring time. It is always extra nice to enjoy our beloved music under a bright and sunny sky don’t you think? With many of the artists on our label heavily touring the European festivals, changes are big you’ve been dancin’ to one of their rugged stompers. So, be sure to check the player below if you wish to know . Now let us introduce them to you properly: Greg NoTill “And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger”; if there ever was a famous movie quote to capture the pure essence of the friendly Frenchman’s track it would be this line from R  Read more...

Last.fm is a UK based internet and music community website founded in 2002. It claims over 21 million active users based in more than 200 countries and has so far tallied some 450,000 tracks. Last.fm users “scrobble” tracks through their servers on a massive scale, aiming to collectively build the world’s largest social music platform. The big day has come for independant musicians that are not affiliated with a label or royalty collection agency. Last.fm has launched a unique Artist Royalty program, a transparent payout system. Wether your music is broadcasted to a listener on-demand or through radio shuffle, royalties can be collected through  Read more...

Richie Hawtin, a man who really puts the TECH into Techno, is one of Techno’s best known, most respected and most established producers. Although he was born in Canada he is synonomous with Detroit, partly responsible for breaking the second wave of Detroit Techno. Hawtin has been at the cutting edge of Dance music for more than a decade-and-a-half. Whether it’s his futuristic productions and mixes, his work in develloping Final Scratch, or in defining Minimal Techno via his Minus label, Richie Hawtin has become one of electronic music’s most recognisable figures. His search for new sounds, posibilities and continued interest in the latest audio enge  Read more...

We are excited to announce that we are stepping our game up! We proudly present our very first label: beatboost worldsampler. Our whole philosophy couldn’t be more simple; bringing great artists from various parts of the world together on one record to symbolize our unity! Each and every release will blow your mind with 4 quality tracks crossing over between the various styles of Techno and related sounds. Enjoy… and free the music! Beatboost worldsampler part 1 We kick off fierce this first release by uniting some of the prime dons of Hardtechno! Patrick DSP - Shoon Shan Vorty Patrick has been making his mark on the Techno scene for many years  Read more...

Image Line Software has released FL Studio 8, the latest version of their award winning digital audio workstation. Chief Software Architect, Didier Dambrin has realized his vision of creating an open-architecture virtual studio environment where the only constraint on the users is their own imagination. “It’s almost 10 years since we started FL Studio and it has been a long and hard road for the team. Just as any DAW is the sum of its parts, FL Studio certainly has turned into something unique in the software studio market” noted Didier Dambrin, the Chief Software Architect of Image Line Software. “Our catch-phrase ‘The fastest way from your brain to your speakers’ really is at the heart of FL Studio’s workflow. We get a lot of positive feedback fr  Read more...

In the fall of 2001 Gerhard Behles and Robert Henke released their revoltionary application Ableton live. Originally developed for traditional studio-based production many artists around the world embraced Ableton with both arms. For DJs, it revolutionized the idea of what could be done on a laptop, blurring the line between live PA and spinning tracks. For producers, it reinvented the process of recording audio and MIDI, processing sounds and mixing down a composition. It’s hard to believe, but Live 7 is already there. The miracle software from Berlin-based Company Ableton, both a tracker and a sequencer at the same time, is constantly evolving: we were  Read more...

Most of you probably already heard about the sudden death of Ron Murphy on January 12th. I would like to pay my respect to the man who gave birth to the influencing Detroit Techno sound. Ron Murphy was probably one of the most skillful and respected cutting and mastering engineers in the history of electronic music. His skills go back to his childhood, as a youngster he studied manufacturers, labels and especially the sound and grooves of the vinyl. With his knowledge of and love for vinyl he decided to open a recordstore with his friend Steve Martel in Detroit. In a room back in the store they installed a cutting machine to cut dubs and records for costumer's jukeboxes. They named the store ‘National Sound Corporation’ (later to become ‘Sound Enterprises’). Sho  Read more...

Creative Commons have launched a music remixing site featuring remixes and samples licensed under Creative Commons licenses. The demonstration project is called ccMixter and started as a tie-in promotional remix contest with WIRED magazine. Lawrence Lessig (shown on the photo), founder of Creative Commons writes: “Thanks to you, ccMixter has grown into a vibrant community of quality musicians sharing not only their love for music, but the music itself, through Creative Commons licensing. And not just with each other but  Read more...