Tag: beatport
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90’s Revival Is In Full Skippety Swing
At the pub on Tuesday getting some dinner I noticed that the internet radio stream, many of the house tracks sampling late 80’s to early 00’s pop, big beat, house and r’n’b, but mostly around the sweet spot of the mid-late 90’s. From FLO and Sk*ill*x bringing back Missy Ellott for that bomp-a-bomp bomp, to…
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Twang Hero, or how similar pop music has become
Or in this case, how similar country pop has become, but as others have pointed out you can do similar experiments with mainstream chart pop (any current pop multimash), or even EDM as Daleri did with the Beatport top 100. The recent horrible rise of the multi-mash and ‘compilation’ mashups like United States of Pop…
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Gay Marvine welcomes you to the Bath House
It seems that 2011 has been the year of the re-edit – yes re-edits have been around since the mid 80’s (another heyday) or even earlier as early DJ remixes from Greg Wilson and Larry Levan were mostly just tape re-edits. But the current taste for nu-disco and chillwave/frosty echoed 80’s sampling ambience has put…
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Rednek – I’m not Skrillex
…and for that I’m very grateful. Brilliant dubstep/country hybrid. Now available over at Beatport…well would be but: Both their new and old sites use your IP location, so if you like me were using VPN and can’t see the link, or are told ‘Restricted in your territory’ falsely, check that’s not on. Spent 10 mins…