ACID WASH 80's Party.

We've thrown together a special event taking you back to the 80's featuring DJ sets from some of the most notable artists of the times. DJ Lady Miss Keir of Deee-Lite, Andy Rourke of The Smiths and Paul Ryder of Happy Mondays and Mike Licata. In the Gold Lounge presented by Philter, Easily Influenced, Derek Dunbar, MZA, and Seven 57. Out on the patio, Disco & Funk by the beautiful ladies of Posso and Justin Sloe. This is going to be a great party! Open Vodka bar from 10:00 - 10:30 if you're wearing 80's outfit.

EVENT DETAILS

Price
Presale tickets available now!
When
Friday June 18 (10pm–3am)
Where
Vanguard, Hollywood (map)

Fun in the Sun on the Standard Rooftop.

Egotistic Poolside on the Downtown Standard Hotel Rooftop with it's monthly splash the first sunday of the month throughout the summer. Sunday June 6th Dirtybird label head Justin Martin takes over the decks. Setting the tone for the afternoon are alterEgo residents Justin Gourley and Andre Ezer, showcasing their special brand of musical mischief.

EVENT DETAILS

Price
RSVP for admission - $20
When
Sunday June6 (12pm–7pm)
Where
The Standard, Los Angeles (map)

Memorial Day Weekend at ECCO with Timo Maas.

Timo Maas in the intimate setting of ECCO Saturday May 29 Memorial Day Weekend on the finely tuned ECCO sound system! Backed by Mark Lewis, Andre Ezer and DJ Img.

EVENT DETAILS

Price
RSVP now for express discount admission before 11pm. Limited availability. Presale tickets are highly recommneded. VIP Table Service
When
Saturday, May 29, 2010 from 9pm - 4am (Extended Hours)
Where
ECCO, Hollywood (map)

M.A.N.D.Y. ft Philip Jung + [a]pendics.Shuffle LIVE at Vanguard Friday, May 21.

Get Physicals top dog Philip Jung from M.A.N.D.Y. will be stopping by the Vanguard in Hollywood for an exclusive 2 1/2 hour DJ set on LA's largest Funktion One sound system with a hybrid LIVE / DJ set by Dirtybird's [a]pendics.shuffle. Outside on the patio Sean Ray, Eddie Makabi and Jaime Narvaez. The party opens at 10pm with an open vodka bar till 10:30pm.

RSVP for FREE admission before 11pm and only $10 till 12am.

EVENT DETAILS

Price
RSVP for free admission before 11pm and only $10 till 12am.
When
Friday, May 21, 2010 from 10pm-2am
Where
Vanguard, Los Angeles (map)

Electrixx at Vanguard.

For the first time ever in Los Angeles ELECTRIXX will be mixing up there blend of electro-house and techno.

Also in the line up- Pornscore, Alex Kidd, Rifat, DJ Bentley. In the Gold Room- Sean Ray of Mixology, Threat Display, DJ Clever and David Moses of Chemistry.

EVENT DETAILS

Price
Free cover till 11pm, $10 till Midnight
When
On Thursday, May 20th, 2010 from 10pm-2am
Where
Vanguard, Los Angeles (map)

alterEgo Presents an Intimate Night With House Music Legend King Britt.

KING BRITT, supported by John Day from the Architects of Sound at the Libertine on the Sunset strip. This is a free event so please RSVP and bring your dancing shoes!

EVENT DETAILS

Price
Free RSVP for admission
When
Thursday May 13 (9pm–2am)
Where
Libertine, Los Angeles (map)

Sundays on the Standard Rooftop.

EgoTistic kicks off the Poolside Parties on the Standard Hotel Rooftop with it's monthly splash the first sunday of the month throughout the summer. Sunday May 2nd Mark 'Blakkat' Bell, Jimmy Maheras and DJ Kam will groove you through the afternoon.

EVENT DETAILS

Price
RSVP for admission
When
Sunday May 2 (12pm–7pm)
Where
The Standard, Los Angeles (map)

The 3rd Annual BPM Festival Playa Del Carmen, Mexico.

Poolside, Dance music, Beach Parties, It hardly gets better than this to kick off the New Year. Escape the winter doldrums and head south towards the Mayan sun for beats & beach fun for the 3rd annual BPM Festival. BPM takes place in the Playa del Carmen, a Mexico resort town, which is located on the Caribbean coast. ..Of course, they'll be making the most of the tropical location, hosting 30+ daytime beach and nightime club parties for each of the ten days. Brimming with first class international DJs, miles of sun-baked white sand beaches, and a beach town full of partygoers.

Last years BPM Festival saw over 15,000 event tickets sold and this year promises to more than live up to high expectations. Topping the bill, Lee Burridge, Sander Kleinenberg, Dubfire, Damian Lazarus, Steve Lawler, Jojo Flores, Stacey Pullen, Sean Miller, Behrouz, Victor Calderone, The Cube Guys, Steve Angelo, Guy Gerber, Patrick Bodmer from M.A.N.D.Y & many, many more.

Mark your calendars for BPM as the first important date on 2010’s global dance music calendar.” With a stellar line-up of over 70+ globally renowned DJs, BPM will surely have something to offer for every electronic music aficionado.

DJ Hero.

DJ Hero hs been released. Like Guitar Hero before it, DJ Hero challenges you to “master” a virtual instrument, this time it's the turntable. Also like Guitar Hero, it features an easy to pick up but difficult to master type of gameplay. DJ Hero’s accessibility should appeal to game enthusiasts and would-be DJ's to plain old music fans. Featuring 93 original mixes and 102 total songs at launch in genres from dance, to hip-hop to rock and R&B. The basic edition of the game costs $120 including the turntable controller. A special Renegade Edition comes with a 2-CD set featuring many of his greatest hits on one disc and some of Eminem’s on the other (as well as a stand and carrying case). The Renegade Edition will be $200.

Still, if you’re a music fan eager to take a stab at DJ technique standards like scratching, crossfading, sampling, and applying effects, it’s cheaper than picking up a pair of Technics 1200 and building a record collection. The title is available now for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2, and Nintendo Wii.

WMC 2010.

The Winter Music Conference has announced its dates for 2010. The 25th anniversary of the event will take place from March 23 until March 27th. There's a new venue this time around, with the Eden Roc Beach Resort serving as the official headquarters, replacing the Miami Beach Resort & Spa. There are no details presented yet, but were sure the 25th celebration will bring in the talent. For those who know already that they'll be heading down to Miami during March next year, we suggest getting tickets are the early price: The early bird rate is $235 for a conference badge, but that will only hold until November 11th. ..Then again if you're just coming for the parties, start saving your $$$ now!! Miami will get you every time!

Underworld, Athens a new mix CD.

Underworld will release the first in a two-part compilation series next month entitled, Athens after the name of Hyde's painting that adorns the sleeve—is actually credited to Underworld vs The Misterons, which suggests that regular instrumentalist Darren Price and Junior Boys Own co-founder Steven Hall had a hand in the project. You might be surprised at what you hear. Athens departs from the regular house and techno compilation.

"The overall mood is jazz and improvisation,"they explain. "There is very little playing in a lot of people's records in the dance and DJ world these days, but one thing Underworld have always liked is musicianship. It doesn't stop us loving machine music and house music and everything that goes with it, but the idea with this album was to highlight records we liked that we thought had great live playing on them."

The result is a diverse selection of groove-based tracks that range from the psychedelic blues to jazzy techno and beyond.

!K7 will release Underworld, Athens on November 23rd, 2009.

Boys Noize Essential Mix.

The Boys Noize BBC Radio1 Essential Mix. It's only up for 7 days so get it down now! Listen Here

Pioneer CDJ-2000.

The new offering from the defacto Pro DJ CD player Pioneer has got some great features. Among our favorites is the ability to use many different media formats for playback on different devices (MP3, AAC, WAV and AIFF audio files on CD, DVD, SD Card, USB and external drives) and the ability to link the devices. Linking the devises enables you to use the same media library accoss upto 4 CDJ-2000's. For instance you could plug a USB drive in one CDJ, press the Link button on another CDJ-2000 and instantly access music from the same drive, possibly eliminating over half your DVD's and CD's. The Needle Search function helps DJs instantaneously get to a specific part of a song with a simple touch of the Needle Search pad. Found directly below the CDJ-2000's high resolution LCD panel, the touchpad lets the DJ "place the needle" and jump quickly to a specific part of a music track. The LCD panel features a large 6.1-inch full-color 480 x 234 LCD panel for displaying song titles and jacket art as well as detailed track information. We can't wait to get our hands on them for a further review. Pioneer PRO DJ gear continues to be leagues beyond it's competition and we expect this new hardware to become a staple behind the booth soon!

Check out this great video demo after the jump.

rip! A Remix Manifesto.

RiP! A Remix Manifesto, this new documentary film from Brett Gaylor talks about the culture of remixing music and the copyright control, piracy, and fair use issues that go along with it. The film shows us the timely controversy with mashing up music and the wall between users and producers. It's focus is the controversy surrounding the increasingly popular sample-based musical artist Girl Talk and his issues with the world of piracy.

Gaylor’s film goes above and beyond the bounds of most traditional documentaries and fully engages in the issue at hand: he has made his film “open source” and available online for anyone to “remix” themselves. Visit opensourcecinema.org for more info.

Being officially backed up by the Canadian government, you will be astounded by what you see and what is openly discussed in this picture. The concern on matter of copyright in the United States (in particular), dates back at least 200 years and the whole idea of copyright has been evolving throughout the 20th century. While some concentrate on reinventing the wheel (with and, much more often, without success) many draw inspiration from artists of the past and instead of inventing new pieces, rearrange the existing ones to create a mosaic of art novelty. A typical example of a contemporary artist, who does that, is Gregg Gillis from Girl Talk.

Renaissance Master. Dave Seaman.

Dave Seaman is letting go once again with his 5th Renaissance 's Master series mix. His most recent mix CD, however, was This Is Audio Therapy Vol. 2, a compilation that took in some of the latest and greatest from his own label. Seaman's Renaissance effort, per usual, will span tracks from a variety of labels, as well as including exclusive edits, additional production and FX. The mix this time around has certainly taken it's toll on Dave.

He write's on his blog,

So, after several painstaking weeks, the endurance test that was the making of my new mix CD is finally over. Yes, my 26th compilation, Renaissance Masters Series Volume 14 is finished and due for release on September 28th but to be honest, I think it may well be my last. It's such a time consuming process these days that's dogged by mountains of red tape, not to mention the fact that trying to make an album four months in advance that still feels 'new' when it's released is increasingly difficult. Consequently, the allure of just doing regular free podcasts grows ever more appealing. But we shall see. For now, I'm just enjoying the fact that this one is done and I'm very happy and proud of the final result. I hope you enjoy it too."

As Seaman puts it:

There's so much additional production and 'nipping and tucking' editing going on it's difficult to highlight it all! We've credited certain parts where the results are obvious (the UNKLE acapella over a heavily chopped-up Andre Winter track and the additional drums, bass and female vocal on Jon Hopkins for example), but the whole album almost became like one long track to be honest, such was the care and attention that went into it. I hope it shines through..."

As he mentions, Andre Winter, Jon Hopkins and UNKLE all make appearances over the course of the two discs, with other notable productions coming from the likes of Four Tet, Ben Watt, Moby, Agoria, Radio Slave, Nic Fanciulli and many others.

Tracklist after the jump. Renaissance will release Dave Seaman's Renaissance: The Masters Series - Dave Seaman on September 28, 2009.