Roger Shah: The Sunlounger Albums – Downtempo Special Edition Out Soon 08.02.2010
Fans of chill have a double reason to celebrate this month. The two acclaimed chillout discs from Roger’s Sunlounger albums have been compiled into one downtempo special edition. The repackaged release comprises of all the favourites from the ‘Another Day On The Terrace’ & ‘Sunny Tales’ LPs.which includes ‘White Sand’, ‘In & Out’, ‘Crawling’, Catwalk’, ‘Change Your Mind’ & 2008’s ASOT Single of the Year, ‘Lost’. You first preparatory move for summer is ready to be made right now! Sunlounger – The Special Downtempo Edition is available to pre-order for at the Magic Island Shop now. Don’t leave for a beach without it.
IDMA News From The Stark Profiles Camp 27.01.2010
Hot 411 from over the pond... With less than two months left to go before the 25th annual WMC, the nominations for the 2010 IDMAs have been announced. Markus Schulz has pulled in a impressive 5 noms, including nods in the Best American DJ, Best Global DJ & Best Radio Show categories. Solarstone has also scored a first IDMA nomination for his furturistic, ground-breaking music vs. art compilation, Electronic Architecture. Voting has just opened and ends on the 25th of Feb. The Awards themselves take place on Nikki Beach during WMC week. Get yer votes in people!
'B' is for Bobina, 'C' is for Clooney 23.01.2010
Russia's first dance Super-Tsar found himself in some fairly illustrious magazine company last week. With George taking the Cover Star feature (quite right too!), it was Bobina being interviewed for BMI's Voyager magazine as their Rising Star . The airline, which has seen a large upsurge in business travelling their UK to Moscow routes decided it was time to talk to Russia's No.1 DJ about his rise to EDM prominence, Mocква and Russian club culture in general.
Markus Schulz & Stark Profiles PR 01.01.2010
Happy New Decade y’all! We’re kicking off 2010 in the finest way imaginable, welcoming through the doors of Stark Profiles for his 24-7 PR none other than Markus Schulz! One of the 10 biggest DJs on the planet, we’ll be putting our not inconsiderable energies into making sure that news of everything he does this year - and there’s going to be quite a bit - reaches the farthest corners of the globe. Also joining us, a man never found wanting in the ‘music to publicize’ department, Mr Roger Shah. Arguably the most prolific major league trance producer on the planet, we’re looking forward to banging the drum hard about his happenings throughout the course of the year.
No silent running, people. Stark, Out.
Leon Bolier ‘NSFW’ Incl. Push Remix Released 23.12.2009
As sensationally revealed in last month’s info-update, ‘NSFW’ stands for ‘Not Suitable For Work’ and not ‘North South Freekin’ West’ (as sections the geographical community had theorized). Leon’s last floor-typh1oo9n comes fully enabled with a floor-grafting Original and molten-hot Push remix. If you’re reading this and think it could be your Christmas gift coup de grace for you’re nearest and/or dearest’s mp3 collection, well, we believe you might be right! To pop it in their digital stocking, simply click this link.
Sied… Trance Energy… The Big Return! 22.12.2009
Utrecht. What do we know? Well Wikipedia tells us it’s a small town in the foothills of the Balele Mountains in the North Western corner of KwaZula-Natal in, um, er, hang on a minute… South Africa??! Looking at it, we might have clicked the wrong link. Let’s stick with the two ‘definites: it’s in Holland and it's the home of Trance Energy! On the 3rd of April, in the year of our creator, 2010, Sied van Riel will make his return to the ruddy biggest event in da whole of trance-dom! Alongside the likes of Marco V, Cosmic Gate, Richard Durand, Jochem Miller, Andy Moor & Cliff Coenraad, he’ll be bringing the High Contrast vs. In Charge stage to clubbing gridlock. Tickets have just gone on sale, you’re under starters order… GO GET ‘EM!
Bobina’s ‘Again’ – The Special Edition Released On Maelstrom UK 13.12.2009
Marking yet another major step forward for Russian music, Bobina has become the first ever electronic artist to achieve an album release in the UK (though you could actually classify that as TWO album releases!). Following another stellar showing in DJ Magazine’s Top 100 – one that saw him leap into the world’s Top 20 (to the No.16 position) – Maelstrom Records are releasing a Special Edition of Bobina’s 2008 artist album ‘Again’ and the 2009 remix edition ‘Again Remixed’. You can now get all the original tracks - including the singles ‘Time & Tide’, ‘Invisible Touch’, ‘Slow’ & ‘Lighthouse’ - along with their remix compadres (taken from the studio desks of Ferry Corsten, Gareth Emery, Sean Tyas& First State amongst others) in one blockbuster compendium.
Alex MORPH – December Updates 02.12.2009
Purple... When music people fall in love with it, they pretty fall hard. Prince pretty much built a career out of it and as for old time rockers Deep Purple, well… you see the point we’re making! So when ‘Purple Audio’ first crossed our desk back in the summer we recognized what had so transfixed the Morph-man with it. 3 singles down the line (‘Photograph’, ‘Sunset Boulevard’ & ‘No Regrets’) and its safe to say the album’s force has been felt in most every trance quarter in 2009. Now, with ‘Wanna Be’, Mr Morph is back with a 4th slice of the singles pie. It’s a departure of sorts, taking his sound into harder, more rocking areas (complete with toughened-up drums, ably thrashed guitars and male vocals from Michael). Crucially it doesn’t skimp on the soaring riffs and big M1 piano lines though and it’s got some comparably good remix-remaps from Woody van Eyden, Almar, Ante Perry & Yodis.
Alex has also been working things just as hard at the remix end of late. 3 months ago, out of the clear blue skies he picked up the phone to Faithless main-man Rollo, who asked if he’d like to remix the band’s comeback single. ’Sun to Me’ duly dropped into his inbox and the resulting rework (arguably Alex’s finest work to date) has been bringing dancefloors to critical mass for the last four weeks. If you’ve not yet checked it, you can do so by clicking right here!
The Intuition Winter Festival: 5 Years of Intuition! 01.12.2009
Westerunie... It’s a club that’s barely contained the sell-out crowds that thronged in for Menno Solo last year November. On Saturday the 13th of March Menno will once again throw open the doors to one of his favourite Amsterdam venues and usher in the masses for the 2010 edition of the Intuition Winter Festival. It’ll be a ‘double event’ too - one that'll be celebrating the 5th marvelous, magical, fantastical (steady on!) year of Intuition Recordings. DJs on the night? Well there will be a few! Flying in from the hotlands of Egypt are Aly & Fila, and from the somewhat chiller climes 'Swedish Beatball' Marcus Schössöw & fellow countryman Airbase. You can also prepare yourself for some Belgian-flavoured audio-shocks from Jonas Steur and naturally a good deck-thrashing session from the incomparable host, Mr De Jong. So, when it arrives, get that shiny new 2010 leather diary out (the one your well-meaning Auntie gave you for Christmas) and make it the first date you put in there. Standby one, standby all!
Say ‘YES’ To W&W @ Trance Energy 2010! 23.11.2009
Trance Energy… Nowadays we reckon it pretty much qualifies April’s reason to exist! This year Trance.nu are hosting the Future Stage at the event and they’ve drawn up a short list of 20 acts they’d like to see play it. Who makes the final 7… well that’s down to you, dear reader! W&W are on that list and the big ‘vote-on’ has just started via the site. We’d love you to send our boys to downtown Utrecht and here’s how you can say: ‘YES to W&W at Trance Energy 2010!’ Step 1: hit the site. If you don’t already have an account, take Step 2: and set one up (it’s a doddle!). Step 3: poll a vote for them. If they play, they promise you a ballistic, bombastic performance, the likes of which you’ve never seen! Nice.
Roger Shah – Into 2010 15.11.2009
2009? In Roger’s mind it was really just a warm-up for 2010! Into the New Year you can expect to hear all the Balearically-minded music you’ve loved this year… only more of it! The official follow up to last year’s ASOT Tune of the Year will be hitting the promo trail very shortly. Entitled ‘Found’ and featuring again Zara on vocals, the new Sunlounger single is the promise of big things indeed. The single will quickly be followed by the long-anticipated new Sunlounger album in March. The third installment from Roger’s best known pseudonym, it will of course be packed with the very finest sun ‘n’ sand inspired music. Then into summer it’ll be another trilogy completion, this time for Roger’s ‘Magic Island – Music For Balearic People Vol 3’ compilation. Bringing up the tail end of this 3 album odyssey (that number again!) will be the new Roger Shah artist album in October. Frankly just writing about it leaves us breathless. Spare a thought for Roger. He’s got to record it all!
