Richie Hawtin‘s Twitter app announcement this morning hasn’t had much time to properly sunk in yet, but already I’ve been having some major thoughts about how the broadcasting of DJ tracklists in real time will change everything.

With Traktor quickly becoming the standard for electronic music DJs, the addition of a Twitter app will bring a level of transparency and fluidity to DJing in one fell software update that is likely to have a long-lasting impact on electronic music culture.

Here are my initial thoughts on the pros and cons of this development.

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We had the scoop on Jamie Jones‘ excellent soulful tech house track ‘Summertime’ pre WMC, and during the week it was one of the tracks that we heard everywhere in Miami.

It is not however a mainroom banger, with its understated drums and soft melody being more suited for after hours gatherings and backroom joints.

That of course, will be just fine for London rude boy Jamie Jones.

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Pioneering techno DJ Richie Hawtin has announced the development of a new Twitter application that enables him to broadcast his Traktor tracklists in real time over the network.

The custom Twitter application was developed in-house by Richie Hawtin‘s label Minus, and it works by uploading song metadata through Traktor Pro’s inbuilt broadcasting functionality.

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Is it dubstep? Is it speed garage? Is it techno? No it’s TRG, the Romanian producer otherwise known as Cosmin Nicolae. Since 2007 TRG has been raising more than just eyebrows with his sonically intense electronic movements on Immerse Records, Cool And Deadly Records and Hessle Audio, and here on ‘They Know’ TRG displays his amazing ability to draw on so many different musical genres all at once.

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Steve Angello put together this tasteful video diary of his WMC trip from last month, featuring shots of him and the Swedish House Mafia rocking Ultra Music Festival and Mansion, as well as the moment that him and Sebastian Ingrosso got shut down at the Beatport Pool Party on the Sunday after their epic set.

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matt john = perlon !!!
“trampolin” e “radio self”…mi basterebbero questi due ep per uscire dal goa contento, sicuramente, però, avrà qualche altro asso nella manica!

giovedi 30 aprile
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roma

the superman lovers: starlight

non chiedetemi come ho fatto a trovare il singolo in cd di questo disco. altri tempi, altra musica…
che bei ricordi legati all’uomo-patata del video e alle note di “starlight”, in fondo non tutte le adolescenze sono travagliate!

eccezionalmente di giovedì, eccezionalmente marco carola!

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reggio emilia

US deep house hero Kerri Chandler has always been the experimental type, and Southport Weekender in Britain has always been there with open arms welcoming his creativity to the DJ booth.

At the 2006 event, Chandler played the keys to ‘Bar A Thym’ and some of his other hits using a laser string (see the video after the jump). Last year he went one better and shocked the crowd by mixing flawlessly using only three consecutive reel-to-reels.

And just when you thought you had seen it all, Kerri Chandler has now announced that he plans to incorporate 3D virtual projections of singers performing the exact tunes as he plays them at this year’s Weekender.

That’s right. Holograms of the actual original vocalists in the DJ booth, singing along to the songs that he plays. Wow.

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