Nel giro stretto di cinque anni, dubstep è balzato da un suono che ha attirato una piccola cerchia di testa annuendo audiofili in inni che le mani di comando-in-the-air per un mare di frequentatori del club. Un artista dimostra di essere un leader in …

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What started as a simple Weekend Weapons feature, nearly ended in panic.

When Ralph Lawson, the British DJ, producer, and leader of 2020 Vision Recordings was asked to reveal his current Top 5 dancefloor destroyers of the moment, he flipped through his CD wallet, found five bombs, and wrote them down.

Like all good DJs, he tried to find five unique records that showed his versatility and personality, something that showed he was capable of many different grooves. Oh dear.

As it turns out, all five of his Weekend Weapons are piano house cuts. “I hadn’t realised I was playing so many pianos, what is going on?”, lamented Lawson. But rather than sob into a pint of beer, or cover up his selection with less piano music like some sort of ‘pianogate’ scandal, he decided to embrace it.

“Yep, pianos are back and I love it,” said Ralph Lawson. “Get on the blacks and whites my brothers!”

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Today is a special day for dance music, because Sasha’s ‘Xpander’, the progressive house masterpiece that cemented the British DJ as one of dance music’s biggest talents, has been remastered to mark the launch of Deconstruction Records on Beatport.

Deconstruction’s catalog is some of the first major label content to hit Beatport, and there is a hope that if it succeeds, it will spark a domino effect, with more major label content to follow.

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Beatport has released a new search functionality to provide customers a more effective way to discover music. This ‘beta search’ feature is available to all Beatport users but must be activated. Read on for activation instructions.

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Three men conquered clubland. A Finnish ex-garage producer, a British lad who loves trance, and a former marketing director of Warner Music Group who was once a guitarist and songwriter for the cult indie band Sad Lovers & Giants.

On paper, Tony McGuinness, Paavo Siljamäki, and Jono Grant are very different people, and in person, they are too. Siljamäki is shy and exudes contentment behind geeky glasses, McGuinness is smart and well spoken, full of wisdom and snappy one liners from the bear pit of the music industry, and Grant is quietly confident, able to charm just about anyone with a cheeky wink and a magic trick.

If you ever needed proof of the unifying power of trance, it is these three individuals, who together, as Above & Beyond have become a worldwide trance phenomenon. They run one of trance’s most successful record labels, Anjunabeats, they produce some of the genre’s most popular tracks, and they raise hundreds of thousands of hands in the air each year, with their headlining DJ sets.

With the trio’s highly anticipated annual mix compilation ‘Anjunabeats Volume 7′ out today, we met Paavo Siljamäki to discuss Above & Beyond’s rapid ascent, Anjunabeats’ humble beginnings, the state of trance in 2009, and why trance is the gateway to electronic music for so many.

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Beatport and Native Instruments have joined forces to offer Traktor fans a chance to win free downloads for 1 year.

To enter, simply visit Beatport between October 1, 2009 – October 31, 2009 and purchase 20.00 $/€/£ or more worth of music.

Click through for the full contest rules.

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Now 12 weeks into his relentless world tour, DJ T. considers immigrating to Portugal, plays at one of Berlin’s newest Sunday club parties, and reveals the first-round winners of his Get Physical Producer Challenge.

Click through to read his insightful commentary from the DJ world, and to listen to the three winning tracks.

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Walls crumble and paint peels at Villa in Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg district, a grandiloquent name, for a former squat.

With gothic arches, sweeping staircases, and bold columns, this three-storey mansion might once have served an altogether more illustrious purpose, but like so many abandoned buildings in this changing city, it has been remixed and rejuvenated by a new generation.

How perfectly suited Grego-Roman’s music is then, to a building caught in the headlights of modernity.

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