Wow, I’m not a huge fan of the use of auto-tuners, i feel like they have become way to popular recently. However I have to admit that this is pretty fucking cool haha. Give it a watch and let me know what you think? hopefully more will come of this type of experiment!

“The Beatport Music Awards aims to recognize electronic music talent. With nominees based solely on 2008 unit sales from Beatport.com, the awards are broken down by music genre.

There are 35 categories altogether: Best Artists (separated into 17 genres), Best Track (17 genres, with both originals and remixes), and a final open question asking the public to name the ‘most influential, relevant and forward-thinking person in electronic music in 2008’.”

I made a list of some of the winners of this years music awards to give you a sample of their tunes

Best Breaks Artist
Stanton Warriors
1st Place

Plump DJs
2nd Place

Krafty Kuts
3rd Place

Best Chill Out Artist

Jazzanova
1st Place

Thievery Corporation
2nd Place

Nightmares On Wax
3rd Place

Best Drum & Bass Artist
Noisia
1st Place

Chase & Status
2nd Place

Logistics
3rd Place

Best Dubstep Artist
Benga
1st Place

Burial
2nd Place

Nero (UK)
3rd Place

Best Electro House Artist
Deadmau5
1st Place

Pryda
2nd Place

Sebastien Leger
3rd Place

Best Electronica Artist
Underworld
1st Place

Modeselektor
2nd Place

Ellen Allien
3rd Place



Best Indie Dance / Nu Disco Artist
Boys Noize
1st Place

Justice
2nd Place

Mr. Oizo
3rd Place


Best Progressive House Artist
Deadmau5
(he already got a video so instead ill give you one for prydz instead… i dont think you will be dissapointed)
1st Place

Eric Prydz
2nd Place

EDX
3rd Place


Best Trance Artist
Armin Van Buuren
1st Place

DJ Tiësto
2nd Place

Above & Beyond
3rd Place

Last night I was lucky enough to get to see a show at Wrongbar with Alex Metric and Adam Freelands Live band. First of all I want to say thank you to Adam Freeland for hooking me up on the guest list! Now here is a brief revue…

Alex Metric was fucking awesome (please check out his tunes here!) and played a sweet set. He was also mad personable and down to talk to the viking so I bought him a stella to say thanks for busting some dope tracks haha (thanks for not kicking me the fuck out of your booth when I came past to say whatsup!). It is a shame he couldn’t have played for longer because I was totally digging it. Here is a short interview with the man himself.

Turns out he co-produced the new album for Adam Freeland, who knew??? Hopefully I can find a way to get his single in Canada when it comes out (if only he had been selling them last night at the show!) It would be really cool too swing a revue of his album when it comes out May 25th. Also we can be expecting an essential mix from him july 18th!

Adam Freeland and the FREELAND band

Next on was the headlining act, they went on at around 11 and played for an hour before calling it quits while citing “technical difficulties’ for the reasoning (more to come on that later). As short as it was they still played a dopesonique set that had both some old and new tunes. They have a new album called “cope” coming out May 11th i think? You can listen to the first 8 tracks at the bottom of this post and let me know what you think. Hopefully there will be a review of the full album when it comes out, assuming I can get it here.

Freeland – Under Control – Official Video from Freeland on Vimeo.

Unfortunately there were probably less than 100 people at the bar and i think that was probably the reasoning for them stopping so early. Huge disappointment for fans like me who were hoping to party till the early morning with some hella-dope beats. Now I really hope I am wrong but I don’t think that Mr. Freelands mic was plugged in until after they stopped playing (i watched someone plug the xlr in after he tried to talk to the crowd to tell them he was stopping and nothing came out haha) and I am pretty sure that the Korg ms-20 was more for show than actual use? I had been hopping to see him use it more. Either way I had fun and will for sure go check them out again but this time they need to give me more than two weeks notice so that i can promote the fuck out of the show this time!

big-ups to Alex Metric and FREELAND for a fun but ‘early’ night haha

Respek and love

check these links to learn more or to pre-order

http://www.marineparade.net/ or http://www.myspace.com/adamfreelandmusic

Friday, May 8, 2009
Destiny & TorontoJungle.com present
PROJEK:VIRUS w/ ED RUSH & OPTICAL
CiRCA, Smirnoff Ballroom
www.destiny-productions.com

SMIRNOFF BALLROOM::
ED RUSH & OPTICAL (UK – Virus Recordings)

LUSH
DJ SPINZ & MR. BROWN

Hosted by MC CADDY CAD, MC JD & MC TRAJDADY

MAIN ROOM::
DIPLO

SKY CINEMA::
BABA KHAN

More DJs and Live acts TBA in Main Room, Washroom Bar & Sky Cinema TBA!

VENUE:
Circa, Smirnoff Ballroom.
126 John Street, **Must use special entrance between Milestones & Circa
Downtown Toronto.
19+ with valid ID

TICKETS – $15 Early Bird, $20 Advance, $25 @ Door

ADVANCE TICKET OUTLETS:
Online: wanttickets.com
Play De Record – 357a Yonge St – 416.586.0380
Unicus – Square One (Misssissauga) – 905.897.6900

IMPORTANT INFO:
Please note that ONLY PROJEK/DESTINY tickets will allow you access to this event (AND the rest of CiRCA)! Regular CiRCA Friday tickets may be the same price but will not allow you into the Smirnoff Ballroom. Be sure to purchase the correct ticket and use our special entrance located between Milestones and CiRCA.

Ever wondered how to make your very own dubstep tracks? let Rusko teach you!

Check back on Monday to see part two

Let me know what you all thought about this small series. I hope it inspires you to make some dubstep yourself!

Thanks to @PrincessLaurouu for sending me more info on the Chase and Status show. As she mentioned this one is going to be massive! If you have never heard of these guys then you should go check the previous post here. Now I’m not sure if I am misreading it but the poster seems to say that it is the last dnb event in the main room?

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Destiny & TorontoJungle present:
PROJEK:RAM2

featuring

CHASE & STATUS (UK – Ram Records)
Marcus Visionary
Lush

CiRCA Main Room!

ADVANCE TICKETS
Only $15 (While supplies last). $20 @ Door.

ADVANCE TICKET OUTLETS:
Online: wanttickets.com
Play De Record – 357a Yonge St – 416.586.0380
Remix Av – 384 Queen St W (@Spadina) – 416 360 7364
Unicus – Square One (Mississauga) – 905.897.6900

CiRCA Nightclub, Main Room
126 John St, Downtown Toronto
Doors open @ 9 PM – Must be 19+ with valid ID.

Toronto Jungle

Are you a Rusko fan? You should be. The dubstep “don” has some fresh new tunes out and you can check them out here

If you are interested in learning how to make dubstep yourself then who better to learn from than Rusko himself! Check out his lessons here 1 2 3 4