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<Electro House> Hot on the heels of their successful debut album, Passport, Pascal & Pearce return with this ‘Special Edition’ release aptly titled Passport 2.0. Aside from opening track, Beautiful Life with Yoav this 12 track album is made up exclusively of remixes mainly done by the duo as well as a handful of tracks… Read More
<Psytrance> Massive! Large! Groovy! Sunshine! Expansive! Banging! All these superlatives can easily be used to describe Sonic Species’ first full length (to my knowledge) album. But perhaps the most important one is psychedelic. I think it’s fair to say that I know SA psytrance floors pretty well so believe me when I say that Unleash… Read More
“…the N4 is the typical middle child; it may struggle to differentiate itself from its bigger brother or smaller sister!” Anatomy Numark seem to release a new controller very often and currently their website boasts no less than 16 variants on this theme. Clearly they intend covering every possible type imaginable! The N4 fits neatly between the NS6… Read More
In 2011 leading software and music technology company, Native Instruments, turned 15 years old. Now it may seem a little strange that we’re talking about this 6 months later when the net was awash with this news back in October 2011, including our own BPMMAG.co.za, but what has spurned this feature is that I eventually… Read More
“It takes a lot of drive, faith, and focus to make a living in this industry, and I’m not likely to give up on it anytime soon. Besides, my mother says I’m unemployable, and she would know!” Chris Hoy has been in the dance music business for some time. From the humble start of producing… Read More
<Techno> VCMG stands for Vince Clarke and Martin Gore; for more info on the duo check out our music news on Pg. 13. A collaborative side project for the twosome, Ssss is filled with phat, analogue, synth driven techno-trance and it’s this actual analogue sound, along with the arrangements, that gives the album a somewhat… Read More
<Techno/Tech-House> Khainz is a pretty rocking dude! Formerly known as Freakulizer – well not formerly – Simon Schwendener would probably produce under his original moniker if he was still partial to psytrance but judging by the quality of this release and no doubt the many gigs he’ll be getting off it, I doubt we’ll be… Read More
<Progressive Trance> Groove Attack follows hot on the heels of another top progressive artist’s double album compilation put out recently, Ace Ventura’s Dance Computer. The reason why I mention Ace’s release is because in many ways Liquid Soul’s latest V/A offering reminds me a lot of the aforementioned. Aside from the obvious; they’re both mammoth… Read More
<Electronica/Downtempo/Psychill/Chillout/Ethnic> Alive is Shulman’s 4th studio album and sees them expand their musical horizons even further with a host of known Shulman tracks reconstructed and created using live arrangements – yup that means real instruments kids; a drummer, guitar player, bass player and keyboardist, and wind instruments: saxophone, shehnai, zorna & ney infused with the… Read More
Gemini DJ have been around the block and then some. Back in the 90’s their ubiquitous 626 mixer was the go-to piece of gear for anybody looking to get into DJing and now, some 15 years later (give or take) their brand new CDJ-700 has similar merits; solid performance, great feature set and a damn… Read More
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