purplemass.com

Here’s some festivals that are coming up in the next couple of months:

Antiworld070707 – England 06-08 July07 £100 incl Camping – good line up but pricey and a bit too soon – they have day tickets for £35 which I might be interested in doing

Fullmoon Festival – Near Berlin 27 July – 01 August 2007 60 Euro including Camping – this one looks good, & it’s cheap..

Shamania Friday 27th July – Monday 30th July Lancashire £60

Shamanik festival – Portugal 11-15 AUGUST 2007 90 Euros

Freedom Festival 16-20 August Portugal 65-85 Euro

Offworld 17-20 August Swindon £50

Excellent articles by Bob Katz, one of the world’s most famous mastering engineers.

http://www.digido.com/bob-katz/index.php

With lots of European new releases

http://www.humpty.de/

Ed Banging records

By turning up the volume dial, maverick French label Ed Banger is redefining the sound of UK dancefloors.

Official web site
Myspace
Article in the Guardian

Dandi Wind

Canadian purveyor of trashy electro-glam!

Official web site
Myspace
Article in Nighlife Magazine

Dan Deacon

Baltimore, Maryland-based absurdist electronic music composer/performer.

Official web site
Myspace
Artcile in Pitchfork Media

http://www.mixotic.net/

http://www.samurai.fm/home/

Deep House

Our first free party in Central London.

Optimo is the name for a club in Glasgow.

I bought a CD put out by these guys titled ‘Kill the DJ’ and came across their website when listening to WMFU and checking out their playlist. Seems like a good source for electronic/rock/punk etc music from 50s to now.

Download the ‘electrobeat’ mix on this page and read the notes.

There are lots of mixes on the site.

Good stuff.

http://www.internetdj.com

Mostly done by unknown artists and you need to register to download but I found a couple of good tracks worthy of playing out there!!

http://hypem.com/

The Hype Machine follows music blog discussion. Every day, hundreds of people around the world write about music they love. Then it all ends up here…

Good site for buying hard to get soul/funk/jazz records
http://www.djouls.com/havanito/index.html

Great place for getting drum loops (WAV format):
http://www.phatdrumloops.com

Samples database
http://www.ishkur.com/samples/

All things Frank Zappa
http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/index.html

Music player software
http://www.musicovery.com

Where Daft Punk got their samples
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJPdVVOmbz4