Found a Cnet Asia review of the new music phone Nokia N91, in distribution now, which has an amazing 4GB micro hard drive, a multi codec music player (MP3, AAC and WMA) with ID3 tag search support and multiple user-definable playlists, am FM radio and a built-in 2 megapixels digital camera (up to a resolution of 1,600 x 1,200 pixels).
Dimensions are 113.1 x 55.2 x 22 mm, It weights 156 g, has an 176 x 208 pixels LCD display, a maximum standby time of 190 hours and up to 4 hours of talktime.
Cnet writes: “It seems that Nokia engineers have cracked the jackpot in terms of music convergence design; by thinking about the N91 as an MP3 player first, then as a phone. We find that the N91 offers a new way the world will look at phones, though whether it can take a bite out of entrenched MP3 manufacturers like Apple still remains to be seen. ”

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Matt Laws and Stuart Matheson a.k.a Binary Finary return with their long awaited album, The Lost Tracks that takes a journey through trance music, electronica and progressive sounds. There 16 brand new tracks, and as they state on their website, “These tracks have never been heard before and some are still in the old skool state in which they were first created.”
This album is available as download only, it comes in both mixed (for dj use) and unmixed formats and includes a new remix (Binary Finality Mix) of the classic 1998.
You can listen to some mp3 samplers of the album @ myspace site of the duo: www.myspace.com/binaryfinary.
LT will be available since 1st, May from the following download partners:
iTunes, Audiojelly , 3Beat Digital, Trackitdown, Beatport, Medion, FNAC , MusicLoad , DanceTunes, Juno, Karma, Beathut, ICMP3, DJDownload , XPressbeats, emusic, Listen, Traxsource, Music4brands, DJTunes.com.

Tracklist:

01 Chacmool
02 From Beyond
03 Remedy
04 Dirty Little Tart
05 High Coup
06 Merglich
07 Syncity
08 Freshwater (Original mix)
09 Freshwater (Jose Amnesia remix)
10 1998 (Binary Finality Mix)
11 Chicken Dipper
12 Preformation
13 The Acid One
14 Twenty Four
15 Decoder
16 Secrets

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TASCAM TEAC presents a nice innovative pocket CD and mp3 player for dj’s named CD-DJ1. The measures are: 155×275x60mm (6.06″w X 2.18″h X 10.56″d) while the weight is exactly 1 kilogram. It’s CD-R/RW compatible and it plays files in MP3 format. It features CUE, seamless LOOP, MASTER TEMPO and PITCH control. 100 dB of dynamic, and the sound range cover all frequencies from 20Hz to 20kHz.
This small tabletop player is also compatible with TASCAM’s award winning TT-M1 CD/MP3 Scratch Controller, so you can use your existing turntable and any vinyl record to mix and scratch MP3s and CD audio without the need of any special coded vinyl.

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April 24, 2006 - DJ StoneBridge (from Stoney Boy Music, Sweden) house chart:

01 Thomas Gold & Chris Ortega ft Tyler - Hypnotized / Houseworks
02 Timmy Vegas & Seamus Haji - Devotion SH Original) / Big Love
03 Roger Sanchez - Lost / Stealth
04 Paris Clubbin - Release Me / Fame
05 Oliver Backens & Stefan Gruenwald - Alive (Wawa/Jerry Ropero) / Clubland
06 Wize - Again (Original) / Symphonic
07 Switch - A Bit Patchy (Groovecutters Remix) / Data
08 Copyright ft Song Williamson - He Is (Ferrer & Sydenham Inc) / Defected
09 Wonderland Avenue - White Horse (Dave Lambert vs Elektrokid) / Progression
10 Third Member - Tidal Flow / Stoney Boy
11 Oliver Georgi - I Love What You Do (Sunloverz) / Lickin’
12 Basoski & Romano - Roll Da Dice / Rootz
13 Granite & Funk - Switch On Push Play (DJ Sender) / Sure Player
14 Chocolate Puma - Always And Forever / Positiva
15 Todd Terry, M Wash & J Brown - Something’s Goin’ On (Steve M) / Manifesto
16 Soul Corporation - Let’s Get Together (M Simmons & D Christopher Dub) / Spinning
17 Gabriel - Dislecto (Vocal) / Very Disco
18 Sugar City - Get Together / United
19 Tony Burnside - Come On / Clubstar
20 WMC 2006 No2 Records - Fuck The Majors / No2

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April 2006 house music playlist by Milk & Sugar, german dj and producer team well known for their smash hits and for their remixes for Usher, Jamiroquai and Janet Jackson, which cho0se their own new release for number one:

01 Milk & Sugar - Has Your Man Got Soul (Ian Carey Remix) / Milk & Sugar Recordings
02 Soul Avengerz feat. Angie Brown - Sing (Original Club Mix) / Positiva
03 Bob Sinclar - World, Hold On (Axwell Remix) / Yellow Productions
04 Chocolate Puma - Always & Forever (Till West & DJ Delicious Mix) / Positiva
05 Kraze - The Party (Milk & Sugar Dub) / Milk & Sugar Recordings
06 Switch - A Bit Patchy (Eric Prydz Remix) / Ministry Of Sound UK
07 Eternal Soul - Lifting Me Higher (Bassmonkey`s Rocket Mix) / White Promo
08 Till West & DJ Delicious - Same Man (Original) / Ministry Of Sound UK
09 Inner City Playboy`s - Jetsetter (Ian Carey Remix) / Loaded
10 Gardeweg/Lange - House Nation / Kontor

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Defected, one of the most respected and most influential house labels, unleash his april house music podcast, which includes all the major musical moments that ruled the decks of Miami Winter Music Conference 2006.
Top selection of hi-nrg soul and classic uplifting hm, definitely for refined taste audience.
It’s available for download to registered members of Defected.com and on iTunes.

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New house music playlist from Mousse T (top german producer and owner of Peppermit Jam record label), whos last single Horny as a dandy can be found this week at position #13 in the deutsche dance dj chart.

01 George Kranz - Din Daa Daa (Franky Boissy Mix) / Chez
02 Bob Sinclar - World Hold On (Axwell Mix) / Yellow
03 Fairmont - Gazebo (Sebastian Leger Mix) / Border Community
04 Inaya Day - Nasty Girls (So Phat!’s Nasty Robots Mix) / Peppermint Jam
05 Akabu - Phuture Bond (Ame Mix) / Z Records
06 And If - Findest Dream / Rebirth
07 Bon Sinclar - Everybody Movin’ / Yellow
08 Coburn - Give Me Love / Great Stuff
09 Pete Heller - Big Love (Dim’s Love Train) / CDR promo
10 Mousse T. - Horny As A Dandy (Tom Novy / So Phat Mixes) / Peppermint Jam
11 Spiller - Jumbo / Nano
12 South Central - Diamonds / Subliminal
13 Fish Go Deep - The Cure & The Cause (Dennis Ferrer Mix) / Defected
14 Frankie Knuckles - The Whistle Song (Revisited) / Noise
15 Tiefschwarz - Damage / Fine

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Dirty House Music, an italian record label devoted to progressive house and electro sound, announces the release of all the catalogue in digital format and the opening of the DHM online mp3 download shop.
The first digital singles, available in high quality 320kbps mp3:

DHM_DG_001_01 Kings United - Don’t Stop (DJ Phunk remix)
DHM_DG_001_02 Kings United - Satisfaction
DHM_DG_001_03 DJ Phunk - What’s up
DHM_DG_001_04 Maurice Noah - Telefunk
DHM_DG_002 Spacenoah & Kharma - Outside
DHM_DG_003 Maurice Noah vs DJ Phunk - Kraftgirl

You can take a listen to DHM tracks and preview/download free mp3 samples here.

More info on dirty house music 2006 releases.

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The new version of YamiPod for Macintosh OS X, Windows and Linux has been released (v0.96).
YamiPod is a freeware application for any generation of Apple iPod. It manages your player and can rebuild the music library, in case it become messed up.

Features of this free utility:

Stand alone program, it can be run directly from your iPod, no installation required
iPod automatically recognized
Files in MP3 format and AAC can be copied to/from the player.
Read/write access to mp3 id3 and AAC infos
Lyrics support (with internet auto search)
Playlist support (On-The-Go included)
Playlists import (PLS,M3U)
Full unicode support.
Advanced song import/export settings
2 restore features
Built in music player
2 search features
Remove duplicated tracks
Find lost music files
Easy ratings edit
PC to iPod synchronization
Create and edit notes
Automatically update song playcounts
News RSS and podcasts to iPod upload

System requirement: iTune 4.0 or later.
To download this utility: click here.

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Far from home, the latest single from Canadian DJ and producer Tiga Sontag, hits the streets on 24th April.
Take from his debut album Sexor, this kind of electrohouse / electroclash track is going to hit hard on worldwide dancefloors on summer 2006.
On the double vinyl from Pias Records we found the original mix, dfa remix, chicken lips remix and another track named Move your body

If you like to hear an mp3 sample of the original version, click here.

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