Below you can find the confirmed Depeche Mode tour dates for “Touring the Angel” – May 2006 Thu, May 4th, 2006 Mexico City, Mexico – Foro Sol Stadium Fri, May 5th, 2006 Mexico City, Mexico – Foro Sol Stadium Sun, May 7th, 2006 Monterrey, Mexico – Arena Wed, May 10th, 2006 Kansas City, MO –

King Street Sounds and Defected announce brand new hot 2006 house music mixes of Blaze feat. Barbara Tucker – Most Precious Love by Freemasons, Ian Carey, Sergio Flores, DJ Takashiro, & Chocolate Puma that will be coming up in May. In the meanwhile, you can be the first to see the video with radio edit

Sonar, 13th Barcelona International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art, is returning from 15 to 17 June 2006. Three days and three nights in touch with the most up-to-date developments and featuring the most relevant national and international artists. Main Djs and live acts already confirmed in the program: CHIC feat. Nile Rodgers (US)

New crossover dance single from Chicane, together with music legend Tom Jones. Stoned in love will be released on the 24 April 2006 through Globe Records / Manifesto in 3 mixes (commercial 12” mix, the young punx vocal mix and vertigo vocal remix). In support of this track release, which follows his 2000 smash hit

Cnet posted a review of the new mp3 player from Samsung, the Yepp YP-D1, which has an unique look strictly similar to a cellular phone. It comes with 1 or 2GB, an it features a 2 megapixel photo / video camera, an 1.8 inch color screen, an FM tuner and playback support of ASF, OGG,

DJ Martin Landsky (Pokerflat recordings) chart (minimal house music): 01 Sleeparchive – Acd-Voice / Sleeparchive 02 Loco Dice – Carthago / Cocoon 03 John Tejada – Forced Fiction / Palette 04 Lanoiraude – Push On / Dialect 05 Jussi-Pekka – Dead Serious / Frozen North 06 Joris Voorn – Mpx 309 / Green 07 Marlow

Futuremusic has an article about the new hybrid cd turntables products announced by Numark, that will be available in May – June. They write: “The X2 Hybrid is the perfect combination of a vinyl turntable and a CD turntable. With its high-torque direct drive motor, aluminum platter and fully adjustable tone-arm. it behaves just like

PCDJ presents a special laptop designed for mobile dj use: 00DJ. This notebook has all the professional equipment encased in secure steel case to ensure the performer dj can utilise and work without interruption using MP3s. It’s equipped with a gigaport ag soundcard, with 8 RCA outputs (24 bit digital-to-analog converters), WDM and ASIO drivers,

01 Torre – Baleora / SSOH 02 Mr V and Alix Alvarez – Da Bump / Vega Records 03 Sumo – Nini (claude monnet mix) / Heya Hifi 04 Djamin – give you / Purple Music 05 Greg Kozo – What and Where / Place Blanche records 06 Son of raw – Drumstick and Light

New mainstream release from french dj producer Bob Sinclar on his Yellow Production record label, World Hold On comes as the follow-up of the international smash hit Love Generation. Mr Steve Edwards, that you could remember on the tracks The Sound of Violence of Cassius, provides the vocals. Genre: Funky Vocal House/Disco/Club Catalog: YP 219