Guido Schneider, one of the hottest Tech-House djs and producers of german minimal house label Poker Flat (the same of Steve Bug, Martin Landsky, Trentemoller) delivers his debut-album Focus On (CD / double 12′’).

While the double-12″ format includes six all-new productions in full length,
the CD features 13 tracks including 5 of the new exclusives from the vinyl version
and its’ all mixed, edited, manipulated and reconstructed by Guido into a hypnotizing mix.
We can find works in collaboration with high profile artists like Sammy Dee, André Galluzzi, Paul Brtschitsch & Daniel Stefanik.
Already acclaimed album of the month in Mixmag dance magazine, the release dates outside Germany are as follows:
France: 07/06 - BeNeLux: 29/05 - Italy 22/05
Australia: 03/07. - Canada: 30/05. - UK: 12/06. - USA: 12/07

Guido Schneider originally started working with Poker Flat back in 2003 as Glowing Glisses (together with vocalist Florian Schirmacher). As a solo artist he has also released four 12 inches on the label, and contributed with several other tracks including his remix of Steve Bug - Loverboy.

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01 Cirez D - Mouseville Theme / Mouseville
02 Franke & Neumann - Titan (Criss Source Remix) / Craft Music
03 Madox & John Aquaviva - Feedback (Valentino Kanzyani Remix) / Mantra Vibes
04 Booka Shade - White Room / Get Physical
05 Dada Life - Big Time (Linus Loves Remix) / CDr promo
06 Hertz - Priorities / Sway
07 Elektrokemie - You Are My Kind / Get Physical
08 Marko Nastic - U are the reason / JesusLovedYou
09 Cicada - You Got The Feeling (Coburn Mix) CDr promo
10 Henrik Schwarz/Ame/Dixon Feat Derrick L. Carter
11 Michael Jonasson - Koba
12 Stephan Bodzin vs Marc Romboy - Phobos / Systematic
13 Valentino Kanzyani - Wordens Of our Own Prison / In-tec Records
14 Thomas Anderson - Copy Cat / BPitch Control
15 Fragma And Kirsty Hawkshaw - Radio Waves / LO:GO Records
16 Umek - Posing As Me Earresistible / Musick
17 Ozgur Can - With shades of gray EP
18 Tom Hades - Einsamheit (Valentino Kanzyani RMX) / Rythem Convert
19 Bart Van - Weissen Up Stairs / CDr promo
20 DJ Preach & Marco G - Culture Shock (Marko Nastic Remix) Recycled Loops 21

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This year’s Chicago International House Music Festival (named Move!) will take place from July 22 to July 23, 2006.

It features live performances by international house music artists and world renowned producers and entertainers, including Danny Tenaglia , David Morales, Frankie Knuckles, Maurice Joshua, Ralphi Rosario, Derrick Carter, Terry Hunter, Steve Silk Hurley and the singers Barbara Tucker , Dajae, Jocelyn Brown.
The dance music download service Beatport.com announced they will give ten free downloads away to ticket buyers.

For more information on the festival, send an email to info@chicagohousemusicfestival.org and so you will also be contacted when the tickets go on sale.

More Info: www.chicagohousemusicfestival.org

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Jørgen Sundgot of Infosync reviews the Samsung SGH-D600E music phone, a model wich integrates a 2 Megapixel camera too, which “takes decent images under favourable conditions and also provides a good selection of options through which images can be shared with others - including, unusually, TV out.”,
The SGH-D600E music player supports audio files in MP3 & AAC formats, with a 4 band equalizer and 3D sound. Anyway, the reviewer considers the bundled earphones of average quality, and he is “less than fond of an adapter being required for connecting headphones with a 3.5 mm jack, as well as the fact that the non-standard output is also shared by the bundled USB cable.”
Camera Phone score is 70/100.
Pros:
Stunning display; decent 2 Megapixel camera; good connectivity; microSD expansion
Cons:
Poorly integrated music player; slightly chubby; limited browser

Technorati Tags: Samsung, SGH-D600e, music phone

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Maurice Noah & DJ Phunk - Kraftgirl
Label: Dirty House Music
Cat: DHM 003

A entire cultural display made in .iso format and mounted with the virtual device of music. A long journey starting from late 70s electro-pop, passing through techno-waves, landing on the most innovative 2006 sound. Here’s what Kraftgirl is and sounds like.
More than a song, it just tries to explain what happened since the first synthesizer had been invented and employed to make music. An acid moogish bass, featuring really modern grooves, miscellaneous tunes and an 80’s-style vocals, whispering weird lyrincs in a perfect underground tradition, could really be a mirror for all the stuff had been played in all these years, throughout the Dj sets!
The original track is reworked by DJ Phunk, who get noticed for his new-electro remixes of the INXS songs “I need you tonight/One of my kind” and FELIX DA HOUSECAT smashing hits “Silver Screen” and “Madame Hollywood” , with “Funny Punky” single already being in John Digweed tracklisting on BBC1 and in top djs playlists such as Alan Braxe and Eric Morillo.

Side A - DJ Phunk remix
download sample :: Buy MP3
Side AA - Maurice Noah original version
download sample :: Buy MP3

Click here to order a white label promotional copy from DHM official site.

Technorati Tags: house music, mp3, download music, audio, white label

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Nikkei (Japan) announces that Apple will collaborate with Softbank telecomunication company to develop mobile telephones integrated with iPod music players, capable of connecting iTunes Music Store for music and film download.
At this moment Apple Computer Inc. hasn’t commented the announcement yet.
In 2005 Motorola already released a telephone (called Rokr) with the ability of downloading digital music from iTunes, but it received a lot of critiques about his limited functions and the limited storage of songs.

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April-May playlist from Roger Sanchez, chart topping producer and acclaimed superstar DJ, owner of Stealth Records and keystone of Release Yourself. His newest single Lost entered the UK Buzz Chart directly on number one position just few weeks ago. If you have iTune you can listen to the latest Release Yourself podcast by copying this link into Advanced menu/Subscribe to Podcast: http://www.stealth-records.com/podcast/rypodcast.xml

01 Roger Sanchez - Lost (Tom Novy mix) / Stealth UK
02 Kurd Maverick - The Rub / CR2 UK
03 Bob Sinclar ft. Hard Boys - Hard / Yellow FR
04 Tom De Neef - Adobe / Stealth UK
05 Chab - Closer (Muzzaik Rmx) / SAW US
06 Outwork ft. Mr. G - Electro (Cube Guys Rmx) / Melodica
07 Nick & Danny Meet Bias - Love Lies / Carioca
08 Newmu presents Luca G Stop - The Pressure / Sutil
09 Kid Massive - Get Down (Beatchuggers Mix) / Soul Mgmt
10 Max Graham - Crank (Simi & Masterkeys Mix) / Yoshitoshi US

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Cnet Asia has an early review of the brand new upcoming IRiver E10 model, a portable mp3 and video player with an 1.5 inch screen which supports ASF, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WMA file audios, with a signal-to-noise ratio of 90dB, and MPEG-4, SWF for video (which means it plays Macromedia Flash files and support some downloadable Flash games as well) . It’s available in black or white colors, has a capacity storage of 6GB, and an extimated battery life of 32 hours.
The reviewer concludes: “The E10 is a delicious little tidbit of an MP3 player and will probably go on to be a flagship product for the Korean company. But whether it will have the technical/aesthetic kitsch to break out and dominate the markets outside of Korea remains to be seen. ”
Notice it lacks Bluetooth but it can be used as a programmable tv remote. The price for USA market should be around or below $200.

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