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We just got through sharing our thoughts on Lana Del Rey’s massively hyped Born To Die LP, and now we’re hearing that LDR is planning to re-release her 2010 album, under her Lizzy Grant album. According to the BBC, Del Rey has acquired the rights to the album (for a relatively low $10,000) and will be releasing it later this year.

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“Juju & Jordash’s ‘Jewsex’ is Horn and Lipson with Frankie remade epic Italo High Energy. Fun Fun’s ‘Happy Station’ with balls and a touch of the Simple Minds. The ‘Clubsex’ mix traps a Pacman and has it bouncing off a wall of feedback until it locates Steve Poindexter and the Relief records back catalogue, and ‘Dubsex’ drenches everything in delay and 69’s detuned synths. Tin cans rattle in a haunted dancehall. A ghostly locomotive. A bit like that DJ G La Tortue record that Derrick May used to play.”

Three big tunes out soon on Golf Channel Recordings. Stream them below!

Over the last year, Japan’s nightlife scene has undergone a series of difficult changes centred around the implementation of “fuzoku laws”, which were established in 1948.Though the law generally deals with restricting the sale of sex and businesses that may offer similar services, more recently it has been expanded to include “nightclubs and related establishments that allow customers to dance.”

You can and should read about the regressive crackdown here – a stark contrast from the all-night dance parties that the city was known for years ago. Fortunately, there are people working to change the way things are now. This includes newly launched label Diskotopia, which began as a visual collective featuring ex-pat Matt Lyne (A Taut Line) and Japanese female DJ Am Rhein in Osaka back in 2005.

This dub of “You Can Take a Heart” personally reflects my favorite things about the Osaka nightlife culture I fell in love with when I came to Japan – dark & moody basslines snaking throughout the track, dissonantly ambient vocals and a complete disregard for peak time dancefloor pleasing – opting instead to be played out in the early hours, just before the pachinko parlors open, drenched in all their smoggy Osaka glory.

Hong Kong In The 60′s – You Can Take A Heart (Diskotopia Dub)

Kicking off 2012 with a bang, LOUNGIN’ RECORDINGS welcomes CHUBBY DUBZ (aka Oliver $ and Gene Siewing) to the family. Chubby Dubz background and origins combine all manors of influences, as Oliver is native to Germany and Gene to the US. With this chemistry comes a fusion of minds that produces great house music with enough musical soul to have real longevity and keep the dance floors moving. The pair’s first release, The Album Sampler #1, as the name suggests is the first release of 4 from the self titled Chubby Dubz album due out on loungin’ later this year. All the 12”s will feature full length versions of the album tracks crafted especially for the dancefloor plus remixes by key players from the loungin’ fold plus some very special guests.

Here’s a release that made me turn off the lights and turn the volume up. It’s quite simply, house music at its best with subtle basslines and smooth melodies. This entire record is beautiful – deep and lush yet not over produced.

First we have a free download…followed by the rest of the EP.

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In a recent and lengthy Facebook update Deadmau5 has signalled his relaxed attitude to the potential idea of DJ competitions heralded by the mainstream.

“It seems that EDM has been deemed fashionable enough these days to warrant its own long overdue prime time slot to the masses.

“This concept, if anything, is going to catapult the awareness of EDM through the roof.

“Yup, our poor little coveted secret cool underground society will be thrown into the masses. Is this a bad thing? I don’t think so.”

This comes in light of Simon Cowell tossing up the idea of a DJ x X Factor tv series to find the ‘best new talent’.

Maybe Deadmau5 has missed the whole point that once things become so easily accessible, it loses its foundations… but hey, we don’t have a day named after us, what would we know?

This week Beatport launched their very own remix platform ‘play’ for budding DJs and music producers in the US.

Although Beatport have serviced remix contests before this will be the first time the site has offered the stems free without requiring registration – although later parts may require sign up and this offers a ‘first taste’ sort of deal.

The first artists loaded up for play are Chuckie, Steve Aoki, Bingo Players, Christen Smith and more.

Do we think this is a good idea?

Yes and no… a chance for budding producers to get their hands on decent stems will only help the overall quality out there. On the flip-side, this can only mean a huge increase in bedroom producers and possibly oversaturate the market.

Also will this de-value paid remixes? If anyone can have a go, why pay legit artists to get on the remix..

Time will tell.

via Mixmag