IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry) recently released it’s annual report on global recording industry numbers for 2012.  Among the growing sectors we see digital channels, 35% of overall industry trade revenues while physical sales continue to drop. Another clear trend is the growth of streaming services spearheaded by our Swedish friends at Spotify – the streaming services revenue now account for 20% of digital revenues globally, up from 14% in 2011.

From the house DJ perspective the most interesting point is that the vinyl sales have hit the highest point in 16 years with 12″s sold for 132 Million Euro in … Continue…

Drakenberg, one of Stockholm’s most experienced underground DJs got fed up by people complaining about him DJing with Trakor and recorded that 12 minute set playing Two vinyls and Two CDJs at the same time. It’s all in sync despite a telephone receiver is being used instead of regular headphones.

Laptop Dj software took us by a storm in 2007-2008. Even though the first vinyl emulatior was released by Native Instruments back in 2005, the real wave of Laptop Djing hit the club scene in 2008, with people rapidly switching to Ableton, Serato and Traktor. I clearly remember carefully … Continue…

1. Hardfloor – Acperience (Robert Babicz Remix)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjVW14Fg9YU

The German techno veterans Hardfloor just celebrated their 20th birthday with a tripple vinyl collection. The Robert Babicz remix brings the 1993 Acid classic back to life in a totally new form. This is definitely the track of the year. Hardfloor

2. Noir & Haze – Around (Solomun Vox)

Nobody creates sexy deep house like Hamburg based producer Solomun. In the form of a slow latin inspired ”pasodoble” he interprets dansih producer Noir and Haze track ”Around” creating this beautifully sad peice of unforgetable house music. We are really looking forward to … Continue…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKigqacY-LY

Seriously, wtf is wrong with DJ Mag. Last time David Guetta produced a decent club track was back in….hmmm….Nope, can’t find a single one. It’s all pop stuff made for EMI and Virgin. Who calls this house?

1 David Guetta
2 Armin van Buuren
3 Tiësto
4 Deadmau5
5 Above & Beyond
6 Avicii
7 Afrojack
8 Dash Berlin
9 Markus Schulz
10 Swedish House Mafia

You forgot Lady Gaga?

by Dj Skyjacker of House Music With Love

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After 3 years of bringing you exclusive previews, album reviews, unreleased tracks, interviews, podcast and dozens of epic events, it’s time to grow up. But just a tiny bit. House Music With Love will remain a non-profit blog writing about great electronic music and great producers. From superstar djs to unknown newbees.

Meanwhile, we are proud to launch our artist management, event and booking agency: We Manage With Love. We represent superstars like Özgur Can, Samuel L Session, A Guy Called Gerald, Jon DaSilva and Dj Pierre exclusivly in Scandinavia. Don’t confuse us with your … Continue…

The best track of 2010 (?)

As House Music is our weapon of choice, the track above is definitely one of top 5 in our arsenal of grooves from 2010. Being released on a less know and quite timid Atlanta label SKEET TRAXX.

In 2010 tracks like this take some time and some luck to find – and the reason is the ever growing supply of dance music.

The music market

Let’s face it, back in 2004 Beatport featured as few as 79 labels with less then a dozen tracks from each and one of them. Today the … Continue…

Hola!

Producing breathtaking house music but having trouble getting your message out there? Or hating Beatport for grabbing a too big cut from your sales? Well, read on.

The music industry have been behaving like a staggering giant during the last ten years repeatedly trying to deny the and fight the Internet evolution. Especially greedy are the big labels who’ve been hunting the music pirates with “guns and ammo” and putting spokes in the wheel for innovative companies like Spotify. At the same time, modern technology makes it extremely easy for anyone to create and share their music over … Continue…

Dear Readers!

We are turning our computers off for one very much needed blog silence. The 2009 saw the dusk of the minimal sound that has been dominating the speakers all over the world during the last few years. The Funk is back, and we have Joris Voorn, Luciano, Nic Fanciulli and many other cool guys and girls to thank for that. Let’s hope that this trend will last. We also wanna give a shout out to Tiger Stripes for coming to play at our party at Culture Box. Thanks to the hard working people at Resident … Continue…