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…

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The original disco classic reworked into a tribal version with a killer chopped up synthesizer. Edited by swedish Genius of Time aka Alexander Berg & Nils Krogh. If you see this one, make sure to grab an extra copy for me.

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Cari Lekebusch, one of Sweden’s most loved veteran techno producers, has this magic ability of making everything he touches sound so much… “Lekebush”. It’s not hard to recognize his warm kick and bass in this production by Mr. James Barth. So it wasn’t a huge surprise when I found his name in the http://www.hmwl.org/?p=6612 on the back of the cover the first day I held this 12” back in 1998. Alexi Delano (in this case slightly hidden as A.D.) was also one of my favourite Stockholm producers at the time so the fact … Continue…