28

May

Chart April – May

1. The M Machine – Shadow In The Rose Garden
2. Tom Drummond – Rock The Rhythm
3. Crookers feat. Style of Eye & Carli – That Laughing Track
4. Father Funk – Don’t Stop
5. The Partysquad – Go Down Low
6. Roxette – The Look (Lewd Behavior Remix)
7. DJ Will-Rock – 99 Problems
8. Telephunken – Shake Your Monkey (Busta Remix)
9. The Dixie Cups – Iko Iko (Qdup’s Future Go-Go Edit)
10. Featurecast – My Thing
11. Pimpsoul – Rock You
12. Sub Focus feat. Kenzie May – Falling Down (Nick Thayer Remix)
13. Urban Knights feat. Blackout Ja – Step On Dem
14. DJ Twister aka Vinyl Cat – I Feel Swing
15. Neon Steve – Blindside

30

Mar

Chart February – March

1. WBBL – Check Menina
2. Nynfus Corporation – Move U
3. The Funk Hunters vs L&C – Fly Robin
4. Dillon Francis – Dill The Noise
5. Funk You Very Much – You Will Always Find Him On The Decks At Parties
6. DJ Soo – The Message
7. DJ Twister aka Vinyl Cat – Let’s Get Ill
8. Slynk & Tom Drummond – Cow Bwoy Break
9. The Funk Hunters vs L&C – Slippery Addict
10. El Bomba & Hidden Riddim – Miss Discoflex
11. BadboE & Prosper – If You Want My Love
12. Pimpsoul – This Time
13. Timothy Wisdom – Get Your Hands Up
14. Tosses & Varvez – Get High
15. Spenda C – Could You Be Moombah

19

Mar

Why we should buy music – even in the digital era (especially DJs)

I remember my first encounter with MP3s. A classmate told me, that now you can fit 11 albums on 1 CD! Such a claim was cause for suspicion, and the data storage media itself seemed strange. Then fast-forward the tape, and we find ourselves in the age of digital information. Many of those who have experienced the change of formats and attitudes towards music tend to swear about it. From the series: “The Grass Used to Be Greener, and the Sky Bluer.”

Although I have considered myself a professional DJ since receiving money for mixing the first time in 2001, I only recently formed my personal opinion about the digitization and sharing of recordings. It didn’t happen overnight, but was the result of many events, one leading to another.

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