Freedom is a track inpired by Jean-Claude Petit’s soundtrack for the 80′s TV Show Champs-Elysées! Feedbacks, comments & supports welcomed!

Freedom by wizemusic

                          

Sometimes, you listen to a track and think this is exactly the kind of track you would have loved to produce. DJ DLG’s rework of Rozalla’s famous track “Everybody’s Free”, is definitely that kind of track! Big, powerful, melodic, with a huge hook this new shot by DLG really has everything! And the best part : it’s FREE!

DJ DLG vs Rozalla – Everybody’s Free

                          

I heavily use the web to promote my work. And WordPress is the starting point of all my communications : news, music, gigs, newsletter, etc… WordPress is now a key tool for anyone in the music business.

Here are 10 essential plugins for WordPress, a DJ or a musician just can’t leave without!

1. Contact Form 7

Every artist needs to keep in touch with his fans, and being able to be contacted straight from his website is really important. Contact From 7 does just that: creating simple or advanced forms you can embed in a page or a post. The only thing that misses for me is the ability to generate form with dynamic data (such as a list of posts to be selected.)

2. WPaudio

WPaudio is a simple yet clean Flash Audio Player for WordPress. It automatically replaces any mp3 links with a nice minimal player. I tested a lot of different players over the years, but this one has the most neutral style and is easy to custom (select Style in the option of the plugin.)

• Example: Selections By Wize – May 2010

3. eShop for WordPress

If you need a small digital shop for your site, eShop will perfectly fit your needs. You upload a track, put a name on it and, this is the most interesting feature, you embed it to a post. For me, the fact that you can put your digital product straight into any post or page, without the need for the visitor to go to a specific catalog page is very interesting. I just regret the poor style of the initial layout.

• Example here

4. Gigs Calendar

Gigs Calendar is the only relevant Gigs management plugin I found. I implemented it for my friend RLP. You create your venues, gigs, tours, and every event is linked to a post so that you can attract visitors to your site. It also generates very useful pages and widgets to be implemented to your site, and also a rss feed that you can embed in an email signature if you like.

• Example: here

5. Twit Connect

Twit Connect allows your Twitter fans to directly comment your post using their Twitter account. Also your fans can connect to your site with their Twitter account without the need to register. Very interesting feature that I start to heavily use on my sites.

6. WordPress Download Monitor

This plugin is one of the most important plugins for me. It allows to tracks downloads of any file on your site, you can also limit the download to registered users. I use it for Free Downloads reserved to my members only. Very easy to configure and flexible for quite tricky customisations such as the modification of the output of your links (you can add the size of your file, an icon linked to its type, etc…)

7. Lifestream

This plugin aggregates your social activity to a single and very classy stream you can display in widgets. You can add a lot of social portals such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, etc…

8. All In One SEO Pack

Simply one of the plugins I can’t live without. Almost no configuration and it works like a charm optimizing your blog for search engines. Great and effective plugin to have in its WordPress intallation.

9. Popularity Contest

This is a very famous plugin that classifies almost everything in your blog by popularity. Very useful to put in a widget like “Most Popular Posts”.

10. Facebook Connector

Facebook Connector brings Facebook to your blog. But it’s quite tricky to configure and needs some skill in PHP, Javascript and Facebook API. People can comment on your blog from their Facebook account just like Twit Connect does.

                          

Playlist

1. EXCLUSIVE! Wize – Midnight Calls
2. LCD Soundsystem – You Wanted a Hit (Keljet Remix)
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Soft Shock (Them Jeans Acoustic Remix)
4. Sam Sparro – Pocket (The Presets Radio Mix)
5. Cullen – Easily Impressed (Calling In Sick Remix)
6. Ellie Goulding – Black + Gold
7. The Temper Trap – Love Lost (Keljet Remix)
8. Deadmau5 – Some Chords (Original Mix)
9. EXCLUSIVE! Deep Mariano – Lunar (Wize Remix)
10. Robyn – Dancing On My Own (Fred Falke Edit)
11. EXCLUSIVE! T.B.S. – Slammin’
12. EXCLUSIVE! Wize – Double You

                          

April Selection

1. Vitalic – Second Lives (Lifelike Remix)
2. Kludge – Ramon
3. The Lifers – She Was Mine (1001 Remix)
4. Le Fat Club – Kind Of Love (Fat Phaze Remix)
5. Florrie – Call 911 (Fred Falke Remix)
6. Monarchy – The Phoenix Alive (Kris Menace Mix)
7. Miike Snow – Silvia (Felix Da Housecat Remix)
8. Rubix – Disco Electronique (Rubix Edit)
9. Two Door Cinema Club – Something Good Can Work (Ted & Francis Remix)
10. Fat Phaze – Sayer
11. Yuksek – Extraball (Wize Remix)
12. Mylène Farmer – C’est Dans L’Air (Wize Remix)

                          

Hi there, drop a few words to wish you all a happy new year 2009. While I was listening some old tracks of mine back to early 2000′s, I realized some of them were still tasty, here is one of them for free…

You can listen more tracks freely on iLike

Download Wize “Again” (Unreleased Mix) for free!

                          

Hi all! Just a few words to present you my brand new 1 hour mix which is available on Sismic Music Podcast!

Here is the tracklist:

1. Wize – Grand Voyage (T.B.S Remix) – Sismic Music
2. Phunktastike & Electrobios – On My own – Baroque Records
3. Tim Versace – Linda (Original Mix) – CDR
4. Artego vs Pryda – The Nebo And Zemlya`s Gift (Wize Dub – Ricky Ryan Mashup) – CDR
5. Hernan Cerbello – You Are Divine – Baroque Records
6. The Adjuster – I Want It – Dumbest
7. Monkz – Lifetime (Jay Lower Jr. Remix) – Radiocity Records
8. Wize – Grand Voyage (Original Mix) – Sismic Music
9. Dirty South – The End (Tocadisco Loves Techno Instrumental Mix) – Vicious
10. Tony Blunt – Nearly – Epsilon Trax
11. Wize – Grand Voyage (Artego Remix) – Sismic Music

You can subscribe to the podcast here.

                          

Il va varier selon le ton donné de la production, un vaste choix de banque de samples reprennent les sons des TR 808 et 909 de chez Roland ou encore du LinnDrum qui sont réputés pour leurs qualité et leur efficacité.

Si un sample ne vous satisfait pas suivez ces indications sinon passez directement à l’Etape 2 avec le sample choisi :

Prenez un Kick avec une attack longue et frappant dans les bas et prenez un deuxième avec une attack très courte avec un ton sec puis mettez les sur deux pistes audio.

Afin d’éviter de passer dans le rouge au niveau de la sommation une bonne équalisation fera l’affaire .

• Pour le pied bas :

Sonalksis SV-517 Mk2 Equaliser Plug-in

• Pour le pied sec :

Sonalksis SV-517 Mk2 Equaliser Plug-in

Envoyer les deux kick dans un même Bus.

Etape 2 : Mix & Compression

Réglez les niveaux des pistes en fonction de l’effet désiré, le principal étant de ne pas saturer, traitez la panoramique afin de ne pas créer un hors phase lors de la sommation à l’aide d’un plug par ex Direction Mixer de Logic.

Direction Mixer by Logic Studio

Mettez une compression sur le bus avec une attack très courte 0,08 ms par ex, plus la release sera courte et plus elle rallongera votre pied, un ratio de 4.1 sera suffisant afin de ne pas écraser trop le kick avec un seuil à -8 db.

EQ

Etape 3 : EQ

Afin de redonner du punch au kick rajouter après la compression un EQ en remontant les bas vers 120 hz.

Sonalksis SV-517 Mk2 Equaliser Plug-in

Par Edu O

                          

I’m very proud to present you my brand new EP “GRAND VOYAGE” along with massive remixes by Artego, T.B.S. and Slow Motion!

• T.B.S. Remix
• Original Mix
• Slow Motion Remix
• Artego Remix

DJ Support & Feedback

Da Fresh

Bon EP. Pour moi l’original est le meilleur. Je le jouerai dans mon podcast

Dan Marciano

nice track

favorite mix : artego

thanks

DJ Chloé

artego remix is good and groovy peak time stuff.

Dumb Dan (Twelve Bombs / Armada / Fektive, SE)

Good package, Artego mix is my favourite!

Kenny Wee (Pure Substance)

The Original Mix and Artego remix is the best mix of the lot. T.B.S. remix is disco cool too!

Liz Cirelli

The TBS remix is fun!

Nick Pitman

Great stuff – Love your original mix, will be kicking that 2nt on Minx Radio & our parties this month

FX (RTS FM)

Mortel je viens de faire un edit pour la radio

Laurent Schark

Great release.
I really like the groove TBS gave in his remix. will be the first one onto my tracklisting this week.
Good job, guys. Be sure you get my full support on this release.

                          

Hello everyone, let me present you my latest remix for nothing less than 2008 Star Academy winner Quentin Mosimann. His LP is devided in 2 CD with both different styles.

The first CD is jazzy and swing and the second one sounds electro with exclusive remixes by producers from all over the world including me!

I remixed the track C’est l’Amour huge 80′s hit that Quentin reworked in a very original and catchy way.

The album Duel will be released on August 18th 2008 but you can already pre-order a copy on www.virginmega.fr.

I wish Quentin a big success for his album!

                          

• Wize Dub Mix – Listen
• Wize Remix – Listen

                          

Artego - Nebo & Zemlya (Wize Remix) - Artego Music

You may have discovered it in my latest podcast episode, my brand new remix of one of the most promising artist from Russia, that you may know as part of the band BLENdbRANK who released and remixed an impressive number of stormers in the past!

Well on that one I choose some electro progressive flavour on both dub and vocal mixes, this is signed on Timeline Progressive with a bunch of quality remixes by Serge Poll vs Poshout and available right now on Beatport, check this out!

Listen to Wize Remix

                          

Hello bro’s! Here is my brand new podcast episode!

Lot’s of hot stuffs here! From the very braxe-like Stellar Way by Acos Coolkas on Theomatic Records to the storming Uncle Fly by Timo Garcia N’ Ricky Stone remixed by Laurent Pepper on Berwick Street Records!

And of course two forthcoming Wize pieces: Grand Voyage to be released on Sismic Music and Heart & Soul by Yvel & Tristan on Avangardia!

Enjoy the show!

Playlist

1. Acos Coolkas – Stellar Way – Theomatic Records
2. Nosmo V Kris B – One For The Road (Ben Brown 2008 Deep Mix) – Nightshade Music
3. Lissat & Voltaxx – House Music All Night Long (Nick In Time & Roman.k Remix) – Ministry Of Sound
4. Felguk – Do You Like Bass (BLENdbRANK Mix) – Bug Eyed Records
5. Wize – Grand Voyage (Dub Mix) – Sismic Music
6. Timo Garcia & Ricky Stone – Uncle Fly (Laurent Pepper Remix – Ricky Ryan Edit) – Berwick Street Records
7. Lenny Fontana & Mike Morin – Brooklym Medlom (Mashtronic Remix – Ricky Ryan Edit) – Mashtronic Music
8. Holosound – Nightly News (Karran & Porter Remix) – Citric Recordings
9. Yvel & Tristan – Heart & Soul (Wize Remix) – Avangardia
10. Artego – Nebo & Zemlya (Wize Remix) – Artego Music

                          

However, what I’ll try to explain in three steps today is: how to get a killer over compressed sound like Justice, Revolte, etc…

Step 1: Choose The Right Drums

Everyone knows a good electro track is before all: good drums! So take time to create rich and punchy drums & beats.

• If your old-school midi-composing style (like me) try my all time favorite PlugSound Volume 3 Drum & Percs (VST/DirectX)
• If your more drum loops oriented then give a try to Mutekki Vengeance Electro Essentials.

Step 2: Choose The Right Overdrive

Most of dirty electro tracks today have, among over-compression, a crunchy and noisy effect on basslines, synths or guitars…

There are of course a lot of effects to put some overdrive on your tracks… But if I could only pick one plugin, it would definitely be the GuitarRig by Native Instruments. You need a huge configuration to make it work properly, but the result is here: awesome!

• Select the kind of distortion/overdrive you want to apply (eg: guitar, bass, etc…) in Bank Menu.
• Select the preset in Sound Menu.
• You can also setup everything manually from amp to reverb on the right…

Don’t hesitate to try it on your drums or synth!

Step 3: Choose The Right Compressor

Again, there are a lot of compressor in the market. So I will talk about what I know and use heavily. In fact most of the time, I use the natural compression of my sidechain effect.

But when I want to add a powerful crunchy and pumpy effect, I use the CompressorX by Timeworks. It simulates analog compression and really rock it, giving a warm and powerful feeling.

Compressor X is amazing. Where do we start? This is more compression control than you should need in this lifetime. [...] this unit has it all, I am able to emulate Urei’s 1176′s, DBX 165a’s, Manley variable MU’s, Digital comps, you name it. This thing is amazing. Try it, see for yourself what it can do. (source: www.sonictimeworks.com)

As long as we compress differently, I will give you a different setting that the one I recommand in the 3 Steps To Get A Killer Mastering, but this fits better for a Justice-like musical style, and that’s what it’s all about, right?

So, add the CompressorX to your master or a bus with the drums (at least the kick). This will replace the sidechain. You will compress the overall mix, and your track will react with noises and overdrive to your compression and distortion.

Then set the CompressorX as follow:

• Put the Out button a bit on the right (not too much this would crush your channel)
• Put the Threshold button a bit on the left in order to make the track pump.

Be careful with thos settings this can quickly make your mix more dirty than you really want it to be. Don’t hesitate to test it on several speakers (hifi, headphones, etc…) and compare with other tracks…[/lang_en]

                          

Oops! With some delay, here is my brand new podcast episode! To be forgiven, I selected some of the greatest tracks I received!

From Kosma Epsilon’s wonderful Cubabe on Epsilon Trax to Anthony Ross’s Mistakes Aren’t Forgotten remixed by Joel Armstrong with it’s crazy electro funky groove on Nightshade Music! Not to mention Teka’s storming Neon track remixed by my close friend Fat Phaze released on Sismic Music or the Awesomesauce produced by Jelo on the hard electro label Bug Eyed Records, totally lovin’ them!

And of course, as promised, three new remixes of mine: Set On The Prize by the Paris based producer and DJ Ceeryl to be release on DJ Philippe B’s label Twist My DJ, Eurospace by Jan Peters on my friend RED-EYE’s label Red Session House and… drums rolling… Padabam! My new remix for UK’s start singer Julie Dennis covering the all time classic Fever out on Harem Records!

Enjoy the show!

Playlist

1. Anthony Ross – Mistakes Aren’t Forgotten (Joel Armstrong Remix) – Nightshade Music
2. Kosmas Epsilon – Cubabe (Original mix) – Epsilon Trax
3. Teka – Neon (Fat Phaze Remix) – Sismic Music
4. Jelo – Awesomesauce (Twocker’s GTi Mix) – Bug Eyed Records
5. Mattias Rask – Sweet (Original Mix) – Shanghai Sessions Recordings
6. Claes Rosen Vs. Add2Basket – Volaris (Original – Ricky Ryan Edit) – Avangardia
7. TestPattern – Way Beyond (Original Mix) – Amber Muse Records
8. Ceeryl ft. Lo Fi Sugar – Set On The Prize (Wize Dub Mix) – Twist My Dj Records
9. Jan Peters – Eurospace (Wize Remix) – Red Session Records
10. Julie Dennis – Fever (Wize Dub Mix) – Harem Records
    

                          

With Fever, Julie Dennis covers the all time classic by Peggy Lee with just the right amount of sexiness and funk to groove any dancefloor, her soulfoul vocals giving the perfect touch for 2008. My remixes are featured along with Albert Castillo, Tommyboy, Mannel and many others!

Two words on the very promising label who signed this release: Harem Records. It is run by the very talented producers Sultan & Ned Shepard for whom I remixed Itajai Vibes. There Tomorrow Never Lies track hits the Beatport charts for weeks!

• Julie Dennis – Fever (Wize Dub Mix) – Preview

Julie Dennis – MySpace

Julie Dennis AKA DJ Silvatung Julie’ was the featured vocalist on the huge club hit CHAIN OF FOOLS with the BFL project and more recently we have seen her writing and performing with A Guy Called Gerald (Voodoo Ray) for his long awaited album “To All Things What They Need”, writing and recording for the Sensei Records Label, writing and recording with DJ Asle along with recording a series of singles for Circulation. Julie has a recording deal with Yoshitoshi Records (Deep Dish) and her first single “Sugar” with Dyad 10,released early in 2007, has had a massive impact in the clubs of the USA and of Europe while Pete Tong who championed the record from the beginning by playing the Nika & Asle mix has continued to support it by numerous plays of the Tocadisco mix on his Friday Radio 1 Show…

                          

Mastering and mixing are some of the most important skills a producer has to master… The question is how to get your averall track sounds:

• Clear
• Powerful
• Wide

Step 1: Do I Have The Right Speakers?

Ask yourself the question: do I have the right headphone or speaker?

I can assure you one thing, as long as I plugged my PC to a Hi Fi I’ve not been able to master anything. The bass boost was completely falsing the overall mix and when I sent some demos at this time I got feedback such as “Your music is cool, but, damn! Your sound sucks!“. Ask Joachim Garraud when I sent him some track in early 2004…

If you have to invest in something for your studio, it’s in the speakers. It’s like when you recover your sight when putting on your glasses…

For me, there’re two options:

1. You got people around you who don’t care about your beloved but noisy boom boom boom music and you need to work with a headphone: I use you this one: Sony MDR-V700DJ. Excellent and precise sound.
2. You don’t care about other people! You want to work with a speakers, then here are the monitors I use: Samson Rubicon R5A.

What you have to retain of this step is: Speakers are the most important part of the studio.

Step 2: Never Touch To The Master Channel

I never touch the master out. I used to and I never got any good result. I tried to compress, I tried to EQ but nothing clean and powerful came out.

What I advise you to do is to work on the sound of buses separatly. Work the equalization, the compression, or whatever of each buses instead of applying a compression to the general channel.

This needs more work but you will definitely make your mix more clearer, more powerful and easier to modify.

Step 3: Cherish The EQ

The basis of all good mix is a clever management of frequencies. You know that, right?

• A bassline, kicks, etc… by definition will deliver bass frequencies
• Cymbals will deliver high frequencies.
• Pads will mainly deliver medium/high frequencies.

The idea is to try to isolate each instrument in its range of frequencies. Results will be immediat.

If you cut a little bit of bass of your pad and add a little more high frequencies you’ll see your pad will be clearer and the overall mix cleaner.

Anyway, the secret of a good mastering is every instruments used can be precisely heard… Work on frequencies of each instrument until you hear everything clearly.

But be careful to go easy on adding or cutting dB for frenquencies. It’s a matter of precision.

                          

I tried a lot of effects and settings before finding the final and accurate sidechain I would never leave for my productions and remixes. But before getting to that point I needed a little bit of theory:

Side-chaining uses the signal level of another input or an equalized version of the original input to control the compression level of the original signal. (source: Wikipedia)

That’s all you need to know! Basically, if you want to make your synth channel pump, you will need to apply a signal that will compress your channel on the beat.

For me, a good sidechain is making the overall mix pump without crushing the instruments and the stereo.

Step 1: Choose the right signal

Click

This is the signal I use to apply sidechain on the channels of my track. Just a metronome click.

1. I create an audio channel called “Click” to put my click loop.
2. I create a bus called “Sidechain” that will receive the sidechain signal… I will root the channels I want to sidechain to that bus.

Step 2: Choose the right compressor

As a compressor, I use the same effects for years.

This is a 39$ effect you will never leave: dB-D Dynamic Processor by Db Audioware.

1. I add this effect to my “Click” channel to send the signal. I put the Gain button to “Mute” and the Send button to “A”.
2. I add this effect to my “Sidechain” bus to receive the signal. I put Thresh to “-30.0″, Ratio to “LIMIT”, Attack to “0.5″, Decay to “100″, Knee to “1.5″ and RECV to “A”.

You can also play with the overall compression settings by normalizing the Click loop, this will increase the compression.

Step 3: Choose the right mastering

As far as I remember, I didn’t have to use more than two separate sidechain buses on my tracks.

For example, on my remix of Itajai Vibes I used two sidechain buses:

1. A bus for the bassline only to keep it warm, powerful and pumping without crushing other elements.
2. Another bus for the other elements.

In the case you want to create more than one sidechain bus you repeat exactly the same manipulation but the buttons Send and Recv are to be set to “B”, or “C”, etc…

                          

Eurospace

Just a quick stop on my remix… Still the old progressive house vibe I can’t put my hand off… But after the success of Itajai Vibes with almost 3000 downloads on Beatport, I was a little bit stressed… I wish the whole Eurospace EP the same success!

So I tried to move to another direction with less pads and more lead synths like the amazing old-school voice sound from E-MU Proteus X in memory of my gone and regreted E-MU Proteus 2000. And the result is really melodic to my opinion, and close to what I’m really into right now: progressive and melodic sound.

A big thank you to my mate RED-EYE with whom I already work on the track Sunshine. And if you still got time, have a look at Jan Peters’ page on MySpace, his sound is just amazingly inspired. A bit of Alan Braxe, a bit of Lifelike! Just love it.

Enjoy the music!

Jan Peters – Eurospace (Wize Remix)

                          

They simply made the Queen of Funky bassline…

Maybe you would be interested to know how to setup such a bass sound with VST instruments and effects? Well, that’s what I’ll try to explain you.

Step 1: Choose the right bass sound

I’d recommand an old-school fingered bass sound, to give this warm sound Fred Falke have…

Trilogy by Spectrasonic is amazing and features a large choice of Fingered/Picked basses that can definitely be a good basis for your sound.

Step 2: Choose the right EQ effect

OK. Now you got your nice fingered/picked bass… But how to give it this such warm and special sound?

Since 2002, I use the same effect to EQ my basslines and make them warmer. This is the Renaissance Bass module by Waves.

Use the preset Nose Job and have a listen… You’ll see what it’s all about.

(I advise you to adapt the Freq. (Hz) setting to fit your master mix.)

Step 3: Compose the right bassline

If you have a listen to Alan Braxe & Fred Falke’s track Running, you’ll hear that, as a lot of Funky tracks do, the note used are very short and follow or complete the rythm. Depending on your composing level, try to use eighteenth or sixteenth notes.

Don’t hesitate to give me your feedback about this short tutorial. I plan to write a lesson every 2 weeks or so if you guys like it!

                          

Bloody Rain remixed by Jonathan Perea out on Sismic Music, Dirty Nasty by the Tune Brothers remixed by Micha Moor on Housesession Records, Crossover Br and it’s enormous Scandal out on Symphonic Records, my brand new remix of Ceeryl ft. Heather‘s Set On The Prize, another remix of mine for Eurospace by Jan Peters out on Red Session Records!

But my big hug goes to Guy J I just discovered through my friend Ricky Ryan that did an edit of one of his stormer Been Here Before. Watch out!

Playlist

1. Tune Brothers ft. MC Flipside – Dirty Nasty (Micha Moor Dub Mix) – Housesession Records
2. Ceeryl ft. Heather – Set On The Prize (Wize Remix) – Twist My DJ Records
3. Crossover Br – Scandal (Dub Version) – Symphonic Records
4. Paul Keeley – A Sort Of Homecoming (Amine Edge Remix) – ???
5. The Heels – Bloody Rain (Jonathan Perea Remix) – Sismic Music
6. Antoine R. – Elixir (Original Mix) – CDR
7. Guy J – Been Here Before (Envotion Remix Ricky Ryan Dub Edit) – Avangardia
8. Rowe – Glide Attacka (Original Mix) – Dumb Recordings
9. Jan Peters – Eurospace (Wize Remix) – Red Session Records

Enjoy the show!

                          

The Heels ‘Bloody Rain’ on Sismic Music is a wonderful pastiche of 1980s electric synth pop, with a melody that reeks of familiarity and a feel not unlike Rockwell’s ‘Somebody’s Watching Me’.

But don’t let that reference fool you as this über cool Gallic instrumental will suck you in with its enveloping sound with each successive looped bar.

Created by the talented Basile Fanon (aka Wize), who delivers another offering that’s very much in the current big room electronica sound.

Phat, tech-etched and twisted that also works extremely well in Leeroy Daevis and Slow Motion’s respective new wave electrophonic funk mixes that keep you wanting more long after the run out (or whatever the digital equivalent maybe these days!)

Lewis, thank you very much for your support!

                          

Tracklist Club Life 049 – Direct Link

1. Nick Fiorucci feat. Kelly Malbasa – The Night [chris ortega electro mix]
2. Yoav – Club Thing [redroche rmx]
3. Sultan & Ned Shepard – Itajai Vibes [wize rmx]
4. Everything But The Girl vs. Noel Sanger – Wrong Perfection [nick wax mashup]
5. Airscape – Cruising [scape mix] (Tiesto’s Classic)
6. Headstrong feat. Kirsty Hawkshaw – Love Calls
7. Johan Gielen – Physical Overdrive [kris o’neil 2008 rmx]
8. Duderstadt feat. Kirsty Hawkshaw – Beatitude [marcus schossow rmx]
9. Amex feat. Anna Basel – Komarna [eddie sender rmx]
10. David & Carr feat. Jenna Colaizy – Every Day [dennis sheperd rmx]
11. Milan Lieskovsky – Elenya [heatbeat rmx]

Want more?

• Visit DJ Tiesto’s official website
• Subscribe DJ Tiesto’s Club Life Podcast

                          

Hi folks, here is my brand new podcast episode! Don’t hesitate to give me some feedback. I put some exclusive pieces such as Wize presents The Heels – Bloody Rain out on Sismic Music or Jan Peters – Eurospace (Wize Remix) on Red Sessions Records… Enjoy the show!

Playlist

1. ARA vs Amy Winehouse – Rehab (Vocal Mix) – Gotham Grooves
2. Stonebridge – Close To Heaven (Dumb Dan Remix) – Stoney Boy
3. Hernan Cerbello – On Your Own – Avangardia
4. Re-Zone – Dont Wanna Be Your Prisoner (Dub Mix) – Bug Eyed Records
5. Floy – Fallen Empire (Main Mix) – Soulheat Records
6. Jan Peters – Eurospace (Wize Remix) – Red Sessions Records
7. Max Demand – Mercury – Balkan Connections
8. Soultan, Ned Shepard & Maher Daniel – Itajai Vibes (Wize Remix) – Sick Watona
9. Fat Phaze – Let Me In (Original Mix) – Sismic Music
10. Wize presents The Heels – Bloody Rain (Extended Dub Mix) – Sismic Music

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It’s time to celabrate! After a storming Episode 1 on January 26th wih Top class DJ friends Muttonheads, Fat Phaze & Slow Motion, let’s party once again!

For the release of my EP Bloody Rain on Sismic Music, a very special event is organized, don’t miss the night: February 23rd @ La Loco, Paris with the worldwide acclaimed DJ RLP along with Sismic’s rosters Fat Phaze & Slow Motion!

A guestlist is opened: olivier@sismic-music.com

Bloody Rain Release Party

                          

1. Original Mix – Listen
2. Fat Phaze Remix – Listen
3. Jonathan Perea Remix – Listen
4. Slow Motion Remix – Listen
5. Leeroy Daevis Remix – Listen

• Get it on Beatport

                          

Just a few words to tell you the highly supported Itajai Vibes masterpiece, is reviewed on Beatportal by my old friend Lewis Dene! Check this out!

“SNM are Soultan, Ned Shepard and Maher Daniel, each no stranger to the dance arena, while the track also comes with a mixes package featuring 16 Bit Lolitas, Roman Rai, Claes Rosen and Artego, who each offer much to underscore why ‘Itajai Vibes’ is already racing up Beatport’s dance chart.

However, for me, it’s Wize’s ethereal dreamy journey that needs to be heard from beginning-to-end, with loved ones close at hand and preferably at sunset on a sun-kissed beach, to be fully appreciated. Sacredieu!”

http://www.beatportal.com/feed/item/itajai-vibes-with-remixes/

Lewis Dene – MySpace

Lewis Dene’s Solitaire alias has already enjoyed a trio of chart topping and dancefloors filling hits with versions of ‘You Got The Love’, ‘Thinking Of You’, and – ‘I Like Love (I Love Love)’. The latter a huge international hit, that spent 15-weeks in top 40 of the Australian sales chart, ending the year as the third biggest club record of 2003 in both DJ magazine and the Music Week club charts (it spent more weeks on the latter chart than any other)…

                          

Hi folks, here is my brand new podcast episode! Don’t hesitate to give me some feedback.

Playlist

1. Timofey & Bartosz Brenes – Dangerous Boy (Original Mix) – Grooved Music
2. Dumb Dan & Stian Klo – Rusher (Original Mix) – Whoop Digital
3. Erick Ramirez – Waiting for You (Masque Remix) – Balkan Connection
4. Dave Cortex – It’s Time – CDR
5. Hernan Cerbello – Emotional distortion (Original mix) – Echoplast Recordings
6. Egor Boss – I Dont Like The Drugs (Felguk Joy Mix) – Bug Eyed Records
7. Soultan, Ned Shepard & Maher Daniel – Itajai Vibes (Wize Mix) – Sick Watona
8. Ogi Gee Cash & Synchronized vs. Nick Nikolov – Just Before The Time – Balkan Connection
9. Gods Blue Chest ft. David Walker – Backstab (Original Mix) – Base Légère

                          

Venez fêter la sortie du maxi de The Heels “Bloody Rain” sur Sismic Music le 26 Janvier 2008 à la Loco en présence des producteurs et remixeurs du maxi ainsi que des DJs Slow Motion (Sismic Music), Muttonheads (Serial Records) & Fat Phaze (Résident Loco, Sismic Music)!!

Toutes les infos ici

La Loco – Plan
90, Boulevard de Clichy
75018 Paris – France

                          

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Fat Phaze – MySpace

Olivier Huguenard, DJ for 15 years and Emmanuel Plégat, musician and composer, started their cooperation in 1998.They quickly developed a very specific sound in their productions, as a signature, synonym of power and efficiency on the dance floors.Many projects came out, included one in a major company (Fizz), but FAT PHAZE project actually started in 2001 to freely express electro 80′s influences from their teens influences made of enthralling melodies and atmospheres, and entrancing choruses. This parisian duo mixes with talent peppy rythms and harmonies, and mostly uses analogical sounds to transmit their musical universe.

The result of the growing complicity between Emmanuel, musician and Olivier, DJ, is now a matured project with own identity and recognizable style. For integrity they kept through their releases, major artists and producers such as Moonbootica, Sharam Jey, Mylene Farmer, Lottie, Da Fresh (and many more) took interest in their work. So started cooperations and frienship, giving you remixes from/for FAT PHAZE these 3 past years.

Their fame increasing, strong labels such as Polydor, Missdemeanours rec, King Kong rec, Underwater, Work it Baby (and others) invited FAT PHAZE to work with them. Thanks to the confidence various producers and labels grant, FAT PHAZE experiments with great pleasure and opens up on new horizons.

Next step ? one album and one live set?

                          

My remix is charted #20 in Beatport Global Top 100!

Thanks again very much for your support!

                          

Will it reach the 1st place? This is up to you guys!

                          

The highly expected release by SNM Itajai Vibes is finally out, and already reaching the top of Beatport charts!

Tracklist

1. SNM- Itajai Vibes (Original Mix) Original Mix
2. SNM- Itajai Vibes (16 Bit Lolitas Mix) 16 Bits Lolitas Mix
3. SNM- Itajai Vibes (Wize Mix) Wize Mix
4. SNM- Itajai Vibes (Roman Rai Mix) Roman Rai Mix
5. SNM- Itajai Vibes (Artego Mix) Artego Mix
6. SNM- Itajai Vibes (Claes Rosen Mix) Claes Rosen Mix

About the release

Top selling producer and DJ Sultan (aka Soultan) teamed up with Canadian mates Maher Daniel and Ned Shepard (of Digital Witchraft) to deliver a powerfull single for the Sick Watona imprint called “Itajai Vibes”, released last month on Sick Watona’s Avangardian’s LP, going on to be a Progressive House Top 100 Best Seller along with the other 9 tracks on the compilation.

Following the single’s success a huge remix LP is on the way from Ricky Ryan’s Sick Watona, a blasting pack featuring 5 remixes from top producers such as Dutch stars 16 Bit Lolitas, Wize, Roman Rai, Artego, and Claes Rosen.

Don’t miss SW008 as it promises to be one of the imprint’s most important releases to date! A big thanks to all involved. The release is out December 20th exclusively on Beatport and distributed by Proton.

www.sickwatona.com

www.myspace.com/sultansoultan

www.myspace.com/nedshepard

www.myspace.com/maherdaniel

                          

Sultan’s December 2007 Top 10

1. Sultan & Ned Shepard – Eye Spy – Harem
2. Patch Park – Pitch Black EP – Shinichi
3. Daniel Portman – White Russian
4. Soultan, Ned Shepard & Maher Daniel – Itajai Vibes (Wize Rmx) – Sick Watona
5. Splittr – All Alone (Ned Shepard Rework) – Netswork
6. Jim Rivers – Brassed Off – Misfit
7. King Unique – Yohkoh – Curfew
8. Gold Ryan & Tapesh – Collapse – Timbee
9. Tracey Thorn – Grand Canyon (Dirty South vs Ned Shepard) – CDR
10. Albert Vorne – Ravens Over My Rave (Ozgur Can Rmx) – Armada

Sultan - MySpace

From the desert heat of his country of origin to the winter rigours of Canada, Sultan has travelled a road quite out of the ordinary. In the past four years Sultan has established himself as one of the most innovative and respectable djs and producers in the electronic dance scene. Sultan has had releases on various labels including Deep Dish’s Yoshitoshi label and John Digweed’s Bedrock Breaks Label, as well as several compilations appearances including “Global Underground 25: Toronto” mixed by Deep Dish, Tiesto’s “In Search of Sunrise 4”, Dave Seaman’s “Renaissance Masters”, Deep Dish’s “George Is On” which features “Deep Dish vs Dire Straits – Flashing for Money”(Sultan Club/Radio Mix), hailed as being the worlds first ever legally cleared mash up/remix garnering praise from the electronic dance scene as well as rock legends Dire Straits. And most recently “Global Underground 29: Dubai” mixed By Sharam which features three tracks including Sultan & Ned Shepard’s latest releases “Connected” and “Together We Rise” on Shinichi Records.

In September of 2006 Sultan joined world class Dj agency, Bullitt Bookings. Having toured cities across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa over the past two years, Sultan has made his mark as one of the most exciting and technically sound performers in the DJ scene today.

In early 2007, Sultan began working closely with good friend Nadia Ali (Former singer of IIO). The two, alongside Ned Shepard, spent the month of January co-writing and co-producing songs for her forthcoming solo Album to be released later this year. Recently both Sultan and Ned Shepard have joined Nadia on tour with Sultan playing guitars and Ned playing keyboards for her Live Show.

Keep an eye out for Sultan’s monthly radio show “Connected Live” the last Monday of every month on DI.FM and Sultan’s forthcoming compilation on Yoshitoshi “Yoshitoshi: Montreal” due out September 2007 .

                          

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The Highly Anticipated Sick WATONA 007 Avangardia Lp is out since november 15th! It features Soultan, Ned Shepard & Maher Daniel “Itajai Vibes” for whom I just finished a remix, you’ll have some more news about it soon! It also features Micali, Ajami & Wasley “Aerobics” (sick watona edit), Monkz “Spacedizko” (add2basket myspace mix), Roman Rai “Sleeper” (Ricky Ryan Edit), Latenta project “Da Beatz”, my brand new track edited by my friend Ricky Ryan Wize “Freedom” (Ricky Ryan Edit), Liluca “Just The Love In You”, Dan Mckie & Phonat “Girls” (Ricky Ryan Edit), Gary Dickenson “Emotional Underground” and Stellar Mansion “The Whole Thing”! Some heavy masterpieces to you can already get Beatport!

And another great news: Wize “Freedom” (Ricky Ryan Edit) is ranked 50th in Beatport Progressive House Top 100! So I thank you all for the support! Keep it coming!

• Ricky Ryan @ Bringthebeats : Primavera Mix
• Facebook’s Group
• www.sickwatona.com

                          

Last.fm

Maybe you don’t know about Last.fm, UK-based internet radio and music community website. This site is just amazing for artists & labels to promote their sounds, and for music lovers to discover new artists and music related to their musical taste (thanks to audioscrobbler tool.)

I recently added 4 samplers of upcoming releases on Wize Recordings: Freedom EP, Grand Voyage EP & Violin EP!

Link to Wize Recordings’ page on Last.fm

Link to Wize artist’s page on Last.fm

                          

Leeroy Daevis – MySpace

the_heels__bloodyrain_leeroy_daevis_remix.mp3Leeroy Daevis had remixed tracks for leading artists from both the French and the International scene: Depeche Mode, Asian Dub Foundation, Erasure and Miss Kittin. Today he’s working on his own tracks…

Jonathan Perea – MySpace

the_heels__bloodyrain_pereanathan_remix.mp3

Jonathan Perea is a 23 years old remixer, composer & producer. His influences goes from minimal, to house and dance music.

                          

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I’m proud to announce my brand new track “Freedom“! Discover now the Dub Mix, and watch out a vocal version real soon!

Lewis Dene, 5 out of 5 on DMC Update

Basile Fanon, the mastermind behind the act and label of the same name, is equally talented at making the sort of records you instantly feel at home with, crafting irritably catchy instrumentals that just reek of crossover potential. ‘Freedom’ is no different, and sticks to the tried-and-tested adage of less-is-more: the balance of delicate chords, shuffling percussive loops and floating melodies makes for an irresistible recipe. As if the opening bars of ‘Born Slippy’ and Robert Miles’ Children’ had met and had a bastard offspring the resultant would be this hauntingly beautiful number.

                          

Wize_-_Musique.mp3

After nearly a year since the release of it’s first volume, Ricky Ryan’s Feedback series returns for its second installment. Composed nearly entirely of exclusive tracks previously unreleased, this massive 21 track DJ mix will be available for download free to all Proton Radio members followed by an epic dual LP release on Proton Music and Avangardia.

• DOWNLOAD

From house to funky to progressive to disco, acid and electro, the compilation features an all-star roster that includes Blendbrank, Dumb Dan, Matt Rowan, Shafunkers, Subsky, Bart Van Wissen, Wize, and many more. Alongside the big names comes an impressive line up of upcoming artists that will be taking the scene by storm in the coming months such as Island 9, Nightriders, Latenta Project, and Claes Rosen.

• More info on www.proton.com

                          

From the haunting opening bars of Cool Sunshine’s ‘My Love From Recife’, you know you’re in good hands as Bargrooves The Ibiza Summer Collection joins the dots between gentle balearia to mass dancefloor hysteria. On CD1 we’re led in gently through tunes like the electro-tinged Bondi by Seb Davidson and the funky house, horn-led vocal refrains of Anette Taylor’s Faith. Max Sedgely’s classic Happy also gets an energetic rerub, courtesy of a Go Home Productions remix and we can now feel the start of the evening kicking in as the pace gets lifted. By the time the awesome electronic soundscape that is Djuma Soundsystem ‘Les Djinns (check out the awesome Trentmoller remix) and the brilliant Wize’s Heaven hit the decks, you know we are now truly locked in the groove.
CD2 strips it back again with pared-down vocal house from the likes of Tim Fuller on Slightest Touch and Ian Pooley and Majik J’s driving piano-led Heke. Before long though, we’re back in the freak zone with the late-night deep house synth stylings of Kirk Degorgio’s massive Starwaves and bassbin-blowing build up of Oliver Lang’s Dancing Girls. Finally, Swedish house don Axwell signs us off with his fat remix of Bob Sinclar’s anthem Feel For You, giving this stone-cold classic a hard electronic edge that brings it bang up to date with the summer ’07 Ibiza sound.

Disc 1

1. My Love From Recife : Akisy
2. Siroi Mayu (Cortes Aventgarde mix) : Hideo Obayashi
3. Bondi : Seb Davidson
4. Faith (Copyright dub) : Annette Taylor
5. Music (Makes You Groove) (Christian Hornbostel rem : Jochen Pash
6. House Energy : Jak Jaxon
7. From The Stars : Montilla
8. Happy (Make You Happy) (Go Home Productions mix) : Max Sedgley
9. Diablo : Oliver Lang
10. Make It On Your Own : Jon Silva
11. Magic Roundabout : Timo Garcia
12. Les Djinns (Trentmoller remix) : DJ Uma Soundsystem
13. Heaven : Wize
14. Sid Bubble (Yer Man mix) : JdotP

Disc 2

1. So Good Today (Yoruba Soul remix) : Ben Westbeech
2. He’s Getting On My Nerves : Daniel Bove feat No Dolls
3. The Slightest Touch (Chicken Lips mix) : Tim Fuller
4. Heke (Pooley’s Gone Bealaric mix) : Ian Pooley & Magik J
5. *To The Beat : Saeed Younan
6. As Good As It Get’s : Wonderland Avenue
7. Come On Everybody : Fred Everything
8. Speed Up : Funkerman
9. Starwaves (Spiritcatchers Time Modulator mix) : Kirk Degiorgio pres Esoterik
10. Wrong Number (Greg Kobe mix) : Johan Ilves
11. Dancing Girls : Oliver Lang
12. Undisco Me (Edison Dub mix) : Billie Ray Martin
13. Feel For You (Axwell mix) : Bob Sinclar

Oliver Lang – MySpace

Oliver Lang is having the time of his life at the moment. Having spent the last few years playing here, there and everywhere, it seems that his ship has finally come in (Manchester Evening News July 2005.)

The arrival of Oliver Lang at the forefront of clubland has been as well-timed as one of his mixes. 2005 has been a monster step forward for the Mixmag Future Hero as he continues to go from strength to strength with Serious Artist Management…

                          

Moussa Clarke‘s just finished mixing the FortDance Experience Mix Compilation, which will be available in Russia as a giveaway around the various FortDance events in June/July 2007. It includes Livio Roby ft. George G Monochrome (Wize Remix).

Moussa Clarke is an inspirational DJ/producer with a worldwide reputation for igniting dancefloors from London to Moscow to Tokyo and back again. Never far from the madding crowd – apart from when he’s cooking up monster basslines and electrochemical beats in the studio – he’s also founder of the thriving London-based label and DJ agency Oven Ready.

www.moussaclarke.com

                          

Probably the most awaited Only Records‘ release in 2007 is now ready to make it out after a few delays due to various compilations some of the mixes made it, we are now more than happy to let this bird out!

As the second colaboration between Only Records and their fellow Romanians, they decided to offer a variety of mixes again to try and please the most of you guys , therefore expect some serious house, electro, minimal and prog of course…. already doing damage on some dancefloors worldwide, this one will definitely set things on fire for the 2007 summer!.

Watch out for the Ibiza big room WIZE remix …

Available on:

                          

Original Mix

SF260143-01-01-01.mp3

Andy Slate Remix

SF260143-01-02-01.mp3

Feedbacks

Laurent Garnier

I like the original mix – will play it out.

Noir

Another hypnotic and driving track from Alternative Route. Another winner.

Number One Plastic Cool Cuts chart February 2007

IDJ Magazine

Alternative Route never seem to release a dud and continues on its rich vein of form with a fantastic, piece of instrumental prog house. The original mix marries a funky bassline with lush melodies and a rock guitar lick. Andy Slate’s remix keeps all the good things from the original but ups the tempo a touch and adds some keys in turning it into a trancier affair. A sure-fire success for the dancefloor.

Matt Fiztpatrick

Really loved this… wicked!

Jody Wisternoff

Pretty strong track.

Slok

Nice Prog tune with a classic funky disco electric bass line. All the arrangements are well done and all the sounds fit into the meaning of this production. The original mix is perfect for a warm up set. The Andy Slate remix is better for late nights. Just tested last night!

Luis Bonias

Nice track with a rock touch… the original one is for me.

Andre Solaris

Absolutely amazing. Will be getting strong rotation on my XM Radio show and in the clubs in Chicago. Perfect combo of funk and deep soulful atmospherics. Perfect springtime track.

                          

RLP

Preview

RLP & I came back into the studio to drop another bomb. This one is called This Will Be Mine, and is available on RLPMIX Digital Shop. Don’t miss this one!

                          

RLP

RLP has been mixing records since 1979 when he started DJing in Montréal, Canada.
After playing in the city’s biggest clubs, he witnessed the fine art of «monsieur» Larry Levan himself at NYC’s Paradise Garage and played at the lendary Danceteria, New York.

He moved to Paris to impose his own art of mixing in 1983 to the french audience. Little did he know that he would break grounds and introduce mixing and scratching to the french audiance.
Producer of his own radio shows at the age of 20 on the mythical Paris RADIO 7 radio station, he soon started his DJ residencies at 2 of Paris hottest Clubs : LES BAINS DOUCHES and LE PALACE.

Ever since, he is featured in the country’s biggest and best clubs. With over 100 club dates per year, RLP is surely one of France’s TOP RATED DJ.

www.rlpmix.com

                          

Wize Remix: Listen

Original Mix: Listen

Over the past 10 years RED-EYE has been fortunate to have released many original tracks and remixes and has also released more than 8 AAA quality console video games credited as a Sound Designer. He now owns and operates the House Music label Red Session Records out of Los Angeles, California as well as continuing his career as a Lead Sound Designer in the Video Game Industry.

His Big Room House productions and remixes have placed him among some of the most talented and skilled producers in the US, while consistently pushing the envelope for a unique and exciting sound. His ongoing pursuit for club pounding sexy House Music will bring the dance floors some very tired yet ecstatic bodies for years to come.

On the Video Game Sound Design side of things, he (Kris Giampa) just finished up working on the next highly anticipated Spider-man Video Game based on the franchise, “Spider-man 3″, released in May 2007 for all Platforms as a Lead Sound Designer.

Please visit for more information:
www.myspace.com/redeyemusic
www.myspace.com/redsessionrecords
www.redsessionrecords.com

                          

Roy Brizman is a well known and respected DJ in Israel’s night life circuit. Ever since he started to catch the dance music “bug” when he was at the tender age of 13, he knew that this was his destiny. Born and raised in Holon (Israel), Roy started to spin in private parties and small venues all over Tel-Aviv and his big opportunity to break through came when he was only 16. He was chosen to be the resident DJ at “Fifth Avenue”, a popular club with a capacity of over 2000 people each night At the age of 18 Roy moved to the big city: Tel-Aviv and started to spin at the first Dance-Bar that opened his gates – “Ministry Of Sound”…

http://www.myspace.com/roybrizman

                          

Joachim Garraud is the producer and remixer of : David Guetta, Bob Sinclar, Deep Dish, David Bowie, OMD, Kylie Minogue, Mylène Farmer, Cassius, Jean-Michel Jarre, Culture Club, Ceronne, Moby, Robbie Rivera and many more.

Joachim made took the 62nd spot in the worldwide DJ Mag ranking. His sets all around the world (Berlin Love Parade, Tokyo, Sydney Future Music Festival) mix usual DJing and Live music with the help of his keyboard and sampler. He remixes his playlist live, for a truly unique experience.

www.joachimgarraud.com

                          

RLP - On Your Side

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RLP & I put our hands on a brand new production mixing RLP’s soulful influence and my energic grooves. It’s called On Your Side and it’s already hugely supported by DJ’s Around the world…

Feedbacks

Philippe B (France) – RLP is back !!!

Jerry Ropero (Germany) – Really great,man!! It funks up!! I will play it and chart it.

Antoine Clamaran (France) – Count on my full support.

Dave Wareing (UK) – sounds really big ! Peaktime !

DJ Kenn (Belgium) – Excellent electro-ish groovy track… Add my support.

DJ Markus (Tune Brothers, Germany) – It’s great ! I will support it. 9/10 – i think the track will be massive in the clubs.

David Vendetta (France) – Thanks for the promo and count on my support. A sure shot on the dancefloor.

Greg Ceronne (France) – Super vibe. This should go well in the clubs.

Greg Di Mano (France) – Will surely play it on my radio shows and in my sets.

DB Cooper (Poland) – I’m playing this one every night all summer !

Sami Dee (France) – Great Track, slamming & grooving, it gives you this special energy you need at 3 am on the Dancefloor.

Spencer Parker (UK) – Really good track. Love it !

Wei-Shen Mak (Australia) – …your track fuckin’ rocks mate!! A fack stack of funk and energy … tune! Absolute tune!!

Bobby Blanco (UK) – Wow!!!! You’re Hot Baby !!!!! Its really good, the problem i have with most of that so called sound is the lack of melody and funk̷