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Pete Tong’s Fast Trax is a weekly Internet video that offers Tong’s take on the hottest new videos, music and events in dance music.
You can get it:

at the Fast Trax site;
on YouTube
as a video podcast via iTunes.

A hidden hoard of recordings made by Delia Derbyshire, the electronic music pioneer behind the Doctor Who theme, has been found - including a dance track that some think is 20 years ahead of its time.
David Butler, of Manchester University’s School of Arts, Histories and Cultures has revealed for the first time the existence of [...]

Moby has announced live dates for his Last Night tour:
The energetic set showcases new material from ‘Last Night’, but also takes you on a journey through Moby’s eclectic musical history – taking a nostalgic look back at his deep roots in the rave scene, whilst making reference to albums Play, 18, and Hotel, and embracing [...]

Dr. Earth has launched a plan to use hedonism, sex and dance music to save the world.
To forward this goal, Dr. Earth’s first step has been to launch a sustainable clubbing initiative:
Working on the basis that a club should be self sufficient and not a drain on the environment, Club4Climate has come up with the [...]

Here’s the official blurb on Moby’s latest, Last Night:
After the meditative electronica of 2002’s 18 and the singer-songwriter moves of 2005’s Hotel, moby returns to the dance floor with a vengeance on his new album Last Night, released on 31st March 2008. Spanning hands-in-the-air, Smiley-faced rave anthems, cosmic Giorgio Moroder-styled Euro-disco, hip-hop both old school [...]

While the Chemical Brothers got the Grammy for the Best Electronic/Dance Record of t2007, Justin Timberlake got the prize for Best Dance Recording, with LoveStoned.
Other nominees included:

Do It Again - The Chemical Brothers
D.A.N.C.E. - Justice
Love Today - Mika
Don’t Stop the Music - Rihanna

The Chemical Brothers was robbed…….

Wow, that sounds a lot like Madonna’s Holiday.

The B-52’s are wrapping up work on their next album, fifteen years after their last album of new material.
Singer Fred Schneider said the 11 new tracks will maintain the B-52’s danceable, party vibe but will showcase some new directions for a band.
“There’s more electronica on it,” he said. “It’s up-tempo and a bit sexed-up. It’s [...]

iiO has a new release out, Reconstruction Time - The Best of iiO Remixed.
For fans of DJ remixes, Reconstruction Time may offer the ultimate versions of iiO’s music. The CD features the remixes of iiO’s music that helped make iiO a name in clubs around the world.
You can view the video for iiO’s Rapture, below. [...]

 

 iio Rapture: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 iio Rapture - Starkiller's Remix [3:36m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Andrew Hasenpflug sent word about a new music composition contest, the Kunstgegen Foundation 2007 Music for Modern Dance Performance Competition.
Here are the details:
The Kunstgegen Foundation 2007 Music for Modern Dance Performance Competition will go to the work that most exemplifies the qualities of interest, emotion, intellect, and compatibility with modern dance choreography. The winning [...]