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Over at BeatPortal, Industry Boy is blogging directly from Sasha & Digweed’s tour bus.
It offers an interesting view behind the scenes of a superstar DJ tour:
At the front of the bus is a lounge area with three couches, two giant Toshiba plasma screens, and an entertainment centre complete with a Marantz amp, a DVD player, [...]

March 03: It’s free electronic music month at Synthtopia. All month, we’re going to help you kick the RIAA habit by highlighting great electronic music that’s available for free on the Internet.
Today we’re highlighting Atomic Cat, French techno/trance group. Atomic Cat has released a free CD of trance music, A Call From Hope.
You can preview [...]

 

 Trance Symphony [4:52m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

March 01: It’s free electronic music month at Synthtopia.
All month, we’re going to help you kick the RIAA habit by highlighting great electronic music that’s available for free on the Internet.
We’re getting things started with a free CD of trance tracks, Trance Planet, by the French techno/trance group, NeXuS.
NeXuS has release several CDs under [...]

 

 NeXus - U-Boot [0:54m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Evil Records, a netlabel dedicado a la musica electronica, has added three new releases that are available as free MP3 downloads.
The releases include a free house EP, Manu xtc - Noches Del Sur; a psytrance EP, Aum Project - Angel Hundu; and a downtempo/breaks CD, zAnXe - Welcome.
The site is in Spanish, but is easy [...]

Nighttime Calls, and if you’re looking for straight-ahead euro dance/trance music to liven up the evening, Sylver delivers with this CD.
Sylver, made up of the vocalist Silvy De Bie and dj/producer Wout van Dessel, hit the charts in Europe a few years ago with their debut single Turn the Tide. As you might expect based [...]

Here’s a video that captures video doing a live remix of Earth Wind and Fire’s September:

Looks like this is from a NAMM session with M-Audio. Not a great set, but it gives you an idea of how he remixes in Live.

Electronica wunderkind BT has released a preview of is upcoming release, This Binary Universe.

It’s available as a download for iPods with video capability and also for web viewing:
The release will be a 2-Disc Set CD + DVD, with a standard stereo CD and the DVD playable in 5.1 or stereo. The DVD will feature widescreen [...]

Asura’s latest CD, Lost Eden, blends dance, trance, ambient and world music elements into a musical gumbo.
Asura is a French electronic group, made up of producer Charles Farewell, flutist Christopher Maze, and bassist/guitarist Alex Ackerman. There are echoes of artists like Peter Gabriel, Tangerine Dream and Banco de Gaia in Asura’s global groove style. The [...]

The first single from Paul Oakenfold’s latest CD A Lively Mind, Faster Kill Pussycat, featuring Brittany Murphy on vocals, is scorching hot. It puts Murphy’s sexy vocals on top of a great electro beat.
Unfortunately, the rest of the CD doesn’t come close to rising up to the level of the first track. Oakenfold brings in [...]

Madonna’s latest CD, Confessions on a Dance Floor, has been called a return to form by some. While nothing on the CD reaches the peaks of some of her best work, it’s good enough to be a guilty pleasure for electronic dance fans.
Madonna’s lyrics seem a little worn out on Confessions, rehashing ideas that were [...]