21st Records Music Directory

Red Bull Thre3Style National Final
After a month of state qualifiers that rocked dance floors across the country, Red Bull Thre3Style is set to roll into Sydney for the National final at Home Nightclub on Friday 14th October. Crowned kings of the decks for their ability to get local crowds pumped, winners Butcher from Brisbane, Typhonic from Sydney, Flagrant from Melbourne, Ryley from Adelaide and Junior from Perth, all beat off seven other local DJs to snare the win and pocket a cool $1,000 in prize money. Next they will go head-to-head with three-time Australian DMC champion, DJ Perplex, who took out Red Bull Thre3Style last year and gained automatic entry to the national final for 2011. The winner of the coveted national title will not only pocket $2500 cash, but they will represent Australia in the Red Bull Thre3Style World Final in Vancouver, Canada in December.

Participants may know all of the DJ tricks and techniques in the book, but if they can’t get the dance floor pumping, they haven’t got a chance of winning!

For more information check out: www.redbull.com.au/thre3style

Hoxton Whores – Even More Than A Feeling (HW058 Whore House Recordings)

Artist: Hoxton Whores & Harrison
Title: Even More Than A Feeling
Cat. No. HW058
Label: Whore House Recordings
Release Date: NOW
A pure gem for the Dj’s record bag…as the Hoxton Whores team up with Harrison & go to town on re-working Boston “More Than a feeling”

The HW’s still show they are top of their game with this fantastic epic house track, set to stand hairs on end as it’s blasted from all speakers! The classic Boston original rock version is giving a modern day house workover and turned into a mighty thumping club anthem!

Please Enjoy

The Whore House Team

Tom Lown – Cloud Surfer
Warmth Records, BTU008

Tom Lown – Cloud Surfer – Warmth Records

Brooklyn’s Warmth returns with the summer soul from South London’s freshest house creator, Tom Lown. Off the back of his release on Lost My Dog Records that made the Juno Download Top 5 last year, Lown brings us Cloud Surfer: a beautiful trip across the atmosphere over a seductively deep groove.

Side Stepper is a slightly more twisted, back room affair, while A Night at Peg – which is included as a bonus track – pays tribute to the many musically-influential nights spent at formative London club night, Peg. On remix duty are Williamsburg’s Woohoo, who delivers a Hip Hop-influenced take on the dreamy atmospheric tones of Cloud Surfer; and NYC’s longtime Lower East Side resident, Gaby Dershin, who tears up the rulebook with his driving and evolving remix of Side Stepper.

http://soundcloud.com/kahua-music/sets/btu008

What People Are Saying

Agnes: Lovely release !

Brothers Vibe: Night At Peg is choice track

Robert Owens: great group of tracks

Deepchild (Trapez / Opossum Records): Plenty of goodness here

Roland Nights (Lost My Dog/Urban Torque): Excellent stuff from Tom, loving Side Stepper, thanks

Aruba (Elevation): A night at Peg is my fave. Deep and lush!

Benji Candelario: Good Tune!

Tommy Largo: nice deeper tracks. cloud surfer is my favourite

Evren Ulusoy (Loco, I Records, Kolour): nice and deep flow here.thanks!

Huxley: nice originals. cloud surfer is my favourite.

DJ Meri (ROTD Recordings): woohoo remix works for me thanks!

Bruno From Ibiza: cool stuff

Chris Udoh: Side Stepper is sweet!

Jesus Pablo: Cloudsurfer will be getting some heavy usage from me.

Francesco Tarantini: “Side Stepper” is a nice prime time roller..perfect for the early hours and for the sunset vibes. Will play for sure.

In Ibiza, Release Yourself shall have a brand new residency on monday in Space, voted as the world’s best club 2011 by DJ Mag. Summer 2011 will also see the “Release Yourself – Flashing Lights” tour for the first time with three dates at Cavo Paradiso in Mykonos, one date in Ministry Of Sound in London and one in the Wright Venue in Dublin.

CD one lures you on the dance floor for those first steps. All tracks real deep, funky yet sexy, whilst CD two kicks it up a notch with some smash tech and tribal monsters, Roger’s signature sound! For the headz, the S-Man treats his fans to a third CD with ten unmixed and all exclusive tracks.

Last but not least. This CD holds 29 tracks, of which a stunning 22 are exclusive to this compilation. Expect brand new material from: Roger Sanchez & Baggi Begovic ft. Mitch Crown, MYNC, René Amesz, Blacktron, Timo Garcia, Federico Scavo, Michael Anthony, Afroboogie, Oril & Da Ragnio, Kid Shakers, Dirty Secretz, French Government and many, many more. Keep your eyes peeled for more info!!

Early support by

Thomas Gold, Robbie Rivera, Markus Schulz, Prok & Fitch, Baggi Begovic, David Vendetta, and more!

Richard Dinsdale, Sam Obernik & Hook N Sling – Edge Of The Earth

This is one of the biggest tunes for Stealth this summer. This project has been initiated by rising star and number 1 Beatport selling artist Richard Dinsdale, one of the brightest and most maverick vocal stars in the world Sam Obernik and #1 DMC Buzz Chart remixer and hot producer property Hook N Sling. The original mix will take over the clubs by storm and has, without a doubt, serious commercial cross over potential. Expect phat kicks, Spanish guitars topped with the haunting voice of Sam Obernik. The vocal hook will stick in your heads for a long, long time. Top notch engineering by Mr. Dinsdale and Hook N Sling will leave you in shock and awe on the dance floor. Remixes coming up by Prok & Fitch, Richard Dinsdale and Tommy Trash!

Supported by: Kim Fai, Chus, Richard Dinsdale, Bad Boy Bill, Prok & Fitch, Mark Trophy, Russel Small, Robbie Rivera, Hector Romero, Peter Gelderblom, Stonebridge, Plastik Funk, K-Klass, Nico de Ceglia, Roog, Timo Garcia, BITB, Ace Love, John Jones, DJ Devious (538), Andy Warburton, DONS, Huggy, Soneec, Chris Kaeser, Nathan Lee, Danny Rampling, Abel Ramos, Slam!FM clubbing, Steve Aoki, Andrea Belli (105) and many, many others! Capital FM Weekend Player (16 July), Cool Cuts #10, Buzz Chart # 5 and the list goes on and on!

http://beta.beatport.com/release/edge-of-the-earth/394441

http://soundcloud.com/stealthrecords/richard-dinsdale-sam-obernik

Enhanced Recordings – 100 The Remixes Pt. 1 Out Now!

Part One of the four Remix EP’s that form part of the special 100th release on Enhanced Recordings is here, featuring the full length versions of stunning new remixes from Suncatcher, Daniel Kandi, Sequentia and Norin & Rad!

Having received numerous plays on the likes of Armin’s ASOT, Above & Beyond’s TATW and Ferry Corsten’s Countdown, these are four essential new remixes for your collection.

Download your copy HERE.

Configa – Calm Before The Storm

01. Calm Before The Storm Intro (ft. T.D. Francis)
02. Freestyle 1 (ft. B. Down)
03. Revolution (ft. Slept On Fam)
04. Come Over To My Place (ft. Grey Matter)*
05. I Want You (ft. John Graham)
06. Like That (ft. Tone Liv, Respect (Tha God) and Godilla)
07. Lie To Kick It (ft. Big Meridox)
08. The One (ft. Gramma Marksman)
09. Same Bullshit (ft. Nut Kaze)
10. We On Fire (ft. Jaz Kahina)
11. Suicide Kingdom (feat. Bishop and Sicarii)
12. Freestyle 2 (ft. Dom Zilla)
13. There Goes The Sunshine (ft. Corporal Asskick and Rockaway Jah)
14. Watch the Throne (ft. Jesal)
15. Freestyle 3 (ft. Cheeba)
16. Thousands To Calm Me (ft. T. D. Francis)
17. Back 2 Basics (ft. John Graham)
18. For The Love (ft. Mark Deez and Arsenal)
19. Rose On Ya Grave (ft. Sicarii)
20. Make It (ft. Fatale)

After getting into Hip-Hop around 1988, UK based Configa first saw his future in radio presenting his own show on a local unlicensed station, but ultimately the draw of the microphone proved too much and by the age of 16 he started writing rhymes under the pseudonym ‘M.C. Unique’. After releasing various mixtapes on the underground as well as getting involved in local freestyle battles ‘Unique’ decided to build upon his buzz and release his debut album ‘Baptizm Of Fire’ in 2000. Aside from mic duties, the album was also self-produced/mixed/manufactured and financed by himself and the album featured a collaboration with B. Down the CEO of LA based ‘Rap Junkie Records’ who then signed ‘Unique’ to his label in 2001. ‘M.C. Unique’ went on to feature on two releases on the LA label, ‘Independent Game 1′ (2001) and ‘Independent Game 2′ (2002) and then released his second album, ‘The King Of Linguistics’ in 2002. The album was mainly self produced and gained favourable reviews and including a mention on MTV.com alongside the ’8 Mile’ Soundtrack and Christina Aguilera upon its release date and was distributed in Europe and all across North America.

In 2003 ‘M.C Unique’ decided to take a back seat on mic duties and rebranded himself ‘Configa’ a new vibe where focused almost exclusively on production work . In 2004, Configa formed, along with Wargasms, Arsenal and C-Gully, the crew ‘Slept On Fam’ and went on to release the album ‘Audio Crack’ was released late 2006. The album received excellent reviews such as “What makes Configa so good?” Rapreviews.com, “Configa serves up the production crack for those audio canals” UKHH.com and Blues & Soul mentioning “Configa’s stirring production”. Slept On Fam then went on to win ‘Group of The Year’ in 2007 at the second annual ‘Get ‘Em Magazine’ music awards in Florida hosted by the legendary boxer Roy Jones Jr, beating such luminaries as recent Oscar winners Three 6 Mafia. After a lengthy music hiatus where Configa had a weekly on-line radio show while getting his PhD on a thesis about hip hop and ethnicity, Configa released a 2Pac remix album entitled “Configa Presents…Pac To The Essence Vol. 1″ in 2010 to mark the 14th year of 2Pac’s passing.

Configa then set up his own independent record label Configaration Records and began work on his solo album entitled “Inside The Echo Chamber” which will be entirely produced by Configa alongside a host of different MC’s guesting on the tracks. Notable confirmed guests so far include stateside legends Craig G, Chino XL, Nine and Kurtis Blow along with UK legend Scorzayzee and the album is due for release early 2012. In the meantime we have this brand new mixtape ‘Calm Before The Storm’ to keep us going! This is a twenty track collection of the underground’s finest MC’s spittin’ flamez over his boom-bap driven beats. There are artists from both the UK and the USA on here and the music speaks for itself and all of the beats are original Configa compositions. This release stands alone by itself, with its strength and depth and is the perfect prelude to the album “Inside The Echo Chamber”. Configa is about rhythmic “Golden Era Real Hip-Hop” with that unique head nodding instrumentation.

All tracks Produced, Arranged and Mixed by Configa for Configaration Productions*
*except for track 4: Co-Produced with Grey Matter

Purchase now.

http://configa.com/album/configa-presents-calm-before-the-storm-configaration-records

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/configa-presents-calm-before/id455985893

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Configa-Presents-Before-Storm-Explicit/dp/B005GO4AKQ/ref=dm_ap_alb2

Three tracks have been leaked all of which can be listened to in their entirety here:

http://soundcloud.com/configa/sets/configa-presents-calm-before/

Get the Best DJ Promotion – What to look for in an Online DJ Booking Agency

Things have really moved on in the DJ World. Records – and soon to be CDs – have been replaced by new technology, and the same can be said for DJ Hire. The old style traditional DJ Agency is being replaced by online DJ Booking Agencies who offer DJs online DJ Promotion, giving the DJ the ability to be found, when someone is looking to Book a DJ.

It’s now essential for a DJ of any level to find an Online Booking Agency who offers these DJ services. If you cannot be found when someone is looking to Book a DJ, you’re missing out on extra bookings. It’s not uncommon for top DJs to pay out lots extra on a PR Agent who deals with their DJ Promotion online, they pay for a PR Agent on top of their traditional DJ Booking agent, something which is very costly.

However, there are some real quality DJ Services out there who offer DJs excellent Online DJ Promotion and the possibility of DJ Hire worldwide. These DJ Agencies are the future, so don’t be stuck in the past looking for an old style DJ Agency who take 15% of your DJ Booking fee. It’s really not uncommon now for an Online DJ Agency to charge a small yearly subscription in replacement of the 15%, which works out a great deal for DJs as they keep all their Booking fees.

Be sure to research the DJ Agency beforehand, make sure they have good DJ testimonials and have been online for a few years. See how quick the DJ Agency respond to you, see if they run full time, see if they offer such things as free DJ Mix Hosting and DJing Gigs round the world.

Don’t be left behind, move with the times, Online DJ Promotion is essential, If you want DJ Bookings that is.

I’d recommend a few quality DJ Booking Agencies, who run full time, with great DJ Testimonials, and DJ Bookings worldwide:-

In no particular order:

http://www.djagencies.com
http://www.uk-djs.net
http://www.us-djs.net
http://www.global-djs.net
http://www.mix-djs.net
http://www.urban-djs.net
http://www.euro-djs.net
http://www.mobile-djs.net

Best of luck with your quest for online DJ Bookings and finding a Booking Agency or DJ Agent.

Words by

Electronic Society.

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40DUBst – Welcome To Dartford (Music Video)

Purchase the MP3 single from iTunes now.

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/welcome-to-dartford-single/id444449884?ign-mpt=uo%3D4

For those of you in the know you might have already seen 40DUBst’s amazing debut video ‘Welcome To Dartford’. It has already been aired on the UK’s leading urban TV Station Channel AKA as well as getting a major thumbs up from Grime Daily and other leading music tastemakers.

We live in a world where people follow fashion. It’s true. something works and everybody jumps on it, but not 40DUBst. These Dartford lads are doing it a little bit different and with bags of originality and uniqueness. There is no doubting that this three man act is destined for absolutely massive things.

The video for the 40DUBst debut single ‘Welcome To Dartford’ was shot on location in where? Yes folks you’ve guessed it… Dartford, well mainly Temple Hill Square to be exact, which is where 40DUBst originate from. The video was shot, directed and edited by top music video producer ‘Chas Appeti’, who brought the boy’s personalities out in this Jeremy Kyle style video.

There’s so much more to come from 40DUBst so be on the lookout for more quality music real soon!!!

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO INTERVIEW 40DUB ST PLEASE GET IN TOUCH NOW!!!

40DUBst on Channel AKA

http://www.channelaka.tv/Video/6648/1/WELCOMETODARTFORD40DUBST

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