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Dance News.
This Week Apple announced that in just two days iTunes customers have subscribed to more than one million Podcasts from the new iTunes Podcast Directory. Podcasts are little snippets of radio shows, and this seems to indicate that the more traditional broadcasters finally being seen as the stumbling behemoths they are. Hopefully this will signal a change in the direction of radio stations, and an opening up of the draconian Internet broadcast laws which have resulted in hundreds of streamcasts being shut down due to sheer expense. Unfortunately there's no iTunes store in Australia still, so Apple can't get too cocky about being local leaders in the field.
Add two parts hip-hop to one part soul, add a twist of dancehall
and you are well on the way to discovering the sound of Diafrix.
As one of Melbourne's freshest hip-hop acts, Diafrix have been
building a solid live reputation over the past 2 years, with
gigs at St Kilda Festival in 2005 and regulars at First Floor
in Fitzroy, these guys know how to rock a party right. Diafrix
launch their debut CD-EP 'First Sample' at Rhino Room on Fri
15 July.
Winner of Best Remixer, Best Track and Runner up in the Best
Producer category at this year's 'Hard Dance Awards', Gaz West
(aka Dark By Design) has quickly emerged as one of the UK's
most talked about and in demand talents on the scene. His sets
are a fusion of European and UK Hard Trance and Hard Dance,
often continuing for hours at a time, so his upcoming performance
at Heaven's Chemistry on Thurs 21 July will definitely be one
not to miss.
On Sat 22 July 2005 Revolution returns to Earth for another
banging show. It's no joke: Banga Matt, head honcho of UK hard
dance labels Arktik records and Sketcha Trax joins the Revolution
team with a record box packed to the brim with the latest upfront
tunes straight from the studio, alongside Weaver, known as Australia's
top Hardcore DJ, with support from locals Odyssey Vs Renegade
and Submission Vs Quantum in an old school hoover showdown,
Mr S Vs Bongo, Hex, H-bomb, Torque, JamesM and Octane, plus
MCs Quantum and Mif.
Speaking of hard NRG, Adelaide's premier NRG label Volatile NRG is now selling its first vinyl release through the Rave Adelaide website. The 12" features Narc's Insaneo on side A and Matt Knowles' The Settlement with The Claw by Matt Rains on the flip. Visit www.raveadelaide.net and follow the links.
Luke Solomon returns to Adelaide to play Sugar on Wed 20 July.
Perhaps best known for setting up the seminal house label Classic
Recordings alongside Derrick Carter, Solmon will be showcasing
his recent electro, house and acid explorations. Forget the
winter: Solomon, Jorge Watts and Jack Owens will make the dancefloor
sizzle!
It's been four years since Fabric Promotions opened its doors to Adelaide, and to help celebrate they're bring back their favourite interstate DJ Chris Meehan. What's more, DJ Andee is coming out of retirement for the show and regulars Mal Chia, Brendon, Lachlan Pender and Steve Culgan are sure to bring the goods to you. This all goes down Fri 22 July at Garage.
And finally, vale Luther Vandross. The soulful crooner died
at the age of 54 on Fri 1 July, two years after suffering a
major stroke. An r'n'b pioneer in the 80s, he sold 30 million
albums and won dozens of awards., including a Grammy in 2004
for his final album 'Dance With My Father'. Rest well, big guy.
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