| ATFC Talks to Beat Magazine Before ATFC embarked on his recent mammoth tour of Asia, he hooked up with Bali-based Beat Magazine to discuss how he broke into his career as a DJ, his expecta... |
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| Defected Guide to Tokyo Despite being one of the most talked about cities on the planet, Tokyo remains a far-flung, never to be visited mystery to many Westerners. With relatively high... |
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| Paris Luanda Having spent a significant part of his year in Angola visiting some of the local musicians and absorbing the local ‘kuduro’ style of music productio... |
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| The Shapeshifters November Tour This November, chart-topping duo The Shapeshifters will be embarking on an epic tour, taking in 11 venues across 3 continents. Hitting China, Australia, Indone... |
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| ATFC - 2 Weeks in Asia Everyone's favourite Funki Chile reports on two epic weeks on tour in Asia, including all the big tunes, bigger nights and the hazards of letting 25 people... |
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| Coma Cat - Official Video Two scantily-clad ladies get up late, eat ice-cream and generally lark about in the official music video for the festival anthem of the summer. Coma ... |
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| Tokyo '11 - Rae Track Notes Ahead of the release of Defected In The House Tokyo '11, Rae talks us through all of the tracks featured on her mix, and gives us a little insight into why... |
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| 197 Second Skype with Osunlade We catch up with Osunlade for a quick chat via Skpye to discuss the forthcoming House Masters compilation. House Masters Osunlade is out 18th October -... |
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| Tonco Tone Never shy to stick the ends of their tongues firmly into the sides of their cheeks, the video to Chocolate Puma’s new single ‘Tonco Tone’ is t... |
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| Clubland Adventures Video The latest episode in the global clubbing TV series takes in the Defected Closing Party at Pacha and interviews with Pete Tong, Bob Sinclar & Rae. Plus we c... |
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| Defected In The House at ADE On Friday 22nd October, Junior Jack & Kid Crème, The Shapeshifters, Chocolate Puma, DJ Gregory , Copyright, Simon Dunmore, Studio Apartment, Ben West... |
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| Rae Interview Rae first exploded, Amazon-like onto the scene back in 2008, striking a white-hot ray of sunshine through the dismally monochrome summer everyone in the UK was ... |
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| Bargrooves Deluxe Ahead of the release of Bargrooves Deluxe we asked the Bargrooves selector Andy Daniell to highlight a few keys tracks off the album, to hopefully give you an i... |
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| House Masters: Osunlade - Track Notes Ahead of the release of House Masters: Osunlade, we asked the man himself to pick out 10 of his favourite tracks from the compilation and tell us a little more ... |
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| Size Matters Swedish House Mafioso Steve Angello will release a new mix compilation Size Matters next month. Spanning two discs, one with a mix from Angello, the other with... |
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| Miami to Ibiza / Take One The Swedish House Mafia continue their relentless assault on the senses with the full release of 'Miami to Ibiza', featuring the vocal talents of Tinie Tempah. ... |
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| Defected In The House @ Ministry of Sound Fresh from an absolutely phenomenal season in Ibiza, we’re bringing the best of the summer’s shows and packaging it up for our party at Ministry of ... |
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| My Destiny Daniel Bovie and Roy Rox have teamed up with fellow Dutch house head Ricky Rivaro on 'My Destiny' a prime-time slice of vocal house, direct from the &... |
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| Secret Party with Tensnake, Arthur Baker and Simon Dunmore What do you get if you combine Tensnake, Arthur Baker, Simon Dunmore, a guest list of well over 300 and a small room under a Japanese restaurant with a capacity... |
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| Tokyo In The House We can now announce that the next in the In The House series, taking in all the worldwide party destinations will be Tokyo, with Rae and Japan's own Studio... |
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| The Closing Party Report So all the best nights seem to have a degree of spontaneity to them and when the last minute decision was made to get to Mambo just in time for sunset we knew w... |
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| Osunlade - Deep House Priest Phrases like the ‘king of rock ‘n’ roll’ and ‘prince of pop’ have been bandied around by music hacks for decades now but whe... |
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| Play With Tensnake Not content with bringing you one of the year’s hottest mix compilations - courtesy of the irrepressible Tensnake - we’ve also just launched a littl... |
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| Treasure Fingers For the past few years, the DJ and producer born Ashley Jones has been making it rain in the disco with innovative remixes and original tracks. Jones is far fro... |
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| Bex's Blog: The Last Hurrah Oh no! It’s here! The time of the summer where everyone is walking round saying “this is my last time at (insert favourite beach/restaurant/club nig... |
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| Slave to the Rhythms Radio Slave is the articulate producer Matt Edwards, a former Londoner relocated to the epicentre of European cool, Berlin. You may have experienced his gracefu... |
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| Pacha Closing Party 2010 It’s been an incredible 16 weeks over on the White Isle, but now, as the season draws to a weary but triumphant close, it’s time for arguably the mo... |
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| Tokyo On The Rise The launch of Toyko club ‘eleven’ in February this year spoke volumes about the Japanese capital’s dance scene – forward-thinking music,... |
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| 11 Months in the Life of Tensnake The past few months have been pretty ridiculous in the career ascent of Tensnake, AKA Hamburg producer Marco Niemerski, currently the hottest property in dance ... |
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| Bex's Blog: Birthday Champers Hola! Well September is in full swing, the weather has cooled down and it is perfect partying climate! I ticked another ‘thing to do before the end of th... |
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| Tensnake Tracknotes It’s no exaggeration to say that we’re all childishly excited about working on the Tensnake In The House project. It’s always a pleasure when ... |
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| Last Call for Ibiza As the Ibiza season draw reluctantly to a close, we look back on some of the music that has soundtracked 2010. There has been a phenomenal wealth of good music ... |
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| No Grace Miss Divine has been gracing the decks of clubs in the UK, Europe and across the world for some years now and is without doubt one of the busiest DJs on the Def... |
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| Ibiza 2010: A Vintage Year It’s been a crazy few months over on the White Isle, but now that the season is finally drawing to a close, we can start to look back at some of the highl... |
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| Bex's Blog: Looking Back As the season is nearly over it’s time to put into perspective what has happened in the last 3 months, who I have met, what parties I have been to and wha... |
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| Give It Back Sergio Flores and Defected first bumped in the night way back in 2006 with Sergio's 'Need U Now'. It's a relationship that has been treasure... |
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| Tensnake on We Love...TV We Love... catch up with Tensnake as well as talking tools of the trade and craft secrets with James Holden, Ewan Pearson and Paul Mogg. Tensna... |
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| Simon Dunmore: Live at Club Answer, Seoul A short video of Simon Dunmore smashing the pants off one of Asia's best dance music venues; Seoul's Club Answer. Chris Lake & Marco Lys vs Copyright... |
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| Bex's Blog: Sunset Pizza Hola! This week I have mainly been grieving at the thought that I only have 1 month left on The Party Isle. Aside from that, I have been trying to decide wheth... |
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| The Closing Party Ibiza 2010 This year has an officially been the busiest Ibiza season for nearly a decade, with hotel occupancy close to 100% during peak season and more musical variety th... |
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