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Just like the Music Awards at the Winter Music Conference in Miami next month Beatport starts a nomination as well. Beginning at 18th March 2008, Beatport users will be given the opportunity to vote for the best electronic music artists of 2007 in the first ever Beatport Music Awards.

All of the electronic dance styles are covered in 19 categories including two multi-genre categories for Best Remix and Best Single. I’m looking really forward to see the results of these two categories because more than 15 genres are competing with each other.

My personal favourite categories are, Best Trance Artist and Best Progressive House Artist.

Here are the nominees for both categories:

Best Trance Artist:

Above & Beyond
Armin Van Buuren
Cosmic Gate
DJ Tiësto
John O’Callaghan
Markus Schulz
Rank 1
Sean Tyas
Stoneface & Terminal
Super8

(lol, I probably can’t vote for multiple artists :P)

Best Progressive House Artist:

Adam K
Austin Leeds
Beckers
Deadmau5
Dousk
Glenn Morrison
Jerome Isma-Ae
Soha
Thomas Gold
Yvan & Dan Daniel

(again, I have to favourite artists in this category!)

Anyway, be sure to make your votes at Beatport.com and may the best artists win!

Links: Beatport.com & Beatportal.com

As we all know Dutch dj’s are playing all over the world and I’m going to inform you all about where you can find our heroes behind the weels!

Armin van Buuren:

Thursday 06th March: Hipodromo del Sur, Guatemala
Friday 07th March: Asia Boulevard, Lima/Peru
Saturday 08th March: Sensation White in Santiago (info)

Ferry Corsten:

Friday 07th March: Chemical Music Festival, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Saturday 08th March: South American Music Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sunday 09th March: Yankee Bar, Curtiba, Brazil

Menno de Jong:

Saturday 08th March: XFM Energy, Klokgebouw Philips, Eindhoven, Holland
Sunday 09th March: Fur Nightclub, Washingto, USA

Marco v:

Friday 07th March: Moskou, Russian Federation
Saturday 08th March: XFM Energy, Klokgebouw Philips, Eindhoven, Holland

Jochen Miller:

Saturday 08th March: UW-XP, HappydayZZ Culemborg, Holland
Saturday 08th March: Xtra Ordinary, Markt 15 in Schagen, Holland
Sunday 09th March: Fresh Beatz, Zino in Tilburg, Holland

Cor Fijneman, Mark Norman, Progresson & Jonas Steur:
Friday 07th March: Black Hole Labelnight, Mondaybar in Stockholm, Sweden

Marcel Woods:
Saturday 08th March: XFM Energy, Klokgebouw Philips, Eindhoven, Holland

Armin van Buuren’s label Armada has a great website and they update their site every week multiple times. They release one or more new singles every week and all of those tracks are fully downloadable at their webstore. Most of the tracks are available on vinyl as well.

This weeks new releases by Armada music:

Armin van Buuren Feat. Susana - If You Should Go
Armind 1050

And:

TyDi - Kopi Susu
Electronic Elements 064

Click here for more information about these releases.

More news from Armada Music:

Single Of The Week

Glenn Morrison - Blue Skies With Linda / Rubberband
Pilot 004

Read the full article here…

New collaboration between State Recordings and Armada Music

After two years of collaboration between Simon & Shaker and Armada Music, the two parties have come to an agreement in regards to the future of State Recordings.

Read the full article here…

Markus Schulz rocking down under!

Markus has been rocking down under! He received rave reviews from the first leg of his tour in Brisbane and Perth! Check out some pictures and reviews from Brisbane here.

Read the full article here…

Click Here And Visit Radio 538 (Dutch Radio)

Hello party peepz! Thanks for visiting my blog again.. I have been very busy today collecting all podcasts of DJ Tiësto’s weekly Club Life radioshow on Dutch radiostation Radio 538. Most of the downloadlinks are links with Rapidshare because that’s the best uploadservice in my opinion online. I’m going to update my archive every week as soon as the new download links area available.

With some sets you can see one or multiple “mirror-links”. Those mirror links are just the same files but on different uploadsites (like megaupload.com). After downloading one file at Rapidshare you usually need to wait one or two hours before your allowed to download another file. With mirror-files you can download other files immediately

Anyway, I really hope you like DJ Tiësto’s sets and I’m going to do the same for other dutch deejays that do weekly or montly radioshows.

Have fun,

Adriaan

DJ Tiësto’s Club Life Download Archive:

Club Life Episode 001-005 (Former Club Nouveau)
Club Life Episode 006-010
Club Life Episode 011-015
Club Life Episode 016-020
Club Life Episode 021-025
Club Life Episode 026-030
Club Life Episode 031-035
Club Life Episode 036-040
Club Life Episode 041-045
Club Life Episode 046-048

Yeah, your getting this right, ALOT of Dutchies (including Dutch radio station 538) are nominated for the 23rd Annual International Dance Music Awards held at the Winter Music Conference 2008 in Miami.

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Nominations Armin van Buuren:

- Best European DJ
- Best Global DJ
- Best Radio Mix Show DJ (A State Of Trance)
- Best Full Length DJ Mix CD (ASOT 2007)
- Best Producer
- Best Global Dance Record Label(ARMADA MUSIC)

Nominations DJ Tiesto:

- Best European DJ
- Best Global DJ
- Best Full Length DJ Mix CD (ISOS 6)
- Best Producer
- Best Producer

Nominations Ferry Corsten:

- Best European DJ
- Best Global DJ

Nominations Sander van Doorn:

- Best Underground Dance Track (Riff)
- Best Break-Through Artist (solo)

Nominations Sander Kleinenberg:

- Best European DJ

Nominations Radio 538:

- Best Radio Station
- Best Podcast
- Best CD Compilation
(Radio 538 Dance Department 20 Future Classics Part 1)

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Yesterday I voted myself and I hope everyone of you will do the same and vote for those Dutchies of course

After a wicked set last week at Trance Energy, Marco V had to cancel his show in Syria after very serious death threats. Marco supposed to be the first international dj ever played in Damascus in Syria and his fans were really excited to see his gig.

A dutch website, musicfrom.nl, says that this was one of those messages people left him online on the guestbook of his website:

“Marco, we warn you not to come to Syria. We are seriously gonna hurt you. You will not see the light of day”

Apart from that message Marco received one or multiple threats by email and that made him decide not to go to Syria at all.

Here’s the statement from Marco & his management:

“Due to the aggressive and threatening tone of email and messages left for me both online and with my management, the show in which I was to perform as the 1st international DJ to play in Damascus in Syria has been cancelled.

After discussions with the promoter and authorities both in Holland and Syria, it was decided that it was too dangerous for me to go ahead with the gig.

Obviously we get all kinds of comments on the boards, mostly positive, some not so good, but never anything like the death threats we received this week. I am very upset that I won’t be able to make it; it would have been a first for me, and a first for Syria. At the end of the day we had to consider what’s happened and take what is sensible advice. Hopefully one day the situation in Syria will allow international DJs such as myself to come and play as we do in every other part of the world

Threats of any kind need to be considered carefully, and taking that into account cancelling was the only option we could take. It was going to be a historic gig for me as well as for Syria, to our
knowledge no international DJ has ever played there before.

I’d like to apologize once again for not being able to make this happen, and would like to thank all those involved for their co-operation and understanding.

Marco”

More information:

- Marco V’s guestbook

- Discussion on Trance.nu forum

- Marco’s Myspace

Hey all, my name is Adriaan and I wanna give you a warm welcome to my new blog about Dutch trance and Dutch trance only I’m going to keep you informed about nearly anything that’s happening in Dutch DJ-land and I can tell you, THATS ALOT! With famous dj’s like Armin van Buuren, DJ Tiësto and lot of other very talented dj’s & producers I can guarantee you will never get bored!

I will try to provide you all information about new (album) releases, remixes, tracklists of radioshows and live dj sets and even party-reports.

If you have any suggestions for my website, feel free to shoot me an email at info@dutchtrance.com.

Enjoy your stay here at DutchTrance.com!