Klasse Recordings third release, “Heaven and Hell EP” from Luca Lozano, showcases the talents of label coowner and creative director. The EP's title hints at the Producer’s obsession with opposites, clarity and contrast. Heaven and Hell, life and death; cycles, patterns and parallels emerging as repeated themes within Luca's music. This EP will be out as vinyl edition first on 14th Dec 2010 and then as digital version only on 12th Jan 2011, in download platforms like Decks and Believe.

Thanks to one of the most productive German label: M_nus, we got an exclusive interview with the massive producer Troy Pierce. Growing up in the quiet farm town of Muncie, Indiana four hours drive from Chicago and Detroit, it was hard for Troy Pierce to ignore the rich sounds emanating from these House and Techno strongholds. He was among the first to pick up on DJs like Derrick Carter, Jeff Mills and Richie Hawtin and was always out and about at parties in Detroit, Ohio and across the Midwest. Here is a little introduction about the man we will interview today. This interview follows notably the one of Emerson Todd and Thomas Schumacher who also lived in Berlin.

For the launch of its latest smartphone, the Nokia N8, the Finnish firm has used YouTube. Through an interactive movie of 2 min, Nokia allows users, via a button "See More" to flip back and forth between the classical world and the HD one. This clip is based on a very good music "Pedrophilia" released in June 2008 by Daft Punk’s manager Pedro Winter on the label Because Music, Ed Banger Records. It is remixed by SebastiAn. You should also know that this principle of using a double player, was designed by the advertising agency JWT Paris. You can see the video clip in the following article.

I had never heard before of The Japanese Popstars band, until the discovery a few days ago of their video for their electro-rock track "Let Go". The clip that you can watch in the following article features the techno artist Green Velvet on vocals, best known for his techno anthem "La la land". This track has been created over an intensive 20 day period in September 2010 and has been published under Virgin Records. It follows their latest EP "Destroy EP".

From their critically acclaimed fourth studio album “More!”, that we reviewed some weeks ago, Booka Shade’s final release of 2010 is “Regenerate”. It comes with a remix package from the veritable who’s who on the hot remixer tip right now including Popof, Kris Menace, Pan-Pot and Lazersonic & Zak Frost. This fantastic EP has been released on November 23rd on Beatport and will be available as general and limited edition vinyl release on December 6th. As usual with the German duo, it will be released under Coop / Get Physical Music Records.

DJ Gina Turner and Laidback Luke musically unite Manhattan and Amsterdam with their 90's and Latin inspired production outfit, to create the duo Nouveau Yorican. They will release on 8th December on Beatport and then i-Tunes, their new track “Chiuso” on Defected Records, a label known for quality house and club anthems. This brand new track is causing all the fuss, like nothing that you have heard before. “Chiuso” is thrust to our attention with its Latin inspired shuffle tech house sound. This is a track that stands out by literally by New York blocks!

Florian Meindl is an Austrian DJ, producer and sound designer. In addition to numerous collaborations with international artists he is busy with producing remixes (currently for Röyksopp & Hot Chip) and has just successfully completed his BA studies at the London College of Music. He also writes articles about music production in magazines like “FutureMusic” and does music production shows for the “Berlin Mitte Institut”. Till now his productions have been released on famous labels such as Trapez, Stil vor Talent, Resopal, Herzblut and Kling Klong.