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Skrufff Bites Reported by News Editor / Submitted 19-03-14 17:20 “Kids who were wearing Avicii shirts are now wearing Disclosure shirts. They now recognize that they were living in the outskirts of the genre. The pop side of it.” (DJ Broadcast: http://bit.ly/1ivsIk4) Former Minus PR/ Marketing person turned General Manager of Atlantic Record’s spin off dance music label Big Beat Liz Miller confirms that EDM fans are broadening their tastes. "EDM all sounds the same to me. But with techno – minimal techno, or heavy techno, or neo-progressive techno – fuck, it’s all techno! You know what I mean? It’s got a kick every 4/4, so everything in that realm I’m cool with. I was just trying something different." (inthemix.com: http://bit.ly/1iJUJca As EDM superstar Deadmau5 talks up his new Richie Hawtin backed ‘techno’ alter ago ‘testpilot’ (click here for a snippet: http://bit.ly/1ilNUL5) -=- “EDM superstars Avicii, Armin Van Buuren and Kaskade are among the electronic dance music luminaries that have lent their formidable skills to these timeless favorites.” (Press release) As Disney announce their new series of EDM remixes of classic tunes including the theme tunes to The Muppet Show, Sleeping Beauty, Dumbo, ‘as well as music inspired by the original Mickey Mouse cartoons’. -=- “The marketplace has shown us that humans are just as much wandering sheep in need of herding online as they are offline. In fact digital music services have actually intensified the Superstar concentration, not lessened it. The top 1% account for 75% of CD revenues but 79% of subscription revenue.” (Synthopia.com: http://bit.ly/OqmRD6) A new report on the music business ‘the death of the long tail- the superstar Music Economy’ says the Long Tail is a nowadays effectively a myth. -=- " I could open Sankeys in a toilet and it would be a good party". (DannyKayIbizablog: http://bit.ly/1kr11dZ) Sankeys club promoter David Vincent is characteristically confident about his upcoming season in Ibiza (despite Solomun leaving to go solo at Pacha). -=- “Some crimes are so bad they require a really long period of punishment, and a lot of people seem to get out of that punishment by dying”. (Daily Mail/ Aeon magazine. http://dailym.ai/1ilMh02) Brain surgeon Rebecca Roache says new drugs that make time seem to pass more slowly mean prisoners could soon face serving simulated 1000 year jail terms in ‘artificial hells’. Jonty Skrufff : https://twitter.com/djjontyskrufff Jonty Skrufff and Fidelity Kastrow present Germany Calling Tunes you can believe in Please click ‘Share’ if you found this story interesting Share this :: : : : Follow HarderFaster ::

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