House Music Production Software

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For those of you who are seeking information on the best method to produce house tracks, then the first move is to download the best production software.

Those high-ranking DJs such as Roger Sanchez and Armand Van Helden, all use what really is, some very basic software to create their music.

Digital Audio Workstations:

DAW’s, as they are affectionately referred to in the industry, are any such breed of programs that allow the sequencing of music within software on a computer. These sequencers can range from a few dollars to thousands of dollars, depending on whether you need live instruments or not (guitars and vocals etc) and if you are running hardware such as a drum machine or keyboard.

With this in mind, some of the biggest house hits ever to have been released, were made only with the software and computer, with no expensive hardware components at all.

Unless you already know, you will be blown away by how powerful some of these desktop-based applications can be.

Today, we are going to provide an overview of the top two downloadable programs, that you can start using immediately to make your own house (and similar genres) music.

We tested both these programs and learned the following:

#1 Choice – Dubturbo

This program is extremely popular among urban genre producers, though the awesome range of sounds and instruments makes this software perfect for making house music.

Use your keyboard as a drum machine to play your beats by hand, or edit the sequencer with your mouse.

We found the interface extremely easy to use and with wide range of sounds easily accessible, ready to apply to your session.

When your new, original track is completed, you easily export it to a high quality .wav or .mp3, burn it to disc and start pumping it out in your live DJ sets.

Great Features:

• Download it Immediately

• Very Easy to Use

• Great Training Videos

• Made for PC and Mac

• Amazing Rang of Sounds

• Export High Quality tracks

• No Hardware Needed

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#2 Choice – Cyber Sequencer

The “Cy-Seq” was originally designed for house and other dance genres, rendering it another very popular choice.

The only reason why this was placed second in our choices, was that we found the support and training videos for Dubturbo to be a litle easier to digest.

Still it appears very similar to the first program and does have all the same features. It was argued that the range of sounds for Dubturbo were slightly better, though the samples were more Urban based.

However, this is of no consequence because both apps allow you to import your own samples.

Highlights include:

• Instant Download Access

• User-friendly Interface

• No compatibility issues

• Wide Range of Samples

• Easy Export feature

Check out the Cyber Sequencer

So we hope this sheds some light on the best methods to get started producing your own original music. When you have mastered one of these programs, perhaps you can then spend thousands building a studio to add your own vocals and instruments.

Bear in mind that even if you choose to upgrade to one of the more difficult and high priced systems, you can still import all your tracks made on these programs to advance them further if need be.

Armin Almighty

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Armin van Buuren is a music producer and DJ from Netherlands. He is also well known for remixing and playing electro house music. He is a master of Trance music and he is also known for playing house music. He has been playing Vocal, Progressive and Uplifting Trance music as well as producing them.

He was named the top DJ in 2007 by Mixmag. Gig, Rising Star, Problem Boy, Hyperdrive Inc and Misteri A are the few names by which he is known in the music industry to his fans.

He got directly into the Dutch album chart for his album ‘Imagine’ at the top position which is a record in Dutch music history. Armin is a law graduate and he is married to Erika.

He was declared ‘The Best Trance Artist’ from 2008 to 2010 at the Beatport Music Awards. He has a radio show which is broadcasted all over the globe since 2001 and approximately 30 million people throughout the globe listen to the show. The name of the radio show is ‘A State of Trance’.

Armin was chosen as the top DJ for five years in a row from 2007 to 2011 by DJ Magazine and he is the only DJ who has got the top spot for five years and that too in a row. Armin has been successful with all music labels. At the age of 19 he got success for ‘Blue Fear’ with Cyber Records.

Armin started out making music when he was only 14 years of age. At a club known as Nexus he started his DJ career while doing his graduation. He always wanted to work as an electronic music composer because he was fond of French composer Jean Michael whom he met in 2009 when Armin was No.1 DJ.

Armin’s ‘Euro Trance blueprint’ was on the UK chart. ‘Communication’ helped Armin to rock Ibiza. In UK and US, Dave Davis helped Armin to get recognization as a DJ and after that he became well known and he was immediately ranked in the Top 100 DJ list by DJ Magazine at no.27.

Without taking a break Armin can play sets for many hours and this he has been doing for many years. Continuously for Seven hours Armin used to play a set at Nexus. He has taken part in many musical extravaganza all over the globe.

He has played a set for 12 and ½ hours continuously at the Dancetheater in Netherland and it is a record. Armin is famous among clubbers and he has been performing frequently at Passion, Golden, Slinky, Gatecrasher, Ministry of Sound and Godskitchen. He is know to be good friends with fellow Dutch DJ, Tiesto.

Armind is a music label started by Armin with United Recordings. With Ministry of Sound he started a label called Rising Star. Gig -‘One’ and ‘Touch me’ were released through Armind and Rising Star respectively.

ID&T which is a radio station was started by Armin in 2001. 76 was the 1^st studio album of Armin and it came out in 2003. ‘Imagine’ and ‘Together As One’ are the two albums on which he got a chance to work with his guitarist brother.

Pumping House Music From David Guetta

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David Guetta is known for producing house music and also for his awesome DJ skills. He is extremely talented and he can sing as well as write songs. He has incredible music skills in hip house, electro house and house genre. Astralwerks, Virgin/EMI Music France and Positiva are some of the record labels he has been working.

At a very young age he started his DJ career from a club in Paris. ‘Nation Rap’ a hip-hop collection was released by him with a French rap artist.

‘Up & Away’ was a semi-hit and it was his second single which came out in 1994. ‘Le Palace’ is a nightclub which David used to manage and he used to always organize parties at this club and also at other places.

In 2001 David released his first ever album called ‘Just a Little More’. He is married and has two children. In 2004 he came out with his second album called as ‘Guetta Blaster’.

Achievements

In the ‘Best House DJ’ category David Guetta got a nomination for DJ Award in the year 2006.

In 2007 David  released his 3rd album called ‘Pop Life’ and in the same year he won DJ Award for ‘Best International DJ’ and ‘Best Ibiza Night’. At World Music award in 2007 he won the ‘World’s Best Selling DJ’ category. At TMF Award in 2007 he got a nomination in the “Best Dance Act” category.

For “Best House DJ” category David won DJ Award in 2008 and in the same year he was nominated for ‘Best French Act’ category at the MTV Europe Music Award.

‘One Love’ in 2009 was his 4th album and in the same year DJ magazine placed him 3rd in their Top 100 DJ list. For “Best House DJ” category David was nominated for DJ Award in 2009.

The album ‘One Love’ which was released in 2009 had three hit singles “Gettin’ over you”, “Sexy Bitch” and “When Love takes over”. In UK all these three singles were at no.1 position while in US ‘Sexy Bitch’ was in Top five. All across the globe another single “Memories” was in the Top five of all music charts.

In 2010 David came out again with his 4th album ‘One Love’ but with a different name called as ‘One more Love’. For “Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical” he won Grammy award in 2010. He won in ‘Best Producer’, ‘Best DJ’ and ‘Best Selling French artist’ category at the World Music Award. In the ‘International Album of the Year’ category he won NRJ Music Award.

He was nominated in 2010 for the Grammy Award in 3 different categories which were ’Best Electronic/Dance Album‘,‘Record of the Year’ and ‘Best Dance Recording‘. He was second in the list of Top 100 DJ released by DJ magazine in 2010.
His 5th album is going to come out somewhere in 2011. He has already won Grammy Award in 2011 for “Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical”.

David Guetta has sold more than three million albums and 15 million singles globally. He worked with many pop and hip-hop artists like Jennifer Lopez, Greyson Chance, Nicki Minaj, Flo Rida, Chris Willis, Fergie, Akon, Taio Cruz, will.i.am, Madonna and many more.

For more info, check out his official website at:  http://www.davidguetta.com

Tiesto – The Dutch Marvel

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Tijs Michiel Verwest is also known as Tiesto. He is a famous record producer, DJ and musician. Tiesto is also known by many other names such as Allure, Da Joker, Steve Forte Rio, Stray Dog, Roze, Wild Bunch, Paradise’ in Dubs, Tom Ace, Passenger, Drumfire and Handover Circuit.

Tiesto hails from Netherlands. He plays outstanding progressive trance, electro house, house, electronic dance, and trance music. At a very young age he became a DJ. He started out with parties in school and after that he has been a DJ in many clubs all across Netherlands.

Big Labels:

Tiesto has worked with many music labels, such as:

• Lightning
• Ultra Records
• Basic Beat
• Black Hole
• Musical Freedom
• XSV Music
• Noculan

Tiesto has released 6 studio albums. The first album is “In my Memory” released in 2001. The second and third albums are “Parade of the Atheletes” and “Just Be” released in 2004. The fourth album is “Elements of Life” in 2007. His Fifth album is “Kaleidoscope” released in 2009 and the Sixth album is “Club Life: Volume One Las Vegas” released in 2011.

Tiesto has toured many countries with his genre of music. ‘Area2Tour’ in 2002 was his 1^st tour. ‘Just Be: Train Tour’ was his 2^nd tour in 2004. ‘Tiesto in Concert: North America Tour 2005’ was his 3^rd tour while ‘Central Eastern European Tour 2005’ was his 4^th music tour.

‘In Search of Sunrise 5 Asia Tour’ was in 2006. ‘Elements of Life World Tour’ was in 2007 and 2008. He was also in ‘In Search of Sunrise: Summer Tour 2008’. ‘Kaleidoscope World Tour’ was in 2009 and 2010. Summerbreeze was his 1^st DJ Mix album in United States.

Personal Life:

He has dated Stacey and Monique. Tiesto had to break his engagement with Stacey because he had no time to get married due to heavy workload.

In 2006 Dance4Life foundation selected Tiesto as a global ambassador for promoting AIDS/HIV awareness. He used to record music tracks for the foundation which helped in raising funds.

He made an awesome song “Dance4Life” for Dance4Life foundation and this song became a worldwide hit. This song was on the music charts in every country. In UK and Germany this song had become a craze. In the music chart of Belgium this song was at number five while in Finland it was at sixth position. It was there at number three position for five weeks and in the Top ten for eleven weeks on the Dutch music chart.

He collaborated with well known fashion guru Giorgio Armani for making limited edition Tiesto T-shirt and they were also sold at Armani Exchange stores. With his single “Sweet Things” the limited edition T-shirts were distributed with “A|X Remix”.

He successfully performed solo in front of large crowd without any support and his performance was appreciated by the crowd who went crazy. His performance was awesome because he performed non-stop solo sets for 6 hours. During ‘Tiesto in Concert’ he again performed solo in front of Twenty five thousand music fans in a packed stadium and he became very famous after this incredible performance.

Check out this video: “Tiesto – Maximal Crazy”

Carl Cox – Timeless Mega DJ

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Carl Cox is from UK and he is a famous DJ, a master of making house music. General techno music is his forte and he also plays house genre. He started his career as a DJ in 1985. He is known for playing 3 turntables at a time at the 2^nd Summer of Love in 1998 and from then on he is also called as ‘3 deck wizard’.

Intec and 23rd Century Records belong to Carl Cox. The Hacienda, The Eclipse, Shelly’s, Stern’s Nightclub and Heaven are the clubs in which he has played his brand of music with distinction

He made his first album with Worldwide Ultimatum Records and Edel UK Records and it was called as ‘At The End Of The Cliche’. His second album came in the year 1999 and it was called as ‘Phuture 2000’. ‘Second Sign’ was his third album which came in 2005.

Perfecto Records helped Carl to release his first three singles. His first single ‘I Want You’ was on the UK music chart at no.23 and it was released in 1991. ‘Does It Feel Good To You’ was his 2^nd single which was released in 1992 and it got entry in the UK music chart at no. 35. ‘The Planet of Love’ was his 3^rd single which was released in 1993 and it got entry at the 44^th position on the music chart in UK.

Two Paintings and a Drum in 1995 and The Latin Theme in 1998 are the 2 singles released by Carl through Edel UK Records and both these singles got into the UK music chart at no. 24 and 52 respectively. He got ‘DJ of the Year’ award in 1995 and 1996.

‘The Player’ and ‘Phuture 2000’ are the two singles made by him in 1996 and 1998 with the help of ‘Worldwide Ultimatum Records’ and they both got into the music chart in UK at no. 25 and 40 respectively. Muzik Magazine readers have voted Carl ‘The DJ of the Year’.

Carl has 3 singles to his name through Worldwide Ultimatum Records and Edel UK Records. In 1996 it was ‘Tribal Jedi’ while in 1999 it was ‘Dr. Funk’ and ‘The Latin Theme’. In Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany he has been bestowed with the crown of ‘DJ of the Year’.

He made two singles with ‘Trust the DJ’ in 2002 and 2003 which are titled as ‘Club Traxx Vol.1’ and ‘Club Traxx Vol.2’. He released a single ‘Dirty Bass’ in the year 2003 with ‘23rd Century Records’.

In the later part of 1990s he used to manage ‘Ultimate Base’. Even on BBC Radio 1 he has played music for several years. DJ magazine voted him the best DJ in the year 1997. Carl has featured on the cover of many music magazines.

He is a genius and there are many people who follow his music. He has gone to many countries for playing his music but he is more popular in UK and other parts of Europe.

In countries like Israel, Japan, South Africa and Australia he has captured the hearts of music fans. In Berlin Carl performed in front of 82,000 fans. He is often seen in clubs like Cream, Ministry of Sound, Lakota and Slam.

Oh How Times Have Changed

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Depicts a 1960's Nightclub

Nightclubs have seen radical changes over the years. It was first started more then 110 years ago in America and Europe by some rich people but back then it was not known as nightclub. For rich and famous clubs were the only source of enjoyment and they loved partying but in those days there were some etiquettes which they used to follow especially in countries like UK.

As years went by many clubs were created mainly by rich people to party with their family and friends. Such clubs were like business contact point for these rich people. Gradually clubs have seen many changes and now there are many of them all across the globe and they predominantly function only at night hence they are called as nightclubs.

All around the world nightclubs have become a big rage and it has become a multi-trillion dollar industry. Due to huge demand nightclubs have become overcrowded and this has led to illegal activities like selling of drugs.

Most party animals visit nightclubs on daily basis and they like to chill out with drugs. Most luxury hotels have nightclubs where their guests as well as locals enjoy the party and the music. Most luxury hotels have DJ nights in their nightclubs and such parties are most enthralling.

Many celebrities visit nightclubs and enjoy their night with music, alcohol and drugs. Many celebrities have been found taking drugs during their night-outs in various nightclubs.

Generally nightclubs allow everyone but some of them have certain rules like membership or people only with exclusive passes are allowed inside the club. To avoid brawls some nightclubs only entertain couples.

Nightclubs also allow teenage boys and girls who enjoy the night thoroughly. Some nightclubs also have gambling section where people enjoy casino and various other gambling activities.

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Many people visit nightclubs to get rid of work stress. Nightclubs have also become source of flesh trade in many countries where rich and famous men pick young girls to satisfy their sexual needs.

Not just men rich women also go with young men through these nightclubs. Nightclubs have become a social networking circuit for people of all age group. Many people start dating through nightclubs.

Celebrities are usually seen in exclusive nightclubs where people are invited through special passes, such nightclubs are only meant for celebrities and here media is also invited to cover the event. In such nightclubs the music is played by well known artists and everyone rocks on the beats played by the DJ’s, who really know how to make house music.

In nightclubs you will get all kinds of colorful characters who are ready to mingle with everyone. A DJ plays all kinds of music from rap to reggae, everything which ignites the dance floor is blasted by the DJ’s so that the people can enjoy.

All in all, nightclubs have seen some drastic changes as far as crowd is concerned because music, dance, alcohol, casinos and drugs have been part of nightclub history for too long.

Modern nightclubs have seen rise of DJ culture and it has also rocked the music industry in some way because club music is appreciated by many people. Remixing trend got started due to DJ’s in nightclubs.