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CD1
01. Darell, Dave feat. Hardy Hard - Silver Surfer (Club Radio Edit)
02. Mind, Michael - Baker Street - Vocal Edit)
03. R.I.O. - When The Sun Comes Down (Spencer Hill Radio Edit)
04. GampG - Personal Jesus (Club Mix Cut)
05. Wamdue Project - King Of My Castle 2009
06. David, Craig - Insomnia (Haji and Emmanuel Remix)
07. Rosenstolz - Wie Weit Ist Vorbei (Kurd Maverick Remix)
08. Mia. - Mausen (Oliver Koletzki Remix Short Edit)
09. Spears, Britney - Womanizer (Benny Radio Edit)
10. Sunrider - The Bomb (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind) (Electro Radio Edit)
11. Remady PampR - No Superstar - Mr. P!nk (Remix Edit)
12. Darius Finlay - Do It All Night (Michael Mind Remix Edit)
13. DJ Antoine - December (Radio Mix)
14. Jackson, Josh - Givin The World To You (Alternative Edit)
15. De Laat, Dennis - Every Breath (Radio Edit)
16. Gardeweg, Markus feat. Michael Feiner - Fairplay (Let There Be Love) (Radio Edit)
17. MGMT - Kids (Soulwax Mix)
18. Elan, Jean - Shake Me (Radio Edit)
19. Danny S - You Keep Me Hanging On 2K9 (Klaas Radio Mix)
20. Klaas - Make You Feel (Klaas Stomp Edit)
21. Pink - Sober - Bimbo Jones (Radio Edit)

CD2
01. Basshunter - I Miss You (Radio Edit)
02. Alex C. feat. Yass - Liebe zu dritt (Single Version)
03. Dance Nation vs. Shaun Baker - Sunshine 2009 (Radio Version)
04. Wayne, Jan vs. RainDropz! / Sandberg, Kristian Martin - Numb (Handz Up Edit)
05. Baracuda - Where Is The Love (Radio Version)
06. Novaspace - Dancing Into Danger (Radio Edit)
07. Paffendorf - Self Control (Club Edit)
08. Spencer, A. DJ Gollum - In The Shadows (DJ Gollum Edit)
09. Master Blaster - Everywhere (Radio Mix)
10. Dream Dance Alliance (D.D. Alliance) - When I Listen To Music (Edit)
11. Topmodelz pres. Secondtunez - Summer (Edit)
12. Bootleggerz - Worlds Collide (Dream Dance Alliance Remix Edit)
13. DJ Fait - I Can’t Stop Raving (Radio Edit)
14. Megane, Alex / Nickel, Josefine - Hurricane 2009 (Radio Edit)
15. Nolita - Coldest Heaven (Edit)
16. Empyre One - Dangerous (Original Edit)
17. Tube Tonic DJ Shandar - Take Control (Dream Dance Alliance Remix Edit)
18. Punk Freakz - Heartbeat (Radio)
19. Comiccon - The Darkside (Mikado Punchers Radio Edit)
20. Wippenberg - Chakalaka (Edit)
21. Akustikrausch - Diskoschlampe (Original Radio Mix)

CD3 Mixed by Marco Petralia
01. Doe John feat. Gray - Frequency (Raul Rincon Remix)
02. Turner, Ike Tina vs Gauzz - Raise Your Hands (Milk Sugar Remix)
03. Petralia, Marco - Breaking The Rules (Must Be A Reason Instrumental)
04. The Migrants - I Thought That (Boris Dlugosch Vocal Mix)
05. Yvan Dan Daniel - Enjoy The Silence (Jerome Isma-Ae Remix)
06. Josh, Guru Project - Infinity 2008 (Klaas Vocal Edit)
07. Petralia, Marco - Come Back (Erick Decks Marco Petralia Vocal Edit)
08. Yvan Dan Daniel - In Heaven (Marcus S. Marco Petralia Remix)
09. Amiel - Be Your Girl (Micha Moor Remix)
10. Petralia, Marco feat. Jimmie Wilson / Wilson, Jimmie - Getting Deep (Baggi Begovic Remix)
11. Signor Dito Molisans Brothers - Asi Baba
12. Nova Sono Soul, Donna J. vs.Terri B! - Keep On Pushing (Marco Petralia Club Edit)
13. Fairmont - Gazebo (Anthony Rother Remix)
14. Isma-Ae, Jerome - Phantom (JCA Remix)
15. Lutz, Sebastian - White Eyes
16. A+B - Horizon (Bee-Low Remix)

Matt and Brad Shultz, the brothers behind this Kentucky-bred garage-punk quintet, grew up in cramped confines with a pious dad who didn't like secular music — a good recipe for acting out later. Despite callow lyrics and what sounds like an unfortunate Nineties rock-rap influence — "In One Ear" sports G. Love and Special Sauce-style rhyming — Cage the Elephant make a fine mess on their debut: Singer Matt Shultz, a vocal dead ringer for the Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner, conjures...

If you want to make the big money in the music business, one of the ways to do it is to invent something that catches on. The "invention" doesn't have to be something brand new...it can be an offshoot of or an improvement on something which already exists.

Think about creating a style of music (or specific song) which is associated with a type of dance. Even better is having somebody develop a dance, just for your song. The easier the better... Go to a wedding and you'll see what I mean.

People like songs like Macarena, YMCA, Electric Slide, Cha Cha Slide, etc.  Why?  Because people love to dance. Unfortunately, it's not that easy for most. Dancing in front of people in a bigger fear than public speaking.

If you want to make really big money, what you develop has to be easy and something which everybody can do...of at least thinks they can do.  Again, think Macarena, YMCA, Electric Slide, Cha Cha Slide, etc.

There are hundreds of ways to use this concept to make money. The video below is of a dance based in Memphis, which has helped to get some great publicity for the entire city.  Although not something your grandmother or frat boys will be able to take on, it works, because it's very interesting to watch.

This isn't the first time something like this has come from Memphis. Rufus Thomas had a number of hits in the late 1960s and early 1970s, notably a string of songs that were tied to a then-current dance craze: "Do the Funky Chicken," "(Do the) Push and Pull," "The Breakdown," and "Do the Funky Penguin." In 1972, at his Wattstax performance, he lead a crowd of 40,000 in the "Funky Chicken." If you want your song to really take off, the dance associated with it has to be that easy.

Every scene, band, and genre of music has the opportunity to do this. Are you doing anything specific in your area or with your music which is similar? Post comments below...

Track List:
01. There Goes My Baby
02. (If You Cry) True Love, True Love
03. Dance with Me
04. This Magic Moment
05. Save the Last Dance for Me
06. I Count the Tears
07. Some Kind of Wonderful
08. Up on the Roof
09. On Broadway
10. Under the Boardwalk
11. I’ve Got Sand in My Shoes
12. Saturday Night at the Movies

As the music industry continues its inevitable trudge towards a largely DRM-free future, there’s likely to be plenty of hat-eating and humble-pie feasting from execs, blogged joyously yet scornfully by the geek press.

Latest on the rack is Sony boss Howard Stringer, who has admitted “if we had gone with open technology from the start, I think we probably would have beaten Apple”. He’s referring to Apple’s success in making the iPod to digital music what the Walkman was to the cassette tape.
Sony spent years forcing users of its digital music devices to contend with the closed, proprietary ATRAC format as opposed to the more popular MP3 format that the iPod has always supported. “We can no longer say that we’re right and our customers are wrong”, says Stringer. “We can”t only build what we want to build.”

And that’s a good thing, because some of what Sony previously wanted to build - particularly the now-defunct Connect store and its compatible software - was so dire that Steve Jobs might wince into his turtleneck.

On the sequel to his critically beloved 2007 debut, Swedish producer Axel Willner arranges unrecognizable samples into elegant dance music that's fit to be played at a velvet-rope club located inside a cloud. Willner's skills are apparent on "Leave It," where ghostly atmospherics combine with a cold-steel pulse for a groove both hypnotic and lighter than air. But after a few listens, the charm of many of Willner's soundscapes fades: They provide a certain Vicodin-buzz pleasure — and then...

A retrial may be on the cards in the infamous Jammie Thomas filesharing case as the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) failed to reach a settlement with Thomas’’s lawyer Brian Toder.

“What they wanted to do, my client did not want to do” said Toder. Normally in filesharing settlements the RIAA or major label members demand that alleged filesharers make a promise of confidentiality so as not to share their experiences with the general public.

Of course, it is likely that Jammie Thomas, a Native American single mother of two and the first person in the US convicted of criminal copyright infringement for filesharing, has quite a story to tell.

In the absence of a settlement the RIAA is likely to go back to court. Although Thomas was originally found guilty and fined USD $222,000, Judge Michael Davis was forced to declare a mistrial some months later on the basis that he had falsely instructed the jury that it is illegal to make available copyrighted works regardless of whether it could be proved that anyone else downloaded the music. Though this is the case in certain countries around the world, in the US it’s still a matter of legal debate (the RIAA argued that the distinction between whether or not a user makes a file available or whether they simply downloaded the songs into an open folder is immaterial.)

From her myspace page:

Due to unavoidable circumstances I am disappointed and sorry to announce that we have had to postpone NYC,San francisco and Los Angeles concerts until September this year. For anyone who has bought tickets, these tickets will still be valid in September.And I am sorry for any inconvenience.

The good news is that there will be a more extensive U.S and Canadian tour at this time. Thanks for bearing with me! More information to follow....

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