Röyksopp's third and latest album is called "Junior" and was released on March 23rd, 2009 on Astralwerks. It follows the 2006 album "The Understanding" and 2001's greatest "Melody A.M."

Straight house, laid-back grooves, and funky masterpieces. That's what you'd expect from a new Röyksopp album, and they certainly have not disappointed. Torbjorn and Svein spent about a year in the "kitchen" carefully crafting these tasty treats making sure they had just enough for everyone's tastes. Perhaps not as intellectually jarring as your first listen to Melody A.M., but a fine continuation of their unusual art nonetheless.

The true pop/cross-over prize is Happy Up Here. A funky headtrip harkening back to the days of Eple, Happy melts over you like a warm drop of sunshine. The video is also something of a marvel; a futuristic, almost-touchable, world invaded by Atari space aliens defended by a retro-fitted taxi cab. The track is so damn catchy, I fear I might wear it out quickly via repeats. Röyksopp Forever is also an inspired journey, close to perfection and deserving of close attention.

Junior Tracklisting
1. Happy Up Here
2. The Girl And The Robot
3. Vision One
4. This Must Be It
5. Röyksopp Forever
6. Miss It So Much
7. Tricky Tricky
8. You Don't Have A Clue
9. Silver Cruiser
10. True To Life
11. It's What I Want

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Grammy-nominated artist, DJ and producer Paul Van Dyk will release his "best of" album, celebrating over 15 years of his musical achievements. The collection , titled "Volume", will be released in stores on June 9th and digitally on May 26th via Ultra Records.

Mr. Van Dyk is still finalizing the track list; rest assured you'll find tracks from the studio albums "45 RPM" (1994), "Seven Ways" (1996), "Out There And Back" (2000), "Reflections" (2003) and "In Between" (2007). Volume will also include the long-awaited remastered and remixed classic “For an Angel” and a brand new song titled “Home” featuring vocals by Johnny McDaid of Vega 4 who also collaborated with VAN DYK on the single “Time Of Our Lives” from Reflections.

Mr. Van Dyk will appear in a handful of venues leading up to the release and will also announce additional North American dates beginning in June.

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We sit down with Lottie ahead of her set in The Bar this Saturday.



Thanks for taking 5 mins with us at Saturday Sessions ahead of the David Guetta and Friends party this Saturday


Now you’re a firm favourite round here, but for those of our regulars who haven’t had the pleasure of listening to you play, what can they expect?
There's so much amazing electronic music out there I play the tracks that have grabbed my attention and sound exciting, edgy and fresh. The beauty of dance music is that it constantly evolves and morphs into new sounds and the quality just gets better and better. There's a real wealth of great techno and nu-disco around and I play the tracks that get me dancing and hope that conveys on to the floor.

We’re looking forward to having you down the club this Saturday, You haven’t played here since Jan the 1st. How has 09 been for you so far? Any standout gigs?
I did a Black Rabbit party in Belfast which was a lot of fun, our missdemeanours one-off party when the End closed was fantastic and Poland where I was last weekend was superb too, they know how to party in Eastern Europe.


Do you have any big plans for the year? Any releases we should be keeping an eye out for?
Now I'm producing as Dr. Strangelove with Pete Martin our tracks "Photograph & "Banshee" will be coming out this year and I'm just reallly into working in the studio at the moment. We started off doing remixes for Infadels, AHuman and David Guetta but now we've started doing our own tracks and it's really exciting. MORE HERE

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Kikumoto Allstars is set to release House Music, his debut artist album, through DJ Hell's International Deejay Gigolo next month.

A relationship that began with the singles "Jack The House" and "House Music" for IDG has now blossomed into a full-blown album affair for Australian DJ/producer Cam Farrar. Unashamedly retro, the LP spans thirteen moments of late '80s influenced acidic house in an overtly revivalist mold. Cited influences include Marshall Jefferson, Larry Heard, DJ Pierre, Lil Louis and Adonis, which should convey some sense of what to expect from this one. To add that additional layer of original Chi-Town authenticity, the album was apparently constructed using an analog enthusiasts wet dream list of equipment, namely the Roland TR-909, TR-808, TR-707, SH-101 and TB-303, with the Juno Jx-8p thrown in for good measure.

Tracklist
01. Everybody
02. I'll Make You Jack
03. Can't Stop the House
04. Bending Time
05. DCO
06. Last Train to Chi-Town
07. Sagittarius
08. Warehouse Days
09. Just a Feelin'
10. Jack the House
11. Shed
12. House Music
13. Walk the Talk

International Deejay Gigolos will release House Music on May 25th, 2009.

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As part of its second edition, Colorado's Communikey Festival will host a special sneak preview of techno documentary Speaking in Code.

The event will take place on the first night of the three day festival. Director Amy Grill will be on hand to speak about the film, which follows Modeselektor, Wighnomy Brothers, Monolake, journalist Philip Sherburne and Grill herself with then-husband David Day along their various paths in techno. Tagged with the line, "everything changes when you get lost in music," Grill documents both the power of the music, as well as the personal sacrifices one makes when investing their time, energy and money into music.

Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion featuring various North American techno promoters about the "challenges of electronic music culture" on the continent.

For those unable to make it to Colorado, the film will make its official debut later this month at the Independent Film Festival Boston.

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Trance titan Tiësto is set to be the first DJ ever to hold his own open air concert in London's Victoria Park this summer.

The Dutch producer will be supported by electro-pop star Calvin Harris, and some very special guests that have yet to be announced. But the focus for this show will squarely be on Tijs Michiel Verwest, whose euphoric set will soundtrack the dancing of what promises to be at least 25,000 revelers.

The extravagant event will be another first for the pioneer who was the first DJ to sell out dates at O2 Arena, Brixton Academy, Alexandra Palace and 12 Mondays in a row at Ibiza’s Privilege. With VIP already sold-out at Victoria Park, this one looks to be yet another landmark for the DJ.

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Ricardo Villalobos, Carl Craig and Laurent Garnier are amongst the headliners for next month's Nuits Sonores festival.

Lyon is France's second largest urban area after Paris, and the line-up for Nuits Sonores is definitely representative of that fact. Not only do you have the aforementioned electronic heavyweights on the bill, but joining them behind the decks will be Radio Slave, Josh Wink, Rone, Matmos, Cut Chemist, Agoria, Dubfire, Gilles Peterson, Erol Alkan and Miss Kittin & The Hacker. On top of all this modern electronic business, you'll even get a rare opportunity to catch horror-soundtracker and Goblin member Claudio Simonetti strut his stuff live, plus no-wave doyenne Lydia Lunch will perform with both her own band and Teenage Jesus And The Jerks. Things kick off on Wednesday 20th May with a showcase of London-based acts in the evening (including sets from Padded Cell, Mowgli and Joe from Hot Chip), before things move on to the spacious Marché Gare venue for the first of the three larger events, which culminate in a festival-closing set from Dave Clarke. Whether he'll wear his trademark leather trousers for the occasion still remains to be seen.

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Deep As Fu*k and The Likes of You are throwing a special Easter Sunday bash, headlined by Marc Romboy, Peter Juergens (Peter Gunn) & Daniel Dreier and Swedish duo Minilogue.

Romboy's appearance may be the biggest draw, as his name is highly respected among clubbing audiences around the globe for his work as the head of the Systematic imprint in addition to his sterling tech house sets. While Romboy mostly restricts his output these days to one label, fellow headliner Juergens has no such compunctions: He's put out music on over two dozen labels, which has been snapped up by DJs such as Carl Cox, Sasha and Timo Mass. Lately, Juergens has been grabbing attention with his Peter Gunn side project. His Easter set will encompass production from both aliases. Meanwhile, Swedish techno lovers Minilogue will be performing live.

With a massive local support roster rarely seen under one roof—which includes Jamie Lloyd, Mark Murphy and Noel Boogie—the ten-hour Easter Teknival is looking like the place to be for all techno, progressive and tech house enthusiasts this Easter.

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Justus Köhncke, Stimming and Marcus Worgull are set to headline 2009's Beck's Berlin Sessions celebrations.

For those who can remember that far back, 2008's Berlin Sessions was one of the more artistically interesting tours of last year, bringing Jazzanova, Quarion, and Heiko Laux to the country for a number of dates. This year's festivities will take place in Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Melbourne and Adelaide, and will once again span the finest techno, disco, house and minimal around.

Kompakt's Köhncke and Diynamic's Stimming will be performing live—with the latter sure to be banging out tracks from his recent full-length, Reflections—while Worgull will undoubtedly bring some of the latest and greatest tracks from his Innervisions chums. Kicking off in late April, it'll no doubt be yet another Session to remember.

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Serbian festival behemoth Exit has revealed details of three exclusive back-to-back sessions to commemorate their tenth anniversary.

In honour of the occasion, the Anniversary Dance Arena will see a collection of major names from down the years reunited for some special celebratory performances. Carl Cox will go head-to-head with Curtis Jones' Green Velvet alter ego, UK duo Sasha and John Digweed will rekindle their time honoured DJing affilation, while Richie Hawtin will dual with his sometime M_nus cohort Dubfire. Taking place this year between 9th-12th July, the annual gathering has become one of the summer festival circuit's biggest success stories, attracting upwards of 200,000 people from all over the world across its four day expanse. Already announced for the main stage are Moby, Patti Smith, Madness, Arctic Monkeys and Kraftwerk, with further acts and "surprises" being revealed as the event draws near.

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