PODCAST: Future Technology Episode 007 / Christmas Edition

Hikari No Sato returns with the next offering of his Future Technology series, a specially extended two hour mix to warm up your NYE. Opening with biblical readings from the Apollo 8 Mission, the mix twists through minimal and tech-house into some uptempo house and even a touch of some trance in there too. There's enough in here to please everyone!



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PODCAST: Highway To House - Episode 005

Welcoming the new year we present the first of two special podcasts (Hikari No Sato's Future Technology to follow later). This mix is of usual Copernicus high standard as he guides us through more deep and soulful house. There will be a new episode every month featuring many of the wide ranging sub-genres of house so be sure to subscribe so as not to miss a thing.


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The Sunday Sampler: Edwin Birdsong / Daft Punk

OK so the Sunday Sampler has slipped back from its orignal planned fortnightly slot to a monthly venture. But in keeping with the BOH spirit the quality isn't going anywhere!

This sample is much more obvious that the previous one. Edwin Birdsong released this funky gem in the Seventies, and if you can't hear the sample from the very start then where have you been for the last few years?



And for the other 99% of you, here's Daft Punk taking the intro of Cola Bottle Baby, speeding it up and raising the key by a semitone. Add a vocoded voice loop and possibly the best solo ever and you get Harder Better Faster Stronger.



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Merry Christmas!

The season of giving wouldn't live up to its name if we didn't do just that. So here are some great tunes donated by the labels themselves, free and legit. Merry Christmas!

Atjazz Feat. Robert Owens - Love Someone
UK artist, Martin Iveson provides us with three remixes of his original deep and soulful production.

Nellie Recordings - Releases 009, 010, 011, 012
Nellie Recordings provide four top quality tracks from Alaa, Audible, and Liam Goodwin.

Jaspher - My Reality (Original Mix)
Jaspher - My Reality (Instrumental Mix)
Jaspher - My Reality (Swared Mix)
Italian DJ, Jaspher gets the remix treatment on his latest tech-house tune.

Boys Noize - Shine Shine (Shadow Dancer Unreleased Remix)
The German electro producer, Alexander Ridha sees Manchester artist, Shadow Dancer sprinkle some love over this one.

Cryo - Empathic (Dumb Dan Remix - 2008 Remaster)
Dumb Recordings release another pumping electro track just for you this Christmas. This one's even re-mastered especially!

NEWS: Morillo charged with drug possession..

Superstar DJ, Erick Morillo was arrested at Glasgow airport over the weekend when disembarking a flight from Amsterdam. Charged with possession of cocaine, Morillo was taken to the local police station where he spent the night in a cell before appearing before a magistrates' court. The DJ pleaded 'not guilty' and was subsequently released on bail. The trial continues in March.

Felguk - Do You Like Bass 2009

Well, do you? Released on BugEyed Records earlier this month, Felguk's funky electro endeavour has been energising dance-floors around the world. The Brazilian duo, Felipe Lozinsky & Gustavo Rozenthal have already featured in the Beatport Top 5 and have produced remixes for Daft Punk and Sasha. Though they may have been premature naming the song title there's nothing premature about their production style. Keep an eye on these guys.


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GUEST MIX: Estroe

Following our last mix by dance-floor legend, Michael Gray we are proud to present the new Guest Mix. For this one we got in touch with Estroe, one of Holland's hottest prospects.

Born in Amsterdam, Estroe has played at festivals such as Dance Valley and Lowlands to find herself in the company of Carl Cox, Sven Vath and Derrick May to name a few. Estroe is making a name for herself at the top spinning mainly deep, minimal and tech house. Noted as one of the rising stars of house music her single, Knetter is being released on Russ Gabriel's label, Ferox while here upcoming album is soon to be released over on the Connaisseur Recordings label. For those of you lucky enough to live near Brussels you can see her work the decks next Saturday the 27th at Dave Clarke's White Noise party in the Fuse.

Estroes DJ schedule is pretty hot around Christmas but she still managed to find time to fit in this mix for you all. This month we present Estroe's sublime Deep/Tech/Minimal house mix, made exclusively for Best of House.


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Kellerkind - Natural Juice

Swiss born, Marco Biagini (Kellerkind) is an exciting prospect for the future. His tech house grooves are hotting up dance floors around Europe and beyond. Natural Juice, featuring on his Don't Go Home EP on Florian Meindl and Oliver Koletzki's FLASH Recordings label shall be released on the 29th of December.


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NEWS: Royksopp celebrate 10 years

The duo responsible for what was probably radio's most popular talk-bed music ever, Eple are celebrating the ten year anniversary of forming as a group. The two Norwegians, Torbjorn Brundtland and Svein Berge have released a new single to celebrate entitled Happy Birthday. You can download it from their website here, or click the link below for an instant download.

Royksopp - Happy Birthday

PROMO: Marcus Rombo & Adrian Lux

We recently received an email from the Stockholm based label, La Vida Locash informing us of a great new remix of Adrian Lux's hit, Strawberry. This one, by Marcus Rombo of Yeah! Woho! fame is much more driving and 'electrofied' than the original. Click the link to download.

Adrian Lux - Strawberry (Marcus Rombo Remix)

While we're on the subject, Adrian just finished work on a remix for label colleague, Kocky featuring the care-free vocals of Noonie Bao. Check it out here.

Carlo Lio - QYOZA

Hailing from Canada, Carlo is one of Toronto's hottest talents. His signature style of soothingly hypnotic beats has made him hot property in the international club circuit. If you've been to any minimal nights during the past year or so chances are you've been dancing to his tunes. QYOZA must stand for something, though we're not sure what. If you know, leave a message!


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Outsiders feat. Amanda Wilson - Keep This Fire Burning (Freemasons Edit)

Another day, another Freemasons remix. And why not? The UK sensation have a string of great releases under their name and every single one is a treat. Their latest project is no exception. This time its Outsiders who get the duo's treatment. Released digitally last week and available on vinyl and CD today, this is a must have.


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COMPETITION: Beatport goes Christmas-Crazy!

It is the season of good will, and what better way to mark this occasion than to offer a truck-load of prizes! Digital download store, Beatport have done exactly that. All you have to do is buy a track from their site and you'll automatically be entered into a draw to win the famed Pacemaker portable decks, Native Instruments' Traktor Scratch Pro, $100 of credit to spend on their site, some seriously swish headphones , and the obligatory Beatport t-shirt. Oh, and you win all this x2, so you can give your friend a Christmas treat too.

Buy a track before 23rd December for a chance to win. Click here for full details. Good luck!

Edbasewax - Bust A Groove

Here's a heads up from SICK Records. Latvian producer Edbasewax's pumping electro track gets released over at Beatport this Thursday 11th. With it will be remixes from Dmitriy Bamboviy, J Sephora and Krystian Szymula. You can hear all versions below.


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NEWS: Deadmau5 headlines Groove Cruise 2009

For the last five years, The Groove Cruise has taken to the seas as 'chic, young professionals' let their hair down and party non-stop for 3-4 days. In the past DJs have been mostly club-residents but this year the party is going one better as they invite the ever-popular Deadmau5 on board to work the decks. The Canadian who rose to fame in 2008 will be boarding the ship in January '09 as they set sail from the coast of Miami out to the Bahamas via an exclusive private island, of course. For more info, click here.

Joey Negro - Must Be The Music (Nicola Fasano Dub)

Italian DJ, Nicola Fasano has released several remixes turning the funky house classic into a modern day floor filler. Currently sitting at number two on Beatport's house music chart, Fasano's on to a winner with this one.


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Jason Phats Feat. Ben Ofoedu - Can't Stop!

One half of legendary Brighton duo, Phats & Small (you can work out which half) teamed up with old colleague, Ben Ofoedu to produce this great track. The official video includes dance group, Flava from Britain's Got Talent. Released just over a month ago it has already featured on both Ministry of Sound's Annual 2009 and Hed Kandi's The Mix: USA 2009.


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COMPETITION: Free London clubbing!

To celebrate the magazine's 40th birthday, Time Out London is offering free tickets to their Future Five club series. Held at venues such as The End and Fabric while featuring the likes of Tiga, Hot Chip and DJ veteran, Erol Alkan this is surely one not to be missed.

To be in with a chance of winning the tickets simply answer the question on their website, here. Competition ends today, so hurry!

Uberfett - El Zoomah

Just when you thought the accordion phase was dying out, the Defected label releases this crossover hit. Essentially 'Turn Up The Heater' without the vocals, this track is a great feature of any set. Also worth mention is the Pierre J Dub Mix, great for those early morning after parties.


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