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In Paris, the duo are well known around the nightlife and dinner lounge circuit, but you needn't have gone that far to have heard of them, as they are making waves in Hong Kong and around Asia as well.

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“Discobelle.net is a blog that focuses on free downloads of club music. We post MP3, videos or just fun stuff that we find.”

Despite its minimalist even humble self description, Swedish website Discobelle is one of the most influential and popular music blogs in the world, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors each month including hundreds if not thousands of producers, pluggers and DJs keen to be featured. 

Just a handful are selected each week and Discobelle’s Niklas Mijdema shared with Skrufff this week a few insider tips on how they make their choices.

http://discobelle.net

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Launched in 2008 by then unknown tech-house producer Clement Meyer, Get The Curse is now France’s best known music blog, attracting thousands daily to its mix of podcasts, music news and releases. Hugely talented producer Olibusta is also one of the Get the Curse’s key characters and chatted to Skrufff this week about the site.

http://www.getthecurse.com/


Skrufff (Jonty Skrufff): Where should a new producer/ DJ start who is hoping to attract your attention and be featured on Get The Curse?

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Media Matters: Carl Loben: Dealing with DJ Magazine

Want to know how you can get DJ Magazine to write about you? Or how to persuade Sweden’s enormously powerful music blog Discobelle to plug your new release?  Or for Clement Meyer and Olibusta’s Get The Curse to give you some exposure?

Skrufff chatted to senior people from each outlet this week to find out what you need to know.

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5 Making Music Tips; Oliver Bondzio (Hardfloor)

20 years after they first teamed up, Ramon Zenker and DJ Oliver Bondzio remain revered for producing top quality serious acid, house and techno, both as individuals and even more, via their better known nom de guerre of Hardfloor.

Exploding onto the worldwide scene with seminal acid techno anthem Acperience in 1992, they’re became intimately entwined with acid squelch synthesizer the Roland 303 a point Oliver Bondzio recognised recently, in an interview in which he bemoaned the inexorable rise of digital dance music.

“When I listen to records from back in the day, they can’t compare to today’s music,” he complained, “That raw feeling can’t be heard in our current environment where everything seems to over rely on digital production. There’s something missing from those computerised packages that you just can’t get without a 303.”

Going on to release scores more (often 303 based), tracks and remixes from the likes Depeche Mode to New Order, to Anne Clarke and Yello, the pair are just about to release another Greatest hits package, dubbed Hardfloor 20 – Two Decades Of Hardfloor. Oliver took time out to chat to Skrufff this week about some of his creative realisations.