3Beat Dance Music Blog

Everybody always has tunes that they are after, mainly old stuff that they’ve never managed to pick up… well we at 3 beat have loads of classics for sale here at our discogs site!

Check out the third installment from Sasha‘s Emfire imprint here. Forthcoming on limited one sided vinyl to the shelves of 3 Beat Records

Our friend Yousef’s night Circus is definately one of the UK’s finest club nights, and their boxing night party line up is rather large! Its at the barfly, seel street, liverpool – and tickets on sale in our shop are flying out. So check this for a line up!

Theatre – Carl Craig, Yousef & Lewis Boardman

Loft – James Zabiela, loco Dice & Alex Wolfenden

Bar – Herve & Trevor Loveys (Speaker Junk), Will Jazz & Stel Alexander

My mate Glenn Morrison from Canada seems to be doing rather well for himself. He’s been in the studio a lot with his pal Deadmau5 who’s obviously flying high at the moment…

Well Glenns stuff obviously has that Deadmau5 vibe about it (as they share a studio) which aint a bad thing, and with Glenns diverse musical knowledge and experience from DJ-ing, I can see Glenn doing really well fo himself.

His track Contact on Deadmau5‘ label Mau5trap has been one of our biggest sellers this year, and his latest (signed to Armin Van Buurens imprint) No More Moves / Circles is a winner too!

He also has his own digital label called Morrison Recordings too which is doing well for him too…

Onwards and upwards Glenn – don’t forget me when you’re famous…

We were very sad to hear that sometime over the weekend the Legendary Mel Cheren died, due to Hiv complications.

Mel Cheren started his career in the music in 1959 & was known as the godfather of Disco, having played a major part in the Legendary Paradise garage &  was co founder of the ground breaking West End Records wich paved the way for many of the house records you hear today.

Mel was also very involved in Aids charity work. I met Mel at his home in New York last year & found him a lovely, passionate & warming man & even after our few hours spent together will never forget the time i met Mel Cheren. 

Thomas Tuft

We had a bit of a 3 beat night out last night, and we went to see the mighty Chemical Brothers perform in Aintree for Liverpool Music Week.

After seeing them at Creamfileds, we knew what to expect, and the boys certainly delivered! As well as performing all of the biggies from  classics like Block Rockin Beats, Brothers Gonna Work It Out, Out Of Control (although a mad dubby mix sampling Primal Scream!), Get Yorself High and Star Guitar to newer bits like Do It Again and  Hey Boy, Hey Girl… they boys rocked it!

As well as live remixed versions of the tracks, the visuals acompanying the performance on a huge backdrop behind the band added an extra dimension, featuring Dancing Robots, Red monkeys climbing ropes, exploding paintballs, dancing men with guns and more!

If they are near you, go and see them!

They have just announced the linups for their new club, the first party is with Laurent Garnier & Mike Pickering which should be a winner, then the next week is High contrast, skream, logistics & Kode 9. Followed by Steve Angello & Paul Woolford playing the next week.

November of this year saw the launch of a brand new old school night Back to the old pool. with dance veterans 3 Beat Records & Kenyon Promotions (quadrant park) bringing you one of the most talked about retro knee’s up with dj’s Marshall Jefferson & Cece Rogers Live! other dj’s on the night inc. Andy Caroll, Mike knowler, Steve Parry, Thomas Tuft, Pezz & Pluto. Check the pics out here

Back To The Old Pool

Oh my god things must be crazy at Defected towers, How many labels do they have now? Well let me tell you, Not happy with bringing Striclty Rhythm back from the dead, they’ve now re-launched the wonderful Sub-urban & 4th Floor records,  not forgetting Dj spen’s mighty Code Red label And there’s even talk of them bringing back Fluential to release the Techier minimal side of house. Wow! check some of the recent releases.

Lisa Millet – When i’m Dancin (code red)

Master Kev & Scott Wozniak – String Thing (code red)

Dj Fudge – The Flavaz Ep (sub urban)

Sandy Rivera – Freak (remixes)

Monkey Brothers Feat Shaun Escoffery – Losin My Head