3Beat Dance Music Blog

Paul Woolford drops his first space edits & what a tasty 12″ it is, reworking Armand’s remix of Tori Amos’ – Professional Widow. Woolford gives us a spacey intro with new, off the wall breakdown ! Just in

Paul Woolford – space edits

i was glad to see the Dubfire mix of one of my all time favourite tunes Plastikman – Spastik … the Richie Hawtin classic come into stock today. you can check it out here.

hi everyone ,just letting you all know the line up is now complete for the next BACK TO THE OLD POOL (presented by 3 beat records & Kenyon Promotions), in the Liverpool carling academy we have both rooms again , room 2 will be opened up fully this time and will also be in conjunction with VOODOO classics..

Saturday MARCH 1st 2008 ,10.00pm – 4.00am

*** F.P.I. PROJECT – Live PA performing 5 of their PIANO ANTHEMS !!***
DJ WELLY (Bowlers/Wigan Pier)
DJ VERTIGO (Bowlers/Hazydayz)
PEZZ (3 BEAT/D.I.Y. Crew)
DJ PLUTO (VOODOO/DAISY REVISITED)
**DR ALEX PATTERSON (THE ORB) 2 hour DJ set ***
CUTTER (Pirate Revival/Osa)
IAN KENYON (Mentazam)
STEVE SHIELS (Voodoo)

http://www.myspace.com/backtotheoldpool  

3 BEAT RECORDS FORCED TO CLOSE LABEL MANAGEMENT SERVICE AND DIGITAL DOWNLOAD STORE 

Liverpool’s influential record shop 3 Beat Records is to close its label management company 3 Beat Label Management and its download store, 3beatdigital.com with immediate effect. The decision to close the label management company and the download store were taken after the recent demise of Amato Distribution left the company owed approximately £75,000, a debt which they were unable to absorb.  3 Beat Label Management also created and maintained the mp3 store 3beatdigital.com leaving that, at least temporarily, on hold. The closure of 3 Beat Label Management will have no effect on the other elements of the 3 Beat business, namely the legendary record shop, the record label 3 Beat Productions and the club night ‘Back To The Old ‘Pool’. 

3 Beat Label Management has forged an enviable reputation since its inception in 1999 and represented some leading dance music labels including, Border Community, Boss Records, Vapour Recordings, Supplement Facts, Perc Trax and Love Triangle Music. In an increasingly difficult
market 3 Beat Label Management continued to provide a high quality and successful service, however was unable to avoid becoming one of the first high profile casualties in the fallout from Amato’s closure.  

Founder of 3 Beat, Jon Barlow comments, 

“It really saddens me to have to close 3 Beat Label Management and to see the knock on effects of this decision, not only on the labels that have been part of the 3 Beat family, but also on our own digital download business. We looked at all options to avoid this decision, but felt that there were none. Unfortunately, I think the demise of Amato will cause further repercussions in the world of dance music before things settle down again. I am now looking forward, focusing positively on the rest of the 3 Beat Records business which remains buoyant. Our recent deal with Universal will see 3 Beat Productions aiming for crossover success in 2008, the record shop is as strong as ever and our recent foray into club promoting has been an unqualified success. These are the areas on which we will be focusing in 2008.” 

Although there are no plans to work in label management again in the near future, 3 Beat Records remain hopeful that a partner will be found to enable to them to reopen their digital download store.

Irish nutter and friend of 3 beat and top dj Fran Cosgrave presents presents his 3 beat deadly top 5…

1 – MYPD FT LIZ – YOU’RE NOT ALONE – ROYAL FLUSH

2 – DAVID GUETTA – BABY WHEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT (DIRT SOUTH REMIX) - VIRGIN

3 – DIZZIE RASCAL – FLEX (DAVE SPOON) – XL

4 – ROBBIE RIVERA – ONE EYE SHUT (MARK KNIGHT REMIX) – 3 BEAT BLUE

5 – DEADMAU5 VS JELO – THE REWARD IS CHEESE – RISING TRAX

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A majorly overlooked track from Furry Nipples (what a superb name for an artist! haha, its actaully Ozgur Can & Stan Klo) is their latest called Viggo – its very difficult to say what it is musically, a bit like when James Holdens – A Break In The Clouds first came around. Theres a Martin H remix too that beefs stuff right up. Check it out, you’lll be pleasantly suprised!

Just been checking out Claude Vonstrokes limited new double cd album. it features all the classics Who’s afraid of detroit, the whistler, chimps, deep throat and the 7 deadly strokes. the second disc features remixes from audion, justin martin, sebastien leger, jochen trappe, dj assault, john tejada and patrick chardronnet amongst others  

Sasha’s playing the Warehouse Project a week on Friday, i wonder if he’s going to play that Mongoose track, that is absolutely amazin. Cobblestone Jazz, James Holden, Fairmont and John Digweed all absolutely rocked The Warehouse Project last time we went.

Beatport a few weeks back explained how 3 beat records had closed down, but we haven’t! So they wrote a feature about us explaining all, which should stop some of the crazy rumours that we’ve heard - have a read and see…

http://www.beatportal.com/blogs/post/amato-gone-3-beat-records-loses-digital-and-label-management/