Streaming giant Beatport is officially recognizing the South African sound called amapiano as an official musical genre on their platform.
Streaming giant Beatport is officially recognizing the South African sound called amapiano as an official musical genre on their platform.
Beatport LINK’s newest upgrade to its Pro subscription service allows offline storage of up to 1,000 tracks.
Denon DJ’s latest controller, the LC6000 PRIME, offers a solution for DJs looking to expand upon their existing PRIME setups.
Beatport has built upon its Beatport LINK on-demand streaming service with an online app also geared towards DJs called Beatport DJ.
To celebrate Black History Month, Beatport has kicked off a series of live stream talks hosted by Detroit DJ and producer Seth Troxler.
Beatport’s buyout of Loopmasters includes subscription-based sound design label Loopcloud as well as plugin library Plugin Boutique.
Sentric will now collect royalties directly from Beatport and offer publishing services to artists and labels who sell music through the platform.
Popular DJ software marque Serato has added support for Beatport LINK and Beatsource LINK in its latest update beta, Serato DJ Pro 2.4
The latest Engine OS update lets DJs access their online libraries without the need of an external storage device.
Beatport will also rename one of the genre categories into which hard techno had previously been consolidated.
J2v Virtual Festival added a new stage and doubled the number of headliners to lend more exposure to Detroit artists.
Beatport LINK subscribers can now listen to more than two minutes of a track in the online store.
Songs belonging to Beatport’s new category used to be tagged as “Deep House,” “Afro House,” “Melodic House,” “Melodic Techno” or “Electronica.”
The other two On Now TV co-founders are Stephan Jacobs and Terrence Scoville.
Beatport has sparked controversy for its genre category tags in recent years, but their latest change is a no-brainer.
In conjunction with Point Blank Music School, Mixcloud, Future Music and the Association For Electronic Music (AFEM), Beatport will hold a DJ/producer competition called Beats in School.