September The new single from Petra will be called "Can't Get Over" and will be release on 9th March 2009 for UK only.
Petra also shoot a new video for this song and can't be found on September & September Gold.
Blank & Jones The new album released in 2008, "Miracle Cure" is the best selling album, also was nominated officially as "best trance track of 2008" by BEATPORT.
You can vote for them here
photo from aqua.dk Aqua will perform on 3th July 2009 on Nibe Festival in Denmark.
Bed & Breakfast The guys are working on their solo project:
- Daniel Aminati is a presenter on german television Prosieben but also sings whit his band more infos here.
- Florian working in studio for his solo material you can discover more here
- Kofinger released last year his first single called "My Dear" from his album "Can't take it away".
More infos here
Balja (former Fun Factory) paired up with Romanian artist Vali Craciunescu to make the nice song Surrender which unfortunately failed to qualify to represent Romania for Eurovision 2009 contest. Listen to it here (thanks to Eva Sipkova).
Fun Factory Former Fun Factory could be back... Even if he lost rights on the name Fun Factory (which now belongs to German producer Rekardo Heilig), Toni Cottura announced on his official website that he was currently in studio with Balja working on some new tracks (thanks to Eva Sipkova).
A special concert gathering Dr Alban, Haddaway and the Vengaboys will take place in Antwerpen. Back To The 90s will take place on April 4th at the Sportpaleis (thanks to Klems).
Milk Inc No new album planned this year for Milk Inc (their current album Forever is still in the Belgian ultratop). At least 2 singles are planned, release dates could be June and September according to rumors.
Dj Aligator the new album will be called "Kiss my Bass".
Booty Luv the girls are still working in studio for their next single who be released next month. The name is unknown yet but the girls said on their official my space that will be "a big surprise for our fans"!!
Jessica Böhrs (Novaspace former vocalist) in 2004 appeared in "Eurotrip" a great comedy with a lot of success at that year. Also Jessica was a background-singer in some bands like boygroup "Caught in the Act" & Tic Tac Toe. Now is playing the role in german television program "Schloss Einstein"
Echo This year on Echo awards is nominated Schiller on Best Artist and on Best Female Artist with Kim Sanders. Also on this show was nominated Lafee, Sarah Connor si Annett Louisan ... The show will be 21st February more infos here
Sasha (former vocalist Young Deenay) is back this year with a new material called “Good news on a bad day” from this album will release “Please, please, please”. The release date of the single and album will be on 27th February 2009.
Thanx for this infos to Crazysexymarvellous
photo from ha-net.de Liza Da Costa after a long silence , a creative one, the former Captain Jack vocalist came out this year with a new material called *SUPRESA* . The release date will be on 27th February 2009. Photos from video shoot can be seen here
Lori Glori ( Intermission ) is preparing new songs, first song will be called “Love not world” and the 2nd will be a collaboration with Ronnie Maze the name of the single will be “Run for the victory” More infos here
Vj Simone An exclusive interview made with the PartyZone girl Vj Simone can be seen & listen Here
September you can find all the infos about Petra here http://www.twitter.com/iamseptember
Ace of Base Announce
"Happy Nation 09 Remix Contest" is the 2nd in the Ace of Base community remix project! This remix contest runs until the 15th of february. Get your remixes up early, so people have time to vote! We like creative mixes, cool styles, brave attempts, and having a good time! :-) Together with Ace of Base, we'll provide some cool prizes, including an Inspire audio interface!
May the best remix win !! More infos here Info from Ace Of Base Myspace
Can you tell me how you started to work in television?
I started working in television when I had only 12 years old, I became part of a group in Holland. It was the youth department of a TV station… there I learned for the first time how to write scripts, how to use cameras, what is a set, how to do an transmission, everything that was involved with television... That was a very cool thing to do. I started to do a whole bunch of commercials and I kinda went on from that. I never really had a "normal" job.
Accidentally I was looking on youtube for Partyzone shows, and… I saw this video Let This Feeling. Can you tell me more about the video and the song? When I was 18 I got a record deal in England… Because I got a big record deal, everyone wanted to have my publishing. The only thing is that I had never written a song in my life :-) And it was crazy, because all these big records label at that time were fighting over my publishing, and I did not even know if I could write a song.
So in the end I was given a whole bunch of money to go and write some hit records, and of course it's pretty difficult when you've never written a song in your life. After a little bit of trying, I ultimately ended up with Let this feeling, probably being the best one I wrote at the time. But till this day I still don't think it was a particularly strong song, but that's pretty much what you get when you ask to a 18 years old girl who's never written a song :-) to write songs but it was all right …
The video was great fun, it video was directed by a friend of mine, Matthew Glamour... it was crazy because took strange characters on the set, artists, sculptures.. and put me on that Pegasus made by the famous sculptor Andrew Logan... yeah it was great fun!
Was When Love Rules The World your first single ? When Love Rules The World was not really my first single. I had my very first record deal at the age of 15 in Holland. The song was called Make’s Me Wanna Dance .. I've got not idea if one has still got that single... and it was good fun actuall... it was quite a jumpy, fun song but it was never a hit, but it was a fun to do it.
Why did you stop singing ? I left my record label because one day I got a telephone call : “Simone you have to make a videoclip for a track called Walk on water." And I was really confused because Walk on water was a demo I made with a new producer and I really didn’t like the track... But the record label had this track remixed and released it. And first time I heard of it is when, I think it was in top 3 in some Scandinavian country... I think it was in Sweden or something …
I hated the song, I hate the hole era ! I hate it because they published without telling me and because the broke the contract without telling me I was able get out for my deal… and since then, I never really managed to find the right label again. I remember that I recorded songs better then the first ones but I didn’t find a good label to publish them..
But I still sing … :-) but now it’s just a little bit of fun…
If you had to choose between music or being a TV presenter, what would you choose ? I think I will choose being a Tv presenter… I just think that is more I can do as a TV presenter. I like to write show proposals and stuff. I don’t know, I just feel htere is more I can do… Like I said, music is fun, I love making music … But I don't see much of a future with that. But I definitely see myself back on TV.
Simone can you tell what do you think about eurodance music ?
What I think about eurodance music… I think a lot of it, through the years, has been produced by people who weren't truly passioned about music. That's not true for everybody. There are definitely some people whom I came across as well that really did it for the love of music. But a lot of people would do it to cash in… That was the part of the whole scene that I didn't like. I just did not find as many passionate music lovers behind the scenes when I was doing the Partyzone
Do you have any favorite eurodance artists? Phew, hard !... I still love Rozalla's Everybody's free' as an individual track (plus, she was always such a sweetheart) & I always respected and admired Captain Hollywood's stage act and professional attitude. Though he was incredibly tough on his dancers. One time he was shouting at one of his dancers for jumping through the stage and getting his leg stuck in the stage. It was the weirdest thing...the guy was dancing so hard, his whole leg crashed into the stage. His whole leg disappeared into that stage. I've never seen anything like it. We all had to pull him out ; )"
What happened after you left MTV Europe? I did shows in Germany especially and in Holland. Popstars was really good fun… and of course I went to Belize, and that was the end of this crazy chapter.
Do you have any regrets ?? If you had the power to go back in time, what would you change ? I sometimes regret that I Left Europe the way I did .. I did have a very nice career, a nice job, I kinda sometimes regret that I just walked away from that. But, you know, I really still believe that I can go back and do something like that again.
Many people know you from MTV PartyZone as VJ Simone. Does it bother you? No, not at all, it was a fun time and... I think I did some good work there. There was also a lot of work I did that was quite average... No, I don't mind at all. It quite nice you think that you are part of people life’s even though you never meet them… That’s is quite a funny thought.
What is the best thing that happened in you life ? I will say the birth of my 2 boys. I think every mother will say that... But it's not just that, I mean, that was of course great. But also the moment when I started working for MTV, or standing on stage on MTV Awards. The whole feeling around that all this, getting the crowd excited, there have be so many great moments, really.
I know that you were in the jury of German show Popstars, can you tell more about this experience ? Popstars was amazing. That show was so much fun to do... Cause I’m really passionate about finding the right people in this industry. I think the whole music industry is not for everybody… If you get the wrong people I think you can’t destroy them. But also if you find the good people, you can make their life amazing… It was fun finding the right people, not just talentwise but also characterwise, and to put the whole band together. We put together the No Angels and it was a great band, a great act, and the whole thing was amazing...
I was aked to go back in the Popstars jury again but I turned it down, because my little boy had just been born and I didn't want to just rush back in television when I was still nursing him. So I just said no to that. But I would love to do something like that again. It's so much fun being in the jury of a show like that.
What will your next future plans be ?
Right now... I'm not sure, to be honest with you. I'm trying a whole bunch of different things. I want to do something in the media again, that's for sure. I did tourism here in Belize and that was fun, we have a really lovely business. But it's no me, you know. My life is really TV, radio, media. So, you'll see me doing something like that again. :-)
What do you hate the most ?
People who aren’t honest... I’m very honest, I can’t lie, I keep thinks quiet but I can’t lie... I guess that's what I hate the most… dishonesty.
Kandystand are releasing a new single in February, its called Love Invasion, and it has 6 mixes (thanks to Kandystand team)
Unique II Jade Davies, first Unique II vocalist released in 2003 an album entitled The Eye with Yello ..
Maxx Russian remixer Go She Style did a remix of Maxx Get-A-Way. Discover it here.
Evi Goffin she talked in a Belgium magazine about the real reason why she left from the group: "I was Dumped" said Evi. Many reports started the Lasgo singer left because soon will become mom, but according to Goffin it was actually collision with the management due to financial and personal arguments. Evi was unable to release new music or to do other projects because of the contract signed and who ended last month. "They made my life a living hell" said Evi in the article. (thanks to Anders Bøgh & Karine Sanche)
Smile-DK's album track Koko Soko was featured in Konami's famous game Dance Dance Revolution X
Milk Inc are also nominated at MIA's awards , in the category Dance / Electronic.
Abigail's next album should be entitled Hush.
Groove Coverage are planning a tour in China in March..
Peter Luts New from Peter Luts (Lasgo) the single Burning
Acting Lovers first single In Light And Darkness is out and it's a great eurodance track. From their forthcoming re-release of their first album HOT. Discover it on their Myspace (thanks to Tomás Hromádka)
The number one radio in France NRJ awarded his artists Saturday 17 th January 2009. On his ten anniversary Nrj brought to france audience stars like Pussycat Dolls, Akon, Ketty Perry... but the artist of the night was nobody else then Mylene Farmer who was awarded for her Best Album (Point de Suture) released last year.. The french press wrote few months ago about this album was a total failure...but last saturday Mylene won. Here it is her performance on NRJ Awards 2009
Mylene Farmer what can i say about this artist has more fans then Madonna !? and that but this news is more likely:), after her last single lunched for holidays "Appelez mon numero" , Mylene thought that is the time for a new release in her characteristic style, the song is called "Si j'avais au moins revu ton visage" and it's single who makes you think at "Saw series"... The single it's already played on NRJ Hits...
Liz Kay after Una & Atb, Liz Kay made a cover of the song "You're not alone "(Olive). The song was recovered also by Atb in 2002 and Una last year.
Jes The queen of chill-out is on th road you can request on your town with a simple click HERE
E-Type is working in the studio for a new material who will be released at the end of 2009.
Regi will do an concert on 28 February called Regi In the Mix and his friends on Arena Hasselt. More infos here
Kate Ryan On the 6th of February 2009 will be on MIA's (Music Industry Awards). Kate Ryan is nominated in 3 categories: Best Female Solo Artist, Best Song (Ella Elle L'a) and Best Video (Ella Elle L'a). You can vote until the 26th of January on Mia (1. Make your choice 2. Confirm ("bevestig") by registration 3. Validate by email) Info Kate Ryan Website
September released on 14th November a new material called "September Gold". On that album are all her success with 2 acoustic versions of "Cry for you & Satellites". More infos here
photo from www.nickifrench.com Niki French After Indra, Niki French is trying her success in the play "Sleeping Beauty" at The Theatre,Chipping Norton,Oxfordshire.
Armin van Burren after his last success with his last single "In and Out of Love". Armin put his energy and inspiration for a new song called "Unforgivable". The song was made in collaboration with Jaren. More infos about the new single can be found here
Velvet released for her swedish fans her next single called "Come Into The Night". Also possible tracks are "My Rhythm", "Radio Star", "Sound Of Music", all this tracks are included on her next album "The Queen".
Gala a greek artist made a cover after's Gala song "Faraway" released in 2006, the artist name is Tamta and the song is called "Ftais".
Micheal Mind born 1973, Jens Kindervater it's a german dj and producer, his "products" are The Real Booty Babes, 2 Vibez, 4 Clubbers, Da Franco, Da Loop Brothers, and now trying his success with this song called "Baker street".In the video you can see and Miss Germany. More infos here
E-Rotic Jeanette Christensen (Face of E-Rotic in 1996-2001) can be seen every Sunday at 18:00 CET on Swiss SFinfo channel a show called Fenster.
Simone The Partyzone girl talks on her blog about his days on MTV . The story can be discovered here :)
Luciana you can discover an interview with her on my space. Luciana release her new single with Bodyrox "Brave new world" and can be found on itunes. I love her style of singing and made electro dance music more commercial. What can I say it’s one of my favorite artist discover yourself her new single..
Velvet will release the video for the single "Chemistry" the shoot of the video was done in London in December 2008.
Alcazar are working on studio for the new tracks for their new album who will be released in March/April, and will be released and for international markets also. The new single for Sweden will be “Stay The Night” after they have performed it in Melodifestivalen.
Befour recovered the hit single from 2Unlimited "No limit".
Ysa Ferrer born 4 June 1972 in Oran, Algeria) is a French actress and singer. Ysa moved to France with her parents before her second birthday. She grew up in Chambéry in Savoie.When Ysa moved to Paris she gained a part in the film L.627, produced by Bertrand Tavernier. Whilst not a great film, it allowed Ysa to gain the role of Nadia in school drama "Seconde B", shown in France 2 1992 - 1994, however she did not renew her contract for another series. Info wikipedia. Her last single will be released on 19 January 2009 called “Sens Interdit”. Thanx for the info to Karine Sanche & Gaël
Sylver "Rise Again" this week on Jimlist 40 is on #11 and Milk inc with "Race" # 7
Rednex Scarlet is back with Rednex. The new team are now Scarlet with other former members Dagger, Joe Cagg and Ace Ratclaw. A new album is currently being written and a European tour is planned.
First Base Vito V feat. Anna Berardi covered First Base's Love Is Paradise (thanks to Klems).
Dance Nation's hit single Sunshine was remixed and re-released as Dance Nation Vs Shaun Baker - Sunshine 2009.
YoungFire's new CD Euro-Fire is out now! It contains 12 tracks, including their current single release Lonely.
Copenhagen Bass will release a tech-house remix of So Sexy during January. They also did a remix of F.U.D.G.E. If You Believe In Love which will be released by the Italian label Oryx in january as well. And they have their second single finished... (thanks to Anders Bøgh)
Bad Boys Blue the first single of this year from the guys from Bad Boys Blue will be called "Queen Of My Dreams" , the song can be found on their album "Heart & Soul". The single will be released in March 2009. More info Here
Indra She will be acting in a theater play entitled "Ma femme est folle" (means : my wife is crazy) from January 10th to March 30th at the Théâtre des Nouveautés. She will have the female leading role.. Info Karine Sanche
Dj Sammy New songs from Sammy can be discovered on his official website
Brooklyn Bounce team is working at a new album who will be released in February.
Mr.President on Jens Neumann website i found an news about Mr.President comeback... Who will be in the band who knows !? will see this year!? Thanx for this info to Jessica
Jes the new single from queen of chill out will be called "Lost". The video will have the same idea like her last one "Imagination".
Fundo ft. Elena Josepha Fresh from their worldwide success with 'Awesome' Fundo return with their sensational new single 'Girl On Girl' in 2009 !
With Elena Josepha as feature vocalist once again, this catchy slice of pop dance is guaranteed to get the dance-floors pumping.
Featuring mixes from Popsa, Porl Young, the Punky Meow, Crystal Lake and the Glamour Katz, Girl On Girl will be sure to find fans on radio as well.
Elena also stars in the raunchy video together with top model Vanessa upton. This is definitely one track to watch . . .
Wolffman (Jerry Wolff) is one of the top songwriters/producers of the Netherlands. He produced about 200 Top 100-quotations and several Top-10 hits for well-known artists before deciding to step into the footlights himself. Wolffman's innovated DJ-set can be described as Funky Electro with Disco & Urban influences. Well-known productions from his hands are "Somebody's Watching Me" with the Beatfreakz and Rockwellers single "Rock With You". In 2008 his new single "U Get Your Hands Up" is hot in the clubs and storming the charts.
Roy Gates At the start of his successful career as a DJ/producer, Roy Gates immediately had a Dancesmash on Radio 538. This debut single "How Deep" instantly had a high score on the hit lists and was on the play lists of many radio and tv/stations for weeks. After the hitsingles: "On my Way", "We Rock Together" and "Lose myself" it rapidly became obvious that his musical development was unstoppable. Besides many performances in his homeland and abroad, Roy spent many hours in the studios where he worked on many new productions. His music is the ultimate mix between Club Trance and Electro. Armin van Buuren already played the Divini & Warning Mix in his "A State of Trance" and Randy Katana, Ron van den Beuken and DJ Jean also do support the track. Already DJ Jean refers to Roy as "The New Tiesto"!
This winter Roy is filling the dance-floors again with his latest single "One Touch".
Regi is the number 1 Belgian dance producer, known from his projects Milk Inc and Sylver, but lately more known from his hits "I Fail" (with the angelic choir Scala) and his most recent single "AAA Anthem" (with Bart Peeters). On november 1 the first solo album of Regi was released: "Registrated", and it's already gold in Belgium. On the album Regi works together with lots of artists, like Tom Helsen, Nailpin, Kate Ryan, Danzel and of course Scala and Bart Peeters. The result is 15 great tracks with a wide scala of styles. Latest single of this album is "What Is Life", together with Danzel.
Favretto Igor was born in the Italian Alpine town of Bolzano in 1977. He started DJ-ing at the age of 16 in Italy and Austria and now regularly plays his sets in Italy's key clubs. He now also works as a DJ-Producer with Off Limits. His first production was a project called Blue Storm. He has produced tracks for Whigfield (a.o. "Was A Time"), DJ Kaos (that made substantial waves in Japan), In-Grid ("Shock" and "Oui") and the singles "Come A Little Closer" (Malomodo feat. Naan, in cooperation with Alex de Gomera) and "Yes U R" (Favretto feat. Naan). As a DJ, his style is in constant flux in the sphere of house, tec-house and electro.
Hadise winner TMF best R'n B artist in 2007 was selected to represent Turkey on Eurovision song contest from this year with the song “Living in Dreams(Düm Tek Tek)”.
WMC 2009 This year on WMC 2009 the nominees are :September, Amuka, Paul van Dyk & Armin van Bureen You can support them whit your vote Here.
Kirsty Hawkshaw some cool songs from Kirsty can be found on her my space
Ida Corr after she said “Let me think about it” in 2007 Ida thinks that is the time to “Ride my Tempo”.
The single was released at the end of 2008 in Scandinavia and her collaboration with Wideboys makes this single a dance hit.
photo from boxen.com
Mr.President Daniela Haak said “Yes” to her boyfriend Markus Beyer . The Wedding Ceremony took part at the beach of Keys Biscayne/Florida on 25th December 2008 . On their weeding came close friends to couple & family ...
On German wikipidia appeared a rumor that the old team T , Danii & LayZee will be in the studio working at a new material who will be released in 2010. The rumor it’s untrue, LayZee said in our interview :”There will be no Mr.President comeback”.. said LayZee .
