Digital music download service now available from online electronic music magazine Resident Advisor. RA publishes electronic music news, reviews and has become an immense resource for club nights, events and of course, their DJ charts; where each month, roughly 3000 DJs, from 80 countries chart 30,000 tracks. They’ve now enhanced this service by making digital music available to purchase directly from RA as MP3 or WAV music downloads.

Download Digital Music, New Service from RA

If a track shows up on an artist’s chart (and it is in fact available on digital release and been verified by RA) you will be able to preview and purchase the track directly from the chart page. RA has not let any insight into exactly what digital music vendor they have partnered with to provide the music downloads. The charts are powered by digital music dj software Traktor (more than likely just a sponsorship deal or organization/formatting engine for the dj charts). RA reviews are powered by online dance music store Juno, giving you the ability to preview tracks through the Juno Player and either add the release to your wishlist or purchase directly from the player. They also provide a link to the Juno Records (for vinyl releases) or Juno Download (for music downloads) pages to purchase directly from the Juno websites.

Music downloads purchased this way more than likely earn RA a commission for each sale. We’re assuming the new music download service directly from the RA charts may also be provided by Juno on a commission base – it just makes the user experience a little easier by not having to navigate to several websites to make a purchase.

In addition to the artists charts, RA says it will also be adding digital music downloads from account users favorite artists and labels in the coming weeks and months.  I think it’s a great addition to the site. Though, for me, purchasing digital music really comes down to the functionality of the website I purchase from. Can I store music for download later? How is the download process? How is the price? What music, artists, labels are available? How are the files named and what information is encoded?

Whether these questions can adequately be answered by RA’s new music download service remains to be seen. The RA site and system is undoubtedly a great resource for finding new music and connecting with the electronic music community and artists. This may just be a great opportunity for a few impulse buys – which I’m sure is what they’re counting on.

Marcel Dettmann, a techno music premier dj and producer, took some time off his busy schedule, which includes a residency at club Berghain in Berlin, to perform a live dj set for the team at Beatport. The set was recorded live and streamed to their Ustream channel. Beatport described Dettmann “kicked off his set with nearly 45 minutes of dark ambient and experimental music. Diving into grainy dub techno, Berlin machine minimalism and pure Detroit deepness” Marcel concurred “The first hour of the mix was more of a background-music track selection, like I’m listening to when I’m working. The second part of the set was more of the stuff I usually play in the club.”

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TF: Give us a summation on the mix.

Stillwell: This mix consists mostly of a slightly darker side of Progressive House.

TF: Where do you reside?

Stillwell: San Diego, CA

TF: How long have you been Djing/producing?

Stillwell: Dj’ing 12 years in January and Producing 4 years.

TF: What styles are most predominant for you?

Stillwell: Progressive House – Tech-House – Techno

TF: Give us your interpretation of the mix.

Stillwell: During this time I played a bunch of after hours sets across CA.  The track-list is a collection of all of my favorite tracks from that time.

TF: How was the mix created, what equipment/software was used?

Stillwell: Pioneer CDJ-2000′s and the Pioneer DJM-2000 Mixer.

TF: Any projects or events you’re currently working on you’d like to share?

Stillwell: Currently I have a remix called Ritmosura (Stillwell Remix) coming out Nov. 8th on 9G Records based out of San Francisco, CA. And you can expect an Original Collaboration E.P. of Revolvr and Myself coming out this winter.

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Stillwell | Twilight Frequencies Podcast 020 Tracklisting

1 Cirez D: Full Stop
2 Umek, Christian Cambas: On The Edge
3 Sam Paganini: Pleasure
4 Gabriel Rocha: Ride On Time
5 Alex Kenji: My Oscar
6 Sheff, Da Fresh: Fresheff
7 The Beta Set: Funkagenda
8 Gtx DriftBuy: Christian Fischer
9 Blade Scanner: Phunk Investigation
10 Budgie: Funkagenda