The dates on which it takes place are November 2 – 5.

The Berlin Music Days is positioned as an independent Festival and is based on three pillars.
BerMuDays – a comprehensive programme that includes workshops, panels, lectures, exhibitions and fashion events around electronic music and its associated culture

BerMuNights – label nights, showcases and top-notch party events in Berlin’s hottest clubs and locations

Fly BerMuDa – the final party on (former) Airport Tempelhof

For more info check bermuda-berlin.de.

All2GetherNow

One of the parts of BerMuDa is All2getherNow, a conference where artists and music professionals come together to come up with new developments for the music scene and to learn from each other.

DJ Monitor has been invited to come to A2N and participate in a discussion panel about ‘new developments in the scene’. Next to that we will also do a presentation about our service and the possibilities it might offer for attendees.

For more info check all2gethernow.de.

We will be in Berlin from November 2 – 7. Contact us if you want to meet during our stay.

If you’re not able to be in Amsterdam, listen to the live audio stream and follow what tracks are playing live at the party via DJ Monitor.
The audio player and tracklist will be streaming live on the Stealth Records website via the“Live” section, along with Beatport links to the tracks …

Founded fifteen years ago, ADE first came to light in 1996 as a small conference with a few hundred music professionals and a festival program in 3 clubs with 30 DJs.

Now in 2010, ADE has grown to become the ultimate platform to meet international business partners, introduce businesses to a worldwide audience and get in touch with new people, new music and new trends.

DJ Monitor will be attending all days of the conference. Contact us if you want to meet with us.

Contributor Nick Jardine profiles DJ Monitor and the impact the organization has on independent dance music artists.

Read interview here.

A group of European artists yesterday met with Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, at the initiative of Younison to present their joint Call for Action[1] to protect European music artists. The group shared with the Commissioner six specific policy recommendations and suggested these be incorporated into the proposed Framework Directive on Collective Rights Management, to ensure that artists are promptly and accurately rewarded for the exploitation of their work within the EU.

The delegation included Kelvin Smits (Cinérex, Director Younison), Joanne Scobie (Younison project manager), Sybil Bell (Featured Artists Coalition), Hilke Ros (Amatorski), and Yuri Dokter (Director, DJ Monitor).

All those at the meeting agreed on the need for collecting societies to accurately and reliably collect data to ensure that the right money finds its way back to the right artist. According to dellegation, this current system “suffocates the European creative middle class who are not legally empowered and cannot assume that the money collected in their name will find its way to the rightful owner. Recent events in Spain have underlined the urgent for reform to prevent huge amounts of money being redistributed arbitrarily or, even worse, embezzled.”

After the succesful monitoring in cooperation with Buma/Stemra and ID&T of “Sensation”, DJ Monitor has now concluded the first phase monitoring of the worldwide gigs of Armin van Buuren, including “Armin Only” and “A State of Trance World Tour”.

DJ Monitor provides complete setlists combined with audio in an online playlist management system, which are used by Performance Right Organizations around the world to remunerate rightsholders played during those sets.

DJ Monitor is providing fair & transparent distribution of collected license fees through complete monitoring solutions, as well as providing live playlists, including legal download links, on websites and through social media such as twitter for fans.

The sleek, portable device, with innovative functionality is the device of choice for SENSATION.

In cooperation with Dance Tunes, DJ Monitor will soon list live playlists on Twitter and the Sensation & Dance Tunes websites, featuring integrated download functionality of music as it is played by the World’s best DJs.

A world premier exclusive brought to fans of Sensation worldwide.

We will create a live playlist for this event in cooperation with Hardcoreradio.nl, Hardtunes and Art Of Dance.

You can tune in here this saturday, starting from 18:00 till 07:00 and check out the live playlist here or here.

Both meetings were very fruitfull and have led to follow up conversations with both parliament members, other EU commissioners and the cabinet of Vide President Kroes, who wrote about the coalition “asked for incr. transparency & fairer distribution of royalties. I agree. They have big ideas for the future”.

We are happy to say we have now imported all of Mobilee’s tracks into our database.

You can check Mobilee’s catalogue here.