Last year, Minus celebrated its ten year anniversary with CONTAKT – a free-flowing, improvisational show involving the label’s top DJs and live performers backed up by state of the art visuals. The fly-on-the-wall documentary edited by Niamh Guckian (Totally Wired Movie) superbly documents the journey, offering a unique, behind the scenes look at what makes this crazy, passionate and highly focused group of individuals tick, as they attempt to redefine the conventional clubbing experience.

The Contakt DVD will go on general release later this year, however there’ll be a sneak preview of the documentary in London on 25 September, the evening before the hotly anticipated London Contakt Special event at O2 Academy Brixton.

Directed by: Ali Demirel & Richie Hawtin | Co-Director: Niamh Guckian | Produced by: MinusEdited by: Niamh Guckian | Camera by: Patrick Protz.

DVD Release: Autumn/Winter 2009.

From September 16th to 19th, 2009, Berlin is going to be all abuzz with the Berlin Music Days, or BerMuDa for short!

It’s actually hard to believe that Berlin’s electronic music world didn’t get together earlier to launch its own trade show or festival format, allowing it to break free from the outdated structures of the Popkomm and similar music events. As the world capital of electronic music, and considering the artists and labels at home here, Berlin has long had the ability to become a Mecca for music fans from all over the world. All the big names of the electronic music scene moved to Berlin long ago because of the city’s impressive locations and artist- friendly infrastructure.

And now the city’s electronic music scene has the BerMuDa, its own festival with international star power. For more information go to the official website: www.bermuda-berlin.de.

Voting for this year’s Top 100 DJs Poll is now open! The shape of the poll lies entirely in your hands so speak up and speak out by clicking onto top100djs.djmag.com and voting for those DJs who have impressed you the most over the past 12 months.

Powered by Trackitdown.net, the Top 100 DJs poll is the biggest event in the annual dance music calendar. Could this be the year that Guetta breaks the trance stronghold at the top? Will the resurgence of house be reflected in the results? Has dubstep made significant enough impact around the world for any of its leading protagonists to break into the poll?

Voting closes at midnight on Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009. And with a free track and free digital copy of DJmag for EVERYONE who votes, you’d be mad not to get involved.

Vote now at top100djs.djmag.com.

This Is Our Night is the brand new single taken from the highly anticipated forthcoming studio album (due Feb/March 2010), and has been causing maximum impact for a select few DJs the world over, and in particular for Sander in his sets. The catchy lyrics, infectious hooks, pumping bassline and overall production quality will ensure that this track will be a smash from Ibiza to Ireland, Berlin to Buenos Aires and London to Lima this summer. It really is a standout peaktime track. We at Little Mountain Recordings are now delighted to announce its full release.

Artist: Sander Kleinenberg
Title: This Is Our Night EP
Label: LMR
Cat.No: LMR055 & LMR055RMX
Format: Digital
Released: Global release 6th August (out on Beatport now)
Genre: House

Tracks:
1. Version: Original
2. Versions: Rene Amesz Chunk Remix & Sultan vs Ned Shepard Remix Rene Amesz Chunk Dub Mix, Francis Preve Remix & Deadmau5 Remix

The release, with remixes from Rene Amesz and Ned Shepard, hits the streets as a Beatport exclusive on June 25th, and then to the rest of the digital world two weeks later, on July 9th 2009.