And We Danced - New house music documentary featuring legends such as Juan Atkins, George Morel, Westbam and Larry Heard in the works!

Little White Earbuds Reflects: Minitek - LWE correspondent Will Lynch offers his take on the seemingly ill-fated Minitek festival. [LittleWhiteEarbuds]

Mixed up emotions - Richard Brophy finally cut the slack and did a mix. As usual, it was done using two Technics decks, a dusty old mixer and vinyl. [TestIndustries]

The Month In: Techno - by Philip Sherburne. [Pitchfork]

Latest forum downloads:

Minitek 2008 (2008-09-14)

Interview: Morgan Geist - Metro Area's Morgan Geist talks about his new solo album Double Night Time and the 'death' of the music industry. [FactMagazine]

Norman Whitfield, songwriter, producer, and a chief architect of Motown Records' sound in the mid-to-late 1960s and early 70s, passed away in Los Angeles yesterday, September 16, according to various reports. [Pitchfork]

Amazon Launch New Vinyl Shop - Amazon.com has announced that it has launched a new vinyl section with over 250,000 titles. [Bodytonic]

My mum said to me recently 'It's not all about Contakt and Cubes, you know' but then my parents came to our Contakt show during Sonar and they said it was the most professional show we had ever done. That felt good.

I bet you she also said "Hey Richie, nice Cube and decor, but what's up with this crappy music?"

Richie Hawtin on life as a famous DJ [Beatportal]

Photo credit: Merlijn Hoek, via Flickr

Pink Floyd keyboard player and founder member Richard Wright has died aged 65 from cancer.

As a keyboardist and songwriter, Richard Wright helped create the pioneering psychedelic sound that made Pink Floyd one of the world's greatest groups. His atmospheric, jazzy organs and synthesizers were at times at the forefront of their songs, and at others provided a dreamy undercurrent upon which the rest of the band could drift. [...] But with Wright's passing, a hugely important chapter in the story of British music has closed.

Obituary: Pink Floyd's Richard Wright [BBC]

Some Things Just Can't Stay Buried - Burial's recent revelation would appear to change nothing, but strangely enough it may just affect how we listen to his music. [PopMatters]

Our friend Adam Singer is giving away his new artist album Lifeforce for free as 192kbps MP3 download. 12 original downtempo/jazzy electronica songs and more than 77 minutes of music. Grab it here.

MySpace sets music free - MySpace Music, scheduled to launch in September, promises to be the most significant rollout of a digital-music service since Apple's iTunes. It will enable MySpace users to listen to any song from the catalogs of the three music giants free. [Fortune]

Latest forum downloads:

Derrick May - Live at Studio Martin (2008-02-15)

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Techno DJ steps from behind booth to the main stage - Interview with Matthew Dear. [WashingtonSquareNews]

The Prodigy: crazed juxtaposition - As XL Recordings prepare to re-issue The Prodigy's first two albums, K-Punk surveys the Essex quartet's chequered history. [FactMagazine]

Q&A with Cassy - Cassy talks about her previous excursions to the U.S., living and working in Berlin and why vinyl still rules. [Rhythmism.com]

Latest forum downloads:

Quarion - Eclectro Proton Radio mix (2008-09-02)
Thomas Krome - Live at Experience (2004-01-17)
Laurent Garnier - Live at Club Yellow, Tokyo (2004-05-22)
Danny Howells - BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix (2002-07-28)
Petar Dundov - Live at Kasuni (2007-06-16)
Seth Troxler - Live at Killer Robot in Cape Town, South Africa (2008-05-09)
Anders Ilar - Live at Krill in Tallinn, Estonia (2006-04-13)
X-Press 2 - BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix (2001-01-28)
Craig Richards - BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix (2004-06-20)

Here's a classic Essential Mix from Laurent Garnier. Man, this mix has been on my hard drive for ages! Enjoy...

Download: Direct (save as..) or Uploaded.to [192kbps MP3, ~170 MB]

Tracklist:

Giant Robot - Spelling Robot // Hawaii Sound
Bugge Wesseltofts - Hymn // Jazzland
King Britt & Ursula Rucker - Circle // Guidance
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Charley's Vault - My Answer // Twilight
Der Dritte Ruam - Hale Bopp // Virgin
The Monsters From Id - Spacial Lobe // Signal
Lexicon Avenue - Here I Am // Yoshitoshi
Julien Jabre - It Feels // Basic
Laurent Garnier - Smart Move // F Communications
E B E - Serenity // Soma
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Oxia - 134 // Good Life
Trevor Rockcliffe - untitled // Tronic
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DJ Funk - Run // Projex
DJ Rush - One Two Zero // Projex
Conmelt - Pop My Body // Ilc
Ken Ishii - Misprogrammed Day // R & S
Serge Gainsbourg - En Melodie // Philips
The Swarm - Protecting My Hive // UR
Oxia - Story // Good Life
Africa Bambaataa & Westbam - Agharta // Mute
Model 500 - No Ufo's // Metroplex
Laurent Garnier - Greed Part 2 // F Communications
Jeff Mills - If // Purpose Maker
69 - Desire // R & S
Burnt Friedman - White // Scape

BBC is reporting that drum'n'bass legend, Radio 1 DJ and notorious troublemaker Grooverider (aka Raymond Bingham) has been pardoned by the Dubai Royal Family and released from prison after serving half of a four year sentence for drug possession charges.

According to Guardian, on November 23 last year Bingham was arrested at Dubai International Airport after police found a small transparent bag containing 2.16 grams of cannabis and a pornographic DVD in his luggage, hours before a sold-out show at a local superclub The Lodge.

Grooverider released from prison [BBC]

Here's the list of top 15 tracks that rocked Filter27 HQ in July and August. All listed in no particular order:

Redshape - Robot / Neon // Music Man
Osunlade - Momma's Groove (Jimpster Remixes) // Strictly Rhythm
Pulshar - Nospheratu // PhonoBox
Arne Weinberg pres. Onmutu Mechanicks - Hypophysica // Echocord Colour
Tadeo - Reflection Nebula 56n (Substance Remix) // Apnea
Peter Visti - Tokyo By Night // Eskimo
Benjamin Brunn - Untitled A1 // Workshop
Mental Overdrive - Run To The Hills // Smalltown Supersound
Ziggy Kinder - Flipflop Crash (Pier Bucci Remix) // Souvenir
Brennan Green - Escape From Chinatown (Version by Studio) // Information
Frivolous - Island Of Sanctity // ~scape
Stimming - Una Pena (Argy's Nights Of The Deep Tech Mix) // Diynamic
Oracy - Hold Me // Mojuba
Vladislav Delay - Recovery IDea (Andy Stott Remix) // Semantica
Dølle Jølle - Balearic Incarnation (Todd Terje's Extra Døll Mix) // Permanent Vacation