This line up has changed…Everyone who wants to participate in the voting must vote via shoutbox on the night or via email to the hosting DJ vincentvinyldj@gmail.com

Robert Nickson

Robert’s background is a multi-national affair, father from England, mother from Norway, born in England and now living in Holland. But it’s Holland that has given him his musical influences. Holland is renowned for its Dance Music scene. His first production with Dave Masters “Masters & Nickson - 5th Dimension” was first picked up by Dutch legend Armin van Buuren who subsequently gave the listening world their first taste of Robert when he played “5th Dimension” on his weekly ID&T radio show, “A State of Trance” Armin loved the tune so much that he signed it as one of the first records to his Armada Music label. Receiving massive support from djs such as Paul van Dyk, Ferry Corsten and Dave Pearce, it was also featured on many compilations such as Godskitchen Worldwide.

Robert’s work has not gone unnoticed by those at the top. There’s no better sign of how well things are going than getting the support of artists such as Armin van Buuren, Paul van Dyk, Tiesto, Markus Schulz, Judge Jules, Above & Beyond and countless others who continue to support the work that he does.

Robert’s gig list has grown quicker than anything he had ever dreamed of and his air miles balance certainly looks healthy now. Robert has visited countries from afar rocking the dance floors of London to Los Angeles, Sydney to San Francisco and all over Europe. His DJ style is the same as his productions, giving audiences beautiful no nonsense trance. Robert’s energy behind the turntables is electric and you can be sure that wherever he spins, the masses will not be standing still. His monthly radio shows on DI.FM have been listened to by thousands and gaining more every month.

In 2007 Robert first released a track under his new guise “Nick Robertson”, called “Identity Crisis”. With a harder edge, this has received massive support from the likes of John O’Callaghan and Radio 1 support from Eddie Halliwell. Returning to the true trance sound he released a three track EP called “Motion Blur”, which has now been signed to an almost frightening number of compilations. Some of the DJ’ing highlights of the year included the massive San Francisco Love Fest, Oxygen in New Zealand and Digital Society in Leeds.

2008 has started of well with a remix for Deep Voices on Combined Forces, which has been a favourite with many DJ’s. Experimenting with a different sound he released “Narc” on Pilot6 Recordings with a Simon & Shaker Remix, which has received support from the likes of Tiesto and Ferry Corsten. Set for a release in May is his next single of the year called “Never Again”. It has now been tested and approved by handfull of lucky DJ’s. Also coming up is a re-release of “5th Dimension”, with an impressive Daniel Kandi Remix.

Currently Robert is working on more tracks and remixes, including a new “True Form” track. Also coming up later this year is a collab with Daniel Kandi!

“When you die and go to trance heaven, this is what they’ll be playing in the arrivals lounge” - Mixmag review of Spiral.

“If you ever have to explain to your parents what trance music is, play Spiral” - Armin van Buuren.

Links:
www.robertnickson.com
www.myspace.com/robertnickson

TUESDAYS AT AMNESIA

THE RETURN OF THE GIANT, ONLY THE GIANT JUST GOT BIGGER… MUCH BIGGER!

Dance music’s annual exodus to the infamous white isle is nigh! Ibiza 2008 is fast approaching and trance titans Armada return to the Balearic Mecca for their fifth year — bigger, bolder and better!

Joining Armada’s elite force, Tuesdays at Amnesia welcome a new player – ‘Contact’. Contact will rip up the terrace each week, inviting labels like the mighty Toolroom and Yoshitoshi along for the house music ride. It’s sole aim being to bring the most talented international DJs and producers together under one roof, thus creating a true Ibiza experience.

Armada is the one of the biggest forces in modern day dance music, boasting a back catalogue that no-one can rival, stellar artists, and is, of course, home to the No.1 DJ in the world – Armin Van Buuren.

Armin topped the world’s most important DJ poll — DJmag’s Top 100 — in October last year and this impending Ibiza season is his first as ruler of the DJ roost!

Exclusive to Armada at Amnesia, Armin will play a massive 11 weeks out of the 14-week season, during which he’ll record a very special ‘A State of Trance’ and command an ‘Armin Only’ event — certainly two of the many highlights coming your way this summer.

He’s joined by fellow heavyweight Markus Schulz, who’s vacating his Miami home for the entire season, soaking up 10 dates in Ibiza, as well as a non-stop tour of Europe.

The whole line up represents the very best in international DJ talent and includes: Markus Schulz, Marco V, ATB, Hernan Cattaneo, Sharam (DeepDish), Rank 1, Matthew Dekay, Menno De Jong, Blake Jarrell, John O’Callaghan, Gareth Emery, Glenn Morrison and many more.

On the terrace, Contact offers the perfect alternative to the main room, serving up sounds that will reach 130bpms and no more. Mark Knight’s Toolroom, Tocadisco and Deep Dish’s YoshiToshi throw their weight behind it — creating a ‘bang on the money’ terrace vibe.

Signed up so far are: Sharam, Mark Knight, Laidback Luke, Seb Fontaine, Tocadisco, Matthew Dekay, Martijn Ten Velden, Brian Cross, Richard Dinsdale, Cedric Gervais, Mar-T, Kurd Maverick and more.

Armada and Contact at Amnesia, is the force to be reckoned with in Ibiza this summer. When the clubbing world looks back on Ibiza 2008, we guarantee this will be the one night that shines bright above all others for the very best of reasons.

ARMADA MAIN ROOM

JUNE 17TH - OPENING PARTY:
Main Room:
Armin Van Buuren
Markus Schulz
Marco V
Blake Jarrell

Terrace:
Kurd Maverick
Martin Ten Velden
Erick E
Mar-T

JUNE 24TH - YOSHITOSHI:
Main Room:
Sharam (Deep Dish)
Hernan Cattaneo
Markus Schulz
Remy

Terrace:
Sharam (Deep Dish)
Tocadisco
Cedric Gervais
Richard Dinsdale

JULY 1ST - A STATE OF TRANCE LIVE:
Main Room:
Armin Van Buuren
ATB
Gareth Emery
Menno De Jong
Jennifer Rene
John O’ Callaghan
DJ Shah

Toolroom:
Mark Knight
Tocadisco
Julio Navaz, David Amo
Ravene Voloz

JULY 8TH:
Main Room:
Armin Van Buuren
Markus Schulz
Marco V
Matthew Dekay

Toolroom:
Mark Knight
Seb Fontaine
Matthew Dekay
Mar-T

JULY 15TH:
Main Room:
Armin Van Buuren
Markus Schulz
ATB
Glenn Morrison

Terrace:
Laidback Luke
Martijn Ten Velden
Brian Cross
Glenn Morrison

JULY 22ND:
Main Room:
Armin Van Buuren
Markus Schulz
Benny Benassi
Matthew Dekay

Terrace:
Tocadisco
Kurd Maverick
Matthew Dekay
Tony Varga

JULY 29TH:
Main Room:
Armin Van Buuren
Markus Schulz
Marco V
Blake Jarrell

Toolroom:
Mark Knight
Martijn Ten Velden
Richard Dinsdale
Erick E

AUGUST 5TH:
Main Room:
Armin Van Buuren
Markus Schulz
Rank 1 LIVE
Remy

Toolroom:
Mark Knight
Laidback Luke
Tocadisco

AUGUST 12TH - ARMIN VAN BUUREN 8 HOUR SET:
Main Room:
Armin Van Buuren

Toolroom:
Mark Knight
Seb Fontaine
Matthew Dekay
Kurd Maverick
Brian Cross

AUGUST 19TH - YOSHITOSHI:
Main Room:
Sharam (Deepdish)
Marco V
Matthew Dekay

Terrace:
Sharam (Deep Dish)
Tocadisco
Cedric Gervais
Miss Nine
Sultan

AUGUST 26TH:
Main Room:
Armin Van Buuren
Markus Schulz
ATB
Glenn Morrison

Toolroom:
Mark Knight
Tocadisco
Erick E

SEPTEMBER 2ND - YOSHITOSHI:
Main Room:
Sharam (Deep Dish)
Markus Schulz
Matthew Dekay

Terrace:
Sharam (Deep Dish)
Laidback Luke
Matthew Dekay
Cedric Gervais
Miss Nine
Sultan

SEPTEMBER 9TH:
Main Room:
Armin Van Buuren
Markus Schulz
Remy
Menno de Jong

Toolroom:
Mark Knight
Seb Fontaine
Brian Cross
Richard Dinsdale

SEPTEMBER 16TH - CLOSING PARTY:
Main Room:
Armin Van Buuren
Markus Schulz
Matthew Dekay
Blake Jarrell
Glenn Morrison
Remy

Terrace:
Tocadisco
Seb Fontaine
Martin Ten Velden

Reminder

Ladies and gentlemen, Citybeat Radio and City Sounds are proud to announce a new contest.

I know that there are lots of Bedroom DJ’s out there and i would like to give you some promotion, so if you want to be heard and people to start knowing your skills than this contest is for you.

Starting from today, 2nd of April and until the 15th of May, you can send me your mixes and after that the first five contestants will be played on the City Sounds show that you can listen to every Saturday from 9 PM GMT on Citybeat Radio.

The big winner will be invited as a guest for 2 months on the show and have a huge promotion from us.

All you have to do is do a 1 hour mix, upload it one of of the following : sendspace, megaupload, filebox.ro or rapidshare and then send me the link at : vincentvinyldj@gmail.com.

Also please send me some informations about you and contact details so that I can reach you.

Now get your decks and music ready and start mixing!

Every week, we select most enjoyed tracks of the week. Below are those, get yourself some awesome tunage. Mostly brand spanking new, a few newish releases and some new albums & extras.

Have fun downloading, we hope you enjoy them as much as we have!

Brand Spanker Tracks

Josh Wink - Stay Out All Night

Africanism All Stars - After The Rain

Sander Van Doorn - Pura Vida / Sushi

Guy J - Under Pressure

Gui Boratto - The Rivington (Remixes)

Gregor Salto - Bouncing Harbour (Remixes Part 2)

Foat & Boddy - Droidnosh

Tocadisco - Streetgirls

Marcel Woods - Life is like a box of chocolates

Larent Wolf - No Stress

Orjan Nilsen - Guitarra

Simon Patterson - Smack

Mike S vs Edmission - It’s your Bitch

Midway - Amazon

Cosmic Gate - Inpetto Dub - A Day that fades

Steve Morley - In Dreams

Jessica B - The Guardian

Mason - John Dahlback remix - Bermuda Triangle

New Releases

Cerf Mitiska & Jaren - You never said (dash berlin mix)

Heatbeat - Push

Markus Schulz - Perfect (agnelli & nelson remix)

Dash Berlin - Till the sky falls down

Sunlounger - Whitesand

Kismet - Revolution

DJ Shah - Who Will Find Me

W&W - Mustang

Absolute - Absolutely

Simon & Shaker VS Groove Garciqa - soultech

DJ Shah - going wrong (DJ Shah Remix)

Andrew Bennett - Shine

Sunlounger - Crawling

Aly & Fila fkn how long Feat Jahala Kris ( Kris Oniel remix)

Ascension - Someone

Albums Played

DJ Shah - Songbook Album

Kayama Painters

Armin Van Buuren - Imagine

Extras Played

Aimnat’s Week-end Speciality: Transitions

VA - Armada Presents: Ibiza Trance Tunes

VA - Buddha Bar Bombay Sapphire

We have recieved our first copy of the wonderful album ” Songbook” by DJ Shah. This is one of the best albums we have heard this year, with mellow vocals and blissful melodys this gets a full 10/10 from Citybeat Radio managers.

Of course as soon as we received it, we got straight on with promoting it, by airing the whole album for the listeners to pleasures. We will be offering a couple of the albums tracks for download, just to give you a taster of what your missing, but to recieve the whole album you will have to buy from itunes.

D1: ALBUM VERSIONS

01. Now Or Never - feat. Aruna
02. Who Will Find Me - feat. Adrina Thorpe
03. Ocean Drive - feat. Phillipa Joy
04. Don’t Wake Me Up - feat. Inger Hansen
05.Lift Me Up - feat. Kelly Llorenna
06. Proud – feat. Chloe Langley
07. Going Wrong - Armin van Buuren & feat. Chris Jones
08. Turn Back Time - feat. Jane Kumada
09. Beautiful (Glimpse Of Heaven) - feat. Jan Johnston
10. Free - feat. Ed Winslet
11. Back To You - feat. Adrina Thorpe
12. Make Me Feel - feat. Maria Nillius
13. Sunday Morning 2.8 - feat. Britta Medeiros
14. Over & Over - feat. Nadja Nooijen

CD2: ACOUSTIC VERSIONS

01. Now Or Never (acoustic version) - feat. Aruna
02. Who Will Find Me (acoustic version) - feat. Adrina Thorpe
03. Ocean Drive(acoustic version) - feat. Phillipa Joy
04. Don’t Wake Me Up (acoustic version) - feat. Inger Hansen
05. Lift Me Up (acoustic version) - feat. Kelly Llorenna
06. Proud (acoustic version) - feat. Chloe Langley
07. Going Wrong (acoustic version) - Armin van Buuren feat. Chris Jones
08.Turn Back Time (acoustic version) - feat. Jane Kumada
09. Beautiful (Glimpse Of Heaven) (acoustic version) - feat. Jan Johnston
10. Free (acoustic version) - feat. Ed Winslet
11. Back To You (acoustic version) - feat. Adrina Thorpe
12. Make Me Feel (acoustic version) - feat. Maria Nillius
13. Sunday Morning 2.8 (acoustic version) - feat. Britta Medeiros
14. Over & Over (acoustic version) - feat. Nadja Nooijen

CD3: CLUBMIX
01. Now Or Never (Intro Mix) - feat. Aruna
02. Over & Over (Club Mix) - feat. Nadja Nooijen
03. Turn Back Time (Original Mix) - feat. Jane Kumada
04. Ocean Drive (Original Mix) - feat. Phillipa Joy
05. Going Wrong (DJ Shah’s Original Extended Mix) - Armin van Buuren feat. Chris Jones
06. Proud (Global Experoence Remix) - feat. Chloe Langley
07. Don’t Wake Me Up (Original Mix) - feat. Inger Hansen
08. Who Will Find Me (Main Mix) - feat. Adrina Thorpe
09. Palmarosa
10. Make Me Feel (Club Mix) - feat. Maria Nillius
11. Beautiful (Glimpse Of Heaven) (Long Island Club Mix) - feat. Jan Johnston
12. Free (Original Mix) - feat. Ed Winslet
13. Sunday Morning 2.8 (Dub Mix) - feat. Britta Medeiros
14. Back To You (Original Mix) - feat. Adrina Thorpe
15. Lift Me Up (Stadium Club Mix) - feat. Kelly Llorenna

Download DJ Shah – Songbook, exclusive on iTunes
Great work DJ Shah!

Citybeat Radio