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At Dancefair we followed the remix competition of Laidback Luke​. The assignment was:
-Receive some stems from one of his tracks
-You have two hours to remix it.

Don’t know the difference between lossy and lossless? What’s the deal with bit rates? Let us explain.
If you use iTunes or if you buy and download digital music, you’ll have come across a number of terms and abbreviations that describe digital audio files. This alphabet soup can be quite confusing. What are codecs or audio file formats? What is a bit rate, and what’s a sample rate? What does it mean when music is “high-resolution?” When you buy a CD, the audio on the disc is uncompressed. You can rip (or import) CDs with iTunes or other software, turning the CD’s audio into digital audio files to use on a computer or a portable device. In iTunes, you can rip in two uncompressed formats: WAV and AIFF (other software allows for other formats). Both formats simply encapsulate the PCM (pulse-code modulation) data stored on CDs so it can be read as audio files on a computer, and their bit rate (you’ll learn what the bit rate is below) is 1,411 kbps.

The ways in which we have experienced music, and how it has been recorded and consumed, have changed dramatically, and different formats have created some pretty iconic pieces of paraphernalia over the years. These have come to represent specific eras in the past century: think of the gramophone, vinyl, cassette tapes, compact discs and the rise of digital music, MP3 and now dedicated streaming services.

Beati Sounds has released their EDM Big Room track with a very winter festival vibe and great vocals. Grab your copy now:

Beati Sounds has released their EDM Big Room track with some very great vocal support. Grab your copy now: