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Beatport is an online music store specializing in electronic dance music and culture. Beatport is a privately held company owned and operated by Beatport LLC and based in Denver, Colorado.

History[link]

Beatport released the first 320 of its web store, Beatport 1.0, on January 7, 2004 with 79 Electronic Music Labels in its catalog.

In January 2005, a revised Beatport 2.0 was released, with a catalog over 100,000 tracks supplied by 2,700 signed labels. Beatport was also made accessible through a scaled-down GUI embedded within DJ software; Traktor DJ Studio by Native Instruments.

On August 7, 2006, Beatport released Beatport 3.0 Fully Loaded, the third version of its store, which featured improvements to navigation, customized content subscription via My Beatport, and new payment options.

In February 2007, Beatport launched the Beatport Player, a viral marketing web widget to play back relevant Artist, Label, Genre, and Chart content. Built using Adobe Flash and HTML, the player gives users the ability to create custom, dynamic playlists from Beatport's entire catalog of song previews to be embedded into nearly any HTML website.

In August 2007, Beatport launched a community-oriented music site, Beatportal, whose stated mission is "...to provide music lovers with up-to-date information about the world of electronic music".

On March 18, 2008, Beatport introduced the Beatport Music Awards‏. Each year Beatport users can vote for the best electronic music artists. The BMAs are broken down into 19 categories, including Best Artist categories from each genre, Best Remix, and Best Single. The nominees for the BMAs are based solely on unit sales at Beatport.

Beatport's latest version, The New Beatport, was released on January 21, 2009.

Launched April 9, 2010, Beatport's free iPhone app allows users to browse, listen, and add music to their shopping cart from the Beatport catalog.

On March 21, 2011, Beatport donated all proceeds to relief of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

On July 14, 2011, Beatport launched their new HTML 5 website with some new features like Waveform Display, Key Display.

Music catalog[link]

At launch, Beatport offered tracks from 79 electronic music labels to customers worldwide. The current Beatport catalog is made up of more than 700,000 tracks, 160,000 releases, and 24,000 artist charts from over 120,000 artists and remixers.

Dance music genres[link]

Music on Beatport is categorized into 19 genre classifications which include Breaks, Chill Out, Deep House, DJ Tools, Drum & Bass, Dubstep, Electro House, Electronica, Hard Dance, Hardcore / Hard Techno, Hip-Hop, House, Indie Dance / Nu Disco, Minimal, Progressive House, Psy-Trance, Tech House, Techno, and Trance.

In July 2008, Beatport created a distinct genre category for the Indie Dance and Nu Disco sub-genres, both of which were previously recognized as Electronica.

In June 2010 the following number of tracks were available in each genre:

File formats[link]

At launch Beatport supported the purchase and download of tracks in MP3, AIFF, and WAV formats.

MP3 tracks are encoded at 320 kbit/s using the LAME encoder and contain metadata of Artist Name, Track Name, Release Name, Release Date, and Musical Genre. In late December 2008, Beatport began using ID3v2.4 to include Album Artwork with newly encoded MP3 content.

MP4 tracks are encoded using a Variable Bit Rate encoder at 192 kbit/s (Between 170-205 kbit/s.)

Tracks delivered in WAV format contain uncompressed audio containing two channels of 44,100 samples per second, 16 bits per sample to maintain original CD audio quality.

Originally, all tracks available for purchase from the site were accompanied by 2 minute track previews encoded at 48 kbit/s. In late December 2008, Beatport doubled the bit rate of newly encoded track previews to 96 kbit/s. These track previews are used both in the Beatport storefront as well as in the customizable Beatport flash players.

Starting shortly after the redesign in 2011, Beatport introduced a beta of buying tracks as lossless AIFF with Album Artwork.

Digital rights management[link]

All tracks on Beatport are provided free of DRM. There are no restrictions on the number of devices to which a purchased song can be transferred nor the number of times any individual song can be burned to CD.

Customer care[link]

Beatport provides customer support through their online support portal. Customer care tickets are mainly handled via email but support is also available via Get Satisfaction and Twitter.

Awards[link]

2006

• International Dance Music Awards (IDMA) - Best Dance Music Retailer
• International Dance Music Awards (IDMA) - Best Dance Music Specialty Retailer

2007

• International Dance Music Awards (IDMA) - Best Dance Music Retailer
• International Dance Music Awards (IDMA) - Best Dance Music Specialty Retailer

2008

• International Dance Music Awards (IDMA) - Best Dance Music Specialty Retailer

2009

• International Dance Music Awards (IDMA) - Best Dance Music Specialty Retailer

2010

• International Dance Music Awards (IDMA) - Best Dance Music Specialty Retailer

2011

• International Dance Music Awards (IDMA) - Best Dance Music Specialty Retailer

See also[link]

• Beatport Music Awards
• Juno Records

References[link]

"International Dance Music Award Winners". About, Inc., part of The New York Times company. http://dancemusic.about.com/od/conference/a/IDMA2k7Winners.htm. Retrieved 2007-08-27. 

"Westword: Regas files suit against Beatport, Beta, and AM Only". Denver Westword Blogs. http://blogs.westword.com/backbeat/2010/12/regas_christou_files_suit_agai.php. Retrieved 2011-03-10. 

"23rd Annual International Dance Music Awards Nominees & Winners". Winter Music Conference. http://www.wintermusicconference.com/events/idmas/winners2008.php. Retrieved 2010-01-06. 

"26th Annual International Dance Music Awards Nominees & Winners". Winter Music Conference. http://wintermusicconference.com/idmaballot/nominees/. Retrieved 2011-04-18. 

External links[link]

• official website
• AboutDJ.nl: Beatport launches new site, Fully loaded 3.0
• 365Mag Interview with CEO Jonas Tempel

Mat Zo
Background information
Birth name	Matan Zohar
Also known as	MRSA, MRZO
Born	(1990-04-30) April 30, 1990 (age 22)
Origin	London, England, United Kingdom
Genres	Progressive house/trance
Occupations	Musician, DJ
Instruments	Keyboards, mixer, synthesizer
Years active	2006-present
Labels	Anjunabeats, Hospital Records, Armada Music
Associated acts	Arty, Unripelemon, Reif
Website	www.matzomusic.com

Matan "Mat Zo" Zohar (born April, 1990) is a British trance music and progressive house music producer, composer and DJ.^[1]

Life and career[link]

The son of successful artist Israel Zohar, and half-brother of Israeli singer Alma Zohar, Matan Zohar was born in London, England in 1990. He was raised by his mother who was a professional violinist, who possessed staunch musical ethos and nurtured Matan's early love of--and prodigious inclination toward--music. From age one to eleven, Zohar and his family lived in the city of Cleveland, Ohio in the United States. It was there at age 8 where his father presented young Zohar with a guitar as a gift.^[2] He returned at age 11 to London and continued pursuing his musical interests as a drummer and bassist as a member of a jazz and rock band respectively. However, Zohar became more interested in musical acts such as Daft Punk and the Chemical Brothers, and his musical inclinations shifted to those of electronic dance music and DJing. After 3 years living and producing music in London, his recording began to gain attention and play time by other disc jockeys such as DJ Tarkan, Perry O'neil, Swedish Egil, DJ R-Man, Jav D, Micah, Airwave, Andy Moor and Markus Schulz^[3] In the 2009 publication of DJ Magazine's top 100 poll he was described by musical acts Above & Beyond, Lange and Daniel Kandi as a promising producer. In the 2010 publication, Mat Zo was a new entry at #66.^[4][5][6]

Productions :

• Mat Zo "Exodus" Original Mix / Relysis Remix
• Mat Zo "No Hassle" Original Mix / Progressexual Mix: Blue Room Project
• Mat Zo "Foot And Mouth EP"
• Mat Zo "Clovers & Acid / What's Left In My Snorty" Original Mixes
• Mat Zo "Rush / Defined" Original Mixes
• Mat Zo "Lucky Strike / Synapse Dynamics" Original Mixes
• Mat Zo "Aurus / The Price Of Oil" Original Mixes
• Mat Zo "Nuclear Fusion" Original Mix / Rex Mundi Remix
• Mat Zo "Equinox / Subaquatic Dream" Original Mixes
• Mat Zo "Fractal Universe / This Is Reality" Original Mixes
• Mat Zo "Default / Rush 2009" Original Mixes
• Mat Zo "Near The End / Land Of The Free" Original Mixes
• Mat Zo "24 Hours" Original Mix / Oliver Smith Remix
• Mat Zo "24 Hours" Rank 1 Remix
• Mat Zo "The Lost / The Found" Original Mixes
• Mat Zo "Back In Time / Millenia" Original Mixes
• Arty & Mat Zo "Rebound" Original Mix / Radio Edit
• Mat Zo "Superman" Original Mix / Mike Koglin Remix
• Mat Zo "Frequency Flyer" Original Mix
• Arty & Mat Zo "Mozart" Original Mix / Radio Edit
• Mat Zo "Loop" The Essential Unreleased Mix
• Mat Zo "Bipolar / It's Yours / Ring On It / Yoyo Ma" Original Mixes
• Mat Zo feat. Linnea Schossow "The Sky" Club Mix / Extended Mix

Remixes[link]

• Lustral "In My Life" Mat Zo Dub
• Keenan & Anderson feat. Tiff Lacey "Runaway" Mat Zo Vocal Remix/Dub
• DJ Tiesto "Driving To Heaven" Mat Zo Remix
• Lange feat. Emma Hewitt "Live Forever" Mat Zo Remix
• Soliquid "Music Is For Rich People" Mat Zo Remix
• Waterspark "Fairway" Mat Zo Remix
• U2 "Beautiful Day" Mat Zo Remix
• Mark Pledger vs. Matt Hardwick feat. Melinda Gareh "Fallen Tides" Mat Zo Vocal Remix
• Activa pres. Solar Movement "Eclipse" Mat Zo Remix
• Signalrunners "Recoil" Mat Zo Remix
• Josh Gabriel pres. Winter Kills "Deep Down" Mat Zo Remix
• Sunny Lax "P.U.M.A." Mat Zo Remix
• Tritonal "Lifted" Mat Zo Remix
• Kyau & Albert "Be There 4 U" Mat Zo Remix
• Above & Beyond feat. Richard Bedford "Thing Called Love" Mat Zo Remix
• Judge Jules "City Nights" Mat Zo Remix
• Kylie Minogue "Get Outta My Way" Mat Zo Remix
• Tate & Diamond Feat. Nicolai "Electrified" Mat Zo Electrofied Dub
• Above & Beyond feat. Zoë Johnston "Love is not Enough" MRZO Remix

References[link]

External links[link]

• Mat Zo Official website
• Mat Zo Myspace profile
• Mat Zo Facebook page