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Ahmed Khan, Director Bill Borrelli, Assistant Director Gary Quintin, Music Director
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TRADE PUBLICATION	FAX #	ADDRESS
BET	(202)529-4009
BILLBOARD
CASHBOX (213)464-8241	(213)464-3235	6464 Sunset Boulevard Hollywood, CA 90028
CMJ NEW MUSIC REPORT (516)466-6000	(516)466-7159	245 Great Neck Road Great Neck, NY 11021
D-ROM
DISCO MIX CLUB LTD MIX MAG (212)777-6676	(212)777-7167	666 Broadway, Suite 3 New York, NY 10012
DJ TIMES (516)767-2500	*(516)767-9335*	25 Willowdale Avenue Port Washington, NY 11050
FRIDAY MORNING QUARTERBACK (609)424-9114	(609)424-6943	Executive Mews 1930 East Marlton Pike #F-36 Cherry Hill, NJ 08003
HITMAKERS	(818)883-1097
HITS MAGAZINE (213)501-7900	(213)789-0259	15477 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 300 Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
HOUSE SOUND OF HAMBURG		Hamburg
IMIX MAGAZINE
IMPACT MAGAZINE (215)646-8001	(215)646-8645	532 Township Line Road Blue Bell, PA 19422
KEYBOARD MAGAZINE
MIX
MTV NEWS (212)258-8723	(212)258-8844	1515 Broadway, 24th Floor New York, NY 10036
MUSIC CHOICE Seth Neiman, Manager of Programming	(973)731-6505	414 Eagle Rock Ave. Suite 300 West Orange, NJ 07052 973-731-0500
MUSICIAN'S GUIDE
NETWORK 40 (818)955-4040	(818)846-9870	120 North Victiry Boulevard, Suite 102 Burbank, CA 91502
NOCTURNAL MAGAZINE
PARTY NEWS		Switzerland
POLLSTAR (800)344-7383	(209)224-2674	4838 North Blackstone Avenue, 2nd Floor Fresno, CA 93726
RADIO & RECORDS (213)553-4330	(213)203-9763	1930 Century Park West Los Angeles, CA 90067
ROCKBEAT MAGAZINE (213)858-7100	(213)275-3857	9171 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 300 Beverly Hills, CA 90210
SPIN MAGAZINE (212)633-8200	(212)633-2668	6 West 18th Street, 11th Floor New York, NY 10011
STREET INFORMATION NETWORK (212)956-3362	(212)956-2632	1674 Broadway, Suite 7C New York, NY 10019-5808
STREETSOUND (416)369-0070	(416)369-1702	174 Spadina Avenue, Suite 506 Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C2 CANADA
THE GAVIN REPORT (415)495-1990	(415)495-2580	140 2nd Street, 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94105
THE HARD REPORT (609)654-7272	(609)654-6852	4 Trading Post Way Medford Lakes, NJ 08055
THE RECORD (416)533-9417	(416)533-0367	PO Box 201, Station M Toronto, Ontario, M6S 4T3 CANADA
THE SOURCE (212)274-0464	(212)246-5638	595 Broadway, Suite 510 New York, NY 10012
UNTITLED MUSIC MAGAZINE
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ON-LINE CHARTS & RECORD STORES

Billboard Online New Releases page.
12 Inch Dance Record Store - House, Dance, Imports, Urban Charts
Plastic Fantastic Record Store Chart - 35 Drury Lane, Covent Garden, London, WC2B 5RH Tel: +44 (0) 207 240 8055 Fax: +44 (0) 207 240 7628 Email us @ [email protected] Charts, New Releases, and Audio Samples.
Click Music - The latest UK music chart.
Dotmusic - The latest UK music charts, talent and music industry news and special areas.Includes excellent chart comentry and an excellent music news round up. Updated as the chart is announced
nme UK - charts Uk singels, album chart and indie chart.
Record Pool Charts - Charts from record pools across the US.
The Basement World House Music Charts - Charts listed from DJ's around the world with dates.
Dixie Sound Works of Alpharetta Georiga, USA, well organized new releases page (mostly USA releases). (This is a framed section of the Dance Kings Connections pages.)
FromDJ.com -
Urban Tip Website -
U.S.A. DISCO & DANCE - PO BOX 942222 ATL., GA. 31141 Charts of Old & New Dance Music
Ice Magazine On-Line - CD Release Dates page.
The Dance Music Resource Pages are updated weekly. They contain a complete listing of new UK dance releases and imports, singles and albums, news of future releases, dance radio programme listings, and a big WWW links section. All new release can be perused or they can be viewed in the following categories: dance (general), house/garage, techno & trance, drum & bass, hardcore, or downtempo/leftfield. This site is the Internet edition of Dance Index, a weekly newsletter for dance fans, DJs and the music industry.
Satellite Records offers a new releases mailing list, plus you can browse releases by week and style in their (excellent online store listening booth (Real Audio is available for almost everything). The online store also includes a search engine, what's hot in the New York Store, restocks and best of 1998 lists.
Tower Records offers searchable and categorized new releases pages.
Urbandwax of Gainesville, Florida, USA, maintains a weekly new releases page.
The Weekly Releases list provided by Unique Distributors.
The search interface of the DJ & Vinyl Junkies new releases section of Watts Music, Inc.. Watts is a wholesale-only company, only retail stores can order from them. Most of the progressive / underground dance retail stores purchase from Watts. It should be no problem to find a retail store to order the items you find in the catalog. If you can't find a store to work with, Watts will put you in contact with one.
Addicted To Noise - based in Belgium, is a premier site for Belgian club listings, dance charts and house music.
Belgian Dance Top 20 : 1993 - 1996
Chart Magazine - a Canadian print magazine devoted to new alternative music. Features in include articles on current acts, scene reports from across Canada, reviews and
Canadian college radio and retail charts.
Charts All Over the World - one of the most comprehensive indices of music charts on the web. This site comes to us from Latvia. The site now includes a search engine for searching over 700 charts on the WWW.
DJ Crash - a Los Angeles, California, USA, based DJ. He specializes in progressive, deep house and garage. His site includes charts (Crash's Top Twenty, house, hip hop, progressive, world and more) and reviews. This site is in "The Basement," of the Rhythm Crew DJ's Entertainment site.
DJ Dez's Freestyle page - features DJ Dez's monthly freestyle chart, classics info. and the latest updates and information on the freestyle music movement.
DJ Joe D'Espinosa - of Boston, Massachusetts, USA, has a slick site with these sections: Resumé, Playdates, Chart (top 30 plus picks), Jukebox, Tape Club, Links, and E-Mail.
DJ Moon's Official Home Page - (Lafayette, Louisiana, USA) includes: The Latest News about Funky Breaks Producer, DJ Moon, and a Top Ten List chart.
DMC - UK-based, with a USA branch, remix service for sale only to professional d.j.'s with several publications: Mixmag, Mixmag Update. Each magazine offers interviews, reviews and charts.
DMC Dance Top 20 Charts have been know to reside at Infinity Disco Zone.
Dot Music (".dotmusic") - especially notable for it's subsection
.Charts which features a variety of charts (mostly compiledby CIN, the Chart InformationNetwork), including: the weekly Record Mirror
Eclipse Digizine - of Gainesville, Florida, USA, features ingredients (an index to parts of the site),
BandWidth (write-ups on local bands),
Boyd Westerman's Vortex (where you will find dance music reviews and charts),
g-spot (about Gainesville businesses), culture, rants, shoe chat, meet market (a free online dating service) and much more.
Eightball The CyberShop - at 105 East 9th Street in New York City, racks house, hip hop, reggae & acid jazz from around the world (12" & 7" singles, EPs & albums, vinyl & CD, DJ mix tapes) and exclusive Eightball-brand gear. This site has a new releases and buzz picks charts section, Global Cybershopping System (mail order) and an all-music chatboard.
Flamingo Record Promotions, Inc. - based in south Florida, USA, includes a 100 member record pool that promotes new music product of all genres via DJs in clubs, radio, and the streets. Their informative, easy to navigate, site includes: About Us, Breakouts, Pick Hits, Charts (Top 40 Dance, Top 40 Urban), Radio Adds, Reviews, Members (with profiles), E-Mail and Links.
Funk n Find It - [Sebring, Florida, USA]- a site established to serve as a center for the buying, selling and trading of vinyl records. The site includes: extensive pages of vinyl available by offer of (cash or trade, wants section, charts, links to other music related sites. Electro, funky and progressive breaks, hip hop, house, jungle, R&B, techno, trance are all included.
GAVIN - a San Francisco, CA, USA-based radio and music weekly trade magazine. It provides up-to-date information on what America's contemporary music radio stations are playing. Their homepage contains excerpts from the weekly issue. The GAVIN Airplay Charts are compiled from the playlists of more than 1,300 radio stations in 12 music formats: Top 40, Rap, Urban, A/C, Country, Americana, A3, Jazz, Adult Alternative, Alternative, College and GAVIN Rocks.
Hard To Find Records - in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, is a record store designed to help locate those hard to find records. They specialise in all types of rare, deleted, used and new house, garage, techno, handbag, disco, balearic, soul and hip hop. They will attempt to find any record released. Their website has recently been revamped. It includes directions to their store (warehouse), ordering information, links, a chart and a massive online database with lists of all the latest hot releases, plus one of the most comprehensive selections of rare and deleted dance records from 1970 till present.
Hauswerkz - the official website of DJ Greg Haus (from Berlin nightclub) promoting electronic dance music - techno, big beat, drum 'n' bass, trance, hardhouse, trip hop. The site includes: playlists, reviews, links, and info.
Hit FM 94.2 Stockholm, Sweden - (also with a Swedish language index page) is a dance oriented station with focus on club/techno/hi-nrg/Euro-nrg/pop mixed with club classics. Their Hit 60 Radio Chart has been published since 1979.
The House Music Factory - (door mat, entry, page), automatically jumps to the frame-based main page (or, contents list, if you don't use frames, the links will come up in another window). The site features playlists (airplay lists and tapes for the Hot Mix Ninety 7 radio show on EvoSonic), samples, charts, events, news, DJ profiles and booking info., hotlinx, desigz, art gallery, and search sections.
Housework's 2000 - [Lausanne, Switzerland]- a dj site hosted by DJ Mr. Mike (formerly called, Mr. Mike's House) which features dancemusic info, regularly updated charts and audio files, with hot links to housemusic related sites. A must visit for anyone interested in the true House sound of Europe.
Impulsive Records - Dublin, Ireland's new progressive house record label, DJ collective, DJ agency and production/promotion team. The site includes contact and general information, gigs and events list, original music (Real Audio format), DJ sets, charts, reviews, pictures, merchandise and excellent related links.
KDGE FM 94 - EdgeClub 94 - of 94.5 KDGE "The Edge" radio of Dallas, Texas, USA, offers playlists, hype charts, events info., artist id's and links. The webmaster for the site is the overnight D.J., Merritt.
Limited Edition for DJ's - by Luciano Berry in Italy features, charts (top 30 sales and dance, underground club, plus many DJ charts in the "Our DJ's" section), Play It Loud (under construction, will feature sound samples of new tracks), Events (under construction) and links.
Linus Dance Page - by Linus Sandberg of Bolln_s, Sweden, has a huge music archive collection of eurodance/techno/rave/rap/house samples (Real Audio, .ra, format), new and future releases info, news, dance charts, a DanceChat room, and links to music software, artists homepages and other music sites.
Liquid Nightclub - a world-class dance club located at 1439 Washington Ave., Miami Beach, Florida, USA. The web site provides contact info., a description of the club, calendar of events, top 10 lists (charts) from the house and guest DJ's, a live Real Audio feed during the club hours, 11pm to 5am EST, and an archived Real Audio session for other times, links, QTVR (under construction), flyers, photos, merchandise and articles from the press about the club.
Mike's Music Machine - includes chart listings from all the major Canadian DJ Pools
Ministry of Sound - one of the world's greatest dance music clubs. Ministry of Sound Recordings is one of Europe's biggest independent record labels. Their site is chock full with club listings, a flyer mailing list, chat room, shop, tours office, hours of live and archived Real Audio feeds of DJ's mix sessions from the club, streaming video recorded at the club and the Ministry of Sound Electronica Charts (main Ministry and clubbers). (More...DJR database)
Mixmag and Mixmag Update - UK magazines with a related USA publication, Update USA. They are published by the DMC remix service. The Mixmag Update Buzz Charts are a great starting place to check out what promos are out now and what hot new releases are forthcoming.
Music Beat Records - [Birmingham, United Kingdom]- retail music store which specializes in dance NRG and hi-NRG music. Sections include: CDs, Vinyl, Hot Tracks (also see the DJR info page for info. on this remix service), Charts (Dance and Hi-NRG), Ordering and Reviews.
Music Control Dance Management and Booking Agency - the site includes a large roster of eurodance artists mostly managed worldwide. Section include: S.O.S. DJ, Dance (Real Audio samples), Disco (Real Audio Sample), About Us, Contact Us, Charts and Links (Magazines, Labels, Dance Sites, Disco 70's, 80's Sites).
Nightclub & Bar Hospitality Online - the Net version of Nightclub and Bar Magazine. This site roams the cutting edge of the global nightlife scene. This well-designed site is full of information. Sections include:
DME Inc. / NCB Top 50 Dance / Crossover Chart (provided by The DixieDance Kings record pool)
hot promotions, cool cocktails, disc jockey booth (features, dj profiles (incl. a nice write-up on Atlanta's top dj's) and new products), club crawl (a very comprehensive club/bar directory), CyberMall (club/music industry-related products), bar links (actually links to more than just bars), NC&B Expo (convention and trade show).
Northern California's Premiere Dance Music Site - dedicated to HiNRG European underground and ambient dance music. Features include: weekly charts / playlists, weekly music picks, events in Northern California, affiliated DJs & clubs, contact for booking shows, links, industry sponsored pages.
Northwest Dance Music Association - [Northwestern region, USA]- a DJ record pool serving the dance music communities for the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, USA, since December 1977. They also publish the Northwest Beats Per Minute newsletter. Features at the site include: Top 50 Dance Chart, Top 50 Urban Chart, Member Services, Member Pages, How To Join..., Pics and More Pics, Upcoming Events, Links (loads including a large list of record label links), Technics 1200 Turntables FAQ, plus an on-line listing of the best DJ record pools in the country.
Out of Hand Online - a music / club scene E-zine based in Bristol, United Kingdom. Sections and subsections include: E-zine, News (events), Clubs, Music (charts and reviews, DJ interviews and profiles, forthcoming events, web links), Competitions, Web, X-Network, and Interact. A mailing list and bulletin board are also available. This site is tied into the Bristol Plus site which includes: Shopping, Daytime, Nightlife, Amsterdam, Bars and Cafés, Record Shops and Interact.
Oz Net Music Chart - home page features the current Australian Top 40 plus archives (Oz Net), the U.K. (BBC) and the U.S. (Billboard) charts.
The Party Pit - based in the Midwest, U.S.A., is a site that is focused on dance electronica and techno. Features include charts, give-aways, and much more.
Power 106 Radio - a Stockholm, Sweden radio station (the doormat page is an expanding logo) with a frames-based index page in Swedish through which you can get to an English page (if you enter directly at the English page you won't have frames and will need the index page). The site offers online radio broadcasts via the Streamworks Player, hot DJ mixes, top 30 charts, playlists, club guide and artist info.
Jonney Quest's Legion of House - by DJ Jonney Quest, (Mike Barnett) of the New York City, New York, USA and New Jersey, USA region. The introductory page will lead you to a frame-based index page. Selections include charts, DJ booking information, a form to join guest lists for top NYC clubs, link up with IRC and search the music chat rooms, Legion of House chat, and a link to Everything you want to know about your Technics SL1200.
Radio Centouno, 101 Network - a radio station in Italy, features: Frequenze (frequencies of broadcast), La Storia (history), 1000 al 2000 (artist/title contact submission form), Foto (photos), Links, Programmi, Radio Centouno Online (available only :-( with Microsoft Internet Explorer using Microsoft Netshow Player, and the impressive:
Soul System --a huge subsection with Charts (current and many archived for 1995-1998 and 1987), Producers Archive (more than 8000 artists cross-linked with producers, tracks and albums), Lyrics (almost all the lyrics for the singles in the S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M.), Rap Database (from One B.A.D World a great rap database with pictures and info on rap artists and their labels, Samples (a huge detailed list of samples and related tracks. Useful for sample clearances.)
Satellite Recordings - has stores in New York, Atlanta and Boston, USA, and offers worldwide mail order via their Web site. The store sells a large selection of 12" vinyl and CD dance music, a full line of DJ accessories and clothing. They offer a new releases mailing list, plus you can browse releases by week and style in their excellent online store listening booth (Real Audio is available for almost everything!). The online store also includes a search engine, what's hot in the New York Store, restocks and best of 1998 lists.
Songsearch CD Store - (Alpha site) is a mail order retail CD and video store based in Angelus Oaks, California, USA. Their mirror Beta site has a superfast search engine and a shopping cart. The store has an easy to use search page plus a browsable catalog, a full selection of charts (Australian, UK and US), a long list of labels and the abbreviations used, music categories, classified ads (items for sale and wanted), and the music crossroads (links).
Starfleet Music Pool - [Charlotte, North Carolina, USA]- record pool for d.j.'s with over 60 members. The site includes: pool information, top 50 crossover chart, , links to musically-related sites, event calendar, membership application, sports music and "attention he's mixing," which is tips for punters to think about before they ask the DJ what to play.
Streetsound Magazine - a USA/Canadian print and web magazine devoted to dance music. This is a comprehensive site covering many music genre. The following are a few highlights:
Charts - a wide variety of charts and chart archives are maintained:
The Streetsound Charts
page lists the top five breakout tracks of DJ's and other reporters, worldwide.
Streetsound Global 50 is an exclusive in-house pick of the 50 most action-packed new music tracks out now.
Hi-NRG - this area offers charts, reviews, reports, interviews, chart and review archives, and a hi-nrg chatboard.
Streetsound Global House is a house mailing list which was started after the SoDeep list went down in August 1996. It's a phat list, with dj's, industry peopleand fans from around the world. Subscription info is at http://www.streetsound.com/globalhouse.
Sunkissed Records - an Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. label managed by DJ Bill Hamel. Their site features Real Audio samples of their releases and loads of charts. You can also check out DJ Bill Hamel's charts here at DJ Rhythms. (More...DJR database)
Technomixes - [United Kingdom]- features over 24 hours of real audio trance and techno mixes, monthly charts (with more real audio samples), tips for beginner DJ's and people wanting to promote club nights.
The Top 40 Countdown - features country, hot A/C, dance, top 40 news and fun stuff sections with 3 full length music countdown audio programs (hit mixes). The webmaster is radio personality, Don Steel.
Tower Records - Singapore - offers cybershopping, information the stores and events, plus
album and single charts.
UK-Dance - a web site evolving from the mailing list initiated in November 1992 to provide a place for people to discuss everything to do with dance music culture in the UK: clubs, parties, special events, record shops, radio, records and anything else to do with the underground scene. The UK Dance charts are now available at the Dot Music site. The record shop directory previously linked in to the UK Dance site is no longer visibly linked at this site. Anyone know where it went?
The Ultimate Band List - formerly called the Web Wide World of Music, is a massive index site of music resources on the WWW. It is neatly designed into the following sections: radio stations, record labels, clubs & concerts, record stores, atn music news, online events, mags and ezines, more stuff and charts. The whole site is searchable and easily navigatable. (More...DJR database)
Undergroundhouse.com - [Lisle, Illinois, USA] - this site is the reincarnation of the House Nation site. It centers on house music and includes a large selection of charts, Real Audio samples of tracks, cds and dj mixes.
World Internet Dance Radio - features online radio shows in Real Audio format (.ra) of dance music, including:
Daily Show: current club music submitted from record labels, artists, and industry reps. (ca. 1 hr.)
Feature Mix: feature mix shows from around the world.
Sexy Joe Show: A HiNRG mix, updated weekly, by this DJ of Ontario, Canada, and staff writer for DMA Magazine.
Techno Mix: featuring a techno mix.
PLUS:
The DMA Top 50 Monthly Chart
New releases page
Yahoo: Entertainment:Music:Charts - large index list.