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The music industry sees iTunes leading the way to a new model of pay-for-play for digital downloading. Now as odd as it might be that the music industry is relying on a computer maker for a business model, it seems to be working. While iTunes may be a great place for the general public to find their music, several sites are popping up that cater to dance music lovers.

Dancetracks Digital partners with Abelton
Continuing the trend of download stores linking with DJ software programs, Dancetracks Digital has partnered with Ableton to featurie specially formatted downloads. In addition to standard MP3 files, users have the option to download the "Live-Ready" ASD file for no additional charge. These ASD files will load directly into Abelton Live without any additional steps - allowing for instant DJing and mixing without further setup.

Masterbeat.Com Launches - Interview with Hosh Gureli and Mindy Galvin
January 1, 2008 launched not only the start of the new year but the pre-launch of Masterbeat.com, a new digital download site that aims to bring dance and electronica music to a higher level. Think of Masterbeat.com as the dance remix of Itunes, combining the hottest club tracks and dance remixes from both independent and major labels. With an easy to use search engine and a strong catalog, Masterbeat.com looks to be the next step in mainstream embracing of dance music culture.

DanceTracks Closing New York Store
The legendary Dancetracks is closing their record store at 91 East 3rd Street in the East Village this Friday, November 30th. The store will continue Dancetracks Digital online store which has been operation since. Per Iain Caitling, "These are changing times within the music industry, and just as the shop was central to the early growth of the scene, Dancetracks Digital will continue to evolve and push the music forward."

AudioJelly Interview - Space Brothers, Lustral, Ascension, Essence
Any lover of trance music will know Ricky Simmonds and Stephen Jones under one of their multitude of aliases – Ascension, Essence, Lustral, and Space Brothers. In 2004, they launched Audio Jelly as an online label to sell their productions. The successful digital download site quickly grew with labels and producers coming on board to sell their music online. With an extensive lineup of upfront European dance music, AudioJelly is a favorite of DJs and dance music lovers around the world.

AudioJelly
Online record label and music store featuring exlcusive digital downloads of music by Graham Gold, Lustral, Space Brothers and many more.

Beatport Interview - Jonas Tempel
Recently reaching one million downloads, Beatport is the premier digital music store for DJs and music lovers. Launching in 2004 with 79 record labels on board, that number has grown to over 3000. With the launch of Beatport 3.0, the store brings new features such as My Beatport, what other users bought, and integration with Native Instruments Traktor software.

Beatport
This digital download network has received support from record labels such as Twisted, Addictive, Shaboom, End Recordings, Stereo Productions, Fade and Amplitude Recordings.

Dance Music Ringtones
Dance Music Ringtones

Dance Tracks Digital

Dance Vault : Dance Classics Online
Where do you go online to download dance music classics Launched exclusively on iTunes, the Dance Vault is full of treasures old and new and is updated monthly. It's the mission of RCA Music Vice President Hosh Gureli to insure that dancemusic will be discovered by a new generation of dance music lovers.[

DigiBag
Online music store that sells both compressed (Mp3) and uncompressed (WAV / AIFF) audio files of exclusive and unreleased new tracks from dance music producers like DJ Sneak, Onionz and Hector Moralez. The site pays artists a higher fee for each download than other commercial download sites.

Digital Jay Music

DigitalDeejay
Formerly known as E-FrenchSound.com, the site is beta testing new services to provide DJ's with the freshest music from artists and labels worldwide.

DJ Download
DJ Magazine’s dance music mp3 download store - easy to use and the most upfront club music.

DJ Xpress

Groovegate
New digital download site featuring unsigned dance artists and new dance labels. A great place to find the next big thing!

Hoooka
A different approach to digital downloads, Hoooka empowers the user to create their own media store and player to promote their favorite digital media (music and videos). The playlists created through Hoooka can be put up any where - websites, blogs and even MySpace.

Kult Record goes Digital
Kult Record goes Digital

Nufonix
Active since mid-December, the site is easy to use with music categorized by genre House-Progressive, Tecnho-Electro, Breaks-Hip Hop, NuJazz-Fusion, Lounge-Downtempo, and Minimal-Abstract. Based in NYC, the site specializes in cutting-edge underground music and represents hundreds of artists from over sixty labels. They also accept submissions from unsigned artists.

Perfect Beat Announces Digital Downloads
Perfect Beat Announces Digital Downloads

Play It Tonight
In operation since November 2003, Play It Tonight sells dance music from many genres (trance, drum & bass, minimal, downtemp, electro, breaks, techno and house.) All MP3s are encoded at 320bit without digital rights management (DRM), so you can spin them on any system with great sound quality.

Pulse Digital Download
Cutting edge internet radio station branching out to sell digital downloads - an interesting way of finding and purchasing dance music.

Star 69 announces MP3 shop
Star 69 Launches MP3 shop

Stompy
Stompy has been a long term supporter of the San Francisco house sound since 1992. Venturing into the online world, Stompy.com offers a boutique approach to the finest house music - with both singles and DJ mixes.

Traxsource
Featuring digital downloads from the hottest international house labels (MAW, Defected, CR2, Vega, Soulfuric, Swing City, King Street, Toolroom, Big Love, OM, and Naked Music), Traxsource is known for being selective and posting only the best tracks.

Uptown Records
Well respected record shop, Uptown Records, is now offering digital downloads from labels like Big Love, Kidology, Catch 22, Smokin Beats, and many more. You can purchase the digital download or buy the record - making all kinds of DJs and music lovers happy.

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