Dance Valley (“The Woodstock of Dance”) is an annual Dance Music festival, held in the summer in Spaarnwoude, Netherlands.

This years edition is planned on the 4th of August.

To be prepared, Maarten Van Vulpen made this Spotify Playlist with the biggest hits of all the performing DJ’s. Thx Maarten!

Dance Valley 2012

Via TheVerge

While Spotify’s iPhone app just got a big bitrate bump, unlike competitor Rdio, the company still doesn’t offer a native iPad app for its music streaming service. Well, the wait may be nearly over — a Swedish technology consultant has posted the first image of what he claims is a beta version of Spotify’s official iPad app to Instagram, along with the caption “It’s getting closer!”

The photo shows the same overlapping pane interface found in iPad apps like Twitter, along with a playhead along the bottom and sidebar with icons for Search, What’s New, Inbox, Playlists, and Friends. Note that this is not the same as the unofficial app that designer Max Petriv is working on. While an iPad app is currently the top idea on Spotify’s community site, and is listed as “planned,” so far the company has been tight-lipped about an actual release.

Jason Mraz – Love Is A Four Letter Word (Pop)
Patrick Watson – Adventures In Your Own Backyard (Pop)
Trijntje Oosterhuis – Wrecks We Adore (Pop)
M. Ward – A Wasteland Companion (Rock)
Only Seven Left – Anywhere From Here (Pop)
Miss Montreal – I Am Hunter (Pop)

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Let’s give it a try for our popular Top 40 playlist …

Billboard Album TOP 20

Source: Billboard.com

1. Madonna – MDNA
2. Lionel Richie – Tuskegee
3. Adele – 21
4. Shinedown – Amaryllis
5. James Newton Howard – The Hunger Games: Original Motion Picture Score
6. One Direction – Up All Night
7. Katy Perry – Teenage Dream
8. The Used – Vulnerable
9. Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball
10. NOW 41
11. Luke Bryan – Tailgates & Tanlines
12. Whitney Houston – Whitney The Greatest Hits
13. Gotye – Making Mirrors
14. The Shins – Port Of Morrow
15. The Mars Volta – Noctourniquet
16. Fun. – Some Nights
17. Meshuggah – Koloss
18. The All-American Rejects – Kids In The Street
19. Shake It Up Live 2 Dance
20. Adele – 19

The Kyteman Orchestra – The Kyteman Orchestra (Hip Hop / Pop)
Gazpacho – March of Ghosts (Rock)
Lost In The Trees – A Church That Fits Our Needs (Folk / Pop)
Killing Joke – MMXII (Rock)
Counting Crows – Underwater Sunshine (Rock)
Go Back To The Zoo – Shake A Wave (Rock)
Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls (Rock / Blues)
Alex Winston – King Con (Pop / Rock)
M. Ward – A Wasteland Companion (Rock)
The Shins – Port Of Morrow (Pop / Rock)

VPRO 3VOOR12 Luisterpaal selects the best new albums. Updated weekly. Check this weeks albums in One Big Spotify Playlist. A whole day of the best new albums:

Luisterpaal 3VOOR12 – week 14

Or choose the album you want:

Graham Coxon – A+E
MTV Presents Unplugged: Florence + The Machine
Hospitality – Hospitality
Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday … Roman Reloaded
The Dirty Denims – Wanna Be Famous
Kris Berry – Marbles
Quantic – Look Around the Corner (feat. The Combo Bárbaro)
Gemma Hayes – Let It Break
Lightships – Electric Cables
Clark – Iradelphic
Krzysztof Penderecki and Jonny Greenwood
Stefan Pop – Radio Zonder Handen
Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls
Nadeah – Venus Gets Even
The Kyteman Orchestra – The Kyteman Orchestra
Minus The Tiger – Minus The Tiger
Choir Of Young Believers – Rhine Gold
Daily Bread – The Present
Mike Wexler – Dispossession
Zammuto – Zammuto
Tim Christensen And The Damn Crystals
Bear In Heaven – I Love You, It’s Cool
Yppah – Eighty One
Of Monsters And Men – My Head Is An Animal
Schlachthofbronx – Dirty Dancing
lostprophets – Weapons
Fence – Fence
Wieb Zigtema – The Willows Weep
Flying Horseman – Twist
Willis Earl Beal – Acousmatic Sorcery
Justin Townes Earle – Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now
Giana Factory – Save The Youth
Rusko – Songs
Blood Red Shoes – In Time To Voices
Johnny Dowd – No Regrets

Luisterpaal selects the best new albums.

Graham Coxon – A+E
MTV Presents Unplugged: Florence + The Machine
Hospitality – Hospitality
Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday … Roman Reloaded
The Dirty Denims – Wanna Be Famous
Kris Berry – Marbles
Quantic – Look Around the Corner (feat. The Combo Bárbaro)
Gemma Hayes – Let It Break
Lightships – Electric Cables
Clark – Iradelphic
Krzysztof Penderecki and Jonny Greenwood
Stefan Pop – Radio Zonder Handen
Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls
Nadeah – Venus Gets Even
The Kyteman Orchestra – The Kyteman Orchestra
Minus The Tiger – Minus The Tiger
Choir Of Young Believers – Rhine Gold
Daily Bread – The Present
Mike Wexler – Dispossession
Zammuto – Zammuto
Tim Christensen And The Damn Crystals
Bear In Heaven – I Love You, It’s Cool
Yppah – Eighty One
Of Monsters And Men – My Head Is An Animal
Schlachthofbronx – Dirty Dancing
lostprophets – Weapons
Fence – Fence
Wieb Zigtema – The Willows Weep
Flying Horseman – Twist
Willis Earl Beal – Acousmatic Sorcery
Justin Townes Earle – Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now
Giana Factory – Save The Youth
Rusko – Songs
Blood Red Shoes – In Time To Voices
Johnny Dowd – No Regrets

The first Spotify-app for iPad is available in the iTunes App store right now. Not made by Spotify, but by The Famous Software Company.

Still waiting for the one by Immunis Development, and for the one by Spotify of course!

In the meantime: check out this app. Well done!

Enjoy Easter with the music you love:

The Passion Of The Christ – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Adrian Snell – The Passion
Bach, J.S.: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244
The Passion in Rotterdam – originelen
New London Chorale – The Best Easter Collection
Easter All-Star Orchestra – 50 Easter Classics
Various Artists – Easter Classical Collection
J.S. Bach: Oster-Kantaten / Easter Cantatas BWV 4, 31, 66, 134