dance music news: tuesday

-*Looks like The Crystal Method's Friday night show "Community Service" on Los Angeles-area station Indie 103.1 is over. A TCM rep tells the Los Angeles Times' Charlie Amter that "the station was making tweaks to the schedule, and rather than get locked into a new time period for a potentially short period of time, the guys decided it probably would be best to take a break ... " Also cut: Brent Bolthouse and Danny Masterson's DJ-driven show, "Feel My Heat," according to the Times.

*UPDATE: We hear that the station's daily mash-up feature, the "Smash Mix," is also finished. That leaves "Neon Noise" on midnight Saturdays as the station's sole dance music program. That also bolsters the notion in Amter's post that Indie is trying to tighten its focus on indie rock. Of all the dance shows in L.A., "Neon Noise" - a tribute to the nu electro scene and its neon punk adherents - is the most rockest.

-"Still Alive," the title track to Electronic Arts/DICE's new videogame, Mirror's Edge, will get a host of electronic dance music remixes. Paul Van Dyk, Junkie XL, Teddybears, Benny Benassi and Armand Van Helden have signed up to do rerubs of the Lisa Miskovsky-performed song. The track, the Playstation videogame, and its eponymous album are all due Nov. 11.

"A groundbreaking videogame demands an equally provocative theme song," Steve Schnur, worldwide executive of music and marketing for Electronic Arts, said in a statement. "We've taken an unprecedented approach to this track, bringing together several of the world's top remixers to create an album that will not only cross genres and borders, but [that will] also redefine how great new music can be delivered to the world."

-British DJ duo The Black Ghosts (and its track "Full Moon") made the soundtrack to the upcoming vampire film Twilight. The soundtrack hits Nov. 4; the movie gets released Nov. 21.

-UK newspaper The Guardian argues that minimal techno has run its course and that a comeback of deep house, along with a resurgence in dubstep, is taking its place in tech hotbeds like Berlin.

-The Golden Gate Xpress newspaper gushes over last weekend's San Francisco Love Fest, buying promoters' estimates of a 70,000-strong crowd. (Above, Lovefest trio; photo by JerryD).