While yesterday’s focus at the Winter Music Conference was trends, today’s was managing your career. Considering a move toward remixing or getting your track added to film and television scores, or looking to have a better understanding of social media? The following points were brought up during the day: It’s [...]
With his own tracks and remixes in set rotation by major DJs, Topher Jones appears poised to turn into a major dance music producer. A Midwest native, he saw his remix of Gareth Emery’s “The Saga” drop on March 11 as part of Garuda Music’s Miami Mixes Collection. That’s not [...]
Crossfadr’s present at the 28th Winter Music Conference from March 18 to the 22. The first day was spent listening to and reporting on panels “Future Retro: Shades of House & EDM,” “Indie Culture: What’s Next?”, “D.I.Y. – The New Model for Launching Careers,” and “Sound Strategies: The Evolution of [...]
There’s too much to say about the three most definitive drum machines – the Roland TR-808, TR-909, and TB-303 – to condense into an hour. That’s not to say Kutski, the host of BBC Radio 1’s Stories: 808s, 303s and 909s, doesn’t attempt to. Although scatterbrained and going off on [...]
There’s irony in Ultra Music Festival holding a club tour. Celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, Ultra stands for everything modern (and occasionally reviled by purists) about electronic dance music: the hottest artists put front and center in the lineup, the biggest singles remixed in regular rotation, and sets no [...]
Just look at record sales – it’s no secret that record companies and the traditional approach to making and promoting music are becoming obsolescent. In place are digital technologies, with multiple properties working together: Facebook and Twitter to build the fanbase, Soundcloud (and Myspace, at one point) to get the [...]
Miami Music Week, which, for 2013, includes the Winter Music Conference and two weekends of the Ultra Music Festival, is less than a month away. Although WMC’s schedule is up, the major artists present at the week have their own events planned, and announcements are coming in. What’s in store [...]
With his upcoming album One Hundred Ten WKO, John 00 Fleming has a forward-thinking, more experimental vision for trance. The U.K. DJ and producer has been active in the genre since the 1990s, and with this release, Fleming’s looking to push past the genre’s club boundaries. Unlike contemporaries claiming “trance [...]
2013 is not only Ultra Music Festival’s 15th anniversary, it’s also the first time this electronic dance music festival is expanding to two weekends. Aside from this change, Ultra introduced a new concept for 2013: a pre-festival club tour. Called ‘Road to Ultra: A Long Way from Home,’ the tour [...]
Plenty of new releases came out or were announced over the past week, ranging from progressive house to more trap. What can you expect? For new material that’s already out, Juicy J and The Weeknd collaborated on “One of Those Nights”. Meanwhile, Cedric Gervais makes Lana Del Rey more listenable [...]