When you look at the presentation of large-scale music festivals and club shows, visuals, you might say, are the best and the worst things that ever happened to electronic dance music. On one hand, the flashing colors and graphics merge to create a dazzling palette, with the music enhancing that [...]
With American audiences, post-dubstep remains a relatively new concept, one requiring the listener to shift the pace and sonic density from Skrillex and Rusko to minimal percussion and sparse synths formulating an unstable rhythm. Not only does Atlantic Connection do this with The Limit, an EP that follows last year’s [...]
By now, you’ve likely heard the report, either through a news program or Twitter feed: Two people died as a result of drug overdoses during the first two days of Electric Zoo, prompting the NYPD and Mayor Bloomberg to cancel the EDM festival’s final day. Jeffrey Russ, 23, and Olivia [...]
If you haven’t noticed (and there’s a pretty good chance you have), trance music has fallen into a dichotomy of sorts in recent years. On one hand, vocal styles dominate the Beatport ranks and SiriusXM radio play. On the other, a darker, harder sonic palette – sometimes called trouse, sometimes [...]
What’s the best way to do an album release party for a producer? Does it take the typical pop/rock/hip-hop format, involving the album’s music played in the background for listening? Or, does the producer DJ it as a set to show just how well it works in a club setting? [...]
The biggest buzz in EDM over the past two weeks has been the re-launch of Priority Records. It’s an odd choice on the surface to focus on a label once associated with the biggest names in West Coast rap. On a deeper level, however, it’s not. The reviving of an [...]
BT’s ninth studio album A Song Across Wires hits stores on August 16, and to celebrate the occasion, the DJ and producer is performing at Marquee New York on August 17. We’ll be there. Tickets are currently available and can be purchased here. Even though the event begins at 11 [...]
Another day, another Deadmau5 rant. At times, from the pictures of his cat to random digs at Avicii, Deadmau5’s complaints morph into whining, but at others, he makes a decent argument. The latest is his beef with Afrojack, which culminated in toss-off track “Drop Da Bomb.” After telling the Dutch [...]
In the scope of electronic dance music, videos have long seemed secondary. In spite of bigger budgets, themes primarily feature dancing, or in certain instances, the budgets are so low and the execution so shoddy that EDM videos are the medium’s B-movies. More recently, Vyclone unveiled an app that could [...]
On June 26, Music Choice put out a press release regarding its latest endeavor: a partnership with burgeoning EDM network OneBeat. The #1 Free Video On Demand Network claims that, through working with the multi-platform company, they will be presenting the “largest collection of EDM programming to TV for the [...]