Bringing a highly technical performance to the table, Trevor Nygaard utilizes three or more decks alongside ‘live PA’ elements to deliver a fresh, unique take on the art of a DJ. While most traditional DJ’s are simply playing one track into another for the crowd, Trevor is delivering a constant [...]
These days, a week doesn’t go by without some news about EDM in Las Vegas: a DJ scores a new residency, a new club gets built, or more funds get put toward improving one of the Strip’s several venues. Recently, what caught attention about Las Vegas’ nearly-overnight shift wasn’t some [...]
DJ Magazine recently released the results of its annual “Top 100” DJ poll. Many were outraged, and have flocked to social media to complain. Don’t. Here are ten reasons why you should avoid a spike in blood pressure, and not take the list seriously. 1. The poll is misnamed: "Top", [...]
All the way back when we attended the 2013 Winter Music Conference, there was a quote Secret Society’s Frank Lords said during one of the panels: “There’s nothing like the dirt in analog. I don’t think you can really pull that out of a digital plug-in.” And to a certain [...]
Ableton Live 9 has been out for a few months now, and whilst many people have already upgraded, undoubtedly there are a few of you out there who are still mulling over whether it is worth stumping up the cash for an upgrade. We felt that maybe now was a [...]
How soon after a highly-publicized death should artists – or anyone, for that matter – start spouting off a bunch of nonsense about everything that’s wrong with Americans’ attitudes toward drugs? When you’re a high-profile artist, you ought to wait – at least a few months. Although considered a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it [...]
While I can’t speak about what goes on in Europe, it seems that a fair percentage of U.S. television commercials now contain an EDM track to it – a bit of dubstep in a video game advertisement, a Feenixpawl song accompanying the Kia Soul hamsters, or Diplo-produced Alex Clare track [...]
It has been three years in the making, but I am happy to report that Party Guy Records releases its follow up to The Future Sounds of North America, The Future Sounds of North America II, this month. Comprised of a completely new lineup of young talented producers, the record [...]
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 [...]