If there’s a division between modern and classic EDM, it’s how a setlist is put together. Go to Ultra Music Festival, Electric Daisy Carnival, or any similarly-large event, and the headliners have assembled an hour’s worth of familiar tracks, ones that remain recognizable even with mixing. A DJ trots out [...]
Experimental soul duo Mahon have created a neo-diaspora traversing the ethereal sounds of Ireland and the gritty beats of suburban New York. The duo have collided into the music landscape flirting with high fashion and expressive art, conjuring a mysticism within the electronic genre. The marriage between their organic song [...]
This week, electronic music gets political. More specifically, as the election looms just months ahead, President Obama is going after the EDM vote with a “DJs for Obama” ad that features DJ Cassidy, Steve Aoki, and Adam 12 of She Wants Revenge. If you can feel the beat, can you [...]
Charly, Thomas, Pho, and Pitchin makeup the French electronic group “Dirtyphonics.” Since 2006, the group has been releasing chart-topping music including a slew of 12” releases including, “French Fuck,” “Quarks,” and, “The Secret.” In addition, the band has gone on a world tour, which took over four months to complete [...]
It’s been a long, strange odyssey for the Dub Pistols. At the turn of the century the London big beat-dub outfit was poised for a major breakthrough. Then the 9/11 attacks temporarily derailed the release of their overtly political debut album Six Million Ways to Live. However despite being dropped [...]
If you were to attend the Winter Music Conference in Miami, at least three, if not more, label managers would be a stone’s throw away from where you are standing. Although EDM has its major players, like Ultra Music and Ministry of Sound, many smaller (and not-so-small) labels were originated [...]
Krewella is an electro group from Chicago comprised of sisters Jahan and Yasmine Yousaf joined by producer Rain Man. Making their debut in the summer of 2011, the trio instantly exploded onto the electro scene with their genre defying releases. Seamlessly merging infectious melodies with snarling dubstep drops, Krewella defies [...]
Alexander Robotnick has a long, unique musical history. Starting out in the late 80’s, the artist composed soundtracks for theater, film, and fashion shows, and, in 1983, he released the groundbreaking electro album, “Problèmes D'Amour.” In the late 80’s, the artist went through a profound style change, founding world music [...]
One controversial statement defined this week – and not one from Deadmau5. For those of you unaware, Skrillex produced Korn’s latest album, and now the nu-metal band’s frontman Jonathan Davis mentioned that "North American dubstep is the new electronic heavy metal. It's the filthier, the better in that world, and [...]
What is “trillectro”? Likely a soon-to-be-trending EDM subgenre, “trillectro” was coined by Modele “Modi” Oyewole, Quinn Coleman, and Marcel Marshall. The three, behind a Boston College radio show and, later, blog DCtoBC.com, have moved beyond, taking the term “trillectro” and escalating it into a full-on single day festival – the [...]