Beats in the Trap: Hip-Hop or EDM?

An electronic subgenre merging characteristics of hip-hop with house and bass music has been gaining momentum over the past year. D.C.-based festival Trillectro highlighted it, but the true starting ground is Soundcloud, where producers, both established and aspiring, drop mixes under the name of “trap.” Trap, a fusion subgenre in [...]

By |2023-11-24T07:37:52-05:00February 14, 2013|

EDM News Roundup: Week of February 8

Hot Sauce EP on Mad Decent. Additionally on Mad Decent was a preview of new music to come: Diplo and Switch’s “Keep It Gully.” Expected to hit Beatport on February 18 is “Hit It!”, a collaboration from three Miami DJs GTA, Henrix, and Digital LAB. The track debuted over the [...]

By |2023-11-24T07:37:53-05:00February 8, 2013|

EDM News Roundup: Week of September 28

This past week featured announcements of multiple festivals and tours, from Richie Hawtin’s CNTRL to Jesse Saunders’ Pure House Music Festival, along with new releases. In addition to that, Skrillex was thought to be dead, but this internet hoax shows that, once again, you can’t trust everything you read online. [...]

By |2023-11-24T07:39:19-05:00September 28, 2012|

EDM Labels Started By DJs: Who Has Found Success?

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 [...]

By |2023-11-24T07:56:51-05:00August 15, 2012|

Diplo and Friends: Unfocused Debut Introduces Mad Decent Artists

If any current DJ can sustain a radio program solely through variety, it’s Diplo. The Philadelphia-based producer born Thomas Wesley Pentz jumps around between your standard variety house (the original “C’mon” with Tiesto), hip-hop (remix for Chris Brown’s “Look at Me Now”), dancehall (Major Lazer), and electronic-influenced pop (Usher’s “Climax”) [...]

By |2023-11-23T22:34:19-05:00April 19, 2012|
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