Gareth Emery's got a new track, and he's making it available as a free download for anyone who buys a ticket to one of his upcoming tour dates. If uplifting trance is your drug of choice, though, "Hands" is definitely worth the extra effort.
With how much he shouts on the mic during performances, you'd figure Martin Garrix could be a little more communicative. You might remember the "Animals" producer debuting a wealth of new music last week, but contrary to widely circulated speculations about the origins of one of his tracks, it turns out that it is a Dubvision ID and not, in fact, a collaborative effort between himself and Swedish superstar DJ Alesso.
The latest stages announced by organizers of the annual music festival Tomorrowland couldn't be more different from one another. The Boom, Belgium gathering has been revealing new stages left and right over the past few weeks, but its most recent announcement will cater to two vastly different niche markets.
If bass music pioneer Diplo has a single thing working against him, it's the pressure to constantly validate himself. We're seldom the first to shower the Mad Decent label founder in praises; between his penchant for online douchebaggery and the thrown-together tripe he's passed off as music during his time as one half of Jack Ü, we're quite honestly more inclined to critique anything with his name on it harshly. Nonetheless, we'll always give credit where credit is due - and we can confidently count Major Lazer's Peace Is The Mission among our favorite albums so far this year.
We don't hear as much from Steve Angello's camp as perhaps we ought to these days. It feels like his former collaborators, Axwell /\ Ingrosso, make headlines every other day, but Angello himself has been left out ever since Swedish House Mafia's split in 2012. That's why it piqued our interest to learn that the Size Records founder just released a new track - and it's actually kind of interesting.
It's no secret that right now is a big time in Alesso's life. The release of his debut album, Forever, has proved a worthy culmination of all the efforts he's made over the course of his five-year music career, and the progressive house producer decided to celebrate in the most meaningful way possible: a special performance in front of 10,000 people at the Ericsson Globe in his hometown of Stockholm, Sweden.
We were bound and determined to not like this track going in. Even if we completely ignore the fact that Axwell /\Ingrosso recently called the underground amateur and then accused the reporter of taking their words out of context before the original transcript surfaced, we simply couldn't imagine a collaboration between two progressive house DJ/producers and American rapper Pusha T turning out in any way listenable. Well, color us convinced, we guess, because what they've turned out is actually not half bad.
Dillon Francis has kept us waiting for the songs on his new EP, but it looks like the wait is finally over. Last year's album, Money Sucks, Friends Rule marked a move towards the mainstream for the EDM community's class clown, but a to-do list he shared with us earlier in the year revealed plans to return to his moombahton roots. It also teased at a collaboration between Francis and international superstar DJ Calvin Harris - and at long last, we get to hear what they've had on the back burner.
It's hard to think of a force in the entertainment industry that's been as pervasive as electronic dance music has been over the past several years. The meteoric growth of festivals coupled with the proliferation of new technologies like music streaming services created a perfect storm that made the musical movement a ubiquitous part of the millennial experience, and business moguls the world over sought to cash in. If leading research can be counted on, though, the rate of growth of the industry could finally be slowing down.
TWFOMO continues as the organizers of TomorrowWorld have announced more additions to the festival's third annual installment. The most recent batch of names to grace the official lineup are Martin Garrix, Showtek and Excision.
