Guy and Howard Lawrence appear to have been quite focused on their 2016 Wild Life tour, resulting in next to nothing in the way of new music from Disclosure. That might all change, however, because they just debuted an as-yet-unreleased track during their performance at Light Nightclub in Las Vegas.
Martin Garrix remained quiet on the release front for the beginning of 2016, but with festival season ramping up he appears to be striking while the iron is hot. The Dutch progressive house DJ/producer just made waves with last week's release of "Lions In The Wild," and he's built up more momentum by premiering more unreleased music.
It's getting to a point where if a headline comes out with Skrillex and Justin Bieber's name in it, you can bet that one with deadmau5 will follow. The former two artists found themselves in something of a legal quandary when Casey Dienal of White Hinterland accused them of copyright infringement, and even though Skrillex addressed it the progressive house icon couldn't help but contribute to the dialogue.
Boehm has wracked up massive support from many of electronic music's biggest names since his debut last year, and he's now added another name to his list. Former Krewella DJ/producer Rain Man is putting out a remix series for his Dim Mak debut, "Bring Back The Summer," and the Bucharest melodic house up-and-comer has contributed the strongest of the lot.
If The Chainsmokers spent last year demonstrating that they were capable of more than gimmicks with releases like "Roses," 2016 has seen them prove that they could keep on doing so consistently. "Don't Let Me Down" has already found its way into the electronic music community's collective queue, and a 360-degree video of the NYC duo's performance of the track at last month's Syracuse University Block Party stands as evidence.
It's funny to think that at the end of last year, electronic music fans were worried that deadmau5 might hang up his hat as a producer (and troll, of course). Between Project Entropy WIPs and his upcoming Eric Prydz collaboration though, the 'mau5 is as prolific as ever in 2016, and he might have just suggested that his new album is on the way as well.
Henry Fong's relationship with Los Angeles-based trap duo Milo & Otis extends back to RIOT Wednesdays, an experimental series that took place at The Roxy in Orlando. After putting them on by premiering their track "Trap Arms" during the debut of his Banzai Radio series back in March, he's decided to pay further homage to his origins by announcing the RIOT Tour.
The recent resurgence of more classic trance styles has prompted the genre's fans to turn their noses at songs that incorporate more main stage-friendly elements. The right artist can pull such a synthesis off tastefully, though, and Andrew Rayel's "Epiphany" proves him more than capable.
Leave it to Porter Robinson to somehow make air horn samples cool again in 2016. A couple weeks ago Instagram user isabeasty uploaded footage of the Worlds producer dropping a markedly Porter-esque flip of RL Grime's remix of The Weeknd's "The Hills" during his performance at California State University, Fullerton's Spring Concert event, and he just decided to upload more video of the same track.
Martin Garrix has kept his fans waiting for new music ever since he announced the launch of STMPD RCRDS in March, and at long last his first major single has arrived. He first debuted his collaboration with UK duo Third Party during his performance at this year's Ultra Music Festival, and has now released the monumental track through his brand new imprint.
