You can always depend on Gorgon City to deliver tasteful UK garage. Three weeks after releasing the official music video for "All Four Walls," the English duo have returned with "Blue Parrot" - a track driven by a considerably more introspective groove than its festive title might suggest.
When you release as much quality music as NGHTMRE has so far in 2016, the big guys are bound to take notice. Moombahton mastermind Dillon Francis is easily the biggest name on his growing list of collaborators, and to sweeten the deal, he even took it upon himself to show off their new track during his latest performance.
Just about everyone in electronic music is glad to see that Rain Man A.K.A. Kris Trindl has gotten back on track. After struggles with substance abuse, the DJ/producer parted ways with EDM outfit Krewella in an embittered legal ordeal that nearly prompted him to stop making music altogether - but now that he’s been signed to Dim Mak his future’s looking brighter than ever.
With mainstream EDM under fire in recent months, Arno Cost might be strategically positioning himself to capitalize on electronic music fans’ increasingly refined tastes. While the Coming Alive EP that he just released on Nicky Romero’s Protocol Recordings imprint consisted equal parts melodic and progressive house, he intends for his upcoming releases to lean more towards the former category.
Masked EDM DJ/producer Marshmello may come across as a gimmick act to much of the electronic music community, but most who attended his high-energy set at Ultra Music Festival have sung its praises in the weeks since. For those of us who missed it, he's finally gotten around to uploading a recording of the performance to his SoundCloud account.
It’s safe to say that last year marked a major turning point in Vassy’s career. The Australian vocalist (whose real name is Vasiliki Karagiorgos) became a household name in the EDM community thanks to her contributions to “Secrets,” which catapulted her and DJ/producer KSHMR into mainstream awareness due in no small part to Tiësto’s celebrity.
These days, electronic music fans are tired of jumping up and down - more and more of them would rather just dance. That's something that 3LAU is clearly recognizing. And while he doesn't seem like he's all that keen on sticking to a genre to begin with, what he's delivered in the form of "Is It Love" makes for a welcome interruption of his usual programming.
It's finally official: Sasha and John Digweed will reunite in September. The duo surprised attendees of Bedrock Easter at Ministry of Sound two weeks ago when Sasha joined Digweed behind the decks, and after numerous vague hints, it has been confirmed that they will perform a back-to-back set at this year's edition of The Social Festival in England.
Amid a world of post-EDM producers scrambling to put out more cerebral music now that the main stage has garnered such a negative stigma, you kind of have to respect TJR for sticking to what he does best. Major Lazer's "Too Original" was already pretty festival friendly to begin with, but he's reinforced its Melbourne bounce influences even further in his new remix.
Michael Calfan seems determined to demonstrate that what I've termed "department store house" is more than a one-dimensional iteration of the four-four formula. The French DJ/producer has departed slightly from his radio-friendly brand of melodic deep house to lead the listener on a more introspective aural journey in his latest track, "Brothers."
