World Club Dome is set to return to the Commerzbank Arena for its 2016 edition, and after last year saw record attendance, the event's organizers have pulled out all the stops to ensure that this year's festivities follow suit. The event is hosted by German radio station and promoter Big City Beats, whom have unveiled the star-studded lineup this week.
It's been a monumental year for progressive house innovator Eric Prydz, but it won't truly be his time for another couple days. Be that as it may, as the official release of the Swedish DJ/producer's long awaited debut album approaches, he's released a track from the effort to tide fans over.
Marshmello's productions tend be pretty hit or miss, but as long as he's got Skrillex holding down the fort it's safe to say what they've got in the works will rock its fair share of festival crowds. In case you still need to be convincing, though, the two DJ/producers have shared Instagram videos taken during some time they spent in the studio.
Berlin-based DJ/producer Hitimpulse just might have struck gold with his remix of Rhodes' "Wishes." What he's offered up features a surprisingly effective synthesis between the syncopated percussion of drum and bass and the glassy, atmospheric synth work of future bass that I kind of can't believe isn't already a genre.
It hasn't even been a month since Michael Calfan released his latest "soul house" anthem, "Nobody Does It Better," and he's already went ahead and revealed the official music video for the track. I've gotta admit, I find it pretty weird that the video is almost entirely centered around a little boy and girl going around town stealing things, but I made a decision not to question the French a long time ago.
I'm not gonna lie, with how hard it is to find something unique and interesting to say about every festival lineup hitting the EDM blogosphere, it's refreshing that Electric Forest found such an interesting way to release theirs this time around. As part of a promotional campaign the Rothbury, Michigan festival mailed card stock slips with groups of artist names printed on each one to festival goers and encouraged them to record and upload videos of each reveal.
Those of us old enough to remember the rave scene of the '90s almost certainly look back on the era through rose-colored glasses. After all, let's be honest, the needles on vinyl record players skipped all the time, happy hardcore was an actual thing that people listened to, and the drugs were definitely dirtier.
Well what do you know, it turns out that three artists whom I'd filed firmly under "meh" turn out pretty fantastic music when you put them in a studio together. SNBRN, Shaun Frank and Dr. Fresch have delivered an infectious club anthem titled "The New Order" that straddles the line between bass house and G house quite effectively.
Nowhere else in the world does techno quite like the Germans, which is why Mannheim festival Time Warp has remained a staple of Southwest Germany's music scene for as long as it has. Case in point: The events organizers have released the official lineup for its 2016 edition, which reads like a veritable who's who of dance music's original "other" genre.
In the five years that Skrillex has been an active fixture of the electronic music landscape, he's accumulated a hefty list of collaborators - and now his creative horizons have stretched all the way to the Far East. The bass music icon has produced a track for South Korean ensemble 4Minute called "싫어" (which translates to "Hate") that I'd probably enjoy if it wasn't KPop.
