It's hard to hate on tropical house, especially when an artist like Speaker of the House presents their own signature take on the feel good style of four-four electronic music. In celebration of the fifth anniversary of legendary record label Big Beat's relaunch, the DJ/producer has delivered a remix of Galantis' "Runaway" (U & I) that incorporates his instantly recognizable sound into the track.
If you’ve been anywhere on or around the Internet anytime over the past couple of weeks, you have to have seen Coachella’s 2016 lineup. While not primarily marketed as an electronic music event, the festival has undeniably slid further into the genre’s kitzchy depths in recent years and this year’s roster certainly didn’t break the trend.
Electronic music massive Movement Detroit has stood out as a mainstay of diehard house and techno enthusiasts since the turn of the millennium, but with the recent rise in popularity of underground styles of dance music the festival will have to go to drastic measures to remain fringe. The festival's organizers appear to have recognized this, as they've topped the phase 1 lineup announcement for the 2016 edition with none other than electronic music's oldest pioneers: Kraftwerk.
There aren't too many names in dance music as iconic as Steve Angello. The legendary Swedish DJ/producer has been around for over a decade now, birthing some of the most timeless tracks in the genre and making up one third of supergroup Swedish House Mafia for five extraordinarily successful years before their eventual split.
It looks like the Guns N' Roses reunion won't be the only helping of '80s nostalgia served up at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival this year. In an interview with daytime talk show The Talk, rapper Ice Cube has revealed that he plans to reunite the surviving members of seminal hip-hop group N.W.A. during his performance at the live music event.
The notion that attendees of live music events would be able to adjust the volume of their experience might sound far-fetched, but anyone going to Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2016 will have the opportunity to do exactly that. A Kickstarted-funded Doppler Labs technology called Here Active Listening™ enables its users to control the volume of their environment and will be available to everyone at the festival.
Apparently we're not so far into 2015 that we can't enjoy a good recap mix. Dzeko and Torres may be a few weeks late on their "2015 in 10 Minutes" mini mix, but what they've finally delivered stands out as such a seamless collection of the year's hottest tracks that it's hard to bash them for their tardiness.
After a particularly harrowing year, 2016 has kicked off on a somewhat more promising note for EDM conglomerate SFX Entertainment. After promising to invest $1 billion annually into the global EDM industry in 2012, the company has underwent a plummeting stock value largely believed to have been the result of its mismanagement of various electronic music brands - but has announced that it has received $20 million in capital that will keep it afloat for the immediate future.
On the off chance that you woke up today with a burning desire to hear a collaboration between two artists who are individually such main stage clones that you can't even tell where each one's influence begins and ends on the track, Hardwell and Afrojack have got you covered. The two Dutch progressive house artists have teamed up on "Hollywood," a pump-you-up track that ought to fill your weekly "meh" quota more than anything else.
After the turn of the year, artists spanning the entire music industry put out new tracks and remixes to start 2016 off on a strong note. As the end of January approaches, it almost feels as though Galantis realized that they hadn't put out anything of the sort - because what they brought to the table comes across as have been so rushed.
