Honestly, if you weren't skeptical of Ruby Rose's credentials when the Orange is the New Black star revealed that she was also a DJ last year then you must be new to electronic music. With everyone from Shaq to Sasha Grey trying to capitalize on the EDM movement's momentum in recent years it's easy to be disenchanted by the prospect of random on-camera celebrities taking up the craft.
In 2015, Claptone's Immortal live stage show contributed in no small part to the masked DJ/producer's rise to notoriety in 2015, and it looks like attendees of this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will finally have the opportunity to see it for themselves. Coachella released an updated lineup, and the artist's name on the roster now reads: "Claptone Immortal Live."
For what appears to be the first time, Dutch progressive house superstar Martin Garrix has publicly stated that he's in the process of working on what will be his first full-length studio album. For what will be a long-awaited follow-up to 2014's Gold Skies, the Dutch producer told Dutch radio program De Avondploeg (which literally translates to "the evening team") that he's been presenting various song ideas to his team in order to decide which ones he should develop further.
You don't have to be Steve Aoki's biggest fan to know that you're bound to have a good time at one of his performances. His high-energy brand of electro house certainly lends itself to the live element, and now you can enjoy it firsthand by entering to receive tickets to his January 28th show at Lavo in NYC.
New year, new Lane 8, apparently. While the German DJ/producer's 2015 releases might have suggested that he'd firmly resigned himself to department store house, his Midnight EP - which marks his first release through showcases an unexpected creative tangent.
Even though Martin Garrix may still have a ways to go before truly coming into his own as an electronic music artist, you've gotta give it up to him for bringing other artists up with him before his teenage years even come to a close. The young progressive house Superstar laid down a short DJ set in Dutch radio station Bij Igmar's SLAM! DJ booth for its second anniversary, and brought "Bouncy Bob" collaborators Justin Mylo and Mesto along to soak up some of the exposure.
A tectonic shift is taking place in the EDM world, and if Decadence NYE 2015 was any indicator, Global Dance might soon find itself on the wrong side of the fault line.
If you thought slow identity reveals were a thing of the past, you clearly haven't heard of Malaa yet. The G house provocateur has made waves as the most sought-after export of Tchami's Confessions imprint in the month following the release of his breakout single, "Notorious," but a series of clues uncovered by Redditors with entirely too much free time suggests that the moniker is a side project between him and longtime collaborator DJ Snake.
In a series of inflammatory tweets, Australian songstress George Maple has accused fellow Aussie and former collaborator Flume of appropriating music from a collaboration between Skrillex and What So Not. Incidentally, What So Not used to be a collaborative project between Flume and Emoh Instead until the former artist's solo career took off, at which point he announced that he would be leaving to pursue it in greater depth.
It may have taken a streaker to put the music of Keys N Krates in the ears of a global audience, but anyone with a finger on the pulse of electronic music can attest that they were putting out next-level tracks since long before such an incident brought them into mainstream consciousness. The Toronto-based trio spent the better part of 2015 proving their electronic music credentials, too, and they've kicked off 2016 with a track that accomplishes as much.
