We would venture to say that lively is a good look for Michael Calfan. The French DJ/producer's brand of what he calls "soul house" or "melodic" house was proving somewhat drowsy earlier in the year, but he raised the energy considerably for "Nobody Does It Better."
Are you as tired of cheesy pop EDM tracks as we are? John Dahlback doesn't seem to be. After delivering a significantly more cerebral track in the form of "Raven" earlier in the year, the Swedish producer has opted for a risk-free main stage approach with "Where Are You."
Diplo's BBC Radio 1 mix series, Diplo and Friends, has become a platform by which world-class bass music artists can access a worldwide audience. 2015 has been a great year for the program, as breakout artists like Mija and Troyboi contributed to the show. To cap it all off, Diplo has released a Best of 2015 mix this week that combines his favorite tracks of the year into a two-hour dose of energy.
If you liked what Swedish progressive house duo Galantis brought to the table on their debut album, Pharmacy, then we've got good news for you. Even with the rigors of a European tour in January and February that precede a U.S. tour in March, they've announced that they still plan to release a follow-up album in 2016.
The prospect of new Dillon Francis music on its own is enough to make the EDM community stand at attention, but just to be on the safe side the quirky DJ/producer enlisted the help of a couple friends as well. At the first night of the fourth annual IDGAFOS at the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall in L.A., he not only dropped a NGHTMRE collaboration, but also a project with progressive house mainstay Alesso.
For the production virtuoso that he is, it’s ironic how often deadmau5 acts out in ways that momentarily shift the entire electronic music community’s attention away from the music itself. His penchant for trolling has emerged as one of the most divisive topics that comes up in dance music circles - and as evidenced by recent events, by simply deactivating a couple social media accounts, he can whip the entire EDM blogosphere into a frothing lather of presumptuous rhetoric from both sides of the argument.
If you can draw one conclusion from the promotional video for Ultra Music Festival 2016's updated Resistance stage, it's that the age of the techno bro is upon us.
It's been just over a year since news of a split and subsequent lawsuit between Krewella frontwomen Jahan and Yasmine Yousaf and their musical maestro, Kris Trindl A.K.A. Rain Man hit the press. Even before the ink dried on negotiations that would resolve at least one of the formal complaints, both parties were keeping busy redefining their post-breakup musical identities by releasing new music. In the case of Rain Man, his efforts have culminated into a celebrated signing with the record label Dim Mak.
Borgeous has to be the most uninteresting artist in EDM. Up until recently, he'd never even released a track that wasn't a collaboration with another artist - and every single one bore striking similarities to everything else by whatever artist he "collaborated" with.
It's safe to assume that DubVision were thinking of closing 2015 out with a bang while putting together this track. For the better part of the year, the duo have been responsible for the kind of progressive house that makes teenage girls jump up and down in front of festival main stages - going so far as to collaborate with Dash Berlin on "Yesterday's Gone," even - but their latest release, "Sweet Harmony," sees a high-energy departure from that trend.
