It looks like nu disco and future house go together better than anyone would have expected. Future house poster child Oliver Heldens teamed up with self-proclaimed "dirty disco" artist Throttle on a track called "I've Been Waiting" that makes us want to hear more examples of the stylistic synthesis.
I don't wanna say that I'd resigned myself to expecting really vanilla releases from DJ/producer Sam Feldt, but I pretty much had. The Dutch artist had spent the better part of 2015 putting out a safe, watered-down iteration of the deep house sensibilities that I've taken to calling "department store house" - but his remix of Years & Years' "Shine" is a gem among the stones.
DJ/producer duo The Aston Shuffle are one of the more decorated outfits in the Australian dance music scene, and recently, their remix of Avicii's "Broken Arrows" garnered them an even wider fanbase. Now, it looks as though they've used the opportunity to their advantage, as they have released a poignant original in the form of "High With You."
It's that time of year when electronic music industry-leading download platform Beatport announces its Best of Beatport frontrunners. While last week saw a peculiar dichotomy in the Top Selling Tracks category, this week they've revealed the leading breakthrough artists and labels of 2015.
Even though trap might not be the genre of choice for entry-level electronic music fans for much longer, there are still a handful of producers in the game who manage to make waves. In 2015, that ever-dwindling list of names surely includes NIGHTMRE, and his remix of ZHU and Skrillex's "Working For It" stands as proof.
The EDM world is definitely in that honeymoon phase with Jauz where he can still do no wrong - and at this point, it's easy to see why. The bass house pioneer has had the kind of breakout year that bedroom DJ/producers dream of, and the track he just debuted at Beta Nightclub in Denver, Colorado will only cement his legacy further.
It's so good to hear yet another Skrillex release that actually sounds like a Skrillex release. After a couple years during which the famed bass music mastermind appeared to have made lining his pockets a greater priority than the music itself, his latest work bears the hallmarks of the Skrillex tracks we know and love - and his remix of Torro Torro's "Make A Move" is no exception.
There aren't a whole lot of things that dance music doesn't go well with, but it's safe to say that cruise ships are nowhere near that list. It doesn't take a neurosurgeon to figure out that if you pack a few thousand free spirits into a seafaring vessel with a handful of world-class DJs and whisk the lot of them away to exotic locations, they're going to have a good time. What takes a little more finesse, on the other hand, is figuring which cruise ship festival to attend.
Big room, hip-hop, progressive - is there anything Cash Cash can't do? While festival season was still in full swing the trio surprised us by putting out an impressive trap anthem in the form of "Devil," and their latest release takes them through even more uncharted territory as "Escarole" falls somewhere in between the categories of future house and bass house.
