Between the controversies that arose at events like Electric Forest and TomorrowWorld, it's no far cry to suggest that the 2015 festival season will be remembered for untimely mishaps - and the tragedy that took place at Mad Decent Boat Party a couple weekends ago served to cap it off in all too fitting a manner. It's difficult for those of us in the music community to know exactly what to say following events like these - a reality that's been highlighted by a recent interview with Skrillex, one of the event's headliners.
It's hard not to love Above & Beyond. Everything they've done in the world of trance oozes a sincerity that's rare to contemporary electronic music artists of their status, and the uplifting qualities of their music has afforded them opportunities to build onto their brand in new and exciting ways. Most recently, they announced an album called Acoustic II to coincide with an upcoming tour, and they've just given us a taste of what's to come on the effort.
Nobody debates Fedde Le Grand's house music credentials - which is why it's unexpected to see him tackle big room house at a time when the style gets mocked harder than any other sound in electronic music. For what it's worth, though, there is decent big room out there, and "That Noise" certainly falls into that category.
Justin Bieber and Skrillex's Purpose has been the most-talked-about album in both the pop and electronic music worlds this fall, which makes it no surprise that when the former artist compared the album's lead single, "Sorry," to John Lennon's "Let It Be" the gears of the internet stopped turning just so that the human race could collectively reprimand him for it. According to a more recent interview with Skrillex, however, Bieber might have simply been repeating the producer's own comparison.
If you thought Oliver Heldens had hung up his HI-LO hat, you were sorely mistaken. The future house superstar may have taken a few months off from releasing songs under his garage/bass house alias to work on some material for his primary brand, but he's returned with a song titled "Ooh La La" that proves he's just as dedicated to the project as ever.
It should come as no surprise to anyone with even an elementary understanding of electronic music that mixing A-Trak with Disclosure will yield inspiring results. The former artist has released a remix of the latter's "Magnets" that gives it an upbeat future house sensibility.
In case you had any doubt that EDM's hair metal phase was coming to a close, some of the movement's most celebrated supergroups of yesteryear have taken to teasing reunions to Beats 1 host Zane Lowe as a means of keeping their names in people's mouths. While it seemed a little more realistic when Gareth McGrillen and Rob Swire talked about the possibility of a Pendulum reunion, Swedish House Mafia's Axwell seems a bit less genuine in how he addresses the all-too-common question.
You can't have a conversation about contemporary electro house without Knife Party's name coming up, but what members of the EDM generation might not realize is that the duo were once part of a legendary drum and bass group called Pendulum. According to a recent interview, though, fans of the latter group may have reason to rejoice as it sounds like a reunion hasn't been altogether ruled out.
With how many major festivals are already announcing their lineups, it's already starting to feel like 2016 for those of us in the electronic music community. It's not even Thanksgiving and Firefly Music Festival has revealed an entertainment roster for its 2016 edition that provides music fans of all shapes and sizes with plenty of incentive to make the trip to Dover, Delaware.
It seems like in the world of trap music, a track garners more attention when it's played out live ahead of its release than on the actual day of its release. This trend hasn't been lost on GTA, as they drummed up months of buzz for "Goons (Funtcantasy)" before finally dropping the track on their fans.
