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Sunday, November 27, 2011

TommorrowLand Festival July 27-29 2012

Dance music fans, start preparing for the party of the year! Tomorrowland festival returns to the appropriately named Belgian town of Boom this year to get your toes a-tappin' and your backside a-wigglin'! Boom, boom. Surely one of the biggest weekends on the dance music calender, beautiful folk come from far and wide to celebrate and dance the night away at the Tomorrowland festival each year. Previous years showcased the likes of DJ Rush, David Guetta, Paul Oakenfold, Scooter, Armin van Buuren, Roger Sanchez, Martin Solveig, Rank 1, Gui Boratto, Markus Schulz, John Dahlbäck, Dominik Eulberg and all sorts of other big names to make dance music aficionados swoon. Tomorrowland Festival is an unmissable event for those in the know.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

TIESTO AT Borgata MIXX Night Club December 3rd 2011

Special show considering the size its very small.Dont miss out on this show in a very intimate engagement.Tickets 75.00

Monday, November 21, 2011

GLO Night Club DJ Theo 11-23-2011

For all the long Island fans this Wednesday night DJ Theo will be mixing it up at Glo night club located in Westbury NY going to be an amazing time and considering its thanksgiving eve going to be allot of tired people around the thanksgiving table =)

Thursday, November 17, 2011

New Years Eve Avicii Playing Pier 94 NY

In 2008, Tim Bergling, more popularly known as Avicii, emerged into the music industry at only the age of 18. In the span of 3 years, Bergling has skyrocketed into ultimate stardom as he effortlessly released epic hits such as “Bromance”, “My Feelings For You”, “Levels”, and “Fade into Darknes.” When Avicii’s New Year’s Eve performance in New York City was announced, his soaring popularity demonstrated its might.
Ash Pournouri from At Night Management sums it up in the following press release:
“The impact was insane. Within seconds of releasing tickets, our own site www.aviciinye.com and a ticket partner site www.clubtickets.com crashed hard and were difficult to get back up, despite both services’ promise with preparations in bandwidth.”
Wantickets.com came in to the rescue with 2500 pre-sale tickets for 60$.

They of course decided to go with option A and sold out all tickets within an hour. Wantickets.com ended up crashing as well having experienced 60,000 views in just two hours.
On the brighter side, At Night Management has decided to provide 400 cheaper rate tickets for people that may have been affected by the rush. Furthermore, Avicii and Pournouri will be giving away tickets on a continuous basis up until the event.
“We ask the people who were left without a chance to get tickets to keep a look out on the Facebook group in the coming weeks and few months.”
If you don’t happen to be one of the lucky few to attend, the event will be broadcasted live. More details to come. by Acewell

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Deadmau5 Vegas Residency

 music superstar Deadmau5 has signed on with XS Nightclub and Encore Beach Club for an exclusive yearlong Las Vegas residency at the clubs beginning on January 2, 2012. "I love that Vegas is really embracing electronic music as their staple entertainment," says Deadmau5, who played several shows at the Wynn Las Vegas resort venues last year. "All of the Sinatras and Rat Packs are now DJs. I've heard Vegas is going to be the next Ibiza, but it's its own thing. Here it's all about flash and show and lights." In this trailer for the residency, Deadmau5 tries out a few new career ideas before deciding to stick with his gig as a dance-music icon.http://www.rollingstone.com/videos/new-and-hot/deadmau5-announces-las-vegas-residency-20111114#ooid=Q0N2EwMzrJawOjV6NjGwkEe_xrQBMZqw

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Laidback Luke & Sander van Doorn -Who's Wearing The Cap

Just their names alone cause goosebumps in the whole EDM world: Laidback Luke and Sander van Doorn teamed up for the next stellar collaboration on Mixmash. The track with a rather intriguing name "Who's' Wearing The Cap" brings the best of both worlds.
The banging track where trance meets progressive and blends into electro has its own story. “People sometimes mix me up with Luke,” says Sander van Doorn in his interview with DJ Mag, “so in the studio, he was wearing a cap, we took a picture for Twitter asking, 'Who's Wearing The Cap?' and that became the name of the track!”
The release of "Who's Wearing The Cap" is planned for the 20th of November on Beatport.http://soundcloud.com/laidbackluke/laidback-luke-sander-van-doorn

Monday, November 14, 2011

Deadmau5 During the Historic Close Of The Meowingtons Hax Tour

Rogers Centre  was the scene of an historical homecoming for local progressive electronic producer Joel Zimmerman, aka Deadmau5, as Toronto marked the last stop of the Meowingtons Hax tour, and the first time the stadium played host to a Canadian headliner.
The event attracted droves of fans who flooded the floor of Rogers Centre wearing glowing fluorescent accessories including mouse-ear headsets (free with admission and a great mood enhancer) and homemade Mau5 helmets; and also featured openers Manzone & Strong, Idris Elba, Sydney Blu, Crystal Castles and MSTRKRFT who performed great warm-up sets before the main attraction.



Although Deadmau5’s production of outstanding lighting, LCD visuals and his trademark Mau5 helmet (which has become vastly more complex and a visual spectacle on its own) all add greatly to the Deadmau5 experience, the strength still is in the music he creates. Its simplicity is also strangely complex. Warbles and bleeps of sound become symphonic electronic orchestral pieces when sequenced in Deadmau5’s unique way and although completely synthesized, there is warmth in the melodies of songs such as “I Remember” and “Arguru”. You can easily get lost in the music before an explosive assault of driving bass knocks you back to earth and forces your feet to move.
From his podium above the crowd, the comical ever-grinning Swiss cheese head overseeing all, Zimmerman treated eager fans to an extensive set of anthemic songs including “The Reward Is Cheese”, “Complications”, “Jaded” and “Aural Psynapse”, the colourful images of the monitors ever changing and thematic to the music.
The real treat of the night was the appearance of Sofi to the stage, adding her lyrical touch to the performances of “Sofi Needs a Ladder” and “One Trick Pony” which prompted the emergence of Deadmau5 at stage level. The two toured the length of the catwalk, getting close to the audience while Sofi sang.
Toronto’s performance was a monumental finish to the 40-plus tour and cemented in many people’s minds the importance of Zimmerman’s contributions to electronic music.
On his Facebook page, Deadmau5 thanked fans for the “…epic homecoming” adding “let’s do this again sometime yeah?”
Yes please! by dave macintyre

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Trance,Drugs,Sex

We got up early to catch the train from Paris through Belgium and onto Amsterdam. Travelling at 365km/h the nearby scenery is just a green blur.

Arriving in Amsterdam at 10am we went straight out shopping for as many drugs as we could get our hands on. Just kidding. We first hired some bikes and set off around the canals of the city the way the dutch would do it. Was nice to be getting around a different way than walking or on the train. We also hired a paddle boat and paddled around the canals for a while. We almost got run over by some ferries a couple of times but managed to just get out of their way after getting honked at.

We ate some traditional croquettes served by a big, scary, dutch woman, for dinner, which are like cheesy spring rolls. They tasted great but they had Elodie running for the toilet not long after.

After a visit to the sex museum we spent the night wandering around the red light district. Such an eye opener. It was very surreal and almost fake with the number of tourists that are wandering around. It was like the girls were on show just for the tourists rather than being there for hire. Well worth the visit though. After some late night hot chocolate and cake we headed off back to our hotel for the night.

In the morning we were straight in the queue to go and see Anne's place. Was very interesting to see what such a cramped space the 8 of them lived in. Elodie had just finished reading the book and it was good for her to be able to picture everything she had read.

After that l was off for a run to pick up the hire car. Was half way through my 2.5km run when i realised that the bike hire had my drivers license. So i ended up running double the distance when i had to run back to get it.

With a set of wheels now we left The Netherlands for a while and off to Belgium we went.by elandcraig's

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Afrojack Bio

Following the success of Tiësto, Armin Van Buuren, and Fedde Le Grand, Nick Van de Wall aka Afrojack is the latest DJ, producer, and remixer to break through from the burgeoning Dutch dance music scene. Born in Spijkenisse in 1988, he began playing the piano at age five, but after getting his hands on a copy of music sequencing program Fruity Loops, he started to play around with samples and create his own songs. After discovering the Rotterdam club scene, he began performing short DJ sets before traveling to Crete to hone his craft, playing at various clubs over a five-month period. Returning to his native Holland, he signed to the independent Digidance label and released his debut single, "Afrojack: In Your Face," before forming his own record company, Wall Recordings, scoring club hits with "Math" and "Do My Dance." Following performances at dance festivals Tomorrowland and Sensation, and a collaboration on David Guetta's One Love album, ("Toyfriend"), he was invited to remix the likes of Madonna's "Revolver" and Lady Gaga's "Alejandro." In 2010, he teamed up with electro-pop vocalist Eva Simons on his first U.K. Top 40 hit, "Take Over Control," and also released a rarities album, Lost and Found, featuring nine previously unreleased tracks, in the same year

Deadmau5 Confirmed South Africa Dates

We’re pretty good at providing the latest info on all events and happenings in South Africa and have built up an extensive network of promoters and brands in our portfolio of entertainment awesomeness. As you are aware the whole Deadmau5 saga got reignited when Dj Fresh dropped the news that Deadmau5 is on his way to SA in December a few weeks back. We were following the negotiation process very closely and were ecstatic when we found that despite all indications that it wouldnt happen in 2011, we now have a confirmed Deadmau5 South African tour.
As of this point we have the following information available (please note that this is NOT the official statement from H20 & that things could change slightly in the next few days):
There will be 3 dates for the South African tour- 1st, 2nd, 3rd December have all been set aside for the tour
The cities who will be lucky enough to experience Deadmau5 live are Cape Town, Jozi and Durban. So far we only have information that Nicci Beach will be one of the venues. Nothing else confirmed yet for Cape Town and Durban.
The headline sponsor for the tour is the mighty Olmeca Tequila… We’re 100% sure about this.
We will provide you with the official statement as soon as it becomes available from the peeps over at H20. In the mean time you can check out any updates over at http://www.deadmau5satour.co.za/
We’ll be working hard to get you all of the official details as soon as possible… It’s what we do…
MyCityByNight- who.what.where.when

VENUES CONFIRMED

1st Dec- Cape Town, Ratanga Junction

2nd Dec- Durban, The Wavehouse

3rd Dec- Jozi, H20

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Paul Oakenfold -Bio

When it comes to a career the magnitude of Paul Oakenfold it’s hard to encompass one of the true legends of electronic music into just words. For over 3 decades he has elevated and shaped an entire genre and remains one of the leading forces in the global music scene today.
His most recent works have taken him from the DJ booth of the worlds hottest nightspots and festivals to the studio producing soundtracks for Hollywood blockbuster movies. His diversity in artistry and ability has earned him accolades from critics and fans alike. Garnering him not 1 but 2 Grammy Nominations for his works.
But lets take a step back. The son of a musician, Paul came up as a young DJ in the late 70s spinning Funk in Covent Garden. Not what some might have expected from one of Trances preeminent masters. But he knew then music would be his life. In the 80’s 2 life-changing trips took place. The first in 1984 where he spent several months living in New York City working as A&R man for the famed Champion Records signing DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, as well as Salt-n-Pepa. He also became promoter and British agent for the Beastie Boys and Run-D.M.C.
The second trip and more contemporary influence was in 1987 which brought Paul to the White Isle of Ibiza. Here he discovered the Balearic sound that flowed through the Ibiza air at clubs such as Amnesia. Inspired, he took the music and experiences back to the UK and became its ambassador. Paul returned often holding residencies at Amnesia and Pacha in Ibiza. Around the same time Ministry Of Sound in London was opening and tauted Paul as their first resident. However it was his famed residency at UK super-club Cream in Liverpool that brought Paul global respect as a master of his art. It was some say the catalyst to what has made him a touring legend.
This residency was celebrated through the Grammy nominated 2004 compilation ‘Creamfields’ (Paul went on to receive a second Grammy nomination in 2007 with his artist album, “A Lively Mind” and then again in 2009 for his production work with Madonna).
Oakenfold’s stature as a DJ and entertainer has taken him beyond the normal club and festival circuit, playing landmark gigs that have changed the face of electronic music. Highlights include three worldwide tours warming up for Madonna and U2 (with both artists insisting on a DJ set from Paul instead of a support band); performing physically on the Great Wall of China and two sold out dates playing to 30,000 people at the Hollywood Bowl in California.
A year after that first visit to Ibiza, Perfecto was born. Founded in 1988, Oakenfold’s groundbreaking Perfecto record label played an integral role in the birth of trance music, with Paul at the helm producing massive international hits such as “Not Over Yet”, “Bullet In The Gun” and “Southern Sun”. With countless high profile releases and remixes in its path, Perfecto Records is still the benchmark to which so many labels measure themselves. 20+ years later, Perfecto remains as cutting edge and popular as ever, even resurrecting its Perfecto Fluoro sublabel in 2011. Probably Perfecto’s most notable release was the recent double album “Perfecto Las Vegas” which held the #1 spot on the US iTunes dance chart for several weeks. This release solidified Paul’s stronghold as an International DJ power player achieving the highest selling DJ compilation ever released in US history – with over half a million sales.
Paul has produced for megastars such as U2, Madonna (including her latest release “Celebration”) and The Happy Mondays. As well as three acclaimed artist albums under his own name. He has remixed Michael Jackson, The Rolling Stones and Justin Timberlake and released over 20 DJ mix compilations. In recent years Paul has also been responsible for creating some of the most breathtaking film scores and cues for a long list of Hollywood blockbusters – including The Bourne Identity, Matrix Reloaded, Shrek 2, Swordfish and Collateral. But his most anticipated release is yet to come. Paul Oakenfold’s newest artist album ‘Pop Killer’ is scheduled for imminent release featuring The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Gnarls Barkley, OneRepublic and B.O.B.
Astonishingly, despite all his success in the worlds of chart music and film, Oakenfold has found time to keep in touch with his roots as a club DJ. Over the past 3 years he has held a weekly residency at the legendary Rain nightclub in The Palms, Las Vegas. Planet Perfecto is a fully produced show with 75 circus performers, cutting edge visuals and special effects - giving the 3,000-strong crowd a truly unique experience.
Whether you are listening to a CD, watching a commercial, going to a club or playing a video game; Paul’s omnimedia presence is felt everywhere. Paul Oakenfold is the sovereign of DJ culture and is its most recognizable icon.
Paul Oakenfold’s: Perfecto On Tour radio show airs weekly on Sirius XM Satellite Radio’s - Electric Area Channels Saturdays at 8pm EST and rebroadcasts Wednesdays at 12 noon EST.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Skrillex

for the first two minutes of Skrillex’s recent sold-out show at the cavernous Roseland Theater in Portland, Ore., I could almost believe, if I squinted hard enough, that I had time-warped back to a particularly boisterous mid-’90s rave. Swarms of glow sticks traced woozy neon loops on the main floor as Skrillex, perched before a Windows 95-screensaver-quality graphics projection, sent a swelling wave of warm synths through the crowd. Pacifiers abounded. To my left, a young woman wearing lime-green fishnets, a silver bikini bottom, and two strategically placed stickers did ... well, I’m not sure what, as my fiancée was standing beside me, thus requiring a heroic display of ocular control from this correspondent. To my right, a bullet-headed man passed tabs of something to a willowy blonde and two tight-shirted men, who placed them under their tongues. New raves, the casual concertgoer might have thought, same as the old raves.
And then Skrillex, to use the proper terminology, dropped the bass. In its live form, this sounded something like a nuclear assault set to a dance beat. As a thousand barely clad kids leapt up in unison, I felt my face vibrate from the bass’ roaring squall; even my tonsils quivered like a ringing bell. Meanwhile, Skrillex—a restless 23-year-old who looks like Corey Feldman’s goth-elf cousin and possesses quite possibly the world’s worst haircut (long black locks with one shaved side)—bounced ferociously around his DJ booth like a tribal shaman who was contemplating a new career as a heavy metal frontman. The music was as frantic as its creator, veering from aggressive dubstep to high-octane electro and glitch, keeping the crowd in a fist-pumping frenzy. A sign one girl flailed above her head expressed the audience’s mood perfectly. On one side it read, “YES OMG,” on the other “DROP THE BASS.”
At a time when electronic music has suddenly, improbably become more popular than ever—this year’s Electric Daisy Carnival, for instance, drew an audience larger than Coachella—Skrillex stands at the vanguard of a new, harder-edged wave of ravers. (If you don’t believe me, trust Spin, which put him on the cover of its October issue.) Whereas techno once was smooth and light, Skrillex is the sonic equivalent of a giant can of Rockstar energy drink: a sharp, sugary blast that causes frenzied toe-tapping. He may not yet be as popular as his arena-packing mentor Deadmau5, but Skrillex is getting there fast; his tracks occupy five of the top 20 spots in the iTunes dance section, and on the DJ-oriented site Beatport, users search for Skrillex 50 times as often as other artists, according to the Guardian. His sound, undeniably catchy yet somehow disquieting, provides an auditory sign of our hyper-stimulated times: more than anything I’ve heard, Skrillex’s music feels custom crafted for listeners with ADHD.

Quite possibly the strangest feature of the already-strange Skrillex phenomenon is the route the man took to attain global fame. Known to his parents as Sonny Moore, Skrillex began his music career at 16 as the lead singer of the screamo band From First to Last. Over the course of two albums, three years of touring, and a handful of deeply silly videos, Moore emoted so hard that he needed surgery to repair his vocal cords. Despite this thrashy teen experimentation, however, Moore’s real love had always been rough-and-tumble electronica—fittingly, the first two albums he ever owned were Prodigy’s The Fat of the Land and Aphex Twin’s Come to Daddy EP—and he soon struck out on his own. After pursuing an equally ridiculous electro-hardcore solo project under his own name, Moore grew frustrated at his lack of progress and created the (it must be said, also pretty ridiculous) “Skrillex” moniker in 2008.
It didn’t take long for Moore to develop the signature sound—growling bass mixed with digital squawks and hyperactive melodies—that has since vaulted him into the electronic elite. Take the early track “Slats Slats Slats,” one of Moore’s most infectious creations. Like most of his best work, the song develops in three stages: First, Moore lays down an almost boilerplate electro opener, underpinned by a wobbling dubstep bass line; next, he breaks away briefly to a finely diced vocal sample; and finally, just over a minute in, the track explodes into gorgeous, synth-laden mayhem. As happens often these days, Moore found himself in massive demand before he’d even released a proper Skrillex album (namely last summer’s My Name Is Skrillex, which boasted several brutally aggressive bangers and the unremarkable hit “Weekends!!!”). For one of Moore’s hugely successful remixes, none other than Lady Gaga tapped him to repurpose her song “Alejandro” into a club juggernaut that, after two minutes of Skrillexian dawdling, drops into a breakdown so wonderfully frantic that it cries out for a Ritalin prescription.
Along with the aforementioned hurricane-force bass drops, these propulsive stretches of melodic chaos have become Skrillex’s trademark, and they make for some of the most oddly virtuosic music you’re likely to hear this year. On “Rock n’ Roll (Will Take You to the Mountain),” the lead track from his breakout EP Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites, Moore spins electro, dubstep, and rock into a danceable whirlwind, the whole thrilling frenzy crowned by a hummable chopped-up chorus that wouldn’t be out of place in a Daft Punk tune. The album’s title track, a bona fide hit with more than 40 million YouTube views, jumps between chugging, savage metal and anthemic techno, alternately punishing and soothing the listener. The music is nearly genreless; Moore is as comfortable making catchy and gentle club gems like the charming “All I Ask of You” as he is raking your eardrums across hot coals on the very next track, the bass-heavy “Scatta.”
It’s difficult to say whether Skrillex’s music is “good” in any conventional sense. To some, the man’s very name is anathema; after an Internet commenter posted a video of Moore doing not much other than cheerleading his laptop during one show—a display I saw repeated at his Portland gig—one Skrillex-bashing thread on the Coachella website blew up to more than 1,500 posts. Other detractors have complained that Moore “ruined” dubstep, which makes about as much sense to me as saying that Coldplay ruined punk. The critics are right, however, when they say that much of what Moore has produced is abrasive dreck that feels far too beholden to the cult of the bass drop.
And yet the best Skrillex tracks are nothing short of breathtaking, marked by blinding technical skill and a savant-like grasp of rhythm and melody. At times, Moore shows all the talent of an Aphex Twin or Daft Punk—only with scarcely any of the brains. Songs like “Kill Everybody” and “The Disco Rangers Bus” have been pulsing through my head for two weeks straight; listening to them, they seem to flood every brain receptor at once, making it impossible to do anything but nod your head.
Because of the riveting, attention-deficit-conquering quality of his music, it’s no surprise that Skrillex appeals almost exclusively to the young and smartphone-enabled. At the Roseland Theater show, my fiancée and I appeared to be the oldest attendees by a margin of eight years, which wouldn’t be remarkable if I weren’t 31 years old. Never in my life have I received more “You look like a narc” glares or felt more prematurely parental—particularly while watching a kid hypnotize two glassy-eyed teenage girls with his LED-equipped rave gloves. Being there as an adult felt as peculiar as grabbing lunch at a high school cafeteria. Not much about Skrillex’s performance screamed “maturity,” from his constant shouts of “Make some noise!” to his Fortress of Solitude-esque prop stage with its cheesy graphics display.
But in a city like Portland where tapping your foot at an indie rock show constitutes an almost reckless display of enthusiasm, it was undeniably refreshing to see 1,500 people joyfully dancing to the music. In rumbling tempests of bass and antic bursts of electro, from the main floor up to the rafters, Skrillex had every single body in motion—including my normally straitlaced one. It might not make me run out and buy a pacifier quite yet, but that, I think, counts for something.
by taylor clark

David Guetta Q@A

Style: House - electro and melodic
Best known for: Killing the dancefloor!
Tune of 2011: Can I have two favourite records, seeing as I am No.1? Avicii 'Levels', and Afrojack vs David Guetta 'Lunar'
Breakthrough DJ/Producer of 2011: Is Afrojack too big now? I will say Nicky Romero from Holland.
What's the future of DJing? It's already like this - proper shows in gig venues, not only clubs
Favourite app? Dropbox. I put some beats on Dropbox, and wherever I am in the world I can send my beats from my phone.
Discovery of the year? UAD-2 Satellite, which allows you to use all your UAD plug-ins with your laptop. It's a revolution - unbelievable
Rediscovery of the year? Let's see, I'll open my record box… I made a bootleg of 'Feel What You Want' by Kristine W from 1994.
Awkward Moment? Last week, a girl was giving me pornographic pictures at the Pacha Ibiza closing party - I really wondered why? The photos weren't of herself, it was very strange. I think she was really tripping.
Style or substance? Substance is everything. I never believe the hype. I don't do this for the lifestyle, I do this for the music.
Pet Hate? I'm a lover, not a hater.

Tiesto EDC Las Vegas 2011" Maximal Crazy"

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Deadmau5- Aural Psynapse-Live in Toronto

http://youtu.be/pPkr_3v-Dow?hd=1

The Popularity OF Trance

Trance is a joke to some, but to others it is the embodiment of pure dance music.
Its obvious build-ups, huge breakdowns and serotonin-laced synths are cheesy to many, but there’s a much bigger majority that love it.
For years people have slated trance, made fun of its glowstick-wielding, furry leg warmer-wearing fans and dismissed its faithful followers as kids who wouldn’t know decent dance music if they put their heads in a bass bin.
And yet, trance’s enduring popularity continues to grow. And grow.
Its DJs fill stadiums, are sponsored by mega brands and even have sneakers named after them (Adidas made a line of trainers in honour of DJ Tiësto).
I think it’s about time there was an honest and frank discussion about trance and its popularity, rather than slag it off and ignore it yet again.
My idea for this post came about last night after I witnessed a DJ set from Armin Van Buuren [a].
The Dutch trance DJ was crowned No.1 DJ in the world by DJ Magazine in 2007 in its annual Top 100 DJs poll (which is voted for by the public), and at Beta Nightclub in Denver last night Armin Van Buuren tore the roof off.

Thousands had to be turned away at the doors because the club was at capacity.
From the moment Armin stepped into the DJ booth, and for about 15 minutes after he left, the crowd screamed his name, scrambled to try and shake his hand and begged for autographs.
Every time he raised his hands in the air (in a God-like pose that can only be learned at trance school in Amsterdam) the punters did the same, raising their hands towards the heavens.
Armin only needed to lift his headphones, for the girls down front to start screaming, Beatles-mania style.
It was amazing to witness a DJ being hounded and worshiped like that, and if it wasn’t for DJ booth / cage surrounding him, the crowd would have ripped him to pieces with adoration and excitement.
“Last week he played a nine hour set in Eastern Europe in front of 18,000 people, and it was broadcast live on TV,” somebody told me.
“He couldn’t go to the bathroom for nine hours.”
“Is it always like this?” Industry Boy asked DJ Remy, Armin’s current warm up DJ, whilst pointing at the thousand or so screaming clubbers out front on the dancefloor.
There happened to be two people crowd surfing at that exact moment – something rarely seen in dance music clubs.
Remy shrugged and said a simple “Yeah.”
We were standing in the very same DJ booth, where M.A.N.D.Y. and Heidi from Get Physical had been DJing two weeks earlier.
Get Physical is one of the biggest record labels in electronic music, and M.A.N.D.Y. are one of the biggest acts in techno, and yet the club was not nearly as busy and the crowd were not nearly as excited when they played.
M.A.N.D.Y. and Heidi’s music, in my opinion, is a million times more credible and groovier than the epic, commercial vocal trance that Armin Van Buuren was playing last night, but clearly I was in the minority.

by industry boy

Kaskade The Artist

Though he was born in Chicago, the DJ, A&R director, record store owner, and producer known as Kaskade found his spiritual and musical home in San Francisco by way of Salt Lake City and New York. One of the hardest-working people in the San Francisco house scene, he's Kaskade the house music producer/DJ by night; by day he's Ryan Raddon, A&R director for OM Records. As an A&R man, he helped kick-start the careers of many artists, including Ming + FS and soul-house act Soulstice. In the early days, Kaskade familiarized himself with the rapidly changing electronic music scene wherever he went, eventually finding that house music was the subgenre he loved best. He started out as a DJ in New York and Salt Lake City clubs. During the tail end of his stay in Salt Lake City, his first attempts to produce tracks were released on his own tiny label, Mechanized Records. He also sold a few tracks to Chris Smith, A&R director for an up-and-coming house label in San Francisco. Though no one could have predicted it, this ended up being the precursor to Raddon's most important career move. When family matters initiated a move to San Francisco, Smith hired Raddon to assist him at the label -- which was, of course, OM. His own full-length recordings as Kaskade began with 2003's house-inflected It's You, It's Me. A soulful, more organic direction provided focus for the following year's In the Moment, and Raddon kept his name in the record racks by piloting editions in the San Francisco Sessions DJ series (as well as the label mix House of OM). He proved surprisingly dedicated to his production craft, releasing Love Mysterious in 2006, which placed on Billboard's electronic albums chart. Strobelight Seduction became his biggest commercial success, following in 2008, and 2010's Dynasty celebrated his new reputation with a parade of vocal features and a co-production with Tiësto. Later in 2010, Raddon put together Electric Daisy Carnival, a mix showcasing artists on the bill for the inaugural dance-music festival of the same name. The double album Fire & Ice followed in 2011. ~ L. Katz & John Bush, Rovi

Monday, November 7, 2011

Steve Aoki Atlantic City,NJ Borgata 11-28-11

Borgata presents DJ Steve Aoki The man behind Dim Mak Records has been credited with launching the careers of some of the most influential acts of the last decade including Bloc Party, The Kills, Klaxons, MSTRKRFT, The Bloody Beetroots, Mystery Jets, The Rakes, The Gossip and more. Since founding the label, he's stepped into the limelight himself as a DJ, artist and producer

Ultra Music Festival 2012 Promo

PRE Sale Tickets EDC Las Vegas Now Sold Out

Additional Advance Tickets Will Go on Sale January 2012
The return of Insomniac's Electric Daisy Carnival to Las Vegas on June 8-10, 2012, has proven to be one of the most anticipated in company history, with the first allotment of tickets selling out in less than 36 hours.
The second tier of tickets will be released for purchase on January 3, 2012. There will be a layaway payment option available at that time, as well as the opportunity to purchase hotel packages. There will be a very limited quantity of single-day tickets available at a later date.
After hosting more than 230,000 amazing fans during Electric Daisy Carnival, Las Vegas 2011, the world's top musical and artistic talent will return to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the 16th Annual Electric Daisy Carnival three day festival.
To purchase tickets and keep up with the latest announcements related to Electric Daisy Carnival, please visit www.electricdaisycarnival.com

Sunday, November 6, 2011

My Video Deadmau5 Roselands Ballroom 10-05-2011

Armin Van Buuren Behind A State of Trance




To mark the 10 year anniversary and 500th episode of his weekly radio show A State of Trance, Armin performed at five shows across five continents over five consecutive weeks along with various artists (he even joked that there would be "...5 shows, 5 continents, with 5 massive jetlags"). The first show was held on 19 March 2011 in Johannesburg, South Africa at the MTN Expo Center. In addition to Armin – Blake Jarrell, Protoculture, Lange, Leon Bolier, and Jorn van Deynhoven were performers. Super8 & TAB were to be part of the South African show, however a flight cancellation caused them to be absent for the event. The event was attended by over 20,000 people. Miami's show was performed at the Ultra Music Festival on 27 March, and part of the show were Marcus Schossow, Alex M.O.R.P.H., Cosmic Gate, Gareth Emery, Ferry Corsten, ATB, and Sander van Doorn. Argentina held the third celebration of ASOT 500 in club G.E.B.A Buenos Aires, where Heatbeat (Argentina's Trance music icons at the time), Jochen Miller, Dash Berlin, Markus Schulz, AVB, John O'Callaghan and W & W. It was the only of the 5 ASOT 500 celebrations that was held roofless, where AVB recorded a live video with his cell phone and uploaded it to Twitter while playing his live set, showing Argentinean passion for trance. Den Bosch in The Netherlands followed with the biggest event of 2011. Accompanied by more than 30 DJs from countries all over the world, Armin brought together over 30,000 people in one long night's worth of trance music. DJ friends present were Markus Schulz, Gareth Emery, Above & Beyond, Paul Oakenfold and Sean Tyas. The event was radio broadcasted live from Den Bosch by Armin himself to over 30 countries as well as many of the DJs using their sets as their live weekly or monthly podcast.[21][dated info] The final show was held in Sydney, Australia marking the 5th show of the ASOT 500 tour. It was held on 16 April at Acer Arena in Olympic Park and was a sold out event weeks before the night. Shogun, Australia's own tyDi, Menno de Jong, Aly & Fila, Alex M.O.R.P.H. and of course Armin van Buuren were the lineup where Armin played for a 3 hour set in celebration of this epic 5 week tour.

Swedish House Mafia Sell Out Madison Square Garden in 9 Minutes on Facebook

Legendary does not even begin to describe the feat that Swedish House Mafia has accomplished today. Not only have they broken boundaries by being the first headlining electronic act at Madison Square Garden ever, now they managed to sell out the historic arena during the fan presale in 9 minutes, as well as the Milton Keynes Bowl show presale in 4 hours. If you don’t mind we’d like to repeat that for you. 9. Minutes. That’s over 25,000 seats sold, in less time than it takes to save 15% or more on car insurance. Reportedly Ticketmaster’s page for the event was visited by roughly 15,000 people in the first minute of sales, and at one point there were over 5,000 in the holding area on the site’s servers. As the tickets flew off the proverbial shelves at an alarming rate SHM and Ticketmaster decided to push all event tickets into today’s presale in an attempt to provide enough tickets, throwing an additional (and final) 1,000 tickets into the ring as the rest of them disappeared. These too were in turn snatched up, and 9 minutes of frenzied clicking later all 25,000+ tickets were gone. As a result, the general public ticket sale that was originally planned for tomorrow at 10am will no longer take place, since there aren’t even any more tickets TO sell. Third party sellers like StubHub are already capitalizing on the unexpectedly rapid sell-out and posting tickets for upwards of $150 for the furthest seats in the arena, despite SHM’s digital admonitions via Twitter and Facebook. SHM released this statement via Facebook concerning the sell-out and their opinion of places like StubHub:


ok. final word on MSG today. 1. we are trying to change the stage configuration to release a few more tickets 2. we are trying to add a second show but it may well not be MSG 3. there is NO public sale tomorrow ……all the tickets went today which is pretty unheard of. More news as it hits. do NOT buy from secondary ticket sellers. Assholes

The advent of a second gig would be fantastic news indeed, allowing thousands of additional fans to enjoy the show of a lifetime, but it would certainly not have the same impact as that of the Madison Square Garden show if it ends up at a different venue (which seems likely). Overall, today’s events mark a big leap forward in EDM’s position in the public conscience, and indisputably proved that We Come, We Rave, We Love, and we do it like no one else.

Tiesto Live Pacha NYC

Legendary DJ Tiesto will be playing at Pacha NYC 618 W. 46th Street New York on November 30th 2011 doors 9pm.Part of the Pacha NYC 6-Year Anniversary Celebration!

Home Of Electro Trance House Music

You came to the right spot to find out all the latest info for all your electronic music. Will have info on all the latest releases from the artists you have come to love. Concert information of who is playing what and where. Info on Links to here a complete performances from one of your favorite DJ’S . And live videos from select shows.