Thoughts from our B-Sides staff member, who attended the IDentity Festival in Mountain View, CA: It felt like KasKade tore through the Shoreline Amphitheater main stage tent in Mountain View, CA, this summer night. In the haze of sweat and body heat, thousands of house music fans, ravers and hipsters dancing as one under the summer night stars. The bold beats and climaxing crescendos kidnapped many a cognitive function as moving any body part was a small ransom to give to get back control. You are mesmerized by lights and shapes bursting from the stage sometimes reading [...]
[Welcome to the FYF hangover, Sunday edition. Hope to have our coverage posted later today. Meanwhile:] Sunday fun: ► Mellowing out on this holiday weekend? The Sweet Hurt and Ry Cuming join residents Daniel Ahearn and the Jones for tonight's edition of the Sunday Night Jones at the Satellite. The Buzz Bands LA-presented night features a songwriters circle after the performances. Good vibe. ► Partying hard this holiday weekend: IDentity Festiva l goes [...]
Any big artist coming to my corner of the world in Albuquerque is a very rare treat, but having a whole electronic music festival a 20 minute drive from my house was nothing short of amazing. Read on for my full recap! (Click the pictures for a larger view) The day started out pretty well with The Eye getting everyone ready for the day. He was a bit rough in the mixing department, although he [...]
Rock on, gamers. While we at Buzz Bands LA HQ won't pretend to be conversant in Borderlands, we do like our Crystal Method , especially when Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland team up with U.K. indie-funk band the Heavy. "Play for Real," featuring singer Kelvin Swaby and guitarist Dan Taylor from the Heavy (and some other familiar name like trumpeter Stewart Cole), is stashed on the iTunes deluxe edition of the Crystal Method's 2009 album "Divided by Night." Killer track, and killer animation from Jordan "Kootra" Mathewson. In a manner of speaking. ||| Live: [...]
"One's identity is established more by others than my oneself" -Alex Frankel of Holy Ghost! Last Thursday marked the start of 20 of the most disgusting, aggressive, and beautiful musicians of the electronic age will mosey across America for over 4 weeks in perhaps one of the most impressive edm tour to date. Not only will this troupe of talent perform in 20 cities nationwide during their journey, the line up is absolutely saturated with Vacay approved artists. Skullcandy has a done a phenomenal job of bringing a solid chunk of the EDM world together [...]
Booka Shade are currently on tour in America and have decided to give away their throbbing, demonic take on Kings Of Leon's 'Back Down South'. It's a really industrial jittery remix - but the they managed to stick in some of their tried and tested melodic cinematic house vibes. One of their finest remixes to date ? Quite possibly. King's Of Leon - 'Back Down South' (Booka Shade Remix) Download here . August 2011 Booka Shade US Tour (Identity Festival) [...]
Download : Booka Shade - Regenerate (Santiago Caballero Remix) by KEEPREAL Creative Label - Visual & Musical www.keepreal.org Booka Shade - Regenerate (Santiago Caballero Remix) Some more 31 May 2011 -- Katie Kim - A Fool Of Me (The Handles Organist) 19 February 2011 -- Soundspace - Sweet Madness EP 12 January 2011 -- Meesha - Daat [...]
!K72s now legendary DJ Kicks series has recently found itself in the hands of Danilo Plessow, also known as Motor City Drum Ensemble. For those of you unfamiliar with the series, DJ Kicks is a DJ-mix series started by !K7 Records to help exhibit the skills of talented producers and DJs in a recorded setting. In the past other artists including James Holden, Chromeo, Booka Shade, Four Tet, The Juan MacLean, Hot Chip and Apparat, among many others, have all been comissioned for mixes of their own. [...]
We would like to give you guys a heads up on Identity Fest presented by Skullcandy in association with Ultra. This is a traveling festival that gives people in many parts of the country a chance to see some of the best acts in the EDM world that you may not get to see other wise.With a 20 stop tour everyone is sure to have a great time. Each stop will be unique as they all feature a somewhat of a different line up then the stop before. Some of the acts that you can expect to see at the [...]
When Identity Festival had their "$20 for 20 Hours" sale two days ago, many of you sent me emails saying, "Thank you California Cornbread! You know everything! Please have my babies!*" (*Third sentence is a lie.) But some of you were really bummed out because Los Angeles was left out of the sale. At the time, the venue for the Los Angeles show was T.B.A., so it was a little hard for them to sell tickets - understandably. Problem solved. I made a call to the good folks at Wantickets, and I said, "Yo whaddup with them tickets [...]
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Win Tickets to the Identity Festival : Info | More Info Our friends over at wantickets.com [shout out to @Bmuse ] want to give you a pair of tickets to the Identity Festival Tour Stop of YOUR choice. We're all short on cash these days and we're always in need of some good music so this is your chance to join in on the festivities. HOW TO ENTER: - Follow @wantickets on Twitter - RT The following message –" I'm getting [...]
2011 will see the first ever electronic only traveling festival tour. The Identity tour will feature three stage with some of today's biggest DJ and electro acts such as: Kaskade , Steve Aoki , Booka Shade, DJ Shadow, Disco Biscuits and Holy Ghost! The 21 date North American run will hit Homdel's PNC Bank Arts Center on Sunday, August 14th and Camden's Susquehanna Bank Center on Friday, August 19th.
This summer is going to be absolutely enormous in the dance music scene! So many individual performances and even more festivals. The end of the summer, though, is what I am most excited for. The inaugural IDentity Festival kicks off on August 11th, in Indiana of all places. Working its way around the [...]
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Identity Festival : Official | Facebook | Twitter It was only a matter of time before all of our favorite producer/DJs hit the road and did a proper tour across America. Sure many of these artists have done various shows with their friends in spotted tours across the States but it was in deed a surprise for me to discover that this has been set in stone. Reminds me of the Warped Tour days. I'm assuming there will be less chuck taylors/drunken brawls/and middle fingers flicked off at the [...]
PRESS RELEASE: This summer will mark the debut of IDENTITY , the first-ever touring electronic ONLY music festival that will visit major outdoor amphitheatres throughout North America in August and September and give fans the full electronic music experience. Approximately 20 shows are on tap for this exciting new traveling extravaganza with top-tier artists performing on multiple stages starting in the afternoon and into the night. Specific [...]
Booking summer shows for mid-level acts is never an easy task. While there are plenty of sheds across the country, there aren't that many cool outdoor venues that hold between two and eight thousand fans. So what's a band like the Disco Biscuits to do? Well this summer they are teaming up with over a dozen electronic acts - including HT faves Pretty Lights - for the first-ever touring electronic music only festival called Identity to get into those ampitheatres they wouldn't be able to fill by themselves. [...]
In the '90s, the Lollapalooza festival emerged as a way to bring the music of the "alternative" generation to the masses, going to different sites across the country with a stellar lineup of acts and a vibe that was as much traveling circus as rock show. The creators of the Identity festival seem to be [...]
Punk, metal, and country all having touring music festivals, and now the electronic music genre does too. Billed as the "first-ever touring electronic ONLY music festival," Identity will visit 20 major outdoor amphitheatres throughout North America in August and September. Disco Biscuits, Pretty Lights, Kaskade, DJ Shadow, and Avicii top the inaugural bill, while other highlights include The Crystal Method, Modeselektor, Booka Shade, Nero, Pete Tong, Erol Alkan, and Holy Ghost!. Rounding out the lineup are Steve Aoki, Skrillex, Chuckie, Datsik, N.E.R.D.'s Chad Hugo, Aeroplane, LA Riots, Doorly, Nervo, White Shadow, Jessie and the [...]
Booka Shade's last EP from their current came out last week, and we gave away the Gainford remix, well now you can check out the full release below, not bad at all. Remixes come from Reset Reboot, Dusty Kid, Hey Today, Schadenfreude and Javier Longares - where not entirely sure who a lot of these artist's are, but we love Booka Shade so that's that. Booka Shade - Scaramanga (Remixes) by Booka Shade
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One of the many tracks that Booka Shade can honestly call their Finest, 'Bad Love' sits on the top of any contender as the real champ of the future progressive sound but not without handing the baton once, twice and back round again to cohorts Azari & III, Tim Green, Groove Armada & Cassius. Euphoria seems to be the word of the moment with yours truly recently, so apologises in reusing that same descript-feeling in regards to Azari & III's remix of 'Bad Love.' Acid house auras are abound however, stirred in with that ol' ultra-cool, electro-techno, slap [...]
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