Spring is in the air (officially) but Miami is already red hot with the start of Ultra Music Festival weekend two. A brisk walk along the South Beach boardwalk and I caught the end of W&W ’s set at the swanky, exclusive SiriusXM Music Lounge/Motorola Music Lounge at the W Hotel in Miami Beach. A step in any direction and one runs into Bobina or Chad Cisneros of Tritonal — literally because the place is the Miami Beach hot spot of the day and is packed! This year’s lounge boasted, “...invited [...]
Electric Daisy Carnival has revealed the lineup for its inaugural Chicago festival , which takes place May 24th - 26th at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet. The lineup includes Avicii, Tiësto, Kaskade, David Guetta, Armin Van Buuren, Above & Beyond, Empire of the Sun, The Bloody Beetroots, Hardwell, Markus Schulz, San van Doorn, Borgore, Gareth Emery, Dirtyphonics, Dash Berlin, High Contrast, Justin Martin, Morgan Page, Koan Sound, Ed Rush & Optical, Andy C, Jack Beats, L-Vis 1990, Wolf + Lamb, Nadastrom, and more. Three-day and VIP passes, including camping options, are now available via [...]
It's taken six years for M.I.K.E. to release a new full-length album. With World Citizen , we find him comfortably back at his roots. Weighing in at a hefty 23 tracks and releasing on High Contrast , World Citizen's two discs are a perfect balance of jaw-dropping remixes of his long-established classics and smashing new material. To start things off, M.I.K.E. and Matteo Marini's Melodramma teases us into its enchanting melody as dark and techy elements fuse together over heavy synths to form a powerhouse of [...]
If this were possible, I would say this could qualify as 4:35 seconds of an Off The Air episode on video games. A million unlicensed clips, so it'd be terrible for broadcast...but the video still blew my brains apart. Lots of datamoshing, iconic video game imagery & aggressive wildlife all add up to a charmingly delusional video. The clip has my attention and, though I've never heard of High Contrast or Hospitality Records before, the clip serves as an internet friendly talking point. 'Spectrum Analyzer' is an ok track; definitely in line with 8/16 bit soundtracks [...]
M.I.K.E. and Rank 1 (pictured) have been shaping the trance kingdom in their own image for over a decade now. M.I.K.E.'s collection of aliases includes Push, famously popular for Universal Nation , while Rank 12s most well-known for Airwave . Now 2013 brings them together for a new, monster collaboration titled Elements of Nature . M.I.K.E is known for creating a dark scene that consists of high-octane arpeggios from his productions, while Rank 1 crafts melodies and hooks to leave you breathless. The balance is seen here, and [...]
Snowbombing 2013 proudly revealed back in October its stellar DJ line up for next April's event, with the clear intention of putting together its biggest ever show on snow! The news sees original and groundbreaking legends of the scene mixing it with the most current, crafty and energetic stars in the business. The live acts include KASABIAN, Example, Katy B, Disclosure, Rudimental, and P Money. The DJ lineup consists of Carl Cox, Seth Troxler, Maceo Plex, Skream, Andy C, James Zabiela, Norman Jay, David Rodigan, Fake Blood, Netsky, Kerri [...]
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Welsh DnB man High Contrast does it big with his latest remix for Plan B. The engine for HC's remix here is clearly drum & bass but the gas is some really killer syncopations in the rhythm and synth tracks. Hot like fire. Plan B - Playing With Fire (High Contrast Remix) High Contrast ( Facebook ) Rating 8.4
Anyone fancy a European music festival - one of hundreds in Flanders, Belgium - where the 183,000+ folks are pretty friendly, hardly anyone gets totally hammered or aggressive drunk, the bands are well looked after, the food is all deep-fried, there's a special Belgian beer tent, you get free stuff if you recycle bottles, AND has three-day lineup of TOTAL AWESOME? Yeah, me too. Welcome at Pukkelpop , as they say. After several days of travelling around Flanders, Belgium (the Flemmish, not French part of this rad little European country), enjoying amazing food, fashionable [...]
Flanders is more than a field, it’s also home to about a bazillion festivals. Putting last year’s tragedy in the rearview, Pukkelpop – dubbed the European Coachella by DJ Martin Solveig and held August 16-18th in Kiewit, Belgium – was this year a celebration of great music. So how does one girl plan her attack of 14-hour days, eight stages, 200+ bands and DJs, in 97°F heat? With good shoes, bottles of water, and a long lens. The first day saw Paris’ drum n’ bass assassins Dirtyphonics nail the Dance Hall and its inhabitants [...]
It’s been a while since my last post, so I’m just gonna drop some mixes that I hold very close to my heart. Starting off with a throwback from one of the biggest names in DnB in the past 10 years. He’s one of the driving powers behind Hospital Records and commands immense respect as a DJ and producer. This mix he made back in 2003 is one of my favorites and I need ya’ll to have a listen. Enjoy. #StraightOuttaCardiff! [...]
Jul 28, 2012, 6:07pm
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Tweet Last night then, there was the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony in glorious London. Whilst Danny Boyle was picking people up from their tubs labelled variously Mild Cynic , Medium Cynic and Hyper Cynic before gently placing them all in the huge tub labelled Awestruck Convert there was another man doing a lot of work but not getting the props. Boyle's props are hugely deserved. Us Brits don't like to big ourselves up that [...]
The weekend has come and gone, and now you're deep into your weekly grind. Never fear, Wobble Wednesday is back with more of your favorite face-melting bass drops to help you make the most of your mundane lifestyle. Today I'll be guiding you along through the many variations of bass music that we see these days, new and old. I wanted to turn the Wobble Wednesday feature into more than just a section for today's dubstep, so I decided it was only right to incorporate some drum & bass as well as an oldies section into the weekly feature. [...]
May 14, 2012, 1:38pm
KCNV
Allez, on va faire court ; la prochaine Jungle Juice à Paris va envoyer, et du lourd. Rendez-vous à La Machine Du Moulin Rouge pour une line-up qui ne peut déplaire à personne : amoureux de la drum'n'bass vous allez êtes servi, et dans plusieurs genres ! Un beau melting-pot d'artistes de labels sympathiques, Hospital, Viper ou encore Shogun, qui pourrait manqué ça ? C'est ainsi qu'on écoutera la liquid de High Contrast, qui a sorti son album il y a de cela deux mois, liquid énergique ou planante, High Contrast en bon musicien ne s'arrête pas à un style. [...]
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Photo credit: Oh Dag Yo // Beyond Wonderland album I know it’s pretty late for me to be posting this, but I’ve just been swamped with a lot – school, work, and music stuff. But anyways, even though it’s been almost 2 months since Beyond Wonderland happened, I think it’s safe to say that it was just one of those events that everyone can talk about this whole year, whether you were there for DJ Fei Fei’s controversial dubstep set at the ASOT stage or [...]
Hospital Records has released their Drum and Bass compilation for 2012 and shit is insane. One of the most notable labels in DnB today, Hospital Records hosts such acts like: Netsky, Camo & Krooked, High Contrast, London Elektricity, and Nu:Tone. The compilation features a very healthy dose of Liquid Dub, Jungle and a sprinkling of other genres that I have no idea what to call. I did hear a saxophone on one of the tracks so naturally this album gets a 10/10 on the swag scale. But, other than that, have a listen for yourself, you can buy the entire [...]
LUNG FACEBOOK | TWITTER | SOUNDCLOUD | MED SCHOOL L ungs. A pair of organs in the body that gives us the ability to breathe, which is funny because the Lung that we are interviewing today does the complete opposite… I have found myself on countless occasions, mesmerised by the depth and dexterity of this young producers tracks to the point of not breathing through sheer immersion. James Ellaway is a talented 21 year old producer under the alias of Lung . [...]
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