Sonny Moore, aka Skrillex , has decided he is building an 11,000 square foot space in LA's Chinatown to be a studio facility for the "computer musician" as a way to realize his aspirations to give back to the craft that has gotten him to where he is now. Recently, the Ibiza International Music Summit presented their first IMS Engage Summit in Hollywood, CA at the W Hotel, in which they paired 12 producers, managers, label-heads, and executives including Skrillex, Pete Tong , Diplo , Def Jam founder Russell Simmons , [...]
Skrillex (as well as joint business label-partners Tim Smith, Clayton Blaha and Kathryn Frazier) have already ransacked the world basements with their fixated and passionate two-year-old record label: OWSLA. Supporters of high-calibre, quality controlled electronic dance music OWSLA deliver an unflawed program that entices your senses to yield and your feet to go rampant on dancefloor. Let's [...]
Skrillex (as well as joint business label-partners Tim Smith, Clayton Blaha and Kathryn Frazier ) have already ransacked the world basements with their fixated and passionate two-year-old record label: OWSLA . Supporters of high-calibre, quality controlled electronic dance music OWSLA deliver an unflawed program that entices your senses to yield and your feet to go rampant on dancefloor. Let’s hope that this record label lasts for years and years to come. DURANTE DURANTE - [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , RPM , News Today, Oh Boy! , EDM Porter Robinson Facebook Since electronic dance music adopted its latest moniker EDM , a massive surge of corporate dollars from companies hungry to keep up with the trends and demands of an ever-growing digital fanbase have made it as big a deal to bean-counters as glowstick-wavers. Beatport , the world's largest DJ music store, was just [...]
Filed under: News , RPM , Awards , EDM Jordan Strauss, Invision, AP Dubstep fans rejoice! Skrillex has won Best Dance Recording at the 2013 Grammy Awards for "Bangarang." Born Sonny Moore, the electronic music maven has been scoring golden gramophones left and right for the past two years. In 2012, he won Best Dance Recording and Best Remixed Recording, among other awards.
Hello, and welcome to another edition of Robot Music . For all you fellow Minnesotans I hope you enjoyed Hockey Day Minnesota as much as I did yesterday. First up is a man that many love to hate. Sonny Moore aka Skrillex has found himself in an interesting position these days. On one hand he has become extremely successful and has a fan base that firmly believes he is all things dubstep. On the other hand there are the dubstep elists and people that just hate him for being successful. Sure, the music [...]
Happy Birthday dear #Sonny (That is what his real friends call him) Happy Birthday tooo youuu (OH MY GOD!) [via the sample from 'Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites' ] Skrillex , bb! Ur hair caught on fire! If only all of ur close friends #sidestage [via bros selling footage to TMZ] helped u 2 stop drop [via the bass] and roll [via on #molly #e #shouldatakenacidwithyall] I would dump water on ur hair, Skrilly even if it shorted ur entire [...]
With the news of Skrillex & Disney’s partnership being broken on Aerial Noise back in July 2012, we’re pleased to find out that Noisia have lent their hand in remixing Skrillex’s ‘Bug Hunt’ that puts them into a quarter of total shredded-toughness and platinum-threaded disco grooves. Noisia slam it home on this rework. Slotted in as a cheeky bonus below, Toronto’s Kolendo makes his intention clear by reworking a classic Aphex Twin track by turning it into a liquid-thrilled ride of atmospheric garage and boundary pushing notion. His “Kolendo EP” continues that exact [...]
Came across this video of Skrillex giving Richard Branson a DJ lesson at the Virgin Mobile FreeFest in Baltimore via NME. Celebrity DJs are a tough pill to swallow, but there’s something about Richard Branson DJing that’s not all that bad. The wealth of music knowledge guy must possess is, well, we imagine pretty epic. In other Skrillex news, if you’re a reader of Magnetic you might have come across bits about Sonny scoring Harmony Korine’s pending feature film Spring Breakers . Or the news about The Hangover ‘s [...]
While I still don't understand her sexual attraction to Sonny Moore, this new track from babe Ellie Goulding is pretty fresh and slightly reminiscent of our main bb Grimes. Anything Could Happen is the lead single from Goulding's sophomore album Halcyon, set to drop in the fall. posted by @clarkbs
The four men behind the French turntabilist crew Birdy Nam Nam met as members of the much larger Scratch Action Hiro and are winners of the 2000 DMC World DJ Team Championship. Crazy B, DJ Pone, Little Mike, & DJ Need formed Birdy Nam Nam the next year - taking their name from a line in the 1968 Peter Sellers film The Party. They went on to win the 2002 DMC World DJ Team Championship before shifting their focus to studio work. Released on the Uncivilized World label in 2005, their self-titled debut was created entirely on turntables and features a [...]
Skrillex is all set to produce the music for a new Disney film called Wreck-It Ralph it was announced at Comic-Con this past Friday. He will work on this new animated movie from the team behind Tangled, Chicken Little and Lilo & Stitch. Actors Sarah Silverman, Jane Lynch and John C. Reilly have already provided their voices for the movie, and is scheduled for release on 2 November 2012 (United States) and 13 February 2013 (United Kingdom). Wreck-It Ralph has been described as a movie about “9-foot-tall, 643-pound villain of the arcade video game Fix-It Felix Jr., in which [...]
Strengthening his cause as one of the world’s best - and most original in platinum coated, electronic dance music drenched excitement - we look deep into our archives to bring you one of Skrillex’s previous numbers courtesy of the World Wide Gifted. It sure is a DnB Ting. SKRILLEX - DnB Ting (Original Mix)
Here's a brand new track from Skrillex that surface earlier this weekend, featuring the talents of Damian Marley. A reggae-dubstep infusion has never sounded so good. For fans of Damian Marley, you're all already in love with his vocals, and this track, hearing them in an entirely different setting, will blow you away. I really think the track sells itself, so not much needs to be said, except: prepare yourself, this one is gonna be huge. Download & Enjoy! Rudeboy Bass (Feat. Damian Marley) - Skrillex [...]
Tainted by the collective sorrow of Whitney Houston 's untimely death on Saturday , the 54th annual Grammy Awards went on as scheduled last night. Dance music was woefully ignored (as usual), but Skrillex won three awards: Best Dance/Electronica Album ( Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites ), Best Dance Recording ("Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites") and Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical ("Cinema"). The award was presented during the non-televised ceremony held in the afternoon. "I dedicate these 5 noms to not only the EDM community but all the unconventional forward thinking artists all over the [...]
I don't know if I've ever heard/seen more debates over an artist than there have been with Sonny Moore. The man's explosion onto the EDM scene just over one year ago took everyone by surprise. Practically overnight, he went from being a niche-scene unknown into an ambassador of EDM with 8 of Beatport's top 10 slots all to himself for a at least a few weeks. I'm pretty sure that's never happened before. So this must have some significance, right? I mean we, the music-listening community, are the ones who gave Sonny his throne. Why has his music [...]
Coming via his own label, OWSLA, the “Bangarang” EP has been long in the making this...
Filed under: Exclusive , RPM , Q + A Getty Images Arguably the most polarizing figure in dance music, dubstep's reigning king Skrillex has single-handedly bested the music industry, proving that a grassroots following can't be bought and that no amount of marketing dollars can surpass the value of fandom. Performing sold-out shows more often than not, rocking virtually every major music festival in the country, while netting as many Grammy [...]
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For those of you who live in Indy, how great has the music been in this town over the last few weeks? I'm having issues with my camera's memory card which, thanks to a little help from Amazon I think it should be resolved mid next week. I can't believe the last time I posted [...]
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