Artist Spotlight & Interview: Tim Mason
One word that can describe Tim is bold. Only a bold man could send his production (The Moment) to a sole record company and gamble everything he had worked ...
Editorial
A Note on Language and Spectrum
I have to admit, I was a bit puzzled when I learned that Mat Zo was slated to be one of the opening acts for Porter Robinson’s summer tour. I me...
Artist Spotlight: Portishead
The mid 1990s were conflicted and tumultuous years for dance music. Chicago and Detroit, representing opposing styles of house and techno, were bo...
Dubstep: The Cross-Atlantic Differential
There was a time when raves were quite different than they are now. They were underground, illicit; an outsider looking in might even say they wer...
Global Dance Festival 2012 Review
After three days of teeth-rattling, ear-muffling dance music, formulating a concise and legitimate opinion about the barrage of EDM is near impossible. Prom...
The Commodification of EDM: A Fundamental Change
Recently, Rolling Stone announced that Avicii is collaborating with none other than Ralph Lauren as the head of an advertising campaign for denim ...
The Popularity of House: It’s No Accident
Historically, substyles of music have always swung in and out of vogue rapidly and fluidly; those on the cutting edge are always looking for “th...
EDM in the Postmodern World
I have no doubt that EDM is the music of now. Older paradigms have come and gone: orchestral music dominated the scene for most of recorded musica...
What’s In a Remix?
Remixing isn’t such a new concept: someone takes a piece of music and alters it in some significant way to make it different enough to where it ...
Genres in EDM: An Acceptable Balance
House. Trance. Techno. Electro. Drum n bass. We’re all familiar with these genre names, and distinctions are important—each style of music der...
Pete Tong – Essential Selection – 29-06-2012 [With Swedish House Mafia Interview]
Tracklist:
Cedric Gervais – Molly (Pete Tong Edit)
Zedd feat. Matthew Koma – Spectrum
John Dahlback feat. Urban Cone & Lucas Nord â€...
Bringing Down the House: Swedish House Mafia’s Split
UPDATE: Here is the announcement made by the Swedish House Mafia on Pete Tong's Radio 1.
Everyone in the dance music world is familiar with the ubiqu...