Earlier today, Avicii announced a lineup of supporting DJ’s to join his Levels tour this summer. Gareth Emery, Chuckie, Arty, Morgan Page, CAZZETTE, Pleasurekraft and Swanky Tunes will all be joining the tour.
Electronic music pioneer Squarepusher is back with a new album and an accompanying world tour. The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and XLR8 have all praised his new live show, which was conceived, written, designed, and played completely by him. Every live show is different and unique, which is an extremely refreshing concept.
Watch an amazing live performance of one of his new tracks “Dark Steering” HERE, read a track by track analysis of the new album by Squarepusher himself HERE, and buy his new album “Ufabulum” HERE. Below is a list of his North American tour dates. Artists like Rusko and Skrillex cite Squarepusher as a major influence, and this new live show looks to be a true game-changer in both the IDM (Intelligent Dance Music) and EDM worlds.
July 31st – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom US
August 2nd – San Francisco, CA – Regency Ballroom
August 4th – Los Angeles CA – HARD Summer Music Festival
October 30th – New York, NY – Details to be announced soon
In March we announced a contest calling all producers and aspiring superstars to submit their original tracks to us through Indaba. The contest went great, with 217 entries. We have to hand it to you basement DJs, most of the tracks were pretty solid, some obviously more so than others. We narrowed it down a few times, and ultimately decided on Double Dust as being our winner!
Congratulations Double Dust, may this be the break through as a successful career as a producer.
Double Dust – Land Of The Sun
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Double Dust submitted the track Land of the Sun, which is a colorful, extremely rhythmic house track. The track can definitely hold a candle to the top-notch European DJs dominating the landscape. The track is a little over 4 minutes, and ebbs and flows like the best of them. Stay tuned for the interview that will be coming soon!
It’s the news you’ve been waiting for America – almost. Today we learned that an announcement about the heavily anticipated Sensation America is slated for Thursday, May 31. The teaser video however, should put you in proper spirits in the meantime.
Follow Sensation on Facebook and Twitter for updates – and watch this space!
Atlantic City is certainly stepping up its game with the opening of Revel, billed as a Las Vegas style resort on the Jersey shore. Today brings the announcement that Dirty South will be a resident at the resort’s HQ Nightclub and Day Club, which follows on the heels of the news from yesterday that Calvin Harris will also have a residency at HQ.
Beyond the nightclub scene, Revel also revealed last week that Avicii would be the first electronic music performer to be on stage at the hotel’s Ovation Hall June 16 – floor seats sold out the same day they went on sale.
The club itself sounds like a great setting, aside from the big time names that are being lined up to perform, sporting 40,000 square feet of space with oceanfront views. Vegas views certainly can’t compete with that. Book your rooms now is our advice.
AVICII’s LE7ELS Tour start date has been pushed back in order to accommodate changes in the shows production, and these production changes won’t be ready in time for the following shows which have been cancelled:
Cancelled
Reliant Arena in Houston May 17
Fort Worth Convention Center Arena May 18
Uno Lakefront in New Orleans May 20
Gwinnett Center in Duluth June 6
According to Mark Ward of AVICII’s production team “The production is a re-invention of modern technology in an unexplored area of application seeing the 3d mapping is done on an organic surface and mixed in real time. In its complexity we discovered some technical issues at Coachella that could compromise the quality of the experience for the fans which is why we are recommending we move the tour starting date up to a month later.”
Ash Pournouri, At Night Managment, says, “We can not risk anything but a top notch experience for fans and will move the tour start to June 7, pending venue availabilities” The following shows have been rescheduled:
The Sprint Center in Kansas City May 24 is now Sept. 16 at The Midland by AMC
Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis May 24 is now Sept. 15
Target Center in Minneaplois May 26 is now Sept. 7 at the Minneapolis Convention Center
MTS Centre in Winnipeg May 26 is now Sept. 6
Several dates will also be replaced by headliner slots at upcoming festivals which will be
announced in the weeks ahead.
Skrillex will embark upon his Full Flex Express tour, which is a train tour across Canada, with support from Pretty Lights, Diplo, Grimes, Koan Sound, and TokiMonsta. The idea is to recreate a similar train tour that took place over 40 years ago and featured timeless acts such as The Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin. Skrillex and Co. were inspired by Mumford and Sons and Edward Sharpe, who also did a similar tour last year. Unfortunately, the tour will make no U.S stops, but you can be sure there will be some highly entertaining YouTube clips that will come from the tour. The tour dates are as follows:
Fri. July 13 – Toronto – Fort York
Sat. July 14 – Ottawa – Ottawa Blues Fest*
Sun. July 15 – Montreal – Parc Jean Drapeau
Wed. July 18 – Winnipeg – Shaw Park
Frid. July 20 – Edmonton – Kinsmen Park
Sun. July 22 – Vancouver – PNE Coliseum
Swedish House Mafia can keep Madison Square Garden. Avicii will become the latest trailblazing electronic music act as he breaks in Atlantic City resort Revel’s spanking-new Ovation Hall on Saturday, June 16. Aside from Electric Daisy Carnival NY, the event marks the Swedish star’s closest Le7els World Tour date to New York City.
The match is as logical as they come; Revel rhymes with ‘Levels’ and Avicii’s infectious brand of house is a perfect soundtrack for the Atlantic City party crowd. Expect a fist-pump fest and a half. Join the party by purchasing tickets here; they go on sale tomorrow morning at 10 ET.
With the recent ascent of dance music, common fans and aficionados alike are digging deeper and sometimes finding out that their favorite “DJ” isn’t actually much of a “producer”. There is an immense difference between the two, although almost all of the big stars are, in some way or another, a combination of both. The picture above is off the legendary Martin Buttrich, a producer who has been in the game for 20 years and has made hits for artists like Loco Dice and Timo Maas. Read about him and other ghost producers HERE on Beatportal’s enlightening series of articles entitled “At The Controls”.
The Prodigy, who were recently named by MixMag as “The World’s Greatest Dance Act of All Time” just announced the title of their next album: How To Steal a Jet Fighter. Many of the recent successful progressive house producers cite The Prodigy as a major influence, and their Fat of the Land album is widely regarded as one of the best dance music albums ever. Any news coming out of The Prodigy camp is big news! Expect the timeless act to reveal their new tracks at some of the Summer festivals they are playing. Unfortunately, they are not playing one U.S festival. Check out their tour dates here.
Diverse purveyor of music BT has just had his forthcoming album signed to Dutch label Armada Music, home to a vast array of some of the more talented dance music producers across the board.
US-based composer and technologist BT will release his album worldwide, yet another milestone in his illustrious career that has been marked by genre cutting collaborations and musical recognition. Set for release during the late summer, his as yet un-named 8th studio album is the accumulation of over two decades of dance music production and innovation .
Look for his collaboration ‘Must Be The Love‘ with young Russian Arty and vocalist Nadia Ali – set to be the first single to be released off the album this month – which was debuted by Arty during the ASOT 550 festival in LA.
