Ultra Music Festival And Ultra Music Announce Global Alliance

Ultra Music Festival and Ultra Music have joined forces and will be using each of their vast networks and resources to ensure ULTRA will entrench itself as the undisputed driving force behind the international electronic dance music (EDM) community in all aspects, it was announced, Friday, August 10 by Ultra Music Festival Co-Founder and CEO Russell Faibisch and Ultra Music President Patrick Moxey. With each company leading its respective industry, during a time when EDM has become a worldwide phenomenon, no other global brand can offer the experience and service…

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Out Now – Hybrid: Classics

[wp_ad_camp_2] Since bursting onto the scene in 1999 with the now classic album ‘Wide Angle,’ Hybrid has gained recognition as one of the most cutting edge and technically skilled acts in electronic dance music. After four extremely well received albums and over twenty singles, plus countless remixes and a raft of movie & game soundtrack work, it is time to reflect on some of the bands numerous highpoints. This exclusive new collection celebrates and relives these moments and includes cuts from their breakthrough album ‘Wide Angle’ the rare cover of…

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Photosynthesis: My Writer’s Journey, Part Deux

[wp_ad_camp_2] By Damen Smith-Draeko –Photosynthesis is an annual EDM music festival based here in Washington State. It’s a spiritual/psychedelic gathering of artists, vendors, mystics, laymen, fire dancers, and mavens that all come together in the spirit of putting forth the will-to-good-power. It’s not just the party or the music that so many people look forward to every year, but that feeling of a natural connection to the earth, to a softer wholeness that the fresh air, the ocean and mountains, and the history of the region presents. It does sound…

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Photosynthesis 5.0 – My Writer’s Journey

[wp_ad_camp_2] By Damen Smith-Draeko — This was the fifth in the series. I’d made the third and now this one, Photosynthesis 5.0 in Neah Bay Washington. Through opening day anxieties, incredible performances, really engaging people, and inspirational interviews with some of the most compelling and thankfully very accommodating artists I’d ever met, it all turned out to be an even more enriching experience than I would have ever dared anticipated. I love Neah Bay. I haven’t been in love with a place like this since Okinawa. This was perhaps different…

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Tenishia New Album Release

[wp_ad_camp_2] Dreaming big since 2004, Tenishia has been creating the blueprint to their ultimate achievements for more than 8 years–a blueprint that became bigger and bigger, blooming with time and rapidly unfolding into reality. The Maltese duo, a team-up of Joven Grech and Cyprian Cassar, have made and still make the best of their untapped possibilities. And that’s why, in 2012, Tenishia proudly presents ‘Memory of a Dream’. Since joining forces, Tenishia has revolutionized the Maltese music scene. They’re the winners of 5 Malta Music Awards and creators of world…

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Sensation USA Is Coming!

[wp_ad_camp_2] [wp_ad_camp_1] Sensation USA will finally land in New York City, twelve years after its debut in Amsterdam, Holland. At the time, Sensation was a new concept set-up by ID&T Events. ID&T had been promoting events for about a decade. They began the company with a set of raves under the Thunderdome moniker which focused on the hardcore house- or so called Gabber scene. Towards the end of the nineties, dance music fans became a bit more mellow and therefore a concept called Innercity was launched. It was a highly…

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Beatport Launches Remix Contests Featuring Björk & Todd Terry

[wp_ad_camp_2] BEATPORT, the world’s largest dance music community and music store for DJs, announced today four exciting new remix contests via BEATPORT PLAY, an innovative platform where DJs and producers can download free stems from original hit tracks, remix them, and compete against each other in multiple contests running in parallel; winning remixes are then released officially by the contest’s host label.  Contests to remix Björk, Todd Terry, Sasse and John Davis & The Monster Orchestra launch today, Tuesday, July 24.  Winners will be announced on September 19.  Information on each follows here: [wp_ad_camp_1] Björk – “Mutual Core” Björk has touched nearly every…

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Shiny Toy Guns Shoot Short Film

[wp_ad_camp_2] [wp_ad_camp_1] Los Angeles’ SHINY TOY GUNS newest track “Waiting Alone” marks the return of Carah Faye, the original vocalist who along with band mates Chad Petree (vocals/guitars), Jeremy Dawson (keyboards/bass) and Mikey Martin (drums), propelled SHINY TOY GUNS into the spotlight with their first hits “Le Disko” and “You Are The One” from their debut 2006 release We Are Pilots. Now, the band has made available the “Waiting Alone” video, which made its debut yesterday on VEVO. It can be viewed here: Conceptualized by Faye and Dawson and directed…

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The Trance Grandmaster Speaks: Andy Moor Exclusive Interview

[wp_ad_camp_2] You have been an influential DJ in the international scene for years now. Starting in 2000 and still going strong in 2012 with the release of your new album. What made you decide one day to want to make it in the electronic music scene and has it been a rather smooth ride or were there any hurdles you had to take on? I was into electronic music from the first moment I heard a synth. As time passed by, I was fascinated by trying understand how these sounds…

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