As new talented DJ's seem to be sprouting up everywhere while EDM continues to grow into the Jack-and-the-Giant-Beanstalk-esque of a genre amongst mass popularity, I decided it would be proper to put the spotlight and take one rising DJ center stage each week to examine their background, style, influences and of course notable projects of these Artists.
We start this inaugural weekly post with a groovy new artist, Moonlight Matters. If you had to pick one facet of the Belgium artist Sebastiaan Vandevoorde's style that makes him unique and worthwhile to listen to, it would be his repeated use of a loud, in your face, funky slap bass that appears on almost all of his tracks. Hypothetically, if Saturday Night Fever was a chick, and Revenge of the Nerds was a dude, and they had a kid, and that kid decided to be a DJ, they would end up pretty much sounding like our Belgium phenom. Vandevoorde seems to be the heir to the throne that artists like Aeroplane and Digitalism have created in the indie-house sub genre. Moonlight Matters definitely seems to be a name that will be repeatedly praised in the future; but I'll let his records speak for themselves:
Digitalism - Circles (Moonlight Matters Remix) by Moonlight Matters
Hercules & The Love Affair - Painted Eyes (Moonlight Matters Remix) by Moonlight Matters
Is Tropical - The Greeks (Moonlight Matters Remix) by Moonlight Matters
Adele - Set Fire To The Rain (Moonlight Matters remix) by Moonlight Matters
Ellie Goulding - Lights (Moonlight Matters Remix) by Moonlight Matters
Moonlight Matters - Say A Lot by Moonlight Matters
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Whomp Wednesday Vol. 5
I guarantee some headaches and whiplash for this week's wobble bass day. Been saving up a few monstrous tracks all week and it has taken every ounce of energy within me not to post some of these dubstep future-anthems. But now the fury can be unleashed... so watch yourself:
The collaboration between Skrillex and The Doors has been long awaited but is now open to the public for extensive whomping. Never thought such a collaboration was possible but once again I am proved wrong with this new track, Breaking a Sweat:
Delta Heavy is coming on the drum&bass scene pretty rapidly and this new track Overkill is putting them in the right direction towards dubstep stardom:
This High Rankin' remix of 501's Somewhere in Time is about a year old but I was reminded of it during The Crystal Method's "Community Service" radio cast on Electric Area the other week. Its a classic and definitely worth digging up out of the older files:
I know halloween has come and gone but this Figure track Werewolf is still very very appropriate, and another track worth replaying... a spooky good song:
The collaboration between Skrillex and The Doors has been long awaited but is now open to the public for extensive whomping. Never thought such a collaboration was possible but once again I am proved wrong with this new track, Breaking a Sweat:
Delta Heavy is coming on the drum&bass scene pretty rapidly and this new track Overkill is putting them in the right direction towards dubstep stardom:
This High Rankin' remix of 501's Somewhere in Time is about a year old but I was reminded of it during The Crystal Method's "Community Service" radio cast on Electric Area the other week. Its a classic and definitely worth digging up out of the older files:
I know halloween has come and gone but this Figure track Werewolf is still very very appropriate, and another track worth replaying... a spooky good song:
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Teasing Tuesday
Today marks the beginning of a new month and so I decided I ought pay tribute to the upcoming tracks that will be huge upon release this month. Some of these teasers we all know will be huge simply because of the big name artists behind them, but a couple may surprise you. So keep your robot ears open and enjoy:
Don't Let the System Control You by Reset! is a fun deep electro song that I think will be big in clubs all around North America if everything is right in the EDM world. I'm hooked on this teaser and I'm sure the actual song with be even more addictive:
RESET! - Don't Let The System Control You (PREVIEW) by RESET!
Tommy Trash is just refusing to go into the shadows as of late. He is demanding the respect of the entire EDM scene as one of the premiere dj's with his killer new tracks as well as remixes, and I've already teased you with Ohrwurm which comes out this month. But he also is dropping a remix of Zedd's single Shave It as well as a new original track Monkey See Monkey Do. I'm waiting for the day when this guy makes a metiocre track... that day may never come:
Zedd - Shave It (Tommy Trash Remix) by tommytrash
Tommy Trash - Monkey See Monkey Do (Original Mix) by tommytrash
R3hab has been destroying some remixes lately of big name tracks that few believed could be successfully remixed. Many dj's are wary of remixing monster tracks because they are so good to begin with that it's challenging to make it any better. R3hab however has blown over tracks such as Calvin Harris's Bounce or his collaborative remix with Swanky Tunes of Tiesto's Maximal Crazy. Well he's at it again jumping on Sebastion Ingrosso & Alesso's track Calling. Here's a recent live RIP of the track, I wish I was in So-Cal to hear this song in person:
*** I realize it's pretty cruel to give a bunch of teasers without the satisfaction of a full track to jam to. So to ease the distress these teasers cause here is a new release by Adam K & BT called Tomohawk. It's a great trance-electro hybrid, but if you're too impatient to enjoy the build of trance, go to the 3:10 mark where the song drops, you won't be dissapointed:
Don't Let the System Control You by Reset! is a fun deep electro song that I think will be big in clubs all around North America if everything is right in the EDM world. I'm hooked on this teaser and I'm sure the actual song with be even more addictive:
RESET! - Don't Let The System Control You (PREVIEW) by RESET!
Tommy Trash is just refusing to go into the shadows as of late. He is demanding the respect of the entire EDM scene as one of the premiere dj's with his killer new tracks as well as remixes, and I've already teased you with Ohrwurm which comes out this month. But he also is dropping a remix of Zedd's single Shave It as well as a new original track Monkey See Monkey Do. I'm waiting for the day when this guy makes a metiocre track... that day may never come:
Zedd - Shave It (Tommy Trash Remix) by tommytrash
Tommy Trash - Monkey See Monkey Do (Original Mix) by tommytrash
R3hab has been destroying some remixes lately of big name tracks that few believed could be successfully remixed. Many dj's are wary of remixing monster tracks because they are so good to begin with that it's challenging to make it any better. R3hab however has blown over tracks such as Calvin Harris's Bounce or his collaborative remix with Swanky Tunes of Tiesto's Maximal Crazy. Well he's at it again jumping on Sebastion Ingrosso & Alesso's track Calling. Here's a recent live RIP of the track, I wish I was in So-Cal to hear this song in person:
*** I realize it's pretty cruel to give a bunch of teasers without the satisfaction of a full track to jam to. So to ease the distress these teasers cause here is a new release by Adam K & BT called Tomohawk. It's a great trance-electro hybrid, but if you're too impatient to enjoy the build of trance, go to the 3:10 mark where the song drops, you won't be dissapointed:
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