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https://soundcloud.com/cupe/c-pe-detat-journey-3-1 Tracklist: Coralie Clément - Salle Des Pas Perdus Blue Fountain - Sweep Lamb - Gabriel Deadmau5 - Strobe Stevie Ray Vaughan - Tin Pan Alley Cour de pirate - Corbeau The Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World Pink Floyd - The Great Gig in the Sky Dirk Maassen - White (Cüpe D'etat Remix) Fear Factory - Timelessness Korn - My Gift to You

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This really shouldn’t be surprising, but the growth of EDM means that more of the bigger stars are being thrust into the mainstream line-up. For the Forbes third-annual 30 Under 30 list (which highlights the “brightest stars” that aren’t 30 years of age), Forbes included three stellar EDM artists in their Music heading: Avicii, Zedd, and Calvin Harris. It makes perfect sense, considering how much these three have done for dance music, especially in the mainstream circuit. Calvin Harris owned a lot of 2012, and topped their highest-paid DJ right list, and Avicii owned the second half of 2013 with his singles from True. Zedd’s “Clarity” bubbled throughout the majority of early 2013, and made a HUGE impact on pop radio. On a list that also features Justin Bieber, Drake, Rihanna, and Lorde, their inclusion makes sense. Source: doandroidsdance.com

Diplo Announces New Major Lazer EP Featuring Pharrell & Sean Paul, As Well As a Solo Collaboration With Deadmau5 LA’s Diplo recently took to twitter to announce that his dancehall project with Jillionaire and Walshy Fire, Major Lazer, will be releasing a new EP sometime in February. The EP will feature tracks with island influenced artists Pharrell Williams, Sean Paul, Elephant Man, RDX, and Machel Montano. Source: edmsauce.com

Armin van Buuren Discusses His Distaste For the Commercialization of EDM & Compares Dance Music’s Recent Success to the ‘British Invasion’ of the 60′s Dutch DJ and music producer Armin van Buuren has a busy schedule for 2014. Between taking his Armin Only show on a world-wide tour, a partnership with Heineken for the “Dance More, Drink Less” campaign, and constantly expanding his Armada record label, the trance veteran found time to sit down with journalists in Amsterdam to discuss the evolution and recent explosion of EDM. Armin went on to express his repugnance for the integration of EDM in contemporary pop music. Whenever an underground scene gets commercial exposure it rattles the roost for many long time fans that want to keep the music pure. It happened to hip-hop, punk rock, and now EDM. Despite the potential for “bubble gum” dance music to creep onto the airwaves, one thing is for sure, as long as people feel the need to dance, which is in our DNA, there will be a demand for EDM. Source: edmsauce.com

Scott Kirkland and Ken Jordan are the duo behind the legendary The Crystal Method whom have been on a hiatus from the music scene until now. The Crystal Method have been iconic in shaping and molding the electronic music scene to where we see it today and with their new album does not disappoint. http://hypem.com/premiere/the+crystal+method Hypem posted a little weekend surprise which was an “an early preview of the 5th studio album from EDM pioneers The Crystal Method. Since their debut in the mid-90s, the duo has influenced countless electronic composers and ventured into film/TV scores, video games and more.” Out January 14th. Source: edmsauce.com

We set up a lunch at a venue for Saturday and all meet up there. Have a feed and a few beers. The venue will be updated to the event page on facebook once confirmed. Then people can choose to shoot off if they've had enough or stay on for the greatest party of their life.

DnB is really too niche to fit into a normal mix. With any of the above genre's it would be proper hard to mix in.

We'll wait until we have enough tracks, so it depends on submissions.

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Like a dog which will keep crawling back to it’s owner, clubbers will enjoy themselves regardless of what they’ll know will happen to them the next day. Hangovers are inevitable and they are awful. It’s a vicious cycle: You drink because you were unhappy and then you’re unhappy because you drank. Now, the day becomes one long arduous drag until 3 o’clock where the suffering becomes slightly less unbearable and you regret chucking your McDonalds away because you felt too ill to eat. Cue one secret pact to yourself: I will never drink again. Which lasts for an insignificant amount of time. But as always, the key is preparation and knowledge. Luck favours the prepared, and if you fail to prepare, then you should prepare to get f*cked up. Fortunately, a J.Cotton has compiled a list that’s 100% medically-inaccurate and 100% pop-science. Consider this list, a means of softening the blow of post-alcohol and ‘chemical’ consumption. It’s up to you to discover whether they work or not: ELECTROLYTES: If you’ve ever woken up with sore muscles after dancing and prancing and neuromancing, it’s probably because your body ran out of salt. Electrolytes are essential for the firing of neurons that release serotonin, and for the muscular exertion that we all know is unavoidable once those salacious neurotransmitters flood the synaptic cleft. Electrolytes are also in charge of regulating your body’s water supply and can prevent over-hydration. You’re likely to find Gatorade, coconut water, or some salty snacks in the backpack of any sensible raver. This is true. Here in the UK and Ireland we enjoy nothing more than a good old-fashioned fry up. Sausages, bacon, fried tomatoes… Anything to prolong that headache. Also you’ve already shortened your life-span by pumping your body with alcohol and chemicals, why stop with sodium and cholesterol? 5-HTP Research indicates that the main source of MDMA-related neurotoxicity (and thus, next-day depression) stems from the depletion of serotonin (5-HT) and the subsequent degeneration of 5-HT terminals. 5-HT is synthesized in the body from its precursors, L-tryptophan and 5-hydroxytryptophan, which can both be purchased at your local GNC. By taking 5-HTP before dosing and upon waking up the next morning—insuring that your body has the means to produce more 5-HT—the risk of depletion is significantly curbed. L-tryptophan can be taken when you’re ready for bed as a sleep-aid and a serotonin replenisher. Many people have reported that taking 5-HTP keeps them from getting as high as they normally do, so you might want to experiment with intervals and dosages. Or you might simply accept that if you want to go up, you’ll have to come down eventually. Bummer, I know. … I think you’re gonna have to take his word on this one. Vitamin C 5-HT neurotoxicity is thought to involve “oxidative stress resulting from an increased generation of free radicals and diminished antioxidant capacity of the brain” (Shankaran, 2001). By pre-loading with vitamin C, we can replenish the brain’s supply of antioxidants. Well this is obviously a win-win situation. You could decrease the effects of a hangover and get your 5-a-day. Fantastic! MY ADVICE: DON’T TAKE L-TYROSINE Lots of people on the forums think that L-tyrosine, a precursor to dopamine, helps to keep dopamine from being depleted, but this one’s bunk because MDMA doesn’t deplete our dopamine supply. MDMA actually increases the amount of Tyrosine in the brain. This actually seems to be the cause of serotonin depletion—so taking this supplement can exacerbate the neurotoxic effects. This according to the Journal of Neuroscience. Er… Yip, you’ve heard the man. Just don’t do it. Alternate Nostril Breathing This yogic breathing exercise is a catch-all remedy for headaches, depression, and the like. It engages the third eye, which corresponds in yogic anatomy to the pineal gland, a main serotonin center in the brain and the seat of dreams and psychic vision. 1. To light up this center, first put a dab of Vicks or tiger balm on the third eye point, which rests right between the eyebrows. 2. Next, make the hand into a kind of pincher by placing the middle and index finger on the heel of the palm. 3. Close off the right nostril with the thumb, inhale, and imagine the air you’re breathing in through the left nostril is going from the tip of your nose straight into the third eye point between the eyebrows. 4. Hold the breath for as long or short as you see fit and then release the right nostril and close the left with your ring and pinky finger. Exhale, feeling the breath move from the third eye point to the tip of the nose. 5. Reverse this process, inhaling in through the right, and exhaling through the left. Repeat for however long. I recommend practicing this whenever you feel like it, but especially at peak times. We become lucid and intuitive in our bodies when we roll, so it’s a really great time to learn new things about them. If you find a groove in this breath, you’ll be able to come back to it during your suicidal Sunday. No, have you seen me on the ‘suicidal Sunday’? I’m likely to close my nostrils and never open them again. Plus I hate the smell of Vicks. (PSA: Never rub Vicks on your Third Eye. This is a bad idea.) Deep Sleep The hours we spend in the deepest levels of sleep are the most recuperative for our brains. It’s in this downtime that our brains are able to contend with the excess free radicals and toxic metabolites produced by PLUR debauching. The obvious problem here is that excessive partying can make it hard to fall asleep at all, much less fall into a deep sleep. When you’re ready to go to sleep, instead of smoking weed, which will only re-initiate your trip and maybe put a psychedelic spin on the whole experience, prepare this “Go to Bed, Fuckboy” tea: 1 teaspoon passion flower 1 teaspoon skullcap 1/2 teaspoon California poppy 1/2 teaspoon powdered Valerian root (buy valerian root and grind it into a fine powder in a clean coffee grinder) Steep for ten minutes in boiling water. If I’m ever in a state where I could concoct this crazy concoction, then I probably won’t be getting a hangover anyway. Plus when I am two shakes of ending up in the gutter, I usually conk out the moment my head hits something soft. So there you have it folks, 6 tried and tested methods of beating those post-rave blues. I won’t be trying anyway, I have my own peer-reviewed method of getting rid of the blues. By peer-reviewed, I just mean myself. So try these methods and don’t complain if these junk scientific, hippy one stop wonders don’t work. Source: youredm.com

Some DJs either have it or they don’t. Some DJs spend 5 minutes learning how to work Traktor and others will slowly learn the art form, while taking risks finding out what makes the dance floor shake, rattle and roll. Scientists however, want to break it down into a nice research report. Scholars Thor Kelly and George Tzanetakis have published their findings in Empirical Analysis of Track Selection and Ordering in Electronic Dance Music Using Audio Feature Extraction and it is an analysation of a two year sampling of Radio 1′s Essential Mixes. Results show that is not in fact, the BPM, volume or technical skill that lively up the place but rather, the timbre or tonal qualities of the tracks selected. You know what that all means. The full report can be read here and makes for some mind boggling reading: “Track selection and ordering is a tricky process that is not totally understood even by DJs themselves: It is hoped that this paper has shed some light on the role that timbre, key, volume and tempo play in this process. We hope that our work informs future work in automatic playlist gen- eration and music recommendation, and that the proposed methodology inspires more empirical musicological anal- ysis of how DJs select and order tracks.” Interesting stuff. Although I hope this doesn’t take the magic or feeling out what is a fantastic format. Because what happens when you analyse a joke? No-one laughs. Source: youredm.com

For most of us, DJ Mag’s Top 100 is the standard for checking out who are the biggest DJs in the industry. This year, it was Hardwell who took the top spot (whether you liked it or not.) But there could be a new contender as to how to decide who’s big and who’s not. JustGo is a London based social media start up that extracts data from Facebook, Twitter, Soundcloud, YouTube and leading piracy platform Topple Track: “(JustGo allows you to) monitor all your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, SoundCloud and YouTube stats on one page. Get the complete overview of your online profile. Measure your success and track fanbase growth by day or by month.” According to JustGo, Hardwell is still No. 1. However, Armin slips down to No. 18 and Tiesto falls to 14. Calvin Harris and Swedish House Mafia take their places in the top 10, stealing the 2nd and 10th spot. In total, the top 100 boast a massive 295,027,368 fans. The majority of these fans can be found on Facebook, where JustGo counted 197,342,658 fans. Through YouTube, Disclosure received the largest fan growth, although they come in at No. 22 on the Top 100 rankings. JustGo fortify their findings with the following: “We looked at the Top 100 DJs by taking into account the number of Total Fans as well as New Fans acquired in 2013. While Total Fans is more reflective of a DJ’s overall popularity, New Fans – as we define it – is more reflective of current excitement. Therefore, we gave Total Fans a 2:1 weighting against New Fans or 60% for Total Fans versus 30% for New Fans.” The results are fascinating and you can find a more detailed breakdown below. But do you think that social media is important in regards to how successful a DJ is? In the past we have done an article on how Google trends coincide directly with the rise of EDM, so JustGo may be correct with their methods. Or do you think that a good old-fashioned poll is a more sensible, democratic means? How would you determine the most successful DJs out there? Source: youredm.com

During his trip in Australia, Skrillex stopped by the triple J office for a quick 8 minute interview during which Sonny discussed his upcoming collaborations. During the Q&A, Skrillex chatted about a potential collaboration with Australian favorite of mine Flume. Here’s what the LA native had to say: It’s not the first time we hear about Skrillex and Flume potentially working together as reported back in March by Stoney Roads, Sonny posted a picture of himself with Flume in the studio. Source: youredm.com

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According to Musicmetric, Daft Punk, Zedd, Avicii and David Guetta made the Top 20 list for musicians most pirated in the 2013 year. Musicimetric’s numbers represent albums and tracks downloaded using BitTorren, a peer to peer file sharing program that enables the transfer of large files. Musicmetric says that a typical breakdown of BitTorrent traffic for musicians is 70% albums and 30% songs. Although Musicmetric shows that piracy is alive, it does note that BitTorrent piracy has declined in recent years. Take a look at the most pirated artists of 2013 below: 1 Bruno Mars, 5,783,556 2 Rihanna, 5,414,166 3 Daft Punk, 4,212,361 4 Justin Timberlake, 3,930,185 5 Flo Rida, 3,470,825 6 Kanye West, 3,199,969 7 Eminem, 3,176,122 8 Jay Z, 3,171,358 9 Drake, 3,139,408 10 Pitbull, 3,138,308 11 One Direction, 2,920,445 12 Maroon 5, 2,857,652 13 Zedd, 2,828,764 14 Nicki Minaj, 2,681,177 15 Adele, 2,594,275 16 Avicii, 2,562,151 17 David Guetta, 2,441,235 18 Linkin Park, 2,352,385 19 Pharrell Williams, 2,336,996 20 Katy Perry, 2,318,740 Source: edmsauce.com

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Having scored a UK number one with his single Animals in November, Dutch production prodigy Martin Garrix is currently hot property. Ahead of a full In The Studio video next week - in which he shows you how he created the track in FL Studio - Future Music magazine grabbed 17-year-old Garrix for a Q&A session. You can find out what he has to say about Animals, working with other artists and DJing in the video below. Source: musicradar.com

As we touched on last month, not getting booked is a common complaint for DJs around the world. For today’s fun Friday article, we thought it would be great to explore some of the venues that DJs of all skill levels might overlook in their normal quest for gigs and residencies. Read on to learn more about spinning in hair salons and museums. Before we start breaking down the different types of gigs that are out there, it’s important to talk about why DJing in new and strange types of venues is a brilliant opportunity. It’s not just conjecture either- I’ve played DJ sets in a wide variety of places: museums, election rallies, art galleries, hotel lobbies and probably about 30 more unusual places. Full story: http://www.djtechtools.com/2013/01/11/h ... ly-places/

It’s November 29th, 2013, in Vancouver, B.C. and a throng of local electronic music enthusiasts, festival ravers, and old school junglists are navigating their way through the pouring rain to witness the return of London based DJ and producer, Om Unit. The first lot of tickets disappeared within days of being put on the market, and promoters, SHAHdjs and lighta!, propelled into issuing a second round in order to accommodate the masses of West Coasters scrambling to reserve their place at the highly anticipated show. Online banter over presales had been stirring for weeks as local Vancouverites swapped info back and forth over where to find the last of the golden tickets. Even after event promoters unleashed the second bundle and upped the price, the very last of the hard copies available at the door vanished shortly after they opened the venue for the big night. The U.S. may have experienced their Black Friday earlier that day, but just north of the border we were met with a version of our very own. Full story: http://www.groundedmedianetwork.com/om-unit-interview/