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wot a big time @AlexJ is now with his massive edm m8s

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I don't think I even produced anything last year did i

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Britain’s The Sunday Times have just unveiled their 2016 Music Rich List, with the top 50 music millionaires. While the top 10 is dominated by artists such as Mick Jagger, Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Elton John, U2 and more, if you scroll down the list, you can find none other than Calvin Harris, who sits at the 27th position, with a wealth of £95 million, which is approximately $136,000,000 million. It looks like the music producer has managed to triple his capital ever since he first appeared on the list, in 2014. Below you can take a look at the 2016 Top 10: 1. Sir Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell £760m 2. Lord Lloyd-Webber £715m 3. U2 £500m 4. Sir Elton John £280m 5. Sir Mick Jagger £235m 6. Olivia and Dhani Harrison £220m 7. Keith Richards £220m 8. Ringo Starr £200m 9. Michael Flatley £198m 10. Sting £185m

Spencer Brown started his career when it counts – in college. Majoring in engineering, he was able to build a wealth of knowledge in technical production and electrics, while pursuing his love for music. For three years he’s been giving a new update to classical progressive, giving the tried and true layered style a bigger energy and fresh feel. It’s no question that Brown has the support from Ash Pounari, the manager international superstar Avicii and his team. As he’s built his career, it’s been with releases on all three of the Swedish powerhouse’s affiliated labels – Le7els, ICONS and PRMD. Brown’s latest work comes from the latter, with PRMD Music an independent label that looks to push the boundaries of music. Taking My Time is due out this Friday, April 29th. In honor of the EP release and the celebration of a new day in his musical career, Brown has joined us for an exclusive guest mix. In it you’ll hear his new music, as well as a few IDs to keep you guessing.

The Billboard charts make their way to the streaming sphere, as per today’s announcement that the music platform is teaming up with Spotify for an exclusive partnership. The streaming service giant will enable playback of Billboard’s music charts, which clock in at over 75 different verticals. The partnership will also debut three other tallies, as well as a weekly editorial feature of New Music Fridays. The three new charts, which are exclusive to Spotify, include Viral 50, Velocity Chart, and Spotify Rewind. The first tracks songs with a rising popularity through sharing and social activity, while the second chronicles singles with increasing acclaim through Spotify. The partnership’s throwback chart, Spotify Rewind, will feature five tracks for the decades from the ’60s through today. Billboard will incorporate a 30-second preview on their website, with full streaming privileges available on Spotify. Fans can also stream the New Music Fridays playlist while reading the accompanying editorial feature.

+rep for being a sick dawg

10 bucks this guy never comes back

Facebooked

This dude is a performer not a DJ. They have massive business behind them always.

Whenever you can chief. I'm guilty of long work days and little/no posts lately as well

The facebook shit posting has achaly been epic as fuck.

Well that was fucking short-lived

Electronic music events have had their fair share of challenges in the past and drug related deaths at festivals have sadly become an all too common occurrence. More people have tragically lost their lives as a result of excessive drug consumption at a festival and this time it’s in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires. Officials in Argentina have confirmed that at least five people have died and a further five are critically ill after taking drugs at Time Warp festival on Friday. Two people died at the event and three others died either in an ambulance or in hospital. The head of the emergency services said the victims were between the ages of 21 and 25 and were suspected of taking drugs that are yet to be identified. Buenos Aires’ emergency service was called after it became clear that private ambulances attending the event were unable to cope. “We couldn’t stay inside, we couldn’t breathe. It was too hot and there were too many people” one of the participants told local TV channel TN. Time Warp, launched in Germany in 1994, was in Buenos Aires for the third year in a row. The festival was being held in Argentina on Friday and Saturday. The second night has now been cancelled. It’s devastating to hear about the loss of innocent lives and our thoughts are with the victims of the tragedy Not gr8

The only thing that’s surprising about the news that streaming supports vinyl sales is that the stats weren’t higher. Last week, research conducted by ICM for the BBC revealed that 45% of people who bought an album on vinyl had listened to it before online. While many news platforms ran with the equally unsurprising news that half of record buyers didn’t play their records in the first month (more on this later), the news reinforces an almost wilful naivety about the way vinyl is treated in relation to digital media. The implication in the statistics were that we should be surprised people were trying before they buy. Music Week, the trade magazine that’s been reporting on the music industry since 1959, even noted that “much of this streaming is free, suggesting that music heard for free is encouraging sales of physical records.” It’s a suggestion you might have heard at the Parlophone offices shortly before the Beatles were first played US radio over fifty years. For the best part of the last century people have been listening to music for free before going out to buy it. Given this is easier than ever now with Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube, you’d be brave (or stubbornly speculative) to drop £20 on an album you’ve not heard before. Listening to the radio, if you remember, didn’t even require a subscription. At the root of this there may be some romantic notion that to buy records you need to go to your local record shop and spend a good while listening through the week’s new 7″s and LPs before making your purchase, but with over a quarter of all physical music purchases in the UK made via Amazon, this clearly is no longer a reality. Independent record shops may be on the up, but they still only make up 7% of all vinyl sales in the UK. Furthermore, digital platforms, applications and databases have long been looking to supplement and support the physical record buying experience, whether new music or second hand. As a music discovery tool, losing yourself in the musical rabbit hole that is YouTube is comparable to spending an afternoon on your hands and knees rooting through records in a dusty basement full of vinyl (an image which, by the way, is about as far from reality for most record collectors as you’ll get), adding your finds to a Discogs Wantlist, the logical next step to getting your hands on those records. With their new app, Discogs want to become your digital companion out in the real world too, while various new add-ons will tell you the BPMs of all your records, or let you listen to every track before buying. Shazam was practically invented for the armchair DJ, too shy or socially inhibited to ask the selector for an ID. New subscription services have made a virtue of online communities to send you records you didn’t know you wanted, some of which now operate exclusively via text message. All of which points to the ever so obvious fact that vinyl records do not exists in some kind of analogue echo chamber – they are as embedded as MP3s in contemporary digital life, and take advantage of its immediacy like anything else. In 2015, record sales were worth more to the industry than Spotify Free, YouTube and Vevo combined. As Geoff Taylor, chief executive of the British Phonographic Industry stated: “Younger fans increasingly discover on digital but collect on vinyl. [They] appreciate the immediacy and convenience of services such as Spotify, Apple Music and Google Play to discover and enjoy a huge range of new music, but still want to own and collect albums by artists they truly love.” Another way of looking at this, is to ask the question that if you’ve already heard the record on Spotify, why bother buying it? It would be a case of preaching to the converted to dignify this with a response. People buy records for many different reasons (read this brilliant psychological study to understand why), and sometimes *shock horror* without the expressed intention of listening to them. These people – usually between the age of 18-24 – are often written off as hopeless hipsters, like poor Manchester student Jordan Katende, who committed the cardinal sin of explaining that his “vinyls” were purely decorative. “I don’t actually play them…” he continued. “It gives me the old-school vibe. That’s what vinyl’s all about”. Cue outrage. (Although also note that at the other end of the spectrum, the most hardened collectors will buying multiple copies, or keep their records hermetically sealed to preserve their value.) But if 48% of record buyers stream albums before buying them on vinyl, then it might conceivably follow that they will stream them afterwards too. We are lucky enough to live at a time when music exists on different platforms and can serve different purposes for different people. And ultimately, if you like having records, streaming, digital applications and the internet are only going to help you buy more. But please, let’s stop pretending owning and listening to records is an evangelical pursuit, or that the 21st century digital existence isn’t perfect for seeming one way and acting another. And how many of you have ever bought a book that you never found the time to read? There are almost certainly more pristine copies of Ulysses or Infinite Jest out there than unplayed Bowie reissues. But then again, would you ever admit that the copy James Joyce on your bookshelf is only there to give you “the intellectual vibe”?