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Floating Points is delivering on some unfinished business with the release of his new album, Cascade. The announcement of his upcoming album follows in the footsteps of 2019's Crush, a record that was set to dominate dancefloors before the pandemic forced a global halt to live performances. Picking up where he left off, Floating Points is set to continue the saga this fall and is leading the cycle with the project's lead single, "Key103," a full-blown sonic odyssey. A song in three acts, "Key103

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The LIFE Stream Project is set to host FLORESCENCE, a game-changing charity event that blends the power of EDM with a crucial cause. Partnering with END OVERDOSE and The Egyptian Motor Hotel, this mini-music festival aims to educate and prevent overdoses in Phoenix, Arizona on October 12th. A Night of Music, Art, and Awareness FLORESCENCE promises an unforgettable experience, featuring chart-topping headliners alongside diverse performances. Attendees can look forward to live  acts that will cap

Florian Picasso & Martin Garrix’s GRX have joined forces again, and today they bring ‘Far Away’ into the world. The fresh, uplifting track marks the first output from Martin Garrix’s GRX alias since the release of ‘Restart Your Heart’ last year, which also featured Picasso. ‘Far Away’ marks the beginning of a new story for Picasso who announced the coming of his brand new Héritage EP this week. The release date of the full project is still a secret at this point, but the spectacular trailer

After a transformative period of creative reinvention, Florian Picasso, founder of Dekadance, releases his second EP of the year. After a highly anticipated return with his Hi Heels EP in April, Picasso brings out a three-track EP. It ought to bring the highest vibes this Summer. Thus, the great-grandson of Pablo Picasso releases the Booty EP. It is available on Solomun’s highly coveted label Diynamic. Booty EP The title track ‘Booty (Riviera Mix)’ starts off the EP with a heavy and

Just when you thought the lineup couldn’t get any better, Sol Fest Music & Arts Festival reveals their star-studded Phase 2 lineup for its 2024 edition, slated to take place from Thursday, May 2nd to Sunday, May 5th, 2024, at the new venue Vortex Spring in Ponce de Leon, Florida. The Phase 2 lineup announcement introduces three exciting new headliners making their festival debuts: the electronic-funk duo Big Gigantic, the high-energy bass maestro NGHTMRE, and the experimental bass virtuo

Flosstradamus has teamed up with promising bass music producer Viperactive for a trap track of epic proportions, "HITA." Through its entirety, the track unsurprisingly urges listeners to put their "hands in the air," building the energy. The beat eventually overflows into a ground-shaking drop, where thick 808s and rapid-fire tribal drums set the perfect scene for a laser show while a whistling melody slices through the mix. Accompanied by an unrelenting rhythm, Flosstradamus and Viperactive the

Sofi Tukker and bread: an unlikely pair, yet strangely kindred spirits in the all-you-can-eat buffet of life. Both rise to the occasion, one on stage and the other in the oven, fermented by time and heat. One feeds our souls, the other our bodies. Sofi Tukker's new album BREAD, however, does both. An acronym for "Be Really Energetic And Dance," BREAD will release on Friday, August 23rd. We're ironically breaking bread over brunch on a sweltering Brooklyn summer afternoon, the kind where the subw

Flowsonics has updated Graindrop to version 2.0. What's new in Graindrop v2.0? New: Apple Silicon support. Range-sliders to set xy-pad limits. New Preset-system... Read More

Coachella is just about a month behind us now, but Goldenvoice continues to drop massive, uniquely curated lineups that make us want to continue traveling to shows all year long. The latest is a new venture called Portola, set at Pier 80 in San Francisco, and the artist selection is simply dazzling. Headlining the two-day festival will be Flume and The Chemical Brothers, with appearances from Kaytranada, Jamie xx, Fred Again.., James Blake, M.I.A., Lane 8, Four Tet + Floating Points, Caroline P

triplej’s Like A Version gives artists a space to deliver creative covers of popular songs, often outside their own genre. For Flume’s latest appearance, he and Toro y Moi decided to cover the viral hit “Shooting Stars” by Bag Raiders… and it’s absolutely brilliant. The performance begins simply enough, Toro with a microphone, Flume with a single CDJ and a CD. Toro handles the vocals like an expert as Flume stares ahead contemplatively before he picks up a saxophone, fed through some kind of di

Flume and visual artist Jonathan Zawada are deconstructing the idea of "EDM" for their new art exhibit. This month, the Art Gallery of New South Wales is honoring Australia's live music scene by virtue of Volume, a special series that showcases the visual art and music in the region and beyond. Australian artists Genesis Owusu and Tkay Maidza will represent their country while André 3000 and Kim Gordon will bring the sounds of the U.S. to Sydney.  The venture will also feature a special art exhi

Last year, Flume found an old laptop from his 2012 era with songs he thought he’d lost — he spent some time and recovered what he could and ended up releasing a couple tracks. He later teased fans on Twitter, “There’s more.” This morning, he officially released Things Don’t Always Go The Way You Plan, a 10-track mixtape of songs remastered and released from the vault dating 2012-2020, including collaborations with Injury Reserve, Isabella Manfredi, and Panda Bear. In true Flume fashion, the tr

Last night USA time, Flume hosted an Ask Me Anything in his Discord, Hi This Is Flume. In addition to the myriad questions he answered over the course of about an hour and a half (in voice chat, it appears, so we don’t have the written answers here), fans were also surprised when they asked about the status of one of his old IDs, “Greenpeace,” and he responded by casually providing a download link to the song. The ID was originally written as part of a campaign with Greenpeace Australia Pacific

Flume released his third studio album, Palaces, earlier this year. Following the success of Hi This Is Flume in 2019, it felt like whatever the Australian artist put out next would share equal success. Unfortunately, commercial reception to the album wasn’t exactly what was expected, he revealed in a recent interview. “I feel like honestly, [Palaces] didn’t do as well as I thought it was gonna do – and I’ve kind of had to just roll with that,” he told The Music. “I mean, it didn’t do bad, but i

It was only a few months ago that Flume hopped into his Discord for an Ask Me Anything and ended up dropping a couple of long sought-after IDs that fans thought had been lost to the times. Now, the Australian producer has dug up an old laptop from around the time he was producing his debut album, Flume, in 2012 and plans to share many works in progress (WIPs) and unreleased songs from the era. The songs will be shown during a live stream on Sunday via TikTok, the only platform on which he’s mad

Earlier this year, Flume exhumed a series of old projects from a laptop he’d found and released Things Don’t Always Go The Way You Plan, a 10-track album with a mixture of classic Flume sounds and projects that maybe finally got the finishing touches they deserved. Yesterday, he released the second in the series of “found” tracks called Arrived Anxious, Left Bored. Another 10 tracks, another era of Flume a bit more recent than TDAGTWYP, this time spanning around 2015-2020. Listen below.

Flume recently uncovered a thought-to-be-lost laptop he was using during the Flume era, when he was producing his debut album. After putting in some TLC and getting it back in working order, the first demo from the lost files has found its way onto streaming services in the form of “Slugger 1.4.” One of the crazy things about Flume is that, even as this track is now 8 years old and fits brilliantly into that era, it sounds like it could have been produced in the past year and would fit in just

While Los Angeles residents await 10 Years Of Flume at the Kia Forum this Friday, many cities around the world have begun seeing posters pop up teasing something new from the Aussie producer. The posters read “May 3rd, 2pm PST” alluding to something dropping this Wednesday. On a recent tweet showing Flume holding many laptops, the alternate text reads “aalb 3/5” (remember day and month are swapped in many other countries). Clearly we’re getting something in a couple days but it still remains to

Music rights are a fickle topic. And nearly a decade ago, it was even more of a wild west environment than it is today, with myriad shady contracts or unclear terms being levied, especially in dance music where the major labels hadn’t quite yet permeated the genre to the degree they have today. So, cue Flume’s iconic remix of Lorde’s “Tennis Court” in 2014 — the song has only been available on SoundCloud and YouTube for nearly a decade, without an upload on the world’s largest streaming service

The 10th anniversary of Flume, the debut album from the Australian artist, is in two days. By coincidence, or perhaps not, Flume dug up an old laptop from around that time and promised to go on TikTok live and browse through many of the old project files. Unfortunately, the stream was due in Australian Eastern Daylight Time, meaning it began at 5am ET and 2am PT on Sunday, when many in the US would be asleep. Thankfully, Flume faithfuls Brownies & Lemonade summarized some of the big points

Flux Pavilion and Doctor P have never been ones to ask for permission. As pioneers of the modern dubstep sound, they've spent over a decade bending bass to their will, shaping a movement with anthems that still detonate underground venues and major festivals alike. The producers have now announced their first full-length studio album as a duo, and if its lead single "WDGAF" is any indication, they're making it clear that they’re here to do things their way. "The central thesis of the album is no

When I first started really digging into dubstep around 2010, one of the first songs that I found was “Lines In Wax” by Flux Pavilion. Even before “I Can’t Stop” or his iconic “Gold Dust” remix with Doctor P, I fell in love with the flow from Foreign Beggars, the gritty synths and bass, all of it. Throughout the years, Flux has remained a pillar of the dubstep community, even as he transitioned into different material with his latest album, .wav. However, we already saw him returning to his Tes

Have you ever spaced out with a song on repeat, potentially for hours, and you look up and realize it’s been the same song? And yet, you’re not tired of it? That is “Technicolour Psychic Vision” from Flux Pavilion in a nutshell. After transitioning to a bit of a different sound in his 2021 album .wav, “TPV” is a welcome reminder of his Tesla sound from 2015 that had hits like “Vibrate,” “International Anthem,” and “Who Wants to Rock.” The repeated vox, hard guitar riffs, and Flux’s own vocals s

While 2023 was an incredible year for Flux Pavilion, he's showing no signs of stopping in 2024. After ending last year by teasing a handful of hotly anticipated collaborations, the latest one of that bunch has finally arrived. Flux has connected with Wooli and Cammie Robinson for "On Repeat," out now on his own Circus Records imprint. "On Repeat" was made for festival play. The track is a masterful fusion of Wooli's untamed grittiness and Flux Pavilion's signature warbling synths, flowing betwee