Dance Music News

Following singles with 21 Savage, Dua Lipa & Young Thug, Normani, Tinashe, & Offset, and Justin Timberlake, Halsey, & Pharrell, Calvin Harris has at last dropped the full Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2, following up the original album which dropped five years ago. Not including the intro track, the full album includes another nine mega-star collaborations with names like Lil Durk, Busta Rhymes, Charlie Puth, Snoop Dogg, Pusha T, Stefflon Don, and more. Calvin has been fairly reserved with

Checo is a New Hampshire native, Miami based artist who started his journey in music by teaching himself to play guitar and write songs as a young teen. Music was mostly a hidden passion as basketball dominated his early life. After going on to play Division 1 basketball in NYC for 1 year he decided to leave basketball behind to explore his growing passion for music. He has been sharpening his writing and production skills ever since and in the past few years has been mostly inspired by and focu

San Pacho is one of the most exciting up and coming names in tech house. His ability to blend spanish influence within the genre has cemented him as an artist to keep an eye on who’s career is on an unbelievable trajectory. His music has found its home on Matroda’s Terminal Underground imprint, along with Deadmau5’s Hau5trap label. Now, he’s back with a sizzling new single, this time teaming up with Spanish female duo Vale for “Voy”. Pacho sets the scene with with an enticing melody that builds

People can’t stop talking about the new Beyonce album Renaissance. Whether it’s for Queen Bee’s embrace of the house and disco aesthetics or the recent edits to the album that sprung from initial controversy, the new album has a lot of material worth talking about and more worth dancing to. Just before the album dropped though, some may have missed or noticed that the album’s big single “Break My Soul” had a remix package. In it are four remixes. There are different takes provided by will.i.am,

Segan is a relatively new name to the drum n bass scene. Songs of his like “Champion” and “Attack Order” drop an insane amount of audio-action that you would expect from artists in the genre. However, the Los Angeles producer has dropped a new single “In Your Arms” that strays away from DnB and offers in its stead a vocally-charged, half time anthem. “In Your Arms” kicks off with a flurry synths and singing that is reminiscent of the vocal stylings of Imogen Heap. It’s soft, breathy and enchant

LVNDR.SOUND is an electronic trio based out of Denver, Colorado created by Josh Fairman (Sunsquabi), Geoff Bremer, and Jay.Greens (Perception Records) The group is known for fusing a variety of styles including future bass, electro soul, house and nu-age funk. LVNDR.SOUND recently deburted their first single “Nebula”, with a full length album completed and slated to drop later this year. Their electrifying live performances feature high energy live improvisation along with carefully crafted soun

There were at least four major festivals across North America this past weekend, not including Tomorrowland wrapping up its third weekend in Belgium, one of which being Lollapalooza in Chicago. The festival would have been celebrating its 20th anniversary last year if not for COVID-19 forcing the 2020 and 2021 editions to postpone, so this year was especially significant in its first full event back. With Metallica, Dua Lipa, Machine Gun Kelly, J. Cole, Kygo, Kaskade, Green Day, The Kid Laroi,

Today we enter a new era. Working behind the scenes, Circus Records has been putting the finishing touches to what is one of the most exciting moments in its history. Circus Electric is a brand new label which will stand alongside Circus Records with the quality and passion you’d expect. What better way to kick things off than the first in a brand new compilation series, a 24 track collection of sublime music new and old. Welcome to the world of Electric One. The album features artists that pe

The Gilligan Moss project is a testament to the achievements possible over a  lifelong friendship and creative partnership, with bandmates Ben and Evan having met at Park West preschool in Chicago at age three.  Seeing their musical brainchild come to fruition since making music together in 2015, the duo has written their own originals and remixed the works of others.  The duo has toured with the likes of Glass Animals, Tourist, Toro Y Moi, and Chromeo, and have seen themselves booked on lineups

When you have a festival going for three straight weekends, like Tomorrowland just did, you’re bound to have some truly spectacular moments happen quite spontaneously. One such moment happened during 3 Are Legend (Dimitri Vegas, Like Mike, & Steve Aoki) on the main stage on Weekend 3 as the trio dropped “Mammoth,” one of DVLM’s biggest hits. In the video of their set, just uploaded on Monday, at 44:24, you can see what looks like every single firework being set off all at once in a remarkab

MUST DIE! plays by his own rules and it’s a game every music lover should want to experience. While the artist first made a name for himself as a prominent player in the bass world, his music and range as a producer has morphed into something that falls well outside the bounds of any one genre. Take for example his live sets, many of the songs border on 160 BPM with a whole lot of techno and other strange and wonderful sounds invading the space. We saw this trend in MUST DIE’S recordings for som

Fred Again.. made his most recent show one to remember—by making his Boiler Room debut. The famed U.K. producer, who is quickly becoming a superstar in the electronic dance music space, turned up the heat and worked up a sweat in an intimate warehouse venue for Boiler Room. The London based performance was chock full of feverish button-mashing and a ton unreleased IDs. The DJ set came at a pivotal time for Fred Again.., who is readying last-minute preparations for his forthcoming album Actual

Everything is better with friends! Right? The Funk Hunters certainly seem to live by that adage with their newest album, Music w/ Friends, featuring collaborations on every track. And you can truly feel the fun oozing from every note. Big Gigantic, Dr. Fresch, Opiuo, Haywyre, Champagne Drip and more feature on remixes and originals throughout the album, plus an impressive cover of “Eleanor Rigby” to open the album up and set the tone. “We worked on this really special cover of The Beatles icon

New design art haus, founded in Los Angeles, DETHAUS, made its international debut in the luxury fashion world this year. The three founders, Jared Poythress, Martin Flores, and Nick Dew, spent the past decade in the burgeoning underground of Los Angeles’ most coveted nightlife and social scene, on main stages playing at the world’s largest festivals, and designing custom made outfits tailored for celebrity clients. Blending together their expertise on style and intuitive fashion, DETHAUS came t

This past weekend as HARD Summer was wrapping up its first three-day event, Tomorrowland was wrapping up its third weekend. The annual Belgian festival stunned crowds for a total of 9 days this summer, including performances from all of today’s top stars. Of course, Martin Garrix played a set and it’s now available on YouTube in full. Through his set, he dropped four new IDs, including two from Matisse & Sadko, one from Vluarr, and another ID – ID. Watch the full set below! This article

Providing classic old-school grooves mixed with the earth-shaking thump of modern mastery, Obskür is known for releasing colossal tech-house tunes perfect for mid-party hype or festival antics. In addition to recently remixing Barbara Tucker’s “Beautiful People,” Obskür have performed massive live sets at infamous venues such as The Warehouse Project, Tokyo World, Detonate, UFO Belfast, and sold out shows at Monroes in Galway and Boxed Off. Looking towards their Ibiza debut at Amnesia alongside

This weekend at HARD Summer brought about its usual share of surprises and stellar performances with impressive bookings and pairings. In particular, if you happened to catch Deathpact’s set on Sunday night, and stayed until the end, you saw something really interesting: a second Deathpact. Deathpact first popped up on the radar in 2018 and they’ve been fueling rumors and questions ever since, wondering who’s under the mask. Hopping in during the midtempo craze that year, they quickly establish

If you were at Lollapalooza or HARD Summer all weekend, now is the perfect time to catch up on the Fred again.. Boiler Room set which dropped on YouTube this past Friday. One of the most talked about artists this year, this set from Fred again.. has been long awaited and it’s now available for all time on Boiler Room’s YouTube page. You can check the full tracklist here, but we know what you want… the Skrillex and Four Tet collaboration is at 55:55. Though, according to 1001tracklists, there ar

O Cinnedi is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to production. Starting at the age of 10 where she began her journey into music theory and classical clarinet and percussion playing where you can see elements of this throughout her music. Followed by at the tender age of 16, she was educated by some of the leading artists in the world where she worked under NDA projects for Grammy Award Winning artists and working also with Eurovision. Sharing the stage with the likes of Abelation, Stylust

Early riser alice.km is up everyday ready to create music everyday. Her latest EP Prisms defines a new start to her career as an artist and the host label, Lots of Practice starts a statement of a new beginning with the first melodic house and techno houses release. Prisms shares a inner glimpse into alice.km’s world painting scenery of cinematic landscapes and intricate electronic sound design. This five track EP starts with the soothing yet grooving Cazimi, with tight basslines and well craft

Slushii continues his Summer weekly releases series “A Slushii Summer” with his latest collaboration with Nitro Fun and Bok Nero “Push It,” released on Dim Mak Records. Since the release of the first single “Forever With U” June 24, and announcing his 15 track album with a release date of September 23rd, Slushii has consistently been releasing one single after another ever Friday since. You can stream the first singles “Forever With U,” “Pick Yourself Up,” “Home 2 Me,” “Forgive Me,” and “Like

It’s surprising that Brynilde is based in the US, given her artist name, which is a permutation of the Old Scandinavian “Brunhilda” as well as the timbre of her exquisite soprano, which is spot on for ancient Nordic folk songs, a’la YouTube star Jonna Jinton. Brynilde’s debut album, The Sound of the Winter Sun, which came out last month, also has track names like “Priestess or Shieldmaiden.” Actually a French expat, one might think that Brynilde is based in Sweden or Norway. It turns out she’s j

In 2020, Over Easy made waves on the dance music scene with breakthrough singles, “Don’t Know You” and “Rosé” with Ashley Mehta, both released on London-based Adept Records. They also released a massive remix for Ekali and Kiiara’s “Back to You,” that charted on the Apple Music dance charts in over 80 countries and was featured on Apple Music’s biggest editorials in the genre, including New In Dance and Future Dance Hits. With over 30 million cumulative streams across platforms, their music has

Austin blues rock band Name Sayers is one of those not-so-well-kept secrets that indie fans discover and fall in love with at the ancillary gigs around Austin City Limits or SXSW. As smoky and bluesy as a Lord Huron or a Hozier but with a decidedly grungy bent to keep them from being lumped in with the the sometimes-too-contrived indie folk genre, Name Sayers area local gem in a city full of local gems. That said, we here at EDM are willing to bet no one saw Name Sayer frontman Devin James Fry b

We’re four singles in to Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2 from Calvin Harris and the album officially drops next Friday. But we’re getting one last single from the 14-track project first, “New To You” with Normani, Tinashe, and Offset. For those keeping track, that brings the collaborators from just the first four singles to: Dua Lipa, Young Thug, 21 Savage, Justin Timberlake, Halsey, Pharrell, Normani, Tinashe, and Offset. “New To You” marks another reunion for Harris as he has previously collaborated