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The legendary basketball star and DJ, Shaquille O’Neal, went to making waves in sports, then music, and now the gaming world, with his debut in the popular game Fortnite. Players can now unlock two exclusive DJ Diesel skins, along with special emotes and accessories. The DJ Diesel skins feature customizable options and lights that react to gameplay, adding a new level of excitement and personalization to the game. The “Shaq Shimmy” and “Ones N’ Twos” emotes allow players to mimic DJ Diesel’s

He has shaken up the industry with tunes like Pjanoo and Opus. He elevated the idea of visuals bringing holographic production on stage, first with Holosphere and then with HOLO. Now, Eric Prydz is redefining the meaning of clubbing with his [CELL] residency at Hï Ibiza. During his more than 20 years of successful career, Eric Prydz’s performances have always been mysterious, with really a few clips and footage coming up online. Usually, his set won’t be live-streamed nor uploaded on the intern

Imagine being behind a DJ booth on a yacht as it cruises Croatia's breathtaking coastline as the sun sets over the Adriatic, your music rippling through a crowd along with the waves. That dream could become a reality, thanks to Yacht Week's new Soundwave Competition. The global contest, now accepting applicants, is offering a weeklong DJ gig on a yacht in Croatia. Entrants must start by posting a five-minute video of your "Yacht Week Mix" to Instagram or TikTok. Entries should focus on creativit

Wondering where to go while at Tomorrowland this weekend? Stress no more. One of the world’s largest gatherings year-round is about to begin. Tomorrowland is getting its doors ready for an impressive congregation of ravers and music lovers, for the usual two weekends in Belgian grounds. All artists and stages are already written down and posted for everyone to have a look and decide where to be at, and at what time. But it is super overwhelming. Given the amount of DJs playing at all tim

Wondering where to go while at Tomorrowland this weekend? Stress no more. One of the world’s largest gatherings year-round is about to begin. Tomorrowland is getting its doors ready for an impressive congregation of ravers and music lovers, for the usual two weekends in Belgian grounds. All artists and stages are already written down and posted for everyone to have a look and decide where to be at, and at what time. But it is super overwhelming. Given the amount of DJs playing at all tim

The social media age is a wild thing, and a living meme can be created with just one social media post. Have you heard the tale of “Walmart Summit”? We’re not talking about baldie John Summif. It’s the hilarious but tragic tale of a John Summit fanboy who learned a very hard lesson from John. He had his dreams come true (in more ways than one) only to have his entire world crumble before him as a result, all in the span of about an hour. As the story goes, a young guy blind texts John Summi

It has been revealed that CharlestheFirst, real name Charles Elias Ingalls, a quickly rising and prominent bass producer in the underground, passed away this morning. Charles could often be found along with contemporaries like Chee, Of The Trees, and Tsuruda. He had built a strong and loyal following of fans and was slated for an even bigger 2022 with projects on the way. He was 25. Our thoughts go out to his friends and family during this difficult time. We ask that you please respect their

After an almost two-year-long hiatus, Your EDM mysteriously started posting on Instagram again this week. They picked up right where they left off with coverage of festival lineups and EDM news. Yesterday, however, they posted a message from Matt Meadow, the “previous owner and editor in chief of Your EDM,” explaining a significant change for the EDM media outlet. In the post, Meadow explained that the company is being sold to PLAYY., a UK based music PR company with over 20 years in the mu

It goes without saying the pandemic was hard on everyone. The music industry undoubtedly went through likely the tightest ringer in terms of affecting both the way things are run and the mental and emotional health of its participants. There were a few silver linings, however, as adapting and changing quickly became more important than ever. Online systems got much more sophisticated and efficient and multimedia and creative innovation became key if artists wanted to stay in the game. It was a l

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past month (which is not altogether impossible anymore in light of current COVID events), you’ll know that Audio released his [unsocial] LP on RAM records on November 26, with a massive album release party the night before at Boxpark Wembley, London. With this being easily one of the best albums of 2021/2022 and Audio’s admitted personal favorite to-date, many fans outside of the UK were gnashing their teeth at not being able to go and witness [unso

The melodic, diverse and very UK sounds of Hillsdom seemed to come more or less out of nowhere a few years ago with their big label debut on Viper’s Drum & Bass Summer Slammers 2017. That’s certainly an effective way to make an entrance, and they’ve been churning out those slammers ever since. With a mature and well-developed sound pretty much from jump, Hillsdom have released loads of work on Viper, had a single on Simon Bassline’s almost impossibly tough to sign label Technique, UKF’s chee

Charlie Dee Diaz has been in the rave scene since before it was even called rave. With a love for house music spanning nearly 50 years, Diaz has released a number of recognizable tracks under several different monikers and ranging in style from tech house to pop house to disco house and everything in between. The common thread that binds them all, however, is drums. As all good EDM should, Diaz’s music has a foundation in drumlines, whether they be heavily syncopated, flourishes at the end of a

The Swedish atmospheric and production powerhouse known as Seba is also known for being a bit reclusive. The name of his label is Secret Operations, after all. That said, it’s sort of worked for his brand – not that he was necessarily thinking about it – because the subtle sound design and sometimes whisper quiet yet expertly crafted snares that typify Seba’s sound lend themselves to that sort of mystique. Either way, it’s rare to get a peek into an artist’s process and Seba just gave us a big l

Since he started the eternally cool and somewhat clandestine label Sub-liminal Recordings back in 2015, the artist known as Agro likely hasn’t had a lot of time for his own releases. Sub-liminal has been a champion of all things underground, finding artists and curating releases that the larger and more popular side of the D&B scene might miss. The Brighton-based label with Agro at the helm has given come-ups to the likes of Damage Report, Warhead, Flowdan and DJ Hybrid in its seven years of

It’s nice to see the Korsakov Music’s label manager AL/SO branching out with his own tunes recently. With his collab tracks on Viper with Synth System hitting almost as hard as “Party Every Day” and now his sliced up neuro dual singles “House Party” and “Epic” on Boomslang, the mad Dutchman is proving he’s more than a one-trick dancefloor pony. Azores-based producer Impex is a relative newcomer but has already put his stamp on Europe with his throwback neuro vibes and epic synths. Hence the tra

Dutch producer and human energy torpedo AL/SO began teasing his forthcoming album Heaven Comes Down last month with a surprising track called “Serendipity.” Known for his dancefloor blasters and cheeky song titles like “Toaster Bath,” “Shake It” and more recently “Chris Eubank” with Tengu, AL/SO has also been known to showcase more melodic and experimental work but he’s really going for it with “Serendipity.” Now, with the release of teaser number two, “Ethereal,” fans will know it’s not just a

The legend Andy C is back with a new song out tomorrow, but Your EDM has the premiere today! “Ghost” featuring DJ Rae is a thundering drum & bass roller with tones of Netsky or Sub Focus, along with a clear emphasis on live play. This single marks the second new release from Andy C in the past couple months after not releasing anything since 2019. Check it out below! This article was first published on Your EDM. Source: Your EDM Premiere: Andy C – Ghost ft. DJ Rae

It’s not actually been a long time since Tengu’s Virtual Reality EP, which released on Korsakov Music in early June this year. Perhaps it’s the fact that he’s released quite a bit since then that makes it feel it’s past time for another partnership with the Dutch dancefloor label. Dancefloor speaks to dancefloor, after all. Since that powerhouse EP, Tengu has released two tracks on Toronto Is Broken’s YANA Music imprint, a track on UKF’s most recent compilation EP and a collab with fellow Korsa

The Hamburg/Berlin-based duo Brazed have been bumping around the more curated underground labels for a while now, having released on Major League D&B, Audiolith and Reid Speed‘s Play Me in the last couple of years. In December, they were part of Netherlands-based Citrus Recordings’ annual Citrus Recap compilation with their tune “Boomerang.” One of their most popular tracks, however, was a collab with Instinkt on Bad Taste called “Harpoon,” so, with some more recent stand-alones under their

For those very few D&B heads not aware, Beats In Mind is a label out of the UK with a unique model: to release music with the aim of raising awareness and funds for mental health charities that support the arts. With their eighth Headsbass album dropping this Friday, February 25, it’s safe to say they’re more than achieving that aim and Your EDM is happy to premiere a track off this installment. Headsbass founder London-based DJ and producer Pyxis (Goldfat, Liquid Drops, Eloisa) had the ide

By now, everyone in both the D&B and bass worlds knows that when Billain is about to drop a new release, it’s going to be a game-changer. Now with his last releases being in February, the scene is more than ready for a new joint from the Bosnia-based mega-producer. Or so they think. Different Eyes, the upcoming EP due out this Friday, November 17 on Vision, is once again going to lock Billain into the pinnacle of creativity in bass music. Having already teased the title track two weeks a

The Indonesian born artist and producer is one of the most inspiring creators in the electronic scene at the moment. Curating his unique signature style of house, we have the privilege to premiere another amazing track to his portfolio to his catalogue entitled, ‘Funk Accelerator. Expect smooth silky synth, bouncy basslines and heart skipping layers of grooving percussion. Commenting on this production, Bleu states: “For the longest time, I was playing around with the acapella of my song previ

The Brooklyn-based artist behind this new and naturalistic approach to electrono-pop called Carry the Branches is Sonar Mallory, and they’ve got an absolutely mental backstory. Born into an obscure cult which believed in, in their own words, “impossible physics and a secret world government,” Mallory luckily found a refuge in music from an early age and even before escaping the cult as a teenager, they became an accomplished multi-instrumentalist with the intention of professionally playing viol

After an inordinate and almost brutal amount of teasing (the first track came out in 2019), a couple of interstitial tracks on ProgRAM and Break’s Symmetry Recordings imprint and one final delay after the listening party last month, Calyx & Teebee’s nod to dubplate culture, Plates, will finally be out this week. Always intended to be “leaked,” as it were, over the course of multiple singles, this biggest-Calyx-and-Teebee-multitrack-since-the-last-one hits in both digital and its own vinyl “p

Even with all the technology and connectivity we have today, it can be surprising that EDM, and specifically D&B, can permeate into some of the most remote areas of the world. Case in point: the Azores, a collection of nine volcanic islands located dead centrer of the nortern Atlantic, halfway between Newfoundland and Portugal. Considered part of Portugal as one of two autonomous regions (the other is Maderia), the Azores could be claimed by any country, really, because they’re not terribly