Festival trap is certainly not dead. Here to testify to that fact, rising to the occasion if you will by putting out tracks that bang too hard for your headphones, the living room, or even your bedroom. Among the few artists still making quality records in a so-called dying subgenre, Party Thieves is a name that everybody f*cks with, and no one can f*ck with, if you catch that … [Read more...]
Ghastly – Get On This [Mad Decent]
Halloween is upon us as we begin October, where we can expect all types of darkness in remixes and mixtape and original mixes, oh my. But Ghastly is a name that carries over it a dark cloud every month of the year, bringing us 12 months solid of ghoulish music that terrifies us with enthrallment, like that of a good scary movie or a roller coaster ride. His latest track, … [Read more...]
Diplo Dishes on Decision to Work with Justin Beiber
It is no secret that Jack Ü members Skrillex and Diplo think the world of Justin Beiber, no matter what all the critics have to say about the kid popular culture loves to hate. So much. He has had a rocky road since early stardom forced his career into overdrive, and for a while it seemed as though his career might fade away as a series of poor decisions overshadowed the very … [Read more...]
CLIQUE – AMF x Bailo Beatz + Interview w/ Bailo Beatz
The Buygore name carries with it a multitude of connotations. With Borgore at its helm the label guaranteed, at the very least, to keep things interesting from its inception. That they have, rooted in absurdity and boasting a roster of top notch trolls whose careers exploded as members of the Buygore family. An odd and eclectic bunch of individuals whose epic ridiculousness is … [Read more...]
Skrillex Drops New Music at the Nest in London
A video has surfaced from the Nest in London containing footage of Skrillex spinning the South West Four festival afterparty in London, 30 seconds of previously unheard sound that could be a preview of something exciting yet to come. The half-minute is too short to tell much else about the mysterious new music dropped in Skrilly's set, but long enough to spark the curiosity and … [Read more...]
SKULS – Lost Knowledge EP
Trap can be tricky these days. It true that the essence of this misunderstood genre is floating on a life raft somewhere in that infinite sea, staring around at so called fam and squad, overusing hashtags and memes to buy likes and fake fans, only to find itself surrounded savage beasts trying to devour it whole. But savage has taken on new meaning, and in the abyss of … [Read more...]
Benga Starts A Very Necessary Conversation via Twitter; Openly Discusses Mental Health Issues
By now the news regarding UK dubstep OG Benga is circulating heavily on the interwebs. His retirement from DJing and production last year was met with confusion in the media and upset from his many fans. Benga and Skream shaped dubstep before wubs and wobbles and heavy bass manifested themselves in the United States and Canada through Skrillex, or Excision and Datsik. And while … [Read more...]
Kadington – Don’t Kick the Cat EP
While there exists a multitude of wrong in the emerging new faces of dance music, with too many trying so desperately to revive of keep alive dying EDMs that I had long ago written off as dead, there is so much right in the wonderful world of music; the world that is larger than the sum of all of its parts. EDM is dead to me, along with the killed concepts and ideals of … [Read more...]
