This week on Diplo & Friends Canadian trap music trip Keys N Krates took over for an hour long set. Their set included tracks from Baauer, Cashmere Cat, Grandtheft, Mr. Carmack, Thugli, and more. The mix also features some unreleased material and new demos from Keys N Krates themselves so get ready to spend the next hour of your life rocking out with them. STAY IN THE … [Read more...]
Mad Decent Block Party 2014 Lineup
The lineup for Mad Decent's 2014 Block Parties have been announced and it's massive. Big names like Diplo, Jack U, Flume, Flosstradamus, RL Grime, DJ Snake, Chance The Rapper are going to be gracing the stage at one stop or another on the tour. One thing about the line up does have me pretty curious. Since Flume and What So Not are both listed on the lineup, could we possibly … [Read more...]
BENZI – Girl Trapz 5
The 5th and final installment of BENZI's Girl Trapz series is here and while it will be missed, its hard to imagine Benzi topping himself on this one. The Girl Trapz series has been emblematic in its representation of the softer side of trap music (which has now undeniably blown up) so it will be interesting to see what a forward-thinker like Benzi will get into next. From … [Read more...]
Dim Mak celebrates with free music [Free Download]
Steve Aoki's Dim Mak records has an occasion to celebrate! In its 18 years of life it boasts 500 releases and just recently hit its 200,000th like on Facebook. What better way to celebrate this momentous occasion than to give its fans 9 tracks that span Dim Mak's 18 years. The track list includes Keys N Krates, Diplo, Clockwork and many more. Grab the free download from Dim … [Read more...]
Keys n Krates – All The Time (Tove Lo Flip) [Free Download]
Keys N Krates, one of our Breakout Artists of 2013, are keeping thing going in the new year with this rework of Tove Lo's "Habits," which they've "flipped" and "lifted" to create "All The Time" The new track is a great rework of Tove Lo's fun and indie track that has unfortunately failed to reach too much attention, despite its sexy and provocative lyrics. Hopefully with … [Read more...]
Breakout Artists of 2013
2013 was a big year for both Run The Trap and Trap Music, 100BPM Twerk Music, club music and related genres as a whole. We've put together a list of some of our favorite artists that killed it on all fronts this year. Note that none of these artists started first making music in 2013, rather they had a big year and were able to gain a significant amount of traction (and our … [Read more...]
15 of the Best Music Videos in 2013
Here at Run The Trap we've been counting down some of our favorite things about 2013. (See our Top Lovetrap tracks in 2013, Best Free Releases in 2013, 10 tracks on repeat in 2013, and Top 25 Trap Music Tracks of 2013 lists.) Now it is time to take a look at some of the best music videos from the past year. Making a music video for a song is one of the best ways to interact … [Read more...]
The Top 15 Love Trap Songs of 2013
Happy Holidays! Prepare for the sexiest compilation of Love Trap/Future tunes on the blogosphere. Genre's are irrelevant here at RTT, so to start off the Top 15 he have one of the sexiest voices in the game, BANKS. And Snakehips comes through with this glorious remix of the her track "Warm Water" with the original production by T.E.E.D. Next we got Lindsay Lowend's track "GT40" … [Read more...]
