elektro awards

Destructo is known for producing driving electro-house, and his dark electro track “Higher” has a heart-pounding beat that builds toward an intensely satisfying drop. The video, directed by Agata Alexander, plays on the fascination we feel for Destructo’s pulse-quickening production...

Amon Tobin has proven to be one of the most visionary electronic music artists in the EDM industry. Tobin’s 2011 album, ISAM, in which the artist transformed real-life sounds and noises into intricate tracks, is just one example of his revolutionary approach to music production...

Mentioning the name Baauer without hearing the words “Harlem Shake” seemed to be an impossible feat in 2013. That is, until he teamed up with hip-hop legend Just Blaze. Sampling the original Just Blaze and Jay Z production “You Don’t Know,” Baauer and Just Blaze turned the hip-hip mainstay into an electronic masterpiece...

This year the largest EDM festival in the world, TomorrowWorld, came to America. For three days this past September, EDM superstars such as Hardwell, Armin van Buuren, Diplo and Dillon Francis played to an incredible 140,000 attendees in Chattahoochee, Georgia...

Since its opening this past Memorial Day Weekend, Light has been redefining nightlife in the U.S. As the world’s first nightclub turned on by Cirque du Soleil, Light innovatively mixes the theatrics of Cirque du Soleil with the performances of some of the biggest names in electronic dance music...

Record labels drive electronic music and are the ever-present eyes and ears scoping for talent and the next big sound. Since 1999 Spinnin’ Records has done just that. “We really have to find the new trends,” says Eelko van Kooten, founder of Spinnin’ Records...

As a DJ, producer and record label owner, Erick Morillo helped lay the groundwork for electronic dance music as we know it, and his lasting influence has served as inspiration for legions of emerging DJs and producers today. If the name Erick Morillo doesn’t ring a bell, maybe one of his many pseudonyms will...

The name “Rukes” has become synonymous with EDM photography. Over the past eight years, Drew “Rukes” Ressler has captured the rise of electronic dance music through his amazing photographs. At a time when nightclub photographers were less common and few were using digital cameras, Rukes started hitting the clubs with his Canon 20D...

Robert van de Corput has grown exponentially over the past few years from an up and coming artist to the international superstar we know today as Hardwell. Hardwell’s truly inspiring rise to the top is captured in his documentary, I Am Hardwell...

Often seen wearing vintage clothing and a chic black hat that covers her lush brunette hair, 24-year-old Louisa Rose Allen is as delightful on the eyes as she is on the ears. Better know as Foxes, the singer’s dynamic pipes have made waves on dance music tracks over the past few years...