essentials

Featured across DJ sets in festivals both near and far, the hard-hitting track called “Animals” was originally speculated to have been a Hardwell and GTA collaboration. Unbeknownst to fans and EDM blogs alike, the mastermind behind “Animals” was 17 year old, Dutch native Martijn Garritsen, better known to his fans as Martin Garrix...

The stunning Mayra Veronica has entered the EDM world to drop the jaws of dance music fans everywhere. Her dancey Latin-flavored tracks have earned remixes from a wide range of dance music producers, providing a variety of ways to enjoy the dance music vixen's tracks...

Bassjackers has been tearing up the EDM world side their emergence in 2011. Since then, they've shown no signs of slowing down, dropping hit track after hit track and making appearances at the world's biggest festivals. Now, we're bringing you the 5 must-hear Bassjackers tracks...

Dirtybird co-founder Christian Martin is one of the key players of the Dirtybird family. If you are unfamiliar with his work, get acquainted with him above in our 5 must-hear Christian Martin tracks.

Claude VonStroke has established himself as an innovator in house music, sparking a new movement with the Dirtybird sound. If you're unfamiliar with his groundbreaking style, get acquainted with our Artist Essentials of Claude VonStroke in the slideshow above...

It's the sound that always gets crowds dancing. The Melbourne Bounce genre brings the infectious rhythm that is never out of place at the biggest dance music clubs and festivals. In this week's 'Genre Essentials,' we're bringing you our list of 5 Melbourne Bounce tracks you have to hear...

You Are Now Listening To Araabmuzik… Check out these 5 of our favorite videos of Araabmuzik doing what he does best; Mashing buttons like a certified boss!

The last time we wrote about Hypbeast Essentials section was when they posted Steve Aoki. Now they have tapped into Mad Decent label head, Diplo's essentials. Everything from an Apple MacBook Pro, BlackBerry Bold and Samsung Galaxy SIII to extra hard drives, an Apogee ONE microphone, Fujifilm instant camera and more...

Hypebeast has emptied the founder of Dim Mak, Steve Aoki's pockets and backpack to show the world his essentials. As you will see above, Steve travels a ton of stuff from the usuals, iPad, Macbook, iPhone, and blackberry to his wet ones, supplements, and Nintendo DS...

Here’s one for the campers out there. Although the point of being away from civilization is to get in touch with nature, we understand you may still experience technology withdrawal over a multiple day excursion due to poor battery life...