The world’s leading entertainment and sport’s agency, Creative Artists Agency, have merged together their top agents from their Toronto office with the top specialists in electronic dance music in their LA office. Agents Jazz Spinder, Matt Kingsley, and Inbal Lankry have moved to LA to work with major EDM specialists Maria May, Mac Clark, Alex Becket, Hunter Williams, and Roman Trystram...
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The lovely people at Solé have a musical treat on their latest installment of their monthly mixtape series called Fixtapes. For Volume 8 they take us on a celestial trip with the sounds of LA based DJ duo Oliver. Rolling bass lines and dark synths give this mix a sinister funky sound reminiscent of Kraftwerk and a completely different sound that only Oliver can pull off...
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The Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer was one of the first programmable drum machines, produced in the early 1980s. It became an important part of hip hop music to produce a bass drum sound with low frequency - users of the TR-808 are a whos-who of early hip-hop (Beastie Boys, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Dr...
Elektro is proud to celebrate EMI’s Electrospective series, which pays homage to electronic music’s long, storied history. We’ll be giving you a guided tour through EMI’s extensive, 600-plus album catalog; our tailor-picked recommendations are geared toward Elektro’s readers and are sure to open your eyes to the legendary artists and key tracks that inspired today’s EDM heavy-hitters...
No doubt, EDM has become more popular than ever before, and we’re talking about way back to 1958. Though the names Avicii, Deadmau5, and David Guetta may be more familiar in today’s club scene, one sometimes forget the pioneers before them who helped transform the EDM genre to what it is today...
Published by BackBeat Books in 2011, Keyboard Presents the Evolution of Electronic Dance Music, highlights the explosion of the EDM space, from DJs, fans,the genre’s history and evolution, music and programming, as well as interviews from musicians from Daft Punk, deadmau5, BT to Crystal Method, who helped define the genre...
It’s been a packed house over the past seven nights at the MoMA. as the forefathers, or should Elektro say "fourfathers" (there are four of them: Ralf Hütter, Fritz Hilpert, Henning Schmitz and Stefan Pfaffe) of EDM have been paid illustrious tribute...
Brothers Paul and Phil Hartnoll (better known as Orbital) have joined forces again to release Wonky, their first album in eight years. Along with the album, the duo is scheduling an accompanying tour.
Despite taking a break, Orbital has been on the radar for close to 25 years since recording their first single back in 1989...
In honor of the premiere of Kraftwerk-Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8, an unique series of concerts running April 10 – 17 at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Astralwerks is releasing a special limited edition of Kraftwerk’s 2009 Digital Masters Boxset The Catalogue on April 10...