[wp_ad_camp_2] Oliver Daniel is not your average teenager. Passionate about music in general and with a fond interest in trance music, he spent years researching how to produce the music he loves most. When Oliver first began producing there wasn’t an all-encompassing resource for producing trance music. New producers therefore had to spend hundreds of […]
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[wp_ad_camp_2] Techno, as one of the backbones of dance music, has always been more of an underground style in the total landscape of EDM genres. What attracts you in the genre and what drives you to continue to push the bar? Do I push the bar? Haha… I guess I never saw myself that way. […]
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[wp_ad_camp_2] [wp_ad_camp_1] Hailing from Hungary, Myon & Shane 54 have achieved extraordinary success in the international dance music scene, having established a solid reputation for themselves with notable releases including numerous Beatport number ones and consistent rankings among DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs. They produce for some of the biggest names in music, are constant […]
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[wp_ad_camp_2] On “Irreverence”, their forthcoming debut full-length for Dim Mak Records, the French electronic dance music quartet pens a new playbook for the genre. Merging heavy bass music, drum n’ bass, dubstep, and electro with grimy club energy, the group—Charly, Thomas, Pho, and Pitchin—can’t be pinned down. However, these pioneers wouldn’t have it any other […]
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[wp_ad_camp_2] Travis Baron is one of the most familiar faces in the Seattle techno scene. He is a DJ, promoter and recently launched his label KR Recordings together with partner in beats James Grindle. Hammarica.com caught up with him to talk about all things techno. [wp_ad_camp_1] You have been a techno DJ for over a […]
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[wp_ad_camp_2] Preparing to orbit the Earth at the speed of sound, ‘Versus The World’ embarks on its journey with a salvo of Durand’s solo material. Personifying Richard’s characteristic tech-ish appeal, ‘Chopstick’ and ‘Sequence’ deliver adrenaline shot beats and hard-fired percussion loops, packing them against those tense, stormy Durand riffs. On ‘Stand Again’ Leah’s vocal cadence […]
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[wp_ad_camp_2] Freaknight Festival is Seattle’s annual Halloween event produced by USC Events. Freaknight is the largest and longest running electronic music festival in the Northwest and has grown into a massive 8 hour event that attracts top national and international DJs and thousands of revelers. This year’s edition was sold out in advance, and that’s […]
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[wp_ad_camp_2] With her distinctly eclectic taste in music ranging from energetic dance grooves with plenty of vocals, to a deeper, more progressive sound, she moves bodies and rocks dance floors wherever she goes [wp_ad_camp_1] Born in Germany as Kristin Schrot, Miss Nine at the age of 16 was on track to become, not a famous […]
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[wp_ad_camp_2] He has been around for a while, and was initially discovered by Armin Van Buuren. Nowadays he releases banger after banger on labels such as Diffused Music, Pinkstar and Spinnin Records. Please welcome Andrew Bennett as featurted artist in Hammarica.com’s series of daily DJ interviews! [wp_ad_camp_1] Your big break came in 2004 when a […]
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[wp_ad_camp_2] Constantly touring and making widely popular techno tracks, it was high time to invite Cocoon Recordings artists Pig & Dan for Hammarica.com’s series of daily DJ interviews! You have a lot of success in the Beatport charts. Other than making good music, what do you think is the secret behind that? [wp_ad_camp_1] There’s no […]
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[wp_ad_camp_2] This past year has seen Fei-Fei releasing stadium sized industrial dubstep tracks while earning props from Benga to Bassnectar and adding to an already rabid fan following along the way. Mixmag UK recently featured Fei-Fei as an artist to “keep an eye on”, dubbing her signature aggressive sound as “high octane dubstep” which subsequently […]
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[wp_ad_camp_2] [justified_image_grid caption=off margin=10px orderby=title_desc limit=6 max_rows=2] By the time Friday, October 5th finally came around I was basically itching to get to Euguene, OR to help put on a show with a production crew I work with out of Southern Oregon called Cloud9 Collective. The last event I helped with was WaterWorld (Selma, OR) and it […]
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[wp_ad_camp_2] Andain began as an experimental, electronica group in 2000. Singer/song-writer, Mavie Marcos, grew up performing in the theatre and studied classical voice in college. Her musical interests led her to play in acoustic bands until she moved to San Francisco in 1999. During that time she met, and started writing an album with, producer […]
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[wp_ad_camp_2] Technically speaking, Roger Linn is not a DJ. Far from it essentially. Yet his creations are cheered by generations of DJs and other types of musicians. Roger Linn is a designer of high-tech products for musicians. Among his celebrated work we find the legendary Linndrum and Akai MPC 60 drum machines. More recently he […]
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