February 14, 2014

A V-Day sExtravaganza | 10 Songs To Make The Sex To/With

by chasgoudie EDM • Tags: Anita Ward, Audien, Benny Bennassi, Borgore, Bruno Mars, Cashmere Cats, Chas Goudie, Christina Soto, Disclosure, EDM, edm love songs, Flume, Kill Paris, Kygo, love music, Marvin Gaye, Miley Cyrus, Seven Lions, Skrillex, Sound Remedy, Tritonal, valentines day music, Walden

If you’re anything like me, you understand how to have a good time. No, I’m not talking about Friday night laser-tag with the fellas (even though that sounds like a fine way to spend V-Day). By the way, we’re calling it V-Day now. And by we I mean everyone. It’s currently trending worldwide. As is #EndlessLove, #HarsherLoveSongs, #cutthecord, #FUTLove, #Gigolos4Life and #rubthegina.

Talk about a conversation starter! I’ll take #rubthegina for the win. Shoutout to all women unfortunately named Gina. These next ten songs go out to all you Gina’s out there. Keep your (female) head up. It’s V-Day, and anything is possible on this magical celebration of love and eroticism.

Okay. Now I’m finished.

(That’s what she said. Or he said.)

1. If this doesn’t bunch up your skivvies, I don’t know what will.

2. Just straight groovy. Welcome to the bedrock.

3. A true treasure of a remix for any up-tempo rave date.

4. Everybody remembers the first time.

5. Chills down the spine and through the trousers.

6. One of the best electronic remixes of all time. An instant classic.

7. This original will forever haunt my dreams ever since they used it in The Water Boy.

8. Do I hear wedding bells? No. No I don’t.

9. I love you to the moon and the stars and back. Unless you’re George Clooney in Gravity. Then I just love you to the stars.

10. In case you don’t celebrate V-Day and just need to eat some cake.

January 7, 2014

Rager Onions Presents: The Top 10 EDM Songs of 2013

by chasgoudie EDM, Funky, Happy, Heavy • Tags: 2013, 7Even, Alina Renae, Andy Duguid, Asa, Audien, Avicii, best edm songs, Chas Goudie, Dillon Francis, Disclosure, Easy, EDM, EDM Blogs, Flume, Fly, Hey Brother, Hippie Sabotage, Jaguar Trap, Jake Groch, Kat Krazy, Keegan Goudie, Koan Sound, Madeon, Mat Zo, Porter Robinson, Protohype, Rager Onions, Sanctuary, Sound Remedy, Starlite, Sub Focus, Technicolor, The M Machine, Top 10, Top 10 EDM songs, Turn It Around, Wayfarer, What So Not, Without You

After compiling over 100 of the best songs from 2013, the staff at Rager Onions put their super-powers (our brains) together and narrowed it down to ten. Ten s0ngs that not only caught our ears, but blew our minds.

Without further adieu, the Top 10 EDM Songs of 2013.

10. Protohype chilled out a little with this track, and the result was a masterpiece. With one of the most motivational songs of 2013, “Fly” is a tasty dubstep anthem for any music palette. Seriously, even your grandma might like it.

9. The dark horse, Andy Duguid, takes trance to a whole new level with “7Even”. Like all great songs, this one gets better with every listen. One might even call it ‘orgasmic’.

8. The French sensation has done it again. Madeon may not be old enough to drink alcohol in the U.S. yet, but he did produce one of the top-10 EDM songs of 2013. Kids these days.

7. Disclosure and Flume in the same sentence? You know it’s going to be nothing but gold.

6. Coming from one of this years top LP’s, Sub Focus also found his way onto the top-10 with this up-beat, D&B melody. Whether you’re having problems at work, problems with a girl, or problems doing laundry on a consistent basis – this song will surely put you on the right path.

5. Dillon Francis did a lot in 2013. But nothing was more impressive than his first love song, “Without You”. According to Dillon’s Soundcloud, “This song is very meaningful to me because as TEED and I were working on the song I was having relationship problems of my own. He ended up writing the song about the whole situation i was going through..”

4. Just nasty. Trap isn’t dead yet, you guys. You heard it hear first: What So Not is the future of trap.

3. Audien exploded in 2013, and we’ll expect nothing less in 2014.

2. Our #1 EP of 2013 belonged to KOAN Sound & Asa’s Sanctuary. “Starlite” took the EDM world by storm, and for good reason.

1. The song that was at the top halfway through the year, stays at the top. Funky, passionate, and perfect for love making – this collaboration from two of EDM’s brightest minds will go down in the record books. Because “Easy” was the best EDM song of 2013.

Honorable Mentions:

The best remix of 2013 belongs to Kat Krazy.

We just can’t say enough about Sound Remedy. So we won’t.

This song got bumped from the top-10, but The M Machine deserves a lot of love for this “Tiny Anthem”.

You’re going to hear this song on the radio a lot over the next few months, but make no mistake about it – it was one of the best EDM songs produced this past year.

We’re all hippies at heart.

December 5, 2013

Hippie Sabotage | “Stay High” (Tove Lo Flip)

by Jake Groch EDM • Tags: Cashmere Cat, Chilled-Out, Disclosure, EDM Blogs, electronic, Electronic Dance Music, Flip, Flume, Future, Future Garage, Habits, Hi Hats, Hip-Hop, Hippie Sabotage, Jake Groch, Kick Drum, Rager Onions, Remix, So Crates, Sour Beats, Stay High, Tove Lo, UK Garage, Vocals

Assuredly one of the hottest songs in the world of EDM currently, this jam by So Crates and Sour Beats (as they refer to themselves on SoundCloud) of Hippie Sabotage is out of this world spectacular. Artistically flipping the original jam “Habits” by Tove Lo, this duo of the Future variety has struck gold with their re-work titled “Stay High.” The chilled-out, electronic dance hip-hop beat is indicative of a style of music produced by trailblazing artists like Flume, Disclosure and Cashmere Cat. It is referred to as “Future Garage”, or more simply, “Future.”

By definition, Future Garage generally employs production techniques such as “repitched vocals (very common), soft leads with a round attack, subbass or a square bass with a modulating filter, and finally, a 2-step garage drum beat with off-the-grid high hats” (Thank you Wikipedia). Future music is rather technical to produce despite the seemingly simple sound design, often times focusing on late or humanized high-hats between the kick and snare patterns.

However, technique and genre aside, it doesn’t take a genius to realize the true nature of this next beast of a track.

The heartbreaking but highly relatable lyrics paint a picture of a lost love and the former lover who can’t help but “stay high all the time” to simply “keep you off my mind.” Much like the grief stricken female in the song, at some point in time, everybody wants to escape. Here, Hippie Sabotage grants listeners a chance to step away for a moment with their unbelievably chill, highly passionate anthem.

We cannot stop listening to this. Seriously, I think it’s been played at least fifteen times here today at R.O. Headquarters.

It’s that good. You’ll see…