March 24, 2014

Mondays Blow. This Playlist However, Does Not.

by Jake Groch EDM, Funky, Happy, Heavy • Tags: 12th Planet, Ahead Of Us, ak9, Alina Baraz, Alone, Alpine, Avalon, Avionics, Barely Alive, Big Adventure, Blackstreet, Bone N Skin, Bunduru, Castle Walls, Change, Chasing Ghosts, Cherokee, Chet Faker, Christina Aguilera, Civilian, Cleindl, Colin McLoughlin, Collide, Crywolf, Curious Kontrol, Daguerrotype, Darianna, Deathcab For Cutie, Detective Orange, Diamond Eyes, Directive, Dirtcaps, Disintegration, DJ Swoon, Don't Matter, Drop The Game, EH!DE, Electric Joy Ride, Ethereal Material, Faint, Falling Down, Figure, FiLiBuStA, First Love, FKJ, Flinch, Flume, Funk4Mation, Funky Town, Gaia, Galantis, Galimatias, Good Times, Habstrakt, Heatwave EP, How Many DJ's, Ianborg, Jake Niemi, Jesus Christ, Kaster, KATFYR, Klaypex, Le Castle Vania, Lena Wolf, Lights, Linkin Park, Liquid Stranger, Listen, Lush & Simon, Mad Decent, Maduk, Maniaks, Mayhem, Memtrix, Ming, Mirage, Momestra, Monster Mania, Mr Carmack, Mr. Bill, Nanobii, Never Bitter, Never Sweet, New Game, Nitro Fun, No Diggity, Nostalgibra, Original, OVERWERK, PASSiO, pennybirdrabbit, Power-Up, Pretty Thoughts, Radio Edit, Rainbow Road, Reaktion, Records, Remix, Revolution, Rihanna, RL Grime, Romby, Rudebrat, RUN DMT, SectionZ, Skrux, SLDGHMR, Snazzy, Spag Heddy, Spinnin' Records, Spock, Stay, Stay The Night, Subterra, Tell Me, The Eden Project, The Enabler & The Enabled, The Hair Kid, The Nile, The Partysquad, Three Bar, Throw Up, To The Stars, Tom Swoon, Transatlanticism, Vaski, VIP, Virtual Riot, Want You Back, We Could Be Heaven, What So Not, Whoops, Wild Wild West, Wye Oak, You, Zedd

Below we have included a cornucopia of next-level EDM tunes (categorized by genre) that we simply did not have the time to post over the last month or so. Time is a precious thing, as you all know. Unfortunately, we seem to have less of it as each day progresses onto the next. It sucks really.

Which brings me to my next point, anyone looking for a job???

Email us. We sure as hell could use the help around here.

Oh, and no fat chicks. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Dubstep/Drumstep: Trap: Future Shit: House and House Derivatives: Glitch Hop: Drum and Bass:

September 4, 2013

Monstercat 014 | Discovery

by chasgoudie EDM, Happy, Heavy • Tags: 7 Minutes Dead, Au5, AZEDIA, Bustre, Charlotte Haining, Chas Goudie, Direct, Discovery, Draper, EDM Blogs, Falcon Funk, Fractal, Haywyre, High Maintenance, Holly Drummond, Laura Brehm, Lets Be Friends, Monstercat, Mr. Fiji Wiji, Muth, Muzzy, Nerve, Noisestorm, Pegboard Nerds, PIXL, Rameses B, Razihel, Soulero, Stephen Walking, Stereotronique, Taryn Manning, Televisor, Teqq, Throttle, Tut Tut Child, TwoThirds, Virtual Riot

The formerly underground music label known as Monstercat finally released their 14th compilation mix titled Discovery. The album contains some of the latest and greatest EDM hits gathered from just about every sub-genre imaginable. From hard dubstep to futuristic glitch hop to experimental electronica, this album has it all. While some of the songs have already been released by various artists on their SoundCloud page, listening to it from front to back forces the listener to compare and contrast similar and opposing songs based on their attributes. Some sound so similar, yet so different. The statement may sound overtly simplistic and somewhat idiotic, but give it a listen and I think you’ll know what I mean.

Which were our favorites? Here’s our Top 5:

1. PIXL – Sugar Rush (04:45)

2. Draper – Men & Machines (Radio Edit) (03:16)

3. Stereotronique – No Holding On (feat. Holly Drummond) (07:28)

4. Lets Be Friends – Manslaughter (VIP Mix) (05:21)

5. Nerve – Favright (06:01)

The album cover says it all; life is a journey full of new discoveries, so get out there and find what you are looking for.

You get one shot at this thing called life…

August 23, 2013

The 13 Best Video Game Influenced EDM Tracks [8 Bit Love]

by Jake Groch EDM, Funky, Happy, Heavy • Tags: 8-Bit, 8-Bit Superhero, AFK, All For One, Battles and Castles, Chip Tune, Clankers Cavern, Doctor P, Easy, EDM Blogs, Electronic Dance Music, Evil Gameboy, Excision, Feed Me, Figure, funky, Green Hill, happy, Heavy, ISM, Jake Groch, KATFYR, Mat Zo, Nostalgia, One Click Headshot, One For All, Porter Robinson, Prelude, Razihel, Savant, Scattle, Starfish, Tetris, The Hero VIP, Video Games, Virtual Riot

This next one is a tribute to all you nerds out there. It’s for those of you who started playing NES at the age of 5, growing older and maturing alongside man’s greatest technological waste of time – Video Games.

And that is exactly what they are, a waste of time. However, as an avid gamer myself, I must state that video games provide the best way to distract myself from reality; to escape from the trivialities of the day to day. They have this uncanny ability to engross users in an abstract virtual actuality that can become more realistic than anything in the outside world. The beauty of video games, much like art or cartoons, is that you can do ANYTHING with them. There is certainly a digital home for anyone in the world of gaming.

Speaking of being able to do anything, these next 13 tracks prove that die-hard gaming fans exist everywhere, even in the world of EDM. That classic video game sound can be heard almost everywhere in electronic music but, most producers typically use one or two samples in a track. These next 13 songs focus on productions that are mainly influenced by chip-tunes, aka 8-bit sounds.

1. Savant – ISM