ADE 2014: The first impressions about ADE 2014 on Tuesday night 14th of October

The Amsterdam Dance Event is organised every year during 15th to 19th of October. It is considered to be the world's leading platform  for the Electronic Music scene, culture and the developing industry that grows rapidly day by day in many and wide variety of surprising directions. It is definitely the most creative, influential, progressive, inventive industry that everybody aspires to become part of it. From producers, djs, retailers, festival organisers, advertising agencies, managers, to specialised lawyers electronic music industry is here to stay and better be part of it  and get involved rather than looking from outside and thinking that is out of your intrests.

 The Amsterdam Dance Event includes wide variety of thematic streams that you can follow in order to be informed, educated and entertained of course. ADE Pro, ADE Green, ADE Next, ADE University, ADE Beamlab and ADE Hard Dance Event.  Amsterdam city is dressed up already with the colours of black and yellow and the well known symbol/trade mark of ADE can be found all around the city that becomes the massive Playground that variety of events will take place on the most unorthodox spaces.

Feature: Tomorrowland Resident DJ Yves V takes the DJ Mag Top 100 DJ Pool by storm

In 2011, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike were spotted for the very first time in this illustrious top 100. As mere youngsters, they already scored 79th place, soaring to number 38 the following year. The rest is history. And now, once again, there's a Belgian DJ making a splash on the Top 100. Antwerp native Yves V has rocketed in at number 55. An impressive arrival that certainly won't go unnoticed. 

Yves V is one of the top DJs in Belgium and has already been making quite a name for himself abroad. Since 2007 he has been a fixture on the main stage at Tomorrowland and he can proudly claim to be the only Belgian DJ to have continuously appeared on the sensational Tomorrowland main stage for so many years in a row. His remix of Insane Pressure in 2009 was an absolute breakthrough in Belgium and received extensive airplay. In 2012 together with the Belgian producer Basto! he released the song Cloudbreaker. This highly successful release landed a well-deserved place at number 25 in the Flemish Ultratop, and at number 29 in the Dutch Single Top 100, but in Russia, the song was a fully fledged number 1 hit. At TomorrowWorld in the United States, together with star DJ Regi, Yves V released the track “Wait Till Tomorrow”.  

Feature: Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike land 2nd place in renowned DJ MAG TOP 100 DJs Poll

Silver for Willebroek DJs. The results of the annual DJ Mag Top 100 were announced Saturday night at the Amsterdam Dance Event.

Feature: Hardwell Crowned #1 DJ in the Top 100 DJs Poll for a second consecutive year

Dutch musical titan Hardwell has done it again – being crowned World’s #1 DJ in the 2014 edition of DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs Poll for a second consecutive year. After a prolonged dominance from a pioneering few, Hardwell made history in the 2013 edition of the Top 100 DJs poll by claiming the top spot for the first time in his career and becoming the youngest ever winner at just 25 years of age. Now after a colossal 12-month period of hit records and global tours, Hardwell’s succeeded in holding on to the title of the World’s #1 DJ for a second term and cementing his place atop of the scene’s elite.

Over the coming year Hardwell, fresh from claiming this prestigious accolade for the second year running, is set to deliver a series of projects befitting the World’s #1 DJ. With the announcement of his I AM HARDWELL - United We Are world tour that kicks off with a spectacular show at the Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome arena on January 24th, a mouth-watering run of releases penned from his label Revealed Recordings, including the emotively titled “Young Again,’ that’s out now. Coupled with a series of exclusive club and festival shows to be announced in the coming weeks and months and, most excitingly, the imminent arrival of his eagerly anticipated debut artist album ‘United we are,’ which will be release on January 23rd. The future for one of dance music’s biggest doyen’s looks very much rock solid.

Revealed recordings presents ADE 2014 Sampler

From hosting arenas at festivals across the planet including Creamfields to its annual showcase at Amsterdam Dance Event, along with the imprint’s consistent chart toppling output, label head Hardwell now present Revealed’s official ADE sampler selection.

Across eighteen tracks presenting the finest Revealed has to offer, from familiar names such as Hardwell himself, over to Dannic, Joey Dale and Sick Individuals, highlights of the release celebrate the label musical dominance of the Revealed sound. Take Marc Benjamin’s colossal track ‘The Centre’, it’s transcending melody carrying the backbone of the beat, before the huge drop comes in and sweeps you away with gigantic force. First premiering on Hardwell On Air radio show earlier this month, ‘The Centre’ has had fans waiting with baited breath not only for further news on Marc’s next release, but also what the next treat to be dripped out from the sampler will be...

Review: Thomas Gold feat. Kate Elsworth - Colourblind

Review: Thomas Gold feat. Kate Elsworth - Colourblind out on Revealed Recordings. The festival season and its associated energy may now be over, but Hardwell’s Revealed Recordings imprint is yet to let the landmark anthems stop flowing.  After one of the label’s most prolific summer runs to date, Thomas Gold joins the trail of Revealed’s year of reckoning, making an unprecedented debut for the label after landmark releases for Axtone, Phazing and a whole host of high-caliber labels. As premiered at his titanic Governors Island performance in New York, “Colourblind” reunites the German heavyweight with Australian songstress Kate Elsworth, adding another big room powerhouse to Gold’s sizeable discography.  Dropping off the heels of a solid run of instrumental hits for the label, the track sets an impressive precedent for vocal dance music within the modern market.  Fusing huge big room energy with yet another unforgettable Elsworth topline, the track shows the lasting stamina of melodic dance music and how Thomas Gold is still pioneering the sound on his own unique merits. When Revealed Recordings lets loose a vocal anthem, it seldom passes quietly. Thomas Gold and Kate Elsworth’s latest is as greater testament to the talented duo as it is to their versatile streak of market dominance here in 2014.

Interview: French/Canadian DJ/Producer Matt Cerf

 French Canadian DJ/Producer Matt Cerf made his debut in trance with his former band Second Sun in 2001 with the trance classic Empire (Vandit Records).  After getting a taste of fame he and the group moved to Los Angeles to pursue their dreams further.  They split in 2002 and Matt started his solo career.  Eventually he would meet partners Shawn Mitiska & Jaren and after several solo releases the three would partner up to release trance classics like Light The Skies (2006) and eventually Man On The Run (2008), their most successful collaboration with Dash Berlin.  

In 2012 Matt and the trio, then called Cerf, Mitiska & Jaren, released a full length album on Armada Records called Give Me A Sound. The album featured 13 original tunes, including chart toppers like Beggin' You, Man On The Run, and Witness.  It also featured four official music videos.  Their success was short lived and the trio split later that year.