Interview with Saul van Stapele & Perre van der Brink for Electronic Music Journalism at ADE 2014

 Amsterdam Dance Event represents the latest developments, reflects and evaluates  them on the various panels and discussions and what is most important, through the alliances and coalitions that are shaped during the intense networking these five days, ADE has a decisive impact and huge influence on the future of Electronic Music Industry and Electronic Music Culture as a whole. ADE has developed from being at the beginning just an industry meeting to become an actual symbol of the growing importance and huge impact of Electronic Music in the recording industry business and the youth culture as a whole. The attendance at ADE itself or the sold out festivals like Tomorrowland or Mysteryland or Sensation all over the world prove that the Electronic Music industry is one of the most vital and quickly growing sectors which will shape the younger generation perceptions, attitudes and music tastes. If some years ago Electronic Music was a subculture in the periphery of the system, now it has become the mainstream without the negative connotations from the past. These considerable changes were reported by more than 400 journalists from around the world who have attended this year's event.

Interview with Jonty Skrufff, Music Journalist, DJ/Producer ADE panel moderator at ADE 2014

Amsterdam Dance Event 2014 was the epicentre of all the latest developments in the Electronic Music Industry and the culture surrounding it. From 15th to 19th October, Amsterdam was the heart of Electronic Music with a wide variety of panels and lectures during the day as part of the extensive ADE Conference schedule. This included ADE Pro, ADE Next, ADE Green, ADE University, ADE Beamlab and HDE for the harder style of electronic music. One of the highlight keynote panels every year is the Gamechangers, featuring a diverse selection of exceptional individuals who one way or another have helped transform today’s electronic music culture.

Interview with Herna Verhagen, CEO Post.nl about the first ever DJ stamps at ADE 2014

During Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) on Wednesday 15 October, Herna Verhagen, CEO of PostNL, presented Dutch DJs Armin van Buuren, Afrojack, Dash Berlin and Hardwell with their very first ‘Dutch DJ’ stamps. This presentation took place on the opening day of the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) in the ADE X SAMSUNG HOME on the Rembrandt square, Amsterdam. All four DJs were there to express their gratitude for this initiative from PostNL except Tiesto, who was absent at the presentation and he personally received his first stamp at a later time. PostNL is proud to honour these dance heroes during ADE. Designer Paul du Boi-Reymond of design studio Our Machine was present and talked about the creation of the stamps in collaboration with colleague Mark Klaversteijn.

Interview with Dash Berlin at ADE 2014

During Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), 15-19 October, a record number of 2,224 artists from 57 different countries performed. The 19th edition of the biggest and most prominent event for electronic music, an initiative of Buma, put Amsterdam in the international spotlight for all five days. More than 400 journalists, 5,000 conference visitors and 350,000 festival visitors travelled from all over the world to the capital of entertainment and electronic music culture and industry.
On Wednesday 15 October, Herna Verhagen, CEO of PostNL, presented Dutch DJs Armin van Buuren, Afrojack, Dash Berlin and Hardwell with their very first ‘Dutch DJ’ stamps. This presentation took place on the opening day of the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) in the ADE X SAMSUNG HOME on the Rembrandt square, Amsterdam. All four DJs were there to express their gratitude for this initiative of PostNL except Tiesto who was absent at the presentation and he personally received his first stamp at a later time.

Interview with Tenishia on Trance Academy during Amsterdam Trance Event 2014

Amsterdam Dance Event 2014 was a tremendous success with a record breaking amount of visitors who travelled from all over the world in Amsterdam for five unforgettable days and nights. The daily conference and playground events offered the chance to stay informed about the latest developments in Electronic Music Culture and Industry while during the night every little corner in the city of the magical canals was turned into a club that hosted some of the most mindblowing events. One of the clubs that I have never been to before, Club Lite on Friday 17th of October hosted Trance Academy in associated with Jam DJ agency and Above All Records from Rotterdam. Superstars of the Trance scene like Andy Moor, Ben Gold, Super 8 & Tab, Susana Live, Bjork Akesson and the brilliant duo from Malta, Tenishia. On the second floor Above All records hosted their own stage with their fantastic new breed of upcoming trance artists and guests Dennis Sheperd and Ronski Speed from Germany. 

Interview with Susana at Trance Academy during Amsterdam Dance Event 2014

Trance Academy took place on Friday 18th of October at Club Lite in Amsterdam during Amsterdam Dance Event 2014, and was organised by Above All Records from Rotterdam and Jam Agency from UK. They showcased great talents such as Bjorn Akeson, Tenishia, Andy Moor, Ben Gold, Super 8 & Dj Tab and Live performance by the beloved singer Susana. In the second room, Above All Artists joined Ronski Speed and Dennis Shepherd from Germany. It was a magnificent night with a great underground atmosphere which you don't find at many club events nowadays. It was not about special effects, lazers and pyrotechnics, it was rather focused on the DJ sets from artists who enjoy every second being behind the decks. 

Review: Mark Sixma & Kill The Buzz - Rise Up

The Summer season may be over, but Hardwell continues to bring the heat with his Revealed Recordings releases way into the Winter months. Kill The Buzz is undeniably a familiar face on the Revealed roster, with radio smash ‘Life Is Calling’ and huge-hitter ‘Carbon’ continuing to keep him on the radars of those who matter, now, this Breda boy stands alongside Netherlands native Mark Sixma for the unavoidable anthem ‘Rise Up’. A newcomer to the Revealed Recordings family but still certain to make a splash with his workings, Mark Sixma - also hailing from Breda – has remixed the likes of W&W also on the label, with ‘Rise Up’ being his inaugural release. Co-produced with Kill The Buzz and causing a frenzy at his Ministry of Sound set recently, the anthemic, melodic twists and turns of ‘Rise Up’ confirm the release as undeniably Revealed, with both artists still stamping their unique identities across the four minute, high-energy release.

Feature: Black Hole Recordings introduces 'Pay with a Tweet'

On November 10, the Dutch record company Black Hole Recordings launches a digital pop-up store at www.blackholepopupstore.com. Visitors of this online store can pay for the product of their choice by simply sending a Tweet.

During a period of 30 days, tracks, ringtones and wallpapers of top artists such as Ferry Corsten, Tiesto and New World Punx will be offered in the online pop-up store. By following the @Blackholerec Twitter account and sending a Tweet with the product of choice and the hashtag #paywithatweet, the product can be acquired (for free). The visitor will then receive a direct message with access to the download. All characteristics of a brick-and-mortar pop up store are present; the shop will open and close occasionally, products will be offered until stock expires or the shop closes.

ADE 2014 Amsterdam Music Festival 2014 The Clash of the DJ Titans

Amsterdam Music Event in 2014 was definitely the biggest and most successful of all times so far. The absolute highlight was the Amsterdam Music Festival that this year took place at the magnificent Amsterdam Arena that events like Sensation were organised in the past. Last years Amsterdam Music Festival included variety of stages but this year everything was focused on the mainstage that included DJ sets only from headliners DJs. You can easily guess that this was the ultimate Clash of the Titans of electronic dance music in front of the eyes of thousands of fans who travelled in Amsterdam from all over the globe who came to party, sing a long, jump and getting trashed completely out of their heads.

ADE 2014 Armada Night during Amsterdam Dance Event.

Armada Night at Amsterdam Dance Event took place on Wednesday 15th of October at the well known Heineken Music Hall and was organised by Alda Events. It featured spectacular performances by Armin van Buuren, Dash Berlin, the special — first time in Europe — LIVE set from GAIA, and sets from Andrew Rayel, Cosmic Gate, Orjan Nilsen, Tube & Berger, KRONO, MaRLo and Kevin Duane. The venue was packed from very early and the crowd was prepared to trance the night away. The stage was ultra large with gigantic screens and superb lighting effects and lazers. It definitely manage to create a very special sacred atmosphere and put the crowd in a state of trance.

Interview with Bas Kruijssen, New Media Manager, Black Hole Distribution at ADE 2014

Amsterdam Dance Event, The Electronic Music Platform was an enormous success. From 15th to 19th of October the city of Amsterdam attracted more than 350,000 visitors who were connected one way or another with electronic music. From ordinary devoted fans, to record label executives and festival promoters from all over the world, ADE was marked as the place to be if Electronic Music is your passion and part of your DNA.

Amsterdam Conference program included a wide variety of panels and discussions that mainly were centred around Felix Meritis, The Dylan, Da Balie, Melkweg, De Brakke Grond and Parkhuis de Zwijger. This year at Felix Meritis ADE offered extensive spaces including a restaurant for networking, meeting, discussing and talking about deals and finding new strategic partners for music production, compilations material, licensing matters and anything else that you can think of, such as security services to clubs and events or sponsoring and advertising.

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.

Event News: Endless energy on the final day of Tomorrow World 2014

Last night was amazing. Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Skrillex, Steve Aoki, Yves V on the Mainstage, Pete Tong hosted his own stage and invited John Digweed, Diplo at the Mad Decent Stage. Hundreds of Belgian guests danced the night away at the Belgian stage. Even more joy for the Belgians, Filip Verhulst proposed his girlfriend Eline Peeters at TomorrowWorld. Filip surprised the love of his life with a marriage proposal during a helicopter flight and she said yes. Sunday, the last day of TomorrowWorld.

Event News: Picture of the day at TomorrowWorld 2014 with Ludacris & Shaquille O'Neal

 TomorrowWorld officially opened its doors on Friday afternoon in Chattahoochee Hills (Atlanta), Georgia, kicking off the 3-day music festival with a number of music industry greats such as Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Tiesto, NERVO, Kygo, Laidback Luke, and more!  

Spotted on the festival grounds enjoying the festivities were basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal and Atlanta-based rapper Ludacris taking in the luxury accommodations at the Sky Loft LIV experience. Their fotos deserve to become the photos of the 1st day of the festival.

TomorrowWorld 2014 Interviews: Carl Bouckaert, Venue Owner, & Bill Edwards, Commissioner

TomorrowWorld 2014, The Arising Of Life started with big success and is already over the place in the USA media who comment on the phenomenon that came to be TomorrowWorld. For 2nd year the 3 days of the celebration of Electronic Music will be written with golden letters in the history of USA festivals. The founders of Tomorrowland scouted 100 sites all over the world before choosing Bouckaert’s Farm in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia, just 25 miles southwest of Atlanta. The accessible yet secluded farm with its gently rolling hills, lush greenery and sparkling lakes became the site for the inaugural edition of TomorrowWorld because it happened to bear a strong resemblance to the expansive park in Boom, Belgium that has been hosting Tomorrowland since its inception in 2005.

Event News: TomorrowWorld 2014, The Arising Of Life Started With A Bang!

The first festival day of TomorrowWorld has almost finished and it was full of epic moments and brilliant music. Almost 50.000 discovered the madness and were witnesses of the Arising of Life. It has been while since an active volcano erupted on US soil – not yet counting Yellowstone of course. 

But here it is. The most beautiful, dangerous-looking and beloved fire-spitting mountain we ever saw. Long have the hills of Chattahoochee been full of tremors, signs of something big coming this way. And as we all descend on the magnificent terrain, smoke in the distance reveals what we all hoped for; the TomorrowWorld volcano arising to spew its life-giving fire over thousands of ravers raging away.

ADE 2014 Amsterdam Dance Event Completes Festival Line-up

Amsterdam becomes the centre of the global dance music scene for five days showcasing over 2000 international artists.

With just three weeks to go, the preparations are in full swing for the nineteenth edition of the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), the world's biggest club festival and leading conference for electronic music. Today the organization has finalized the already impressive festival line-up with the addition of new names. The five-day ADE Festival, which takes place from 15 to 19 October, will showcase a record number of 2,224 national and international artists from 57 countries.

More than 400 journalists, 5000 conference delegates and an expected 350,000 festival visitors are set to travel from all over the world to the city of Amsterdam, as the ADE, an initiative of Buma, puts the international spotlight on Amsterdam for five full days.

Unique locations across every part of the city

Review: Ralvero - District out on Revealed Recordings

2014 has been as much about familiar and reliable faces as it has groundbreaking debuts for Revealed Recordings. As the final track to ascend from the artillery of exclusives featured on Revealed Vol.5, Dutch talent Ralvero makes a lasting first impression on the label courtesy of heavyset A-side “District.” A thoroughbred Dutch big room track matching high-octane energy with uplifting melodic moments, the late-blooming festival bomb is a stunning sign-off to the summer clubbing season from a budding heavyweight of the next generation sound. Keeping the precedent set at an all-time-high enroute to Revealed’s high-profile stint at Heineken Music Hall, “District” is yet further proof that these outright surrounding Hardwell’s highly evolved imprint are still being set to a killer soundtrack.

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Hardwell claims Best Electro House DJ in the Ibiza DJ Awards

After a successful summer holding down his first official residency on the White Isle at Ushuaia Ibiza, the tidal wave of success that Hardwell is riding continues to gather momentum as he adds a second straight win in the Ibiza DJ Awards. Soaring past the competition, in a category that included famed names such as Avicii, David Guetta and Steve Aoki, Hardwell’s unmistakable presence on the island this summer led him to win the accolade for ‘Best Electro House DJ’.

Hardwell to Conduct Two hour in-depth Workshop on Production at ADE 2014

Exactly one year ago Hardwell was chosen as the number one DJ in the world. And on October 18th he will be doing a 2-hour in depth workshop in the Interface Magazine Room at ADE Next. Musical maturity came swiftly for the now seasoned veteran Robbert van de Corput, a.k.a. Hardwell. The electronic scene's newest superstar DJ first got noticed at the age of 14, and has since become a global phenomenon. His output of big room bangers over the past year has seen a bundle of anthems dominate charts and dance floors worldwide. He is also the label boss of Revealed Recordings and has scored seven consecutive #1’s on Beatport, proof that his studio output has never been more prolific or more on point. Tracks such as his anthemic hit Spaceman, Three Triangles (Losing My Religion), Countdown, and Jumper, alongside the hard-hitting Apollo and his scorching collaboration with Dyro and Bright Lights, Never Say Goodbye, have been some of the biggest records of the past couple of years. In this ADE Next workshop, Hardwell will focus on one of his tracks, offering insights into the production process with Logic Pro, looking at kick sounds, sub bass, side-chaining, mixing and mastering. And of course there'll be plenty of time to ask all the questions you want.

Review: Hardwell & W&W - The Dance Floor Is Yours FREE Download

Unlock the FREE download now by Hardwell & W&W - The Dance Floor Is Yours on: http://www.dancefloorisyours.com by using #DanceFloorIsYours on Twitter!

The already known united force of Hardwell and W&W come together one more time for a brand new production and exclusive free download: ‘The Dance Floor Is Yours.’

Born out of a late night studio sessions together in Holland with the two super powers of the electronic scene, Hardwell first premiered this track at EDC 2013, the big-room sound of ‘The Dance floor is Yours’ unmistakably has all the call signs of a Hardwell and W&W classic, readied to set alight festival sets and parties under the Ibiza sun this track has been destroying dance floors for the entirety of the summer season.

Review: Hardwell & Joey Dale feat. Luciana - Arcadia The Remixes out on Revealed Recordings

Off all the landmarks to bless Revealed Recording’s year of big room reckoning, the union of Hardwell and Joey Dale culminated in one of its proudest vocal outings to date. Now, the Luciana-versed festival anthem receives a second wind courtesy of  two huge new remixes, collecting two rising Dutch forces and bringing two opposing worlds together for an essential return to the spotlight for “Arcadia.” Already praised by the label head honcho himself and landing off the heels of recent label single “Ravefield,” promising newcomer Thomas Newson wastes little time extending his positive repertoire with the label. That practiced melodic big room sits right at home once again, marking another huge remix on the young talent’s discography. For their debut stint for the label, fast-ascending hardstyle duo Psyko Punkz kick things up a notch with adrenaline fuelled stamina, merging the original track’s uplifting properties with their own relentless aptitude towards dance music’s heavier sound. As Revealed fast approaches the final hurdle of 2014, there is little indication of its versatile hold on the digital market sliding where remix duties are concerned.

Review: Dannic feat. Bright Lights - Dear Life The Remixes out on Revealed Recordings

Entering the year as a global festival staple and a fresh addition to the DJ Mag Top 100, it has been far from a quiet year for Breda’s DANNIC. Having dominated the year as early as Miami with his essential vocal anthem “Dear Life,” the Bright Light’s collaboration receives a formal remix package from a handful of the globe’s hottest big room properties on offer. Dutch duo Bassjackers kick things off with their own rave primed offering, bringing festival fundamentals to the original’s uplifting core.  For Californian bass master Lucky Date’s take on the track, huge melodic progressions and an epic big room climax bring “Dear Life” into the progressive world, leaving Blasterz gritty electro hallmarks and huge charge of peak time energy time sign-off this killer package. Extending the shelf life of an essential installment for DANNIC and Revealed alike, it takes only the cream of the label’s budding crop to bring “Dear Life” back into the spotlight for the final streak of 2014.

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Review: KSHMR & DallasK - Burn Original Mix out on Revealed Recordings

The road to Amsterdam Dance Event beckons yet another mutual debut for from rising North American stars KSHMR and DallasK, who take to Revealed Recordings with a mighty first strike amid a year of market domination for its roster. As premiered by Hardwell at Tomorrowland and mistaken to be one of his own IDs, “Burn” is high octane big room of the highest caliber from two fast ascending talents, matching upfront festival energy with huge melodic moments to seal yet another fine moment for the label and its ever-expanding roster. Just when you thought things couldn’t get hotter for Revealed in 2014, the inauguration of KSHMR and DallasK proves that there is little chance of this international powerhouse cooling things down enroute to the New Year.

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Interview: Estiva and Juventa about Enhaned Sessions Vol 4

Out to show the world that “music sounds better when it’s Enhanced,” Dutch rising stars Estiva and Juventa have been granted the helm for Volume 4 of the acclaimed Enhanced Sessions series and have delivered a sensational 2-disc, 38-track compilation featuring 20 unreleased productions, and tracks and remixes from the likes of Estiva and Juventa, plus Tritonal, BT, Dyro, Myon & Shane 54, LTN and more. 

This is such a wonderful opportunity to request an interview from Estiva & Juventa and find out what they got in their heads when they were selecting and mixing the most important compilation for the label that always delivers magnificent anthems and most important forward thinking music that will pass easily the test of time. Here they are for your eyes only the exclusive compilers & mixers of Enhanced Sessions vol.4 out 22nd of September naturally on Enhanced Music...

Tomorrowland Brazil tickets sold out!

At the 10th anniversary edition of Tomorrowland this past July in Belgium, French super star-DJ David Guetta announced that in 2015, Tomorrowland would take place in Brazil for the very first time. During the announcement, over 15,000 Brazilians watched the live stream from Belgium in Candido Portinari Park (Villa-Lobos Park) in Sao Paulo, so the news of the first Brazilian edition of Tomorrowland spread like wildfire to every corner of this beautiful country and abroad.

That Brazilians in particular were wildly enthusiastic was made abundantly clear not only on social media, but also in the massive number of pre-registrations for tickets.

Digital Society Presents Subculture UK at O2 Academy Leeds

Friday 7th November 2014, O2 Academy Leeds

John O’ Callaghan
Simon Patterson
John Askew
Bryan Kearney
Sneijder
Mark Sherry
Will Atkinson
Chris Metcalfe
James Rigby

Digital Society Presents Subculture UK at O2 Academy Leeds, headlined by label boss & Trance megastar JOHN O'CALLAGHAN, alongside a host of very special guests. Subculture has become one of the world's leading Trance labels, and the largest UK event edition launches in Leeds this November as the ultimate Subculture celebration!

O'Callaghan is responsible for some of the biggest Trance productions over the last ten years, including the unforgettable 'Big Sky', 'Find Yourself' and 'Exactly' to name just a few, with recent hits 'Games', 'I Believe' and 'One Special Particle' all impressively hitting the upper echelons of the Beatport charts.

Video Interview: Chris Bekker at Nature One 2014

Nature One 2014, The Golden Twenty was held from 1st to 3rd of August at the Raketenbasis Pydna, near Kastellaun in Germany. Twenty magnificent years with the finest djs playing at the various high-tech stages and famous clubs spread around the ex-military base that became from a symbol of hatred and pain into a symbol of love, peace, happiness and unity. Electronic Dance Music becomes the bond that binds together festival visitors from all around the world that visit Germany specifically to experience at least once in their lifetime the positive vibes and the spiritual atmosphere of the biggest festival in Germany that is Nature One.

Video Interview: DJ and Producer Maarten de Jong at Nature One 2014

Nature One 2014, The Golden Twenty was a phenomenal success in Germany. It was a sold-out festival with 72,000 visitors from all over the world who came to enjoy the great natural surroundings of the Raketenbasis Pydna near Kastellaun. Most importantly to party hard all day and night with the finest DJs such as Paul van Dyk, Axwell, Sven Vath, Carl Cox, ATB and many more playing the latest club smashers and worldwide exclusives for the ears and joy of Nature One visitors. The Open Air Floor, Century Circus, House of House, and The Golden Twenty were the main floors which spread and vibrated positive peaceful vibes of electronic dance music, with stunning high-tech decor and jaw-dropping light and lazer effects.

Video Interview: DJ/Singer NIC at Nature One 2014

Nature One 2014, The Golden Twenty will be remembered for a long time and will stay in the hearts of the visitors forever. The biggest electronic dance music festival in Germany remains truly underground, away from the sirens of mainstream sound that you can mainly enjoy if you like it that way on the Open Air stage. Nature One represents all styles of electronic dance music, and for that reason attracts so many visitors who can listen and dance along during the two days - from minimal techno to hardstyle techno, and from tech house to hard trance too. Nature One, despite the fact that it aims to be an international festival,  continuously supports German artists who stand out in the electronic dance music world. The organisers have found the perfect balance in bringing to the forefront the finest upcoming and established German artists, and to exclusively feature the hottest international DJs too. Nature One festival is a statement of love, peace, freedom, tolerance and respect for each other, under the same groove of the beat that becomes our common heartbeat.

Video Interview: DBN & Cosmo Klein at Nature One 2014

Nature One 2014, The Golden Twenty attracted more than 72.000 visitors who together in unity, friendship and common passion for Electronic Dance Music celebrated the twenty years of the biggest, most important and highly influential Electronic Music festival in Germany.     

 Nature One takes place every year, usually at the first weekend of August at the Rakentenbasis Pydna in Kastellaun in Germany includes djs and live performances that stand out and remain in visitors memory as unforgettable festival moments. The Golden Twenty anniversary was packed with high class dj sets from artists such as Axwell, Paul van Dyk, Moguai, Carl Cox, Sven Vath, Markus Schulz, ATB, Danny Avila, Deniz Koyu, Ferry Corsten, Robin Schulz live and many more.

Video Interview: DJ Falk at Nature One 2014

Nature One 2014, The Golden Twenty was a massive success with 72.000 visitors from Germany and many other countries around the world. The most famous and respected electronic dance music festival in Germany was bigger and better than any other year with 4 huge stages with state of the art high-tech  design, mindblowing visuals and colourful lazer effects. The Open Air stage with the biggest names at the moment, Golden Twenty Floor with exactly the same line up as the first ever Nature One, Century Circus with the magnificent Carl Cox, the always incredible Sven Vath and the fantastic Chris Liebing amongst others.

Video Interview: Venom One at Nature One 2014

Nature One, The Golden Twenty was organised from 1st to 3rd of August at the natural surroundings of Raketenbasis Pydna near Kastellaun in Germany. The magical celebration of the twenty years of the most important festival was sold out and it manage to gather more than 72.000 people from Germany and many other countries around the globe. Nature One is  the biggest Electronic Dance Music festival in Germany with dj sets from the top national and international DJ's. At the open air stage of Nature One through the years the loyal visitor has a chance to enjoy names like Tiesto, Armin van Buuren, Hardwell, Paul van Dyk, Sebastian Ingrosso, Axwell, Deadmau5, Markus Schulz, Ferry Corsten, Judge Jules, Westbam and countless more.

Video Interview: Airwave at Tomorrowland 2014

Tomorrowland 2014 will be documented as one of the brightest and most important year of the world's leading electronic dance music festival that gathers every year in Belgium visitors from all over the world. The 10 years celebrations were the shiniest and most exquisite that you could ever imagine. Tomorrowland's key to success are the festival goers. The  most up for it crowd that travelled from miles away just to experience once in their lifetime the mad atmosphere that the festival offers non stop for 3 days. 

   Tomorrowland's 2014 two weekends edition was beyond expectations and surprised positively every single visitor that has only positive memories to remember that shared with their loved ones in their social networks or when they returned back home and they were narrating  for hours how Tomorrowland change their life.

Video Interview: Sean Tyas at Tomorrowland 2014

Tomorrowland festival took place at the recreational park De Shorre in Boom near Antwerp in Belgium. The unique gathering of electronic dance music lovers that started in 2005 with handful of attendees and the support of great djs, has developed through the last decade into the globally known festival that you should visit at least once in your life if you enjoy electronic dance music. This wide music category includes variety of styles such as house, trance, techno, break beat, hardstyle and many more that all of them are represented at the Tomorrowland grounds in the 15 stages that you can discover in the most unique spaces surrounded from the most up for it super excited crowd from every corner of the globe. Tomorrowland is truly heaven for anyone who wishes to find out what is going in the underground dance music scenes at the moment. The most prominent djs of every respected music genre are booked to spin their favourite tracks and keep you updated with the most happening music and artists in their own scene.

Video Interview: Jorn Van Deynhoven

Tomorrowland 2014 is the 10 years anniversary of the biggest and the best electronic dance music event in the world at the moment. Tomorrowland sets the standards that the rest are obliged to follow if they wish to compete in equal terms with the festival that like Tsunami wins more and more friends and supporters worldwide. The expansion of the festival in USA as Tomorrowworld and the first ever Tomorrowland Brazil edition in 2015 are testaments of the great growth, success and big respect that the festival gets not only from the festival goers but also from the artists who talk very positively about how everything is organised in its smallest detail in order to give to everybody that participates a nice pleasurable and carefree as possible experience.

Video Interview: Ferry Corsten at Tomorrowland 2014

 Tomorrowland 2014 was a phenomenal success. 360.000 visitors from all over the world gathered in Belgium to celebrate not only their common love and affection for electronic dance music but also the 10 years anniversary of this great festival that manage thanks to the insistence and belief of ID&T Belgium to grow and expand into a global event that the whole world turns its head and take a closer look.

Tomorrowland is not only about the finest entertainment anymore. Tomorrowland is a way of looking to the world and perceiving your position in it. It has spiritual identity and inspires people to leave in unity, peace and harmony and stop fights and stupid wars. The festival supports the environment and takes extra care to be Green friendly and keep the natural surrounding of the recreational park De Shorre as clean and as safe as possible cause one part of the success of the festival is that amazing location that is not so easy to find even if you search for years.

Video Interview: Protoculture & Max Graham at Tomorrowland 2014

The best global electronic dance music festival of the world, Tomorrowland in Belgium celebrated in the most impressive and memorable way its 10 years anniversary. The super strong festival manage year by year to become even better and raise the bar for its competitors. It's true that Tomorrowland opened the gates for more electronic dance music festivals that try to mimic its atmosphere or even the successful way that communicates the festival through social media such as facebook, twitter, youtube and radio broadcasting of the event. The problem is when you imitate you always stay behind rather than become the leader. Tomorrowland without doubts is the leading brand in EDM festivals entertainment and those who have attended the festival in their photos and comments on facebook or twitter document their excellent experience at the festival.

Video Interview: Orjan Nilsen at Tomorrowland 2014 for 1Mix Radio..

The 10 years anniversary of Tomorrowland, that has been recognised as the best global dance electronic music festival at the IDMA awards in Miami, was impressive and will remain unforgettable to those who had the luck to secure one of the 360.00 tickets that were sold in just an hour and attend the 1st super hot weekend and the 2nd cooler weekend as the temperature concerned but extremely hot and spicy too. Both weekends included the finest dj sets from the hottest names in the Electronic Dance Music culture including David Guetta, Armin van Buuren, Hardwell, Tiesto, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, W & W, Martin Solveig, Laidback Luke, Carl Cox, Afrojack, Avicii, Above & Beyond, Markus Schulz and the list goes on. The line up was 80% the same for both weekends and the rest mainly in the smaller stages was different.

Video Interview: Omnia at Tomorrowland 2014

The 10 year anniversary of Tomorrowland festival in Belgium was spread over two weekends. Both were extremely successful and certainly will be remembered as legendary. Festival visitors from countries like Japan, Australia, Brazil, USA, India, Malaysia and of course European countries like Germany, Great Britain, France, Holland, Cyprus, Greece and many more. The crowd in front of the glorious mainstage at Tomorrowland look like ambassadors of United Nations with all their flags showing to the world that young generations don't care about dichotomies between countries and  demand globally peace and love. In tricky and quite strange eras like the one we experience at the moment Tomorrowland is not only the absolute symbol of hedonism and embodiment of real youthful madness but also becomes symbol of unity and belonging to the global culture of electronic dance music where national differences disappear in favour of the common good and progress.

Interview: Video interview with MaRlo

Tomorrowland, the worlds leading electronic dance music festival celebrated its 10th anniversary with two stunning weekends packed with fantastic dj sets, excellent decorations, outstanding stage design, and the most technologically advanced light effects and lazer shows. The recreational part De Shore in Boom near Antwerp in Belgium for two weekends was transformed into a magnificent mythical world that fantasy co-exist with incredible music played by the worlds biggest djs. What is more Tomorrowland is a whole experience that includes even the most delicious dishes prepared from Belgium's finest chef's. While the 1st weekend was litteraly super hot with temperature that reached 31 celsius the 2nd weekend was not so sunny but more cloudy and not so warm as well. The result was to be able to walk around the festival and dance along with your friends without worring about the intense sunshine so much.

Interview: Dennis Sheperd

Berlin-based, Dennis Sheperd is widely recognised as one of the rising stars of global trance music. The 28 year old DJ / producer, has seen his productions consistently supported by some of the biggest names in electronic music, including; Tiesto, Above & Beyond, Armin van Buuren, Paul van Dyk, Markus Schulz and Ferry Corsten to name a few. Trance star, Gareth Emery recently described Dennis Sheperd as “definitely a hot name to watch".

As a DJ, Dennis Sheperd is seriously in demand. His mixing skills and innate ability to connect with clubbers, has seen him tearing up dancefloors in over 20 countries so far. He’s spun his unique blend of progressive trance at clubs and festivals in such diverse locations as Germany, Ibiza, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, USA, Canada, UK, Finland, Netherlands, Israel, Italy, Poland, Czech Republic, Kazakhstan and many more.

Dennis has graced the decks alongside every big name in trance. His ‘future superstar‘ status has been confirmed by recent gigs such as, ASOT 550 in Den Bosch (Nertherlands), ASOT 600 in Sofia (Bulgaria – where he performed to over 6000 fans), Nature One mainstage in Kastellaun (Germany) and Mayday mainstage in Dortmund (Germany - where he performed to over 10,000 fans). Christmas 2013 will see him spread his trance message across Australia on a much anticipated tour, playing the country’s biggest clubs, including Home in Sydney.

Update: Nature One 2014

In less than 1 day the magnificent festival Nature One in Germany is about to happen from 01. - 03.08.2014 at the magical surroundings of Raketenbasis Pydna Kastellaun / Hunsrück. The beloved festival celebrates 20 magnificent successful years and all the available tickets are officially SOLD OUT! There will be no available tickets at the door but only through Live Video Stream and radio stream you will be able to experience at home the magic that happens for 2 days at the beginning of August every year! These are the choices you have at home to experience the festival.

Ten Reasons why you should consider visiting Tomorrowland 2015

The second weekend of the 10 year anniversary of the best dance event in the world, according to IDMA for two consecutive years started already on Thursday. Tomorrowland celebrates 10 fantastic years of continuous progress and worldwide success. It is considered as the worlds leading summer festival for electronic dance music and the tickets once again sold out in less than an hour. With stunning line up of DJ's and already the very successful first weekend of the festival to be part of the history of the event 180,000 crazy party goers travelled from all around the world to experience the madness and how it is to leave and breath for 3 days only electronic dance music and its various forms and styles from all around the world. It is hard to pick them up but I decided to collect from my memories as I have been to the festival for 4 consecutive years, the 10 reasons that you must consider coming to Belgium next summer or visit TomorrowWorld in Atlanta USA or why not to visit Brazil from the first ever Brazilian edition of what is considered to be the festival of the festivals.