Mix | ThatNewJamFM 002: WallflowerFood Guest Mix
Posted by VMan on February 27, 2014
FNT is back with the second episode of our partnership with ThatNewJam for ThatNewJamFM 002 with a guest mix from WallflowerFood, your one stop shop for feel good dance music. With everything from playlists to clothes, a record label and YouTube channel, events a daily blog, they have everything you’ll need to get the room moving and have provided us with 50 minute guest mix to kick off the weekend! Check the full track listing at ThatNewJam and be sure to get down with ThatNewJam of week two: Show Me by Kid Ink ft. Chris Brown!
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ThatNewJamFM 002 ft. WallflowerFood
Pop, Videos | Timeflies – All The Way [Music Video]
Posted by Grubeats on February 18, 2014
Whether you like extreme sports, graffiti wall art, big time radio smash pop hits, Anastasia Ashley’s ass, or all of the above, Timeflies new video might just tickle your fancy. One of the perks of signing to a major label is of course the sizable production that goes into each release. Evident here, Cal, Rez, and the entire team put in work on this video. Their latest Benny Benassi co-produced single is catching radio onto radio waves across the nation, and this video only solidifies the capacity of this track. Stay up, album coming soon!
iTunes: Timeflies – All The Way
House, Interviews | Lars Allertz: Sweden’s Next Big Thing
Posted by mimada on February 12, 2014
Photo by Fabian Wester
2013 has been the breakthrough year for Sweden’s new DJ/producer talent Lars Allertz. His hit track, “Make You Mine” has scored in the Top 10 of the Swedish iTunes chart, been aired on Swedish national radio, and played during his first arena gig at the Swedish electronic music festival, November Lights. As things are looking bright for the 21-year-old, our guest blogger Rebecca made a trip to Stockholm to talk to him about his progressing career.
It’s classic Swedish winter weather and the traffic is slow, just as it is every year. I never learn that the road workers seem to always forget how to handle the snow. My bus is late, and I’m late to my meeting with Lars Allertz. Shit.
After a ”refreshing” sprint in my not-so-sprint-friendly combat boots from the bus station to Uppsala’s central train station, I throw myself on the train to Stockholm. I arrive fifty minutes later, stressed out and therefore very nervous. But Lars Allertz greets me with the kindest approach, and I realize that his down to earth personality is forgiving, even for my stupid mistake to clean up the apartment after last night’s raging after-party instead of choosing the early bus.
Allertz suggests we take a short walk to his studio located in the prettiest and nicest area in Stockholm – Östermalm. It’s the kind of area where I, in my dreams, imagine myself buying the perfect turn of the century apartment when I, in the future, am ridiculously successful and perfect (fingers crossed).
During the walk we get into a relaxed conversation. Allertz tells me about the studio, how it’s in the same building as the DJ duo Nause, and that he in facts spends most of his time here “where the magic happens.”
Electronic, Trap | The Chain Gang of 1974 – Sleepwalking (Goon Bags Remix)
Posted by BP on January 28, 2014
Goon Bags is a new artist on my Ipod, and a fantastic new addition. If you recognize this song from somewhere familiar, it’s because “Sleepwalking” by The Chain Gang of 1974 is the official trailer song of Grand Theft Auto 5 and can also be heard on the radio during the game. Goon Bags’ remix adds more of a trap aspect to the song that isn’t in the original. The remixed version features new drum work, bass lines, and some new synths to give it more bounce and a different energy. Overall, this track is worth a listen, and while you’re at it check out some of Goon Bags’ other tracks because they’ve got some real bangers out!
Free Download: The Chain Gang of 1974 – Sleepwalking (Goon Bags Remix)
Electronic | AWE – Crystals
Posted by BP on January 27, 2014
After the Annie Mac BBC Radio 1 ripped version of this song was posted, fans have been anxiously waiting for the release of “Crystals” by AWE, a 19 year old producer from Los Angeles. He began working on “Crystals” eight months ago, and it is being released along side a remix of it by Djemba Djemba on Plastician’s label Terrorhythm. Most of his work has a video game influence, and I can hear that in this electronic anthem. Three minutes longer than the radio rip version, this release is mesmerizing. It’s easy to get lost in the synths and repeating melody. Check it out on Beatport and look out for more tracks this year from AWE.
Beatport: AWE – Crystals
Electro, Pop, Videos | Timeflies – All The Way [Lyric Video]
Posted by Grubeats on January 21, 2014
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VMan shared this new heater from Timeflies with you yesterday, but if you made the mistake of passing on it, I’m here to give you a chance for redemption. Feast your eyes on this downhill lyric video, which adds even more life to the adrenaline pounding production. Chances are this record will be hitting the radio waves soon, so take my advice and grab it while it’s still heating up.
Purchase on iTunes: Timeflies – All The Way
Progressive House | Tiësto – Red Lights
Posted by Middy on December 18, 2013
We are seeing a trend here with dance music stars. Now that the biggest and most important music market in the world has bought in to dance music, DJs want a piece of the very lucrative pop pie. This is convenient because pop music is going in the dance direction, notably since the inroads made by Guetta with his tracks in the late 2000s, but it also requires DJs to meet the pop scene half way.
Hits like “Alive”, “Clarity” and “Get Lucky” didn’t sound engineered for radio, but ended up there anyway, but recently tracks like Afrojack’s “The Spark”, Armin van Buuren’s “This Is What It Feels Like”, Ferry Corsten’s “Many Ways” and now “Red Lights” all demonstrate the move to try and appeal to much wider audience. DJs no longer want to be the anonymous guy in the corner spinning tracks, they want to be brands, superstars and with commercial, crossover appeal coming easier every day, you can expect that to become more and more the norm.
The song is incredibly catchy and destined for radio; undoubtably its original purpose. It is the first of three singles from Tiësto’s upcoming album signed to Universal set for release next year. It will be his first album since “Kaleidoscope” back in 2010, so expect something very different. You can get a sneak peak at the process behind it including his producers Matt Nash & Dave Silcox in the studio, and how tracks were chosen on the fifth episode of In The Booth.
iTunes: Tiësto – Red Lights