After his ‘Buenos Aires’ inaugural popped Afterdark’s mixcomp cherry last August, the spring of 2019 sees label honcho Sneijder ready for a second drop. Doubling down, the album expands to two discs and finds Afterdark bringing the sound of the underground to Los Angeles....
Appetites whetted? Anticipation built? Expectations in high orbit!? Thought so! Topping charts and dropping bass, ‘Panama’ & ‘Tranceland’ – Giuseppe Ottaviani’s 2019 album vanguards – have offered insights most enticing into what the Italian has in store with ‘Evolver’ – his fourth longplayer. And...
VANDIT NEXT GENERATION OPENS // FIRST VANDIT SUB-LABEL FOCUSES ON BREAKING & ESTABLISHING NEW TRANCE TALENT Through the launch of his own label 20 years ago Paul van Dyk blazed yet another electronic music trail. Opening VANDIT in 1999, PvD became a leading light...
There’s little Markus Schulz likes more than a challenge and little the musicmaker, DJ & of-late songwriter likes less than a comfort zone! In keeping, for his next single he’s connected with a vocalist far removed from the electronic music quarter. Originally seeing the...
We don’t think we’d be kidding anyone if we told you that ‘Tranceland’ – the latest rocket from Studio Ottaviani – was an unusual-yet- stylish merging of future house, glitch hop and moombahton. No, April Fools was last week, so, what you’re actually looking...
Tracks? He’s released a few (fifty or so). Music comps? He’s put a few of those together too. He’s also launched one of the genre’s most successful label houses of recent times, spun in an A-to-Z of club capitals and generally has more strings...
VII’s power lies in precisely that: absolute concentration on the music of just seven artists. Coming up over the last few years, its mandate has swiftly resulted in an open-tap stream of club-empowering audio from some of trance’s cooler and more underground-respected names. With...
“A decision was made to shake things up. Once that was done, says John 00 Fleming, that change took on a life of its own”. The “it” JOOF refers to is ‘Editions’ – his rule-adverse compilation series, which is currently on the touchline, warming up for its fifth outing. The...
Having last September ridden to the sun with the almost irresponsibly catchy ‘Mysterious Times’, Bobina & Christina have sensed the synergy and double-timed it back into the studio! Their follow-up is a fragile chillout number, which segues slowly into beatless… Nah, just kidding! It’s...
Like real friendship or true love, cold beers or decent coffee, dream jobs or summer vacay – some things in life really are worth the wait! Or when two of your favourite electronic music makers finally make their schedules click and rock up with...
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