Breathe in, breathe out, and let Armin van Buuren be your anchor. Teaming up with popular mindfulness app Insight Timer, van Buuren has shared a 10-minute guided session to effectively captivate listeners in a state of meditation. Of course the “A State Of Trance” host naturally turned on his radio voice to share his own personal experience with meditation and walk participants through a calming breathing and relaxation exercise. “The moment we wake up, life wants our attention, and that’s ok. Life is beautiful, when it’s in balance,” van Buuren says. “Sometimes your busy life takes your focus off the most important thing—you.” Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles The iconic trance music producer explained...
Two Friends are gearing up to release the 22nd volume of their fan-favorite “Big Bootie Mix” series. But this time around, it’ll look a bit different. The beloved dance music duo have announced a new curated music festival, Big Bootie Land Festival, where they’ll debut the mix for a live audience in Boston this fall. Two Friends have built up their career around their ingenious “Big Bootie Mix” series, which playfully interpolates modern dance music with old contemporary hits and unreleased edits. The series once even received a shoutout from CNN. “[We] could not be more excited to finally debut the inaugural Big Bootie Land Festival,” Two Friends said in a press release shared with EDM.com. “The first Big Bootie Mix was released 10 yea...
Part of HARD’s annual mix series, the tape includes unreleased tracks by the Class of 2021 star as well as a handful of selections off their debut album, “UNIVERSE.” Just ahead of HARD Summer‘s debut edition in Croatia, the festival will once again return to Southern California for its flagship three-day takeover of NOS Events Center from July 29th to 31st. To celebrate, we’ve joined forces with HARD to exclusively premiere a mix from surging electronic music artist Moore Kismet, a member of our celebrated Class of 2021. Kicking off and concluding with two unreleased tracks by Kismet themself, the 48-minute long tape is an expansive display of a selector beyond their years, replete with heavy-hitting drops and pensive lyrical tracks. You’ll he...
Just ahead of HARD Summer‘s debut edition in Croatia, the festival will once again return to Southern California for its flagship three-day takeover of NOS Events Center from July 29th to 31st. To celebrate, we’ve joined forces with HARD to exclusively premiere a mix from surging electronic music artist Moore Kismet, a member of our celebrated Class of 2021. Kicking off and concluding with two unreleased tracks by Kismet themself, the 48-minute long tape is an expansive display of a selector beyond their years, replete with heavy-hitting drops and pensive lyrical tracks. You’ll hear originals tracks by Kismet like “See You Go” (with Courtney Paige Nelson) and “Ultraviolet” (with Chuck Sutton and COOKIE), both of which appear on their deb...
As the release of ODESZA‘s long-awaited album, The Last Goodbye, looms less than a month away, they’ve dropped a stunning mix to tide over eager fans. ODESZA today premiered the 13th installment of their fan-favorite “NO.SLEEP” mix series, which arrives over two years after its predecessor. And it doesn’t take long to glean that the duo remain one of electronic music’s most imaginative selectors. ODESZA kick off the new mix with the artful “Love Letter,” a chest-thumping single from The Last Goodbye produced alongside The Knocks. What follows is a captivating song-cycle of anthemic music from the likes of Flume, Fred again.., Jamie xx, DROELOE and The Chemical Brothers, among others, before the tape closes w...
Having dominated the festival’s stages for the better half of a decade, it’s tough to believe we’re just now hearing Hardwell‘s first-ever “Friendship Mix” for Tomorrowland. And he pulled no punches. Fresh off his return from a four-year hiatus, the iconic Dutch DJ met the moment, dropping a relentless blend of never-before-heard edits and music from his long-awaited comeback album, REBELS NEVER DIE. The mix doesn’t just bleed techno—it hemorrhages it. After coining his new direction “Bigroom Techno” in a recent Reddit AMA, Hardwell twisted a knife into the sound for nearly an hour. Fans can hear it in ebb and flow throughout the mix, like in his thumping rework of Skrillex and J Balvin’s “In Da Getto.” Other...
It may be the final day of International Women’s Month, but Mariana BO‘s exclusive mix for EDM.com will be sure to keep its spirit alive for weeks to come. The nearly hourlong mix is a relentless arrangement of electro and deep house, paired with high-energy big room and classic EDM sonics. With every track either created or remixed by BO herself, it’s a special showcase of her talents for festival-ready production combined with her signature violin instrumentation. Selections like “Drop It” (with Dubdogz, Flakkë and LUISAH) and “Vivaldi” (with Timmy Trumpet) are strong displays of the latter. Meanwhile, songs like “Gypsy” (with Mr. Black and Futuristic Polar Bears) pay homage to BO’s Latin roots with Spanish-language l...
On this day, 11 years ago, dance music history was made with Avicii‘s “Levels” debut on one of the biggest public platforms in EDM: BBC Radio 1’s Essential Mix. Avicii may not have known it at the time, but this mix would include the one of the earliest versions of arguably his most iconic work. Listening back on the near two-hour performance is like opening up a sonic time capsule. At the outset, Pete Tong delivers a goosebumps-inducing introduction of Avicii: “He’s the 21 year old Tim Bergling from Stockholm, who’s enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame,” Tong said. “He only released his first tune “ManMan” two years ago.” To add further context, Tong goes on to praise Avicii’s recent work in “My Feelings ...
Ray Volpe somehow got every producer in the world to send him an unreleased drop for his latest mix. Just in time for bass music fans en route to Lost Lands or preparing their home for the livestreams, is the fifth and biggest installment in Volpe’s “Banger Zone” mix series. This time around he’s recruited dozens of artists to share unreleased tracks, which he mixed together to create a heavy-hitting, 45-minute romp. Fans of his original releases will have plenty to enjoy, as he’s included several unreleased and fan-favorite tunes of his own in the 51-track tape. Joining his songs are unreleased records from NGHTMRE, Adventure Club, Lucii, Slushii, Sullivan King, Ace Aura, Crankdat, Wooli, Dion Timmer, and tons more. The mix also rinses bass classics like ...
The 2021 edition of HARD Summer bears numerous attention-grabbing B2B DJ sets, but perhaps none more intriguing and unexpected than CRAY and GG Magree‘s new collaborative alias, Bad Boys Club. “Cray and GG Magree got drunk and made a DJ project lol,” the group’s Twitter bio reads. Despite their seemingly spur of the moment decision to start the venture, the project has instant supergroup potential. Both artists have been major success stories over the last few years, each earning a “triple threat” reputation as vocalists, producers, and songwriters respectively. Ahead of their debut at HARD Summer, Bad Boys Club have released their first-ever mix, exclusively premiered by EDM.com. CRAY and GG Magree of Bad Boys Club. Bad Bo...
How do you tell a new season has begun? Equinoxes and solstices? Leaves turning red, snow falling, flowers blooming, or the sun scorching? Well, if you’re a fan of Lane 8, there’s no better sign than the arrival of his seasonal mixtapes, a staple since 2013. The Colorado-based producer just released his “Summer 2021 Mixtape,” a 61 track house and techno exploration—including 22 IDs—clocking in at just over four hours. The mix starts relaxed and melodic, with sultry songs from Massane and a couple of remixes from Gui Boratto. A growling remix from Kasper Koman takes listeners into darker, deeper territory before Lane 8 leads the soundscape into melody-driven, dance-focused tracks. This ebb and flow between powerful, driving synths and soft, progressive melodies continues over th...
Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, wholeheartedly supports the stance of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Southwest leaders at their meeting that took place in Lagos on Sunday, May 23rd, 2021 despite his absence at the meeting. Dr. Fayemi’s absence at the meeting was a result of a mix up in the invitation sent out for the meeting. For clarity, the invitation for the meeting which was said to have been sent via Whatsapp by Mr. Tunde Rahman, an aide to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, never got to Governor Fayemi. The absence of an invitation for the Southwest APC leaders meeting prevented the Governor from attending the meeting, as he was not aware. Governor Fayemi however sent an apology to the meeting through former Ekiti State Governor and Minister of Industries, Trade and Investments, Otun...