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scanner darkly

Haunting the Dance Floor With Scanner Darkly

New York-based DJ, producer, and remixer Scanner Darkly is an artist who’s sound is defined by dark pulsating beats, hard hitting percussion, and uplifting melodies. Much like his alias, he found inspiration through his early musical influences of industrial/heavy metal, techno mixtapes, and from attending underground/illegal raves in the 90s on the east coast. His alias also found inspiration amongst his fellow “dark” artists, metaphysics, paganism, as well as esoteric philosophy.

Scanner Darkly’s uncompromising approach of creating “dark” electronic music has earned him the creative recgonition of releasing on indie imprints such as Techniche, Deep Tech, The Seed, and Toxic Recordings. As such, he is an arist that sets his sights on always pursuing progress, and giving his audience explosive and memorable experiences that will forever haunt their ears and mind on the dancefloor.

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easy life

How the Easy Life Can Destroy You

There’s a post I saw this week that really struck me and it goes like this:

“Strangely, life gets harder when you try to make it easy.

Exercising might be hard, but never moving makes life harder.

Uncomfortable conversations are hard, but avoiding every conflict is harder.

Mastering your craft is hard, but not having no skills is harder.

Easy has a cost.”

For some reason, I couldn’t help but think about all of the times in my life when I opted for the easier way out, the path that avoids conflict, challenge, and hardship while only gearing myself to comfort and easy times.

As a high-school student, I cheated my entire way to get by, and that easiness brought me the hard reality that no university had offered me admission even though I applied to a lot of places. The easy path didn’t help me prepare for that moment when it counted.

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Amsterdam Dance Event

Amsterdam Dance Event Arrives October 2022 for Five Days

Since the 1990s, Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) has transcended and transformed into an influential and educational gathering for electronic music. The event has hosted a variety of powerful musical genres and subcultures that continue to range from the experimental to mainstream. As a powerful medium, ADE strongly showcases all developments within the electronic music industry, and these developments have all impacted dance culture to this to day on a global scale.

The event dates will take place October 19-23, 2022.

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Tinder Festival mode

Tinder App Reactivates ‘Festival Mode’ to Match Event-Goers

A “low-pressure way to make real-world connections,” — Tinder’s “Festival Mode” is officially back.

Amid music festivals’ full-fledged return for the 2022 festival season comes the relaunch of an in-app Tinder feature aimed at event-goers. First introduced in 2019, Tinder’s “Festival Mode” allows users to match with like-minded individuals planning to attend the same festival. The feature is now available worldwide via the app’s Explore page.

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Groove Cruise

Groove Cruise Miami Announces its Upcoming Trip Aboard Remodeled Ship

After a tumultuous couple of years of rough waters, Whet Travel is back for a 19th season and 35th sailing of Groove Cruise as the world’s original and largest floating electronic music festival. Between January 19th and 23rd, 2023, the award-winning luxury cruise ship, Celebrity Summit, will welcome aboard party “captains” as it sets sail for the trip of a lifetime, from Miami to Labadee.

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Ape-X, an Electronic Label is Accused of ‘Discrimination’ Over ‘Inclusivity’ Tickets

Ape-X, a music events firm and electronic label have been accused of ‘discrimination’ after attempting to charge ‘straight white males’ more for tickets. In contrast, the company offered discount tickets for non-males, ethnic minorities, people from the LGBTQ+ community, and those on ‘low income’ for a techno music event in Newcastle.

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Ultra music festival

Ultra Music Festival Returns in March 2022

Ultra Music Festival has added more than 60 powerful performances to its already stacked lineup that will be occurring in the notable Bayfront Park on March 25 – 27, 2022.

In 2021, Ultra announced headliners Afrojack, Alesso, Alison Wonderland, Armin van Buuren, David Guetta, DJ Snake, Carl Cox, Jauz b2b NGHTMRE Martin Garrix, Kygo, Amelie Lens, Pendulum (Live), Illenium, Madeon (Live), Oliver Heldens, Seven Lions, TiĂ«sto, Timmy Trumpet, and Knife Party, as well as a highly-anticipated performance by one of the most iconic artists in electronic music history as Sunday’s closing act.

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Sama Abdulhadi Beirut

Sama’ Abdulhadi Launches Fundraising Event Series: Bring Back Beirut

Sama’ Abdulhadi is launching a fundraising event series called Bring Back Beirut. The series will raise money for Nusaned, a humanitarian, community-based volunteer organization based in the Lebanese capital. The first event will take place at London club Phonox on Saturday, March 12 from 10 PM through 4 AM. Lebanese artists Jade Taleb, Sam Karam, and Tryangle Man will join Abdulhadi on the night.

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New Club to Open in Brazil Before the End of the Year

Brazil is unveiling a long-awaiting new club: Surreal. It’ll be located on the coast of Santa Catarina in the city of CamboriĂș. This is Renato Ratier’s next creation after leaving Warung Beach Club after more than a decade. It’ll be promoted by D-Edge, the same company responsible for clubs and parties all around Rio De Janerio. The official opening event is scheduled for December 26 loaded with the local and global talent of house and techno.

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BL__K NOISE

The BL__K NOISE 2020 Showcase in Los Angeles to Feature 9 Live Audio/Visual Artists

For noise and techno fans NAMM weekend means more than just a conference and tradeshow. The yearly appointment at the Anaheim Convention Center is also the perfect occasion for Los Angeles-based record label BL__K NOISE to throw its yearly showcase, featuring live audio-visual electronic performances of the highest caliber.

The format of the BL__K NOISE events has morphed over the years, and in 2020 it is seeing more changes still. While all the artists on the lineup will still be performing Live sets, the earlier portion of the event will focus more on noise and experimental artists before more techno-focused performances later on as the event progresses.

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