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Luke Alessi Shares Lockdown Health and Wellness Tips

With our focus being on dance music, we’ve found that there are few better to glean inspiration from than artists and professionals as well. This week, we open our doors to burgeoning Australian producer, Luke Alessi.

Living in a time of global transition and uncertainty, mental and physical health take utmost precedence. It’s why we’ve been putting in extra hours to provide our industry readers with resources for doing so, while taking up new routines ourselves to keep sane and active.

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Stay the F*ck Inside: Tips to Remain Healthy and Active Indoors

The COVID-19 mandated #StayAtHome movement is simple: if we all stay at home and minimize our exposure to other people, practice social distancing and maintain proper hygiene, we can flatten the curve, reduce the number of contagions and return to “normal life” sooner rather than later. We understand this requires some sacrifice on behalf of everyone, but it’s a necessary one we must make in order to do our part. With that said, it’s important for us all to remain healthy and active indoors, and there are certainly many ways this can be achieved.

Last week we listed 8 books you should read during the quarantine to stay productive and mindful with the aim of helping industry professionals and artists weather through the upcoming months at home. We believe reading, studying, learning and the constant pursuit of a better state of mind is of paramount importance for artists regardless of whether they’re touring or not, but with COVID-19 imposed lockdowns the importance of mental health takes center stage now more than ever.

Today, we want to focus on another important aspect that is not only vital for your mental health but physical health also: how to remain healthy and active indoors.

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How to Stay Mentally and Physically Healthy When Traveling for Gigs and Festivals

If you’ve ever had a layover or a cancelled or delayed flight, you know how tiring and stressful traveling can be. Imagine how this must be for a traveling artist, for whom experiences like these are quite common. Traveling the world for gigs and festivals seems awesome to most, but it is not always so. Some artists have seen their career trajectory shoot straight up vertically, going from producing music in their bedroom to major superstars seemingly overnight. Recently we have seen our industry tackle the important issues of mental health and well-being, especially with the passing of Avicii and artists such as Benga speaking up about the strains of touring and battles with depression.

So, how can you ensure you take care of your mental and physical health while on the road?

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How Electronic Music Affects Your Body, Brain and Mood

It is an obvious fact that almost everybody is a fan of some type of electronic music.

In fact, some people have so much love for music that you will find a student failing to submit his term paper in time because he was “held up” at the dance floor, or went to a festival, listening to their favorite music. Smarter college students with music addiction have now resorted to contracting service providers like Edusson to help with academic paper writing service, so that they can have a free weekend to catch up with a concert in town.

So what does music do to your brain, so that you always find yourself leaving everything that would be called important, just to go listen to someone entertaining people in some far away town? Spiritual fundamentalists would call that a spirit, while others will say it is an addiction, but one thing remains a puzzle-how strong is the spirit or addiction, as to make a student opt for the services of a research paper writer, just because he can’t afford to miss it? This is the one question that almost every paper on the topic of music has struggled to explain.

There are several impacts that electronic music will cause on your body, brain and mood.

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Amazing Research Findings on Sad Music

There are two types of emotional responses to music, according to research: what is felt and what is perceived. The implication is that though it is perceived, and indeed known that this kind of music belongs to the “sad” category, there is a difference in how it impacts the brains and minds, and therefore bodies of different individuals. As such, you will find people who derive feelings of romance from sad music; even though the general perception is that everything about it is sad.

Music Boosts Endurance

There are times when the going is too tough-the times when you just need more energy to cover the remaining minutes of exercise. These are the times when smart people know how to reap the benefits of listening to music. Research has shown that music actually boosts your urge to continue, even when your energy bank seems to run dry. Music somehow comforts the brain with the feeling of “though it seems to be too tough, there’s something sweet in your company”. Well, that must be very good news to some student somewhere who has a backlog of work to complete within a very short time. Just ensure you don’t enjoy it too much until it pulls you away from the task-but is it gets too tough, you still have the option of finding online research paper writing service if you won’t adjust as much as you may need to.

More Music Means More Active

How can this be? The relationship between your favorite music and the brain can be such an interesting one. There are a lot of ways in which your brain reacts to music. Look at, for example, how willingly your brain memorizes the lyrics and tunes of your favorite electronic music, when it is very difficult for the same brain to memorize the step-by-step process of writing a paper.
Some studies have shown that learning music can help in the development of vocabularies and boost verbal reasoning.

Gottfried Schlaug of Harvard Medical School even says that musicians have different nerve makeup from non-musicians, in that they have more nerve bundles connecting their left and right brains. Have you, for example wondered why music is very instrumental in treating some neurological disorders? It all boils down to one fact: music engages several areas of the brain like the visual, motor and auditory res, all at the same time. So what all this means is that you won’t be surprised to find out that the musician next door always gets it right before you can figure it out!

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Music’s Medicinal Effects.

You have seen many people have some soft music playing next to them when they are sick. Well, the medicinal value of music today goes beyond the healing rituals. It is well engrained in scientific corridors that music does something to make the body feel better in times of sickness. Some great scientists like Plato have even suggested the use of music to treat anxiety and weak emotions. Music is also known to inhibit fatigue. Many scientific findings have also linked music to changes in pulse and respiration rates.

What this means is that music can be used to institute some comfort in the sick, which then allows the body to relax and “feel good”, with the overall final outcome of possibly functioning better in terms of fighting disease and responding to medication. However, studies have also shown that very high-pitched music can also cause anxiety and panic, subjecting the body system to immediate strain that can lead to severe health implications. But you could still argue that this just serves to justify the medicinal value of music-doesn’t an overdose of conventional medicine hurt?

Attitudinal Adjustment

In ancient days, music was used to soothe the soul in difficult times. The biblical David was called to play a musical instrument to comfort King Soul whenever he was troubled. In some parts of the world, like Africa, music is used at funerals to comfort the bereaved. Even scientists have confirmed that music is a mood booster. If you are of the ever busy lot, like those who work in the research writing service sector, you will always find some music playing on the background so useful whenever your moods seem to go south.

Music Makes You Alert and Active

Did we say music has health benefits? Research has come to back this by establishing that the there are great health benefits, especially to seniors, of singing out loud. Seniors who live alone with nobody to talk to can count on music to always keep them engaged.

New Energy Product REVIBE Aims to Keep Ravers Healthy and Energized at Festivals

Energy gel company REVIBE is using all its sports nutrition know-how to launch an innovative product in the music scene designed to help keep you dancing longer. Already tested at this years huge Cocoon in the Park festival, the product contains carbohydrates (in the form of maltodextrin and fructose), electrolytes and b-vitamins, specially formulated with ravers. On top of that, it is suitable for vegans and contains no caffeine!

Coming to you from veterans of the biggest and best parties around, they’re here to give a bit back to the lifestyle that provides so much for so many. Whether sat outside DC-10 on day 4 of your trip to Ibiza, 19 hours into Timewarp, on your 7th ADE party or stumbling home when it’s been far too long since you saw your bed – we all remember the times we could have done with a little extra help. And that’s where REVIBE comes in.

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6 Ways to Stay Healthy in the Electronic Music Industry

Health is wealth, a popular saying goes. And being healthy is something that every person should be mindful of, especially for those in the entertainment industry and regardless of whether they are artists or avid partygoers.

Sadly, health is also something that tends to be overlooked by many in the industry who are more preoccupied with music, touring and partying. Before they know, they find themselves suffering from health conditions that range from mild to alarming, oftentimes negatively affecting their careers.

Being conscious of one’s well-being is the key to prevent these health issues later on. The good news is that it is easy to achieve healthy living, especially if you follow these 6 tips:

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Can MDMA Really Cure Tinnitus?

Tinnitus, the condition that is characterized by ringing or uncontrollable noise disturbance in the ears, could possibly be cured with MDMA. The revelation comes from a scientific study being conducted in New Zealand, which has already completed trials showing promise of proving that the common rave/party drug could be used to cure the troubling hearing condition.

As reported by Stuff, the joint study between the University of Auckland and the University of Otago began two years ago as a result of enough reports from those with tinnitus who had taken ecstasy and felt benefits, urging researches to dig into it further.

So far, the last two years of MDMA studies involved a small number of participants in placebo-controlled trials, where they were given a small dose of MDMA or a placebo and monitored over a four-hour time period. It’s important to not that they were not given enough MDMA to feel high”, yet many reported an easing of tinnitus after just three hours. Reportedly, those who experienced the benefits stated that the same effects maintained for a week or even more. The research conducted thus far was divided into two separate trials, where researchers administered doses of 30 mg or 70 mg of MDMA imported under strict controls and dispensed by pharmacists working as part of the research team.

The leading professor behind the research, University of Auckland professor Grant Searchfield, did note that the operation is moving slow due to the high risks associated with MDMA, “Our goal is to try and find a medication for tinnitus. It can have catastrophic effects. Whether MDMA is it or whether it’s a trial for us to identify what is going on in the brain is still an open question.”

In order for the study to continue, as well as to know which exact next steps are needed, Scientists are reviewing all data and brain imaging from the trials thus far conduced, which could take months. Further funding will also need to be raised in order to progress beyond the current stage of the trials.

 

Why and How You Should Help an Intoxicated Person at a Party or Festival

 

If you’re attending a festival, show at a venue or going to a nightclub, chances are that you and your friends will be drinking alcohol at some point during the night. While it is important that someone in your group remain sober if you’re driving to the party, it is also likely that you will be surrounded by friends and strangers who will inevitably consume too much alcohol and become drunk as a result.

By the time someone has become noticeably intoxicated, the alcohol has left their stomach and is being absorbed through the walls of the lower intestine, meaning that they are beyond the point of return. With more than six people dying daily in the U.S. from alcohol poisoning — a total of 2,200 a year — a helping hand is always necessary. It’s important that we not only look out for our immediate friends, but also for any strangers that are at the same party or venue. We are all in it for the music and a thriving dance music scene relies heavily on the spirit of love, respect and camaraderie. It can be the difference between life and death.

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How To Stay Healthy During A Week Of Partying

Amsterdam Dance Event, The BPM Festival, Miami Music Week and Burning Man are just some of the three-plus day party series that are now a staple in every electronic music fan’s calendar. Whether you’re heading to one of these iconic events or to an action-packed three-day weekend festival, we know you’re facing an uphill battle to keep your body healthy and in shape.

Sure, feeling like crap may be inevitable at some point during a party marathon, but depending on your eating and hygiene habits, it could be minimized to an almost non-existent point. Need some key tips on how to do it? We can help!

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Avicii Retires From Touring

Avicii

Tim Bergling, better known as Avicii, has had an incredibly successful career, having toured the entire world several times over and seen his original tunes and remixes rise to #1 again and again. According to Forbes, he’s been among the highest paid DJs for four years straight, netting approximately $75 million in that timeframe. Although the lifestyle of an international superstar DJ may seem like all fun and games, it can take a massive toll on the body and mind – many artists, such as Deadmau5 and Benga, have come forth to discuss the enormous toll that touring has taken on their mental health.

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In a lengthy open letter to his fans, Avicii announced that he would be retiring from touring and performing to take time to focus on his personal life: “I have strong interests in different areas but there’s so little time to explore them… two weeks ago, I took the time to drive across the U.S. with my friends and team, to just look and see and think about things in a new way. It really helped me realize that I needed to make the change that I’d been struggling with for a while.” He added that he now has “too little left for the life of a real person behind the artist.”

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Although 2016 will see the his final tour, Bergling made it very clear that he is not finished making music. He assures us that he will continue to produce his art, citing a desire to “speak to my fans through it.” The reaction from the DJ community has been ubiquitously encouraging, with major artists such as Steve Angello, Morgan Page, and Oliver Heldens tweeting out their support.