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2021 Black Friday Deals for Music Lovers

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Black Friday only happens once a year. It’s the day for the sweetest deals on lucrative items. Since shopping on this day can feel overwhelming, lists will be your best friend. Looking at a list can help you narrow your focus or pique your interest when you don’t know where to start your shopping. Here’s a round-up of ten items and services any music lover or creative will love. Have family and friends who like spending time in the outdoors? There’s something for them too.

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Barriers to Entry: Electronic Music’s Hidden Gatekeepers

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Music production appears glamorous. Your favorite artists’ social posts probably look like they’re having the time of their lives, but the photos will never show the sacrifices or struggles these artists likely went through to get where they are today. If you are an aspiring house and techno artist, then it’s important to be aware of barriers to entry. Why? When you understand these barriers, you will understand the sacrifices that coincide with music production and how these barriers can be broken.

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Max Styler and Friend Within Partner for Exciting New Artist Project, Atlantic Garden

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Joining forces for a brand new venture, Max Styler teams up with Friend Within to launch their new collaboration under the guise of Atlantic Garden, and present their new single on Spinnin’ Deep entitled “Everything To Me”. With releases on the likes of Toolroom, Realm, Sink or Swim and Musical Freedom, Max Styler has crafted some of the finest tech house tracks as of late, and is continuing to build his already impressive arsenal of tunes.

Meanwhile, Friend Within exploded into the scene back in 2013 with his release of one of the largest essential club tracks of the year with “The Renegade”, which today ranks in over 18 million streams on Spotify. With more recent ventures on the likes of Toolroom, Solotoko, Rinse and Good Company, Friend Within continues to make his mark within the House scene. Below the duo shares more about themselves and what inspires their collaboration and new artist project, Atlantic Garden.

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[PHOTOS] A History of the Second Wave of the Rave Scene

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Guest Post from Michael Tullberg

I’ve been very fortunate to have been involved in the rave scene for as long as I have. Over the course of 25-plus years, I’ve been at some of the biggest and most important moments in rave history, starting in the warehouses of the mid-90s LA underground scene. Funny how some things don’t change that much over time. Back in those days, I ended up photographing and writing for most of the dance music magazines of the day. This enabled me to stick myself inside the core of American raving culture, which was right here in Southern California for nearly a decade. We were so incredibly spoiled during that time period since we had the best DJs in the world coming through here on a regular basis. There was no shortage of gigs for them to play at, whether the event was in a club, a mansion, a desert, on a beach, or a mountain. From the smallest after-hours to the biggest massives, we truly had it all here. Accordingly, most of the photos presented in this collection are from the L.A. area.

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Partying Sober: Brownies & Lemonade’s Chad Kenney Gets Candid About His Journey

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“I thought that success and achieving my dreams in my career in music was going to magically solve all of those things and it just didn’t,” says Chad Kenney, creative director of the Los Angeles-based music collective Brownies & Lemonade (B&L). Named as one of 2019 Billboard Dance’s Power Players it might come as a surprise that as an adolescent Kenney battled with depression and other underlying, unaddressed issues. His mental health struggles coupled with the party life and easy access to alcohol quickly put him in a less than desirable position. Anyone working in nightlife knows how rife with temptations it is. Now three years sober, he’s been able to rewrite his narrative and establish a different relationship with alcohol. Kenney shares his story behind his decision to quit drinking and addresses the music industry’s complicated relationship with partying and alcohol.

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Steve Rachmad Delivers a Dark, Groovy Remix of Vince Watson’s “Second Wave”

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This has been a monster year for former Tresor Berlin resident, Vince Watson. The artist released new tracks on Get Physical, Tronic, SushiTech, All Day I Dream, his own Everysoul Audio alongside a slew of remixes. Watson rounds out the year by kicking things up a notch with his label’s biggest and most adventurous release to date: DnA [re]Sequenced.

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Matt Altman is Carving a Niche in Trance & Techno

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Philly-native Matt Altman is an emerging DJ and producer who’s carving out a niche in the world of trance and techno. His sound is dark, experimental, and hypnotic. It also makes you want to dance, and dance hard.

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6AM Guest Mix: Monsieur Frazier

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This week’s 6AM Guest Mix features a DJ and producer whose sound is deliciously versatile, dynamic, and dance-inducing. As a co-founder of the Los Angeles-based record label, event production brand, and creative collective, Understated and Understated Recordings, Monsieur Frazier has climbed through the ranks of the LA underground scene with his unique blend of musical stylings. Frazier is a curator in every sense of the word, and his influences when it comes to dance music are second to none.

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What’s in Your Toolbox? Will Clarke’s 6 House & Techno Gems

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Artists will never come unprepared to a party. They always bring a toolbox packed with tracks that are truly dance floor destroyers. What’s in Your Toolbox features artists’ secret weapons, aka, the tracks they don’t leave out of their USB. Will Clarke, an instantly recognizable DJ with his unique style and one-of-a-kind beard, shares his Top 6 house and techno cuts. Clarke has released records on esteemed labels and owns his own label, All We Have Is Now. In 2020, he launched his own podcast called The Will Clarke Podcast featuring athletes, chefs, music industry figures, and fellow artists. Will shares some of his favorite tracks, including bangers from his new EP, Rock With Me on Trick. Catch him playing at this year’s Seismic Dance Event.

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Sound & Visual Experience Maestro, PROGedia Releases with R&S Records

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PROGedia, aka Fed Conti, has honed his craft from a very young age. Oftentimes, Fed Conti was in the midst of jazz greats, thanks to his father’s connections across that spectrum of music. Based in Italy, the artist has played in many clubs and events across the world. PROGedia’s first single, “We Are The Night,” is slated for November 5th on R&S Records with remixes by Charles Webster. The track is also accompanied by a mind-bending video. Conti shares more about his unique musical background, the inspiration behind PROGedia and his new surreal track.

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