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Aöcram’s âBoomerang Effectâ Debuts on Illegal Alien Records
Illegal Alien Records continues its trajectory of high-caliber techno releases, and this time has announced a new compilation due out in February 2023. The Deported Series: Ten features tracks from Coyu, Gotshell, Aöcram, Ricardo Garduno, and ILL COMMUNICATION among others. Here is Aöcram’s contribution, a well-crafted hypnotic trip full of experimentalism.
Whatâs in Your Toolbox: Charles D
Artists will never come unprepared to a party. They always bring a toolbox packed with tracks that are truly dance floor destroyers. âWhatâs in Your Toolboxâ features artistsâ secret weapons, aka, the tracks they donât leave out of their USB. In this installment, NYC-based artist Charles D (USA)Â has established his unmistakable sound that combines hard-hitting techno grooves with progressive sounds and influence. 2022 has been a huge year with releases on Octopus, Factory 93, and the almighty Drumcode imprint. Charlesâ Epic Mix for Adam Beyer and Bart Skils’s “Your Mind” is a chugging end-of-night weapon that was first played by Adam Beyer to close out Awakenings at the Gashouder during ADE last year. It further soundtracked events including Movement Detroit, Tomorrowland, and EDC. “Your Mind” the original was streamed over 38M times and was judged by Mixmag as one of the greatest techno tracks of all time. Charles has big 2023 plans with upcoming releases on Drumcode, Factory 93, and Kraftek.
Celebrating House, Disco, and Dance With Nervian Society
Ascending into the realm of Electro/Disco-House is the Brussels-based group Nervian Society. New on the Brussels scene, the group is exploring the sonic depths of Electro and Disco-House music and turning their projects into sonically groovy pieces. Nervian Society is D&Dâs project surrounded by talented guests. The first D is the composer, producer, and sound engineer, who has worked with some renowned artists such as TTC, DJ Cam, JC De Castelbajac, Holden, Instructor, JL Aubert, and Que La Suite Soit Douce â while the other D crafts the unique electronic tools they use for their production. The project is devoted to their dance music passion: Disco and Electro with accents of House music for good measure. On stage, they perform a hybrid live DJ Set that is a wall of sound made of loops, effects, mashups, modular synths, and live vocals.
In addition to creating groove-hitting masterpieces, the members also take pride in finding their haven for recording, producing, and collaborating with like-minded artists within Brusselsâ scene in Spector Studio and their label Sub-Continental. The studio has had successful collaborations with artists such as the Flemish French-speaking Pop band Que La Suite Soit Douce (aka QLSSD), the Electro-prose duet The Cultural Studies, and the Punk-Hardcore act Instructor. Now, the group continues to celebrate their love of dance music with their latest EP DucpĂ©tiauxlaan, which explores various shades of electronic music such as Electro, Italo-Disco, and of course, House.
Bowers & Wilkins unveils new noise-cancelling earbuds
Bowers & Wilkins have unveiled new versions of their high-resolution wireless earbuds, the P17 S2 and P15 S2. Read more
Music Production for Women Non-Profit Offering Four Scholarships for New Program
Music Production for Women (MPW)Â is offering four scholarships for females and nonbinary individuals to take part in the organizationâs new “Master Your Music” program. Read more
Do This For Yourself!
There are so many interviews that we have done via 6AM group over the years where we ask the music artists what inspires and motivates them to do what they are currently doing or what they want to achieve, and we appreciate all of the answers that come back to us that seem to be authentic. For instance, the answers we get are they are doing it for the love of the music, for the fans, for their family, for the community, or doing it to help the scene grow. Whatever the motive behind it is, those are actually great reasons why they should be doing this. But there are not enough artists that actually boldly say, “Hey look, I’m doing this for myself,â which is more important in actuality.
In this article, we discuss the mindset of âdoing for yourself!â
Why Do 90% Of Electronic Music Artists Fail in Their Journey?
More often, we, as a society, love to hear the success stories of certain people and what they did to achieve that success. Surely, these success stories are awesome and inspire a lot of people. Despite their inspirational effect, we believe they only tell us a single-sided perspective.
Sony Announces New Walkman, the NW-A306
Sony has announced a new Walkman, the NW-A306. Read more
Meet Kavi Sharma: The American Girl Doll That Makes Electronic Music
U.S. toy maker Mattel has launched a new American Girl doll that produces electronic music. Named Kavi Sharma, the doll can be purchased with a music-making setup, including a functioning keyboard with a synthesizer, wind and brass settings, a drum pad, a laptop displaying music software, a microphone, and DJ-style headphones. All the accessories can be “linked up”, with the laptop coming with an extendable chord that can be plugged into the mic stand or light-up drum pad.
