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Zombies In Miami’s Top Spots For Underground Music In Mexico

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Zombies are undead by nature but ZOMBIES IN MIAMI are very much alive and active. The DJ duo is a project created by Canibal & Jenouise. Despite the name, they are not crawling around Miami but shining out their light from Mexico. Over the last decade, the couple became one of the most prominent members of Mexico‘s vital electronic scene. Their sound can be described as a rhythmic and synth-driven house and techno hybrid. Along with a disco and Balearic twist, which is held together by the oh-so-sweet Italo Drama. You probably won’t find a better combination of Italo arpeggio lines, house pianos, disco drums as well as sun-kissed and mythical soundscapes for your summer soundtrack. 6AM Group spoke with the duo about the underground scene and their favorite party spots in Mexico. Here’s the breakdown. Catch them at the first-ever Departure Festival in Playa Del Carma.

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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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Report Finds 86,000 UK Nightlife Jobs Lost During the Pandemic

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A new report shows the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the UK nightlife industry. The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA)’s report measured the economic value of the nightlife sector for the first time. Read more

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Preparing for Another Roaring 20s? Nightlife, Drugs, & Safe Partying

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The rush of buying tickets, and seeing “sold out!” on event flyers. The world is slowly regaining normalcy and returning with a healthy appetite to party. To many, it’s a welcome return to the everyday flow after a grueling year for everyone, particularly those in the music industry. The flu pandemic of 1918 saw its final moments in 1920 after the particularly deadly strain of influenza finally died out. Many scholars believe the depression of the pandemic is partially responsible for the “Roaring 20s;” a moment in history remembered for its hedonism, decadence, and speakeasies. Is the world preparing for another Roaring 20s? Is history repeating itself exactly 100 years later? Will the 2020s be yet another decade where people come together to celebrate after a dark time in their lives? If so, how can the music community promote safety and inclusion so everyone feels safe to party?

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The World Eyes Reopening of Nightlife with Mixed Emotions

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It’s been over a year since the world seemed to come to a screeching halt. The global infiltration of the novel coronavirus set off a deadly pandemic society was ill-prepared for. The world went dark, and communities everywhere have endured a year of uncertainty. For those working in the music industry, the shutdowns were devastating. The sudden loss of touring meant artists, promoters, venue staff, and many others lost their main source of income. Given these devastating losses, many in the electronic dance music industry have asked the question: when can nightlife return? As COVID-19 cases are on a downswing, the world eyes reopening of nightlife with mixed emotions within the dance music community.

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The Beirut Explosion Has Wiped Out The City’s Nightclub District

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The explosion that occurred in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Tuesday evening has had a disastrous impact on the city and its people. According to the Lebanese Red Cross, the death toll has risen to 135 dead and about 5,000 injured, with numbers expected to increase in the coming days. The explosion took place in the city’s port causing incredible damage to the entire area and neighboring parts of Beirut, including its nightlife and nightclub district.

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Resources For American Artists and Nightlife Professionals Affected by COVID-19

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Nightlife professionals and artists, you’re not alone. We have all been hit hard by the forced lockdown and closures mandated to combat COVID-19 and it sure seems like the next few months are not going to get any easier. Stay positive though, because together we must help one another to make it through all these obstacles thrown at us. It is with this in mind that we are sharing key resources for American artists and nightlife professionals affected by COVID-19 in this article.

In the last week and a half the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 has changed the way we live in unimaginable ways, and the nightlife scene in the United States, and our home in Los Angeles in particular, have been suffering since. While whole sectors of the local, state and country-wide economy are affected, there is no doubt that the entertainment, film, hospitality and nightlife industries are some of the worst-hit by the indefinite lockdown measures now in place to “flatten the curve” and mitigate the spread and death toll of the virus. We aren’t in a confirmed recession yet, but it will surprise no one once we officially are.

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10 Principles of the Electronic Music Industry

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Taken since the inception of 6AM in 2008, we have been able to develop and follow key principles that have helped us knock down barriers, break through troubled times and reach our goals in the electronic music industry while continuing to hit key milestones every step of the way.

The information contained herein has helped shape who we are today and represents what we stand for in the global electronic music industry. We are far from perfect, we are constantly learning and always working to improve. More importantly, we need a constant reminder of these guidelines ourselves, which is also part of the reason we are publishing this article. We want to hold ourselves accountable while sharing something we hope can help others, or at least can spark a conversation on subjects we feel are important.

We not only hope you find this useful but more importantly we hope you find the strength to apply the guidelines within this article into your own journey and discover the things you didn’t think would be possible by peeling away the layers of negativity and self-sabotaging behavior that are stopping the progress you wish to attain. We are all in this together, you are never alone.

Thank you in advance for hearing us out and we’ll see you on the dancefloor soon.

Much Love & Respect,

6AM

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Proof of Nightlife’s Economic Impact: Berlin’s Clubbing Tourism Generated More than $1.58bn in 2018

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Berlin is synonymous with partying, and for lucky techno lovers, a weekend in Berghain, often voted one of the best clubs in the world, is literally a pilgrimage that some wait and look forward to for years.

According to the Berlin Clubcommission, an association that campaigns for the interests of members of the Berlin club and party scene, roughly three million tourists came to the city in 2018 solely for the purpose of enjoying the clubs and nightlife that the city has to offer. The revenue generated by the city thanks to this totaled to $1.58bn in 2018 alone, proof of the economic benefits of nightlife for the city of Berlin and its residents.

The calculations are based on tourist board figures which indicate that one-third of all visitors to the city fall under the “club tourist” category, and that they spend an average of €205 or $231.60 per day, staying in the city for an average of 2.4 days each.

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What is a DJ?

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A DJ is art, passion, the soul of music, the dance floor shaker, a composer, the one with the secret weapon, the one who creates and interprets the soundtrack to your life, the artist who selects the right record at the right time, the fun of the party, a creator of trends, a continual learner, a lifestyle…

For DJs it all started in the United States when, back in the ’60s, they were tasked with putting on a record after the other. Back then the DJ didn’t own the records, rather they belonged to the owner of the club and the DJ came into the venue without any equipment and simply pieced together a set based off of what he was given. As the ’70s “Saturday Night Fever” began to spread with the explosion of disco, so did the role of the deejay, gaining more and more importance as the years went on. As anyone truly devoted to the history of electronic music knows, it was Dave Mancuso’s Loft that inaugurated the start of a new era, hosting the likes of Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckles, Nicky Siano, Francois Kevorkian and Larry Heard who at that time were simple lovers of the garage sound of the past. The Warehouse in Chicago followed suit and the rest, as they say, is actual history. At the time DJs received pay that was equal to or lower that of a barman, yet were entrusted with the track selection of the entire night. Things have evolved drastically to what we have today when, since the 1990s, popular DJs became the idols of countless thousands who travel from city to city to see their favorite acts perform.

As a child growing up in Italy, whenever I was asked what I wanted to be when I grew older the response was always the same: a football player (soccer for those who want to say it wrong). I imagine that a lot of kids in the States grew up with similar dreams, dreams and desires that will never disappear from their head, but that may now be joined by another equally profitable and fun activity: the disc jockey, the entertainer of the masses.

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