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10 Tracks for You and Your Rave Partner

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Nothing’s better than finding the perfect track/playlist that understands your mood and feelings to a T. With the spooky and cozy season just around the corner, we wanted to curate a list of the best sought-out after tracks that you and your rave partner can let loose too.

But a rave partner doesn’t have to be titled as someone you’re being intimate with, consider these 10 tracks your all-year, every day, and every hour jam with anyone you love as a confidant, friend, and of course, as a significant other. And if these tracks aren’t enough, check out our monthly updated H+T Fresh Finds playlist on Spotify — a playlist that also features music from some of the best emerging artists from around the world.

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What’s in Your Toolbox: Luigi Madonna

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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. In this installment, Italian stalwart Luigi Madonna shares his 6 choice picks that are profound with energy, and can set the mood in any club. One of his favorite song picks also includes his upcoming three-track EP, Contempo Vol. III that will release on his imprint Contempo. Listeners can expect his three-track EP to be full of dominating percussions, razor-sharp hi-hats, varied synths, strong vocals, and authentic underground elements.

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Atish’s Top 10 Whirlwind Tracks for the Elements Festival

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The Atish experience is dynamic, emotive, and ecstatic — intimacy and connection are the foundations of the Atish experience. The man behind the decks is more than just an entertainer, but a catalyst curator for mixes with deep melodies and sophisticated rhythms that cohesively morph into musical journeys. As co-founder of the Manjumasi record label, he has created an outlet for other artists’ music, as well as his own productions. His work has also found a home on prestigious imprints such as Anjunadeep, Kindisch, and Stil Vor Talent.

It’s no surprise that as a profound music collector, natural performer, and as someone who effortlessly creates intimate atmospheres and emotional, sonic experiences that Atish is gracing the Air Stage at the 2022 Elements Music Festival.

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What’s in Your Toolbox: Teenage Mutants

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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. In this installment, thriving techno star duo Teenage Mutants gives us their 6 choice picks of bass-heavy and synthesized tracks that are fit for any rave-head that are looking for that primordial feeling in playlist form.

The duo have also been busy creating their latest track for the upcoming V/A compiled EP Milk & Sugar Beach Sessions 2022, which features 33 tracks from an array of multi-talented DJs, including Teenage Mutants’ 10th track “BarbĂšs” — a track that features elements of nu-disco, hints of drummy bongos, and melodic vocals that feel as though you have stepped onto an island with carefree ecstacy. The overall track and EP is defintley befitting for any beach festival or roadtrip.

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What’s in Your Toolbox: Enamour

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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. In this installment, thriving techno star Enamour gives us his 6 choice picks of super functional and dance-floor worthy techno tracks as he just finished his 2022 North American tour along with just releasing his latest remix on the “And Must Be The Love” single, originally by BT, Nadia Ali, and ARTY.

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The 10 Best Classic House Music Songs

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Thanks to folks in Chi-City and globally renowned DJs like Honey Dijon and Black Coffee, we’ve all come to know and love the vibrant and innovative genre of house music. For better or worse, house music has also invaded the mainstream. That began awhile ago. During the early nineties, pop stars such as Madonna and Janet Jackson were integrating house music elements into their sound. Nowadays Drake is even releasing house music. His new album just broke Apple Music’s first-day streaming record. While it’s an exciting time for the genre, it’s also important to remember perspective. We wouldn’t have house music if not for its roots. Here is our non-exhaustive list of the 10 best classic house music songs from the genre’s founding artists. 

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Illegal (IN) Puts Creative Spin on Computers

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Illegal (IN) debuts his 3-track EP Volatile Memory on his label dotslash records. On the EP, he doesn’t stray from his usual focus and passion regarding technology and digital components, as noted from the track titles.

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Spotify’s to New Plans for Artists to Monetize Their Fanbases

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Spotify shared its plans to take the company to yearly revenue of $100 billion during this week’s Investor Day, and it includes charging musicians and labels for access to some tools and features.

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6AM PRIDE 2022 Electronic Music Playlist

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In 2021 6AM brought you a list of LGBTQI artists that helped establish a foundation for modern electronic dance music (house, techno and beyond) or are setting the current tone for the future of electronic music. This year 6AM brings you a curated playlist of the same artists’ to celebrate Pride month. This list features hot tracks from artists such as Frankie Knuckles, Honey Dijon, Paula Temple, Danny Tenaglia and more!

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INSPIRED: German DJ/Producer Duo Kaiserdisco

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Your favorite artists inspire you, but who inspires them? INSPIRED asks leading names in house and techno to share people who’ve inspired them and why. This installment of INSPIRED welcomes Kaiserdisco, a DJ-duo based in Hamburg, Germany who not only give us their sources of inspiration but were also gracious enough provide their top 5 ways to deal with writer’s block! Read more