May 18, 2012 This podcast is a very special preview from Mister Parker, who will be playing the main stage at Escapade Music Festival in Ottawa on June 30th. What a bangin mix!! Thanks Mike! Make sure to SHARE the love, LIKE this post and send it to facebook and twitter using the buttons below! or on iTunes at “DJ Mag Canada” Having [...]
May 18, 2012 The Basscast is a brand new bass oriented podcast hosted by hit electronic artist The Slag. Featuring international superstar guests and a whole slew of exclusive unreleased material. Catering specifically to all the electro, dubstep, moobahcore, drum & bass, and drumstep heads out there. Make sure to SHARE the love, LIKE this post and send it [...]
May 18, 2012 Happy Friday! This week I wanted to go off the beaten path and talk more specifically about one of my favourite record labels. My love of trance is only matched by my love of the deep seedy techno you only hear in basements after 4 a.m. – these two things found a [...]
May 18, 2012 “The track has a sample of one of my favourite tunes that I used to play when I first started DJing. I rediscovered it through a mixtape that Radio Slave gave to me and thought I would give it a twist. Not knowing what the outcome was going to be, I was [...]
May 17, 2012 Hey yo! Welcome back dudes and dudettes. I hope you’re all still pretty stoked with the content I’ve been bringing recently! I know I am. It’s almost been four full months that I’ve been writing The Breakdown and I’ve enjoyed every minute of it! Hopefully you guys have too. I’ve got a pretty [...]
May 17, 2012 Almost two years ago, before the rise of Skrillex and electronic dance music’s mainstream infiltration, South London’s Phillip Gamble was tipped as the one to bring dubstep to the masses. After DJing for years as Girl U No It’s True, his 2010 Girl Unit release Wut came out on Night Slugs and took [...]
May 16, 2012 All of my blogs thus far are meant to slowly introduce you to the hardware and effects of a basic music studio when producing electronic music. Although some of the posts may seem entry level and super basic, my plans to further elaborate on all these topics will come as time passes and this [...]
May 16, 2012 It was the usual suspects: Blueprint Events, Celebrities, and an up-and-coming superstar DJ. On May 11, the long-running Stereotype Fridays hosted Nicky Romero’s up-tempo house stylings; a sound Romero himself describes as ‘stabby.’ The 23-year old’s sudden rise to the upper echelon of the dance music game has seen a steady [...]
May 14, 2012 Written by DJ Si Edwards Intro: After departing Spain a bizarre freak storm known as a ‘Meteorological Event’ happened to us, our plane had to make an un-schedule landing in Italy, which resulted in us hiring a car to drive to France for a show in Nice. An unusual chain of events and a [...]
May 14, 2012 Welcome back to another installment of Live & Direct. This week we’ll be looking at an auto-play percussion instrument that utilizes several different Live tools. The purpose of this instrument is to provide a background rhythmic layer to complement a main drum beat. The goal when creating it was to produce [...]