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American Flag Dubstep Minimix (Free Download)
This dubstep and dirty electro video is perfect for Memorial Day, Flag Day and Independence Day slash 4th of July. The American flag is hot right now as is reflected in this season’s boutique selections. But as a citizen I have always felt a certain sense of patriotism about the country I was born in. [...]
Insomniac founder faces 14 years
The founder of Insomniac Events and Inthemix Most Powerful Man in EDM Pasquale Rotella has been having legal problems for some time now. Now it seems he is facing 14 years in prison for charges of bribery, embezzlement, conspiracy and conflict of interest. Rotella is engaged to Holly Madison, one of the three playmates from [...]
Tech News
In tech news it turns out that all Dutchman are not house music DJ’s, some of them are also hackers. Spanish police arrested a 35-year-old Dutchman named Sven Olaf Kamphuis in connection to a massive Internet attack. The Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, slowed down connections around the world for two days last March. [...]
BB’s Dirty Electro Show: Episode 2
1. Old Black Magic By Louis Prima / Keely Smith 2. No Diggity (Evil Bastards remix) By Blackstreet 3. Hello By LA Riots Remix 4. Dirty Money (An -Ten – Nae Remix) By SoomT & Disrupt 5. Smoke Two Joints (Terravita Remix) By The Toyes 6. Forlorn (feat. Busdriver) By Lapalux 7. Jump (Protohype Remix) [...]
Billionaire mogul buys up Miami nightclubs
Robert F.X. Sillerman the billionaire mogul and founder of Live Nation made headlines last summer when he told members of the press that he intended to buy about 50 major companies and festivals in the EDM industry. The amount he spent ended up being over one billion dollars, and he announced that he was reviving [...]
I Heart Radio announces new EDM station
I Heart Radio also known as Clear Channel Communications has announced they will be launching their first EDM channel Evolution. BBC 1 DJ Pete Tong will be hosting the ‘All Gone Pete Tong’ show. Clear Channel is the biggest radio group in the United States with 850 stations and 237 million listeners each month. Starting [...]
Modeling is Hard
People are talking a lot of smack about Brazilian glamor model Nana Gouvea after she and her husband used the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy for an opportune photo shoot. Donning grey leggings, boots and a long sleeved black tee, she set out to document her own ass amid the wreckage. The resulting picture, which she [...]
Big One (Wobble Mixtape)
The Big One (Wobble mixtape) is a compilation of California bass artists who wobble. Get it? Because it is the Big One that people are always talking about, knock on wood? The video is some old footage from the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 from the Prelinger archives. I may have also been inspired by [...]
How to dance in the club
I wrote this for another blog, and I hope no one minds, but I enjoyed it so much that I would like to post it here in my portfolio. This is how to dance when you’re all up in the club: If you are all up in the club then there will not be a [...]
Manufactured pop music, literally
This is old news if you are Japanese, but for the rest of us, the latest trend in pop music is literally manufacted pop stars. Meet Hatsune Miku they biggest pop sensation to hit Japan since karaoke. The teenage pop star is a hologram projected on stage using mirrors. She sells out stadiums in Tokyo, [...]
Old vs. New West
It took so many tries for me to get them to let me upload this freaking mix! First I tried to use Three Loco “We Are Farmers” featuring Diplo, because its such a badass flow, that it did not seem fair that State Farm made them take it down. But apparently you can not upload [...]
Dead Spy Running: DJ/spy swagg
A new movie is in development over at Warner Bros about a spy slash DJ. The new project Dead Spy Running is based on the mystery novel of the same name by Jon Stock. The new movie is being produced by Kevin McCormick at Langley Park and McG’s Wonderland Sound And Vision. “Danny” a rising [...]
Street art blossoms in post-totalitarian Myanmar
It is nice to know that with the tide of change in totalitarian dictatorships across the world, there is a ray of hope. Last week the reform era government in Myanmar abolished media censorship. For decades past, a military dictatorship in the country meant that tagging and graffiti were strictly forbidden. Since 2011, street art [...]
Africa’s Channel O introduces video mixing
I told you video mixtapes were a real thing! Now I have confirmation, from famous African DJ’s. South Africa’s Channel O has a show called The Bassment in which DJ’s have debuted a new technique known as “video mixing.” The DJ’s, or rather VJ’s, use the new technology to mix pop music videos back to [...]
Big Beach Bootique with Fatboy Slim
Norman Quentin Cook, a.k.a. Fatboy Slim, the guy who was a famous electronica DJ in the Nineties before electronica was even that famous, is all set to release his new movie. The documentary is a recreation of his famous Big Beach Bootique concerts held in n 2001, 2002, 2007, and 2008 on Brighton Beach, in [...]
The Mad Decent Block Party Chicago gate crashers
The Mad Decent Block Party in Chicago was abruptly called off halfway through when a pack of crazed fans forced their way past security to gain entrance to the over capacity event. Watch the video below! Nadastrom, Action Bronson, Tanlines, and DJ Earl were unable to perform. This is despite the lack of major names. [...]
Travel Warning: Bali nightclubs
A new study from the Department of Foreign Affairs (Australia) reveals that one Australian dies in a Balinese nightclub every nine days. That must have been an in depth and costly venture to figure out. No matter where you go on Earth, there is most likely some kind of nightclub or bar. That is what [...]
The first MTV VMA nominees for EDM
MTV recently announced the nominees for this year’s 2012 Video Music Awards. For the first time ever (in the U.S. that is) they are including a category for Best Electronic Music Video! You can screen each of the five EDM music videos below. 5. Duck Sauce – “Big Bad Wolf” (3,999,446 views) 4. Calvin Harris [...]
Swedish House Mafia to conclude in India
Axwell, Steve Angello, and Sebastian Ingrosso also known as the Swedish House Mafia officially announced last June on their website that the tour they are on presently will be their last. “We came, we raved, we loved…” they posted. With their last European festival appearance at Tomorrowland in the rear view mirror the SHM journey [...]
Video selfies
At this point every woman has at least one sexy selfie they took of themselves and posted on Facebook. But what I am doing here, is taking that to the next level with the magic of video. Human communication is 99% nonverbal. So little things like facial cues can make a huge difference. Smartphone apps [...]
Dutch choir sings Skrillex ‘Bangarang’ a capella
When DJ Roosmarijn asked a choir to make an a capella version of ‘Bangarang’ by Skrillex, she got Dario Fo to sing it on her radio show 3VOOR12RADIO last week. Watch the viral video of the event below. Critics are citing this as further proof that dubstep is now a full fledged style of music.
Paris Hilton’s DJ debutante
Paris Hilton made her DJ world debut at the Pop Music Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil last Friday, June 23rd. She opened for Kelly Clarkson and Jennifer Lopez, among others. You can watch a video of Hilton’s set below, along with a clip of JLo performing in a sheer, formfitting catsuit. Hilton made her debut [...]
Rave busted in Mumbai; 44 test positive so far
On May 20th Mumbai police broke up a “rave party” at the Oak Woods Hotel. They arrested 92 people including TV actor Tapurva Agnihotri, fashion designer Rocky S., cricketers Wayne Parnell and Rahul Sharma, and the owner of the hotel, Vishay Handa. Arresting everyone caught raving is the standard procedure in India, where dubstep and [...]
Sticker Lady of Singapore
Meet the Sticker Lady from Singapore who is facing charges of vandalism after decorating the streets of the conservative southeast Asian city with humorous stickers. These include phrases such as “Press for time travel” on traffic crosswalk signal buttons; and other phrases in Singapore slang like “My grandfather road” and “Press until shiok.” Samantha Lo, [...]
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