Planet Perfecto ft. Paul Oakenfold: Radio Show 67

Paul Oakenfold in the mix for his new episode of planet perfecto. Unfortunately he doesn't feature his new track but has plenty of other amazing tunes in the mix.

Tracklisting:
01 Andrew Bennett ft. Shena - Alright (Original Mix)
02 Two Pearls Rock & Sven Kirchhof – Dumb
03 Mark Sherry - Sangre Caliente (Organ Donors Remix)
04 Pluton - Don't Take Drugs (The Madison Remix)
05 Zoo Brazil ft. Rasmus Kellerman - There Is Hope (Reblended)
06 Liquid Vision - At Long Last (Original Mix)
07 Matt Samuels - For You (Original Mix)
08 Dreas vs. Alex Robert - Lumi (Original Mix)
09 Johnny Yono - Fairfax (Original Mix)
10 Oakenfold - Surrender (Club Mix)
11 Mat Zo & Arty - Mozart (Original Mix)
12 Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream (Incognet Remix)
13 Maarten De Jong - Rush (Original Mix)
14 Laura LaRue - Un Deux Trois (Laidback Luke Vocal Mix)
15 Trance Arts & Sonic Element - Reformation (Monk3ylogic Remix)
16 Mike Foyle & ReFeel - Universal Language (Original Mix)
17 Leon Bolier - War Of The Worlds (Hodel Remix)
18 Nexus 3 - Last Flight (Original Mix)
19 Planet Perfecto Knights – ResuRection (Paul Oakenfold Full On Fluoro Mix)
20 Kyau & Albert - Made Of Sun (Stoneface & Terminal Remix)
21 Dave Leyrock - Transportation (Vol Deeman Remix)
22 Paul Oakenfold vs Infected Mushroom - I’m Alive (Sonic Element Remix)
23 Paradisiacs - Tradewinds (Original Mix)
24 Oakenfold ft. Tamra Keenan - Maybe It's Over (Organ Donors Remix)
25 D-Mad - Forsheez (Eximinds Remix)
26 Captain Hook & Liquid Soul - Liquid Hook
27 Skazi - Warrior (Atmos Remix)
28 Federation - Innocent Desire (Pure Mix)

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Anatomy of a Tear-Jerker

WSJ gets all scientific on our ass and Doctors find out what makes for a tear jerker.  EDM artists please take it easy with this stuff!

(wsj) "On Sunday night, the British singer-songwriter Adele is expected to sweep the Grammys. Three of her six nominations are for her rollicking hit "Rolling in the Deep." But it's her ballad "Someone Like You" that has risen to near-iconic status recently, due in large part to its uncanny power to elicit tears and chills from listeners. The song is so famously sob-inducing that "Saturday Night Live" recently ran a skit in which a group of co-workers play the tune so they can all have a good cry together.

Adele, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter performed "Someone Like You" from her latest album "21" at WSJ Cafe

What explains the magic of Adele's song? Though personal experience and culture play into individual reactions, researchers have found that certain features of music are consistently associated with producing strong emotions in listeners. Combined with heartfelt lyrics and a powerhouse voice, these structures can send reward signals to our brains that rival any other pleasure.

Twenty years ago, the British psychologist John Sloboda conducted a simple experiment. He asked music lovers to identify passages of songs that reliably set off a physical reaction, such as tears or goose bumps. Participants identified 20 tear-triggering passages, and when Dr. Sloboda analyzed their properties, a trend emerged: 18 contained a musical device called an "appoggiatura."

An appoggiatura is a type of ornamental note that clashes with the melody just enough to create a dissonant sound. "This generates tension in the listener," said Martin Guhn, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia who co-wrote a 2007 study on the subject. "When the notes return to the anticipated melody, the tension resolves, and it feels good."

Chills often descend on listeners at these moments of resolution. When several appoggiaturas occur next to each other in a melody, it generates a cycle of tension and release. This provokes an even stronger reaction, and that is when the tears start to flow.

"Someone Like You," which Adele wrote with Dan Wilson, is sprinkled with ornamental notes similar to appoggiaturas. In addition, during the chorus, Adele slightly modulates her pitch at the end of long notes right before the accompaniment goes to a new harmony, creating mini-roller coasters of tension and resolution, said Dr. Guhn.

To learn more about the formula for a tear-jerker, a few years ago Dr. Guhn and his colleague Marcel Zentner found musical excerpts—from Mendelssohn's "Trio for Piano" and Barber's "Adagio for Strings," for example—that reliably produce the chills and then measured the physiological reactions (heart rate, sweating, goose bumps) of listeners.

Chill-provoking passages, they found, shared at least four features. They began softly and then suddenly became loud. They included an abrupt entrance of a new "voice," either a new instrument or harmony. And they often involved an expansion of the frequencies played. In one passage from Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 (K. 488), for instance, the violins jump up one octave to echo the melody. Finally, all the passages contained unexpected deviations in the melody or the harmony. Music is most likely to tingle the spine, in short, when it includes surprises in volume, timbre and harmonic pattern.

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Dillon Francis & Kill The Noise - Dill The Noise

EDMBoston crew is loving this new moombah from dillon francis.  It has an unreal feel good vibe.  Dillon Francis will be dropping his new album tomorrow.  He released this track, "Dill the noise" yesterday as a preview.

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Bonnaroo 2012 Lineup Led By Radiohead, Chili Peppers, Phish, and Skrillex

SO much is happening at Bonnaroo this year and our man Skrillex will be leading the way for EDM!  Okay this festival really doesn't feature much EDM this year but it's still one of the biggest festivals in the USA and caters towards hipsters/mainstream.


WIthout further a do here is the lineup for Bonnaroo

The official, preliminary Bonnaroo 2012 lineup:

Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Phish, Bon Iver, The Beach Boys Featuring Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce, Johnston and David Marks, The Avett Brothers, The Shins, Foster The People, Skrillex, Aziz Ansari, Dispatch, Feist, The Roots, Alice Cooper, SuperJam, Black Star, The Word featuring John Medeski, Robert Randolph and North Mississippi Allstars, Ludacris, Ben Folds Five, Flogging Molly, Spectrum Road featuring Cindy Blackman Santana, Jack Bruce, John, Medeski, and Vernon Reid, Mac Miller, Childish Gambino, Major Lazer, tUnE-yArDs, Afrocubism, Flying Lotus, Umphrey’s McGee, Little Dragon, St. Vincent, City and Colour, The Civil Wars, Young The Giant, Two Door Cinema Club, Punch Brothers, NEEDTOBREATHE, Fitz & The Tantrums, Bad Brains, Yelawolf, Dawes, Battles, Danny Brown, The Black Lips, SBTRKT, Phantogram, Kendrick Lamar, Charles Bradley and his Extraordinaires, The Kooks, The Joy Formidable, The Antlers, Kathleen Edwards, Mimosa, Kurt Vile & The Violators, Alabama Shakes, Das Racist, Delta Spirit, Gary Clark Jr., Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, Laura Marling, Trampled by Turtles, Mogwai, The War On Drugs, Ben Howard, Grouplove, Blind Pilot, ALO, The Devil Makes Three, White Denim, EMA, Here We Go Magic, K-Flay, The Lonely Forest, Mariachi El Bronx, Big Freedia, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., The Soul Rebels, Kvelertak, SOJA, Steven Bernstein’s MTO Allstars Plays Sly, Big Gigantic, Sarah Jarosz, Orgone, Darondo, Fruit Bats, Moon Taxi

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Tiësto: In The Booth - Episode 6 (Czech Republic, Romania, Turkey & Ibiza!)

New episode of Tiesto in the booth takes him to caech republic, romania, turkey and the crown jewel IBIZA:

Tiesto you lead a rediculous lifestyle!

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