Celsius Production Broken down by Norman Doray Piece by Piece

norman Doray sits down with MTV and breaks down his new hit track "Celsius".  Listen to how the song is constructed and what elements him and Eddie Thoneick included to build energy and make this track slay Big Room Dance Floors.

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Deadmau5 pushes peoples buttons

(capitalnewyork) Despite his success, Joel Zimmerman, the robotic-mouse-head-wearing electronic dance-music superstar otherwise known as Deadmau5, has been in a cranky mood of late.

A Rolling Stone cover story in June—in which writer Josh Eells accompanied him on a private jet trip to Sweden—portrayed the D.J. as an ill-tempered basket-case: slamming his personal trailer door, engaging in lonely marathon video-game sessions, and chastising other EDM sensations like David Guetta and Swedish House Mafia as “button pushers.” Such comments provoked heated reactions—one from Swedish House Mafia’s Sebastian Ingrosso himself, who in his own Rolling Stone interview compared his group to The Beatles, and said: “We’ve have four CD players, six hands, so we’re going in and out all the time, otherwise we would be bored and take our fuckin’ lives.”

In an attempt at clarification, Deadmau5 only complicated matters by posting a frank and somewhatembittered declaration on his Tumblr page titled “We All Hit Play,” in which he further lambasted EDM producers and D.J.s for pretending that their live shows are more than space-bar tapping. 

“I think ANY D.J. in the WORLD who can match a beat can do what ‘ANYONE else’ (not going to mention any names) is doing on their EDM stages too,” he wrote, adding: “'beatmatching’ isn't even a fucking skill as far as I'm...

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Boston DJs make a strong showing at Identity Festival ~Boston Globe

By Luke O'Neil for the Boston Globe:

(Boston.com) Now in its second year, the Identity Festival, one of the biggest roving electronic music productions of its kind, returns to Massachusetts. On Thursday, the grounds of the Comcast Center transform into the biggest dance party in the state, with a lineup of superstar international DJs and producers including Eric Prydz, Wolfgang Gartner, Showtek, Excision, and a few dozen more.

One of the stages will play host to a slew of Boston area talent, curated by the people behind the promotions and artist management group Mmmmaven. We asked some of the performers to introduce themselves, and to share their thoughts on the festival itself.

DJ: VolTran (Mike Tran), Boston

Style: moombahton, trap, bass music, house, dubstep

Hear here: Tran’s elongated, spaced-out remix of Boston band Gentlemen Hall’s “How Long Have They Been Watching” and more can be heard at www.soundcloud.com/djvoltran.

“I think that the Identity Festival is a

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