Alesso & Otto Knows Recorded Google Hangout Session

Mixmag set up a google hangout with Alesso & Otto Knows from Refune Records to chat about various things going on in the DJ's lives and careers. In the hang out you can hear an exclusive listen of Alesso's forthcoming single 'Clash'

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Years by Alesso Music Video

Last night, the video for "Years" by Alesso & Matthew Koma dropped. After having a successful summer run, this video is one of the more intriguing ones out there. Rather than being cheesy or random, it tells a story of what could be Alesso's own rise to fame with discovery by Ingrosso over his life. While not necessarily focusing on the music or even having the highest budget production, its flashes between music production and activity in a club bring you into the life of a struggling musician. 

 

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Ingrosso and Alesso’s back-to-back Essential Mix

Pete Tong took his Essential Mix onto the road as part of Radio 1 Ibiza weekend. For the night he called the massive room of Privilege home. As part of the feature he broadcasted a live set which included a back-to-back session from Swedish House Mafia member Sebastian Ingrosso and his young protégé Alesso. The broadcast is a must if you’re a fan of massive big-room house.

In Ingrosso and Alesso's back-to-back, the Swedes mixed together a healthy dose of familiar remixes, mash-ups, and productions from producers like Deniz Koyu, Tommy Trash and Nari & Milani.

Tracklisting after the JUMP

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Dirty South & Alesso 'City Of Dreams' [PREVIEW]

Dirty South and Alesso have come together to build a rediculously addictive melody in City of Dreams that will be one the best tunes to close the summer of 2012 out to.  Ruben Haze vocals take the melody to the next level to pack a power punch that would make even the sternest face shed a tear.

Release date is August 27 2012

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Years - Alesso ft. Matthew Koma

By Mike of Butlertron

Fresh off a huge success on Zedd - Spectrum, Matthew Koma returns on a new progressive house collaboration with Alesso titled Years. It starts with a delicate piano riff that sketches out a bittersweet chord progression, building until the anthem drops. When the vocals fade in from a wash of reverb at the breakdown, it's obvious we'll be hearing this hook quite often in the next few months. Koma's voice is crystal clear as he belts out the catchy and accessible lyrics.

If you can't get enough Koma, he's also featured on the vocal mix of Sparks by Fedde Le Grand & Nicky Romero.

http://www.edmboston.com/2012/06/fedde-le-grand-nicky-romero-sparks.html

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ALESSO SHOCKED OVER SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA BREAKUP -- 'IT'S CRAZY'

(Spinner.com) Alesso is the latest Swedish young EDM prince to do the North American summer festival rounds. His affiliation with EDM overlords and stabbing-magnets Swedish House Mafia is well known, but not even he can really grasp the news of the pending breakup they announced in late June.

"It's crazy. It's just crazy that they broke up, it's hard to believe, but I respect their choice. I understand that they don't want to be repeating themselves," a begrudging 21-year-old Alesso tells Spinner.

When Alesso was 16, a friend's CD with a few Swedish House Mafia tracks found its way into his player. "I'd never really heard anything like it before. I fell in love," he gushed. Having only played piano until his early teens, he was quickly absorbed by the intoxicating waves of uplifting synths and rhythms, and took to the computer and keyboards to see what he could do to match what he was hearing.

Just two years later, the ambitious young swede stalked Luciano Ingrosso, owner of Joia Records, Sweden's largest house music label -- and also uncle to Sebastian Ingrosso of the aforementioned Swedish House Mafia -- in a coffee shop and gave him his first demo CD. A day later he was called into the studio.

What came from this was a signing to Joia, and what could hopefully be a lifelong mentorship and partnership with Sebastian Ingrosso. Alesso has proved his ground with a number of progressive house hits like "Raise Your Head," a popular remix of LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem", and the chilling and undeniably addictive buildup of "Calling," a monster anthem he crafted with Sebastian Ingrosso.

"Sebastian is a friend, but he's guided me a lot along the way," says Alesso. "He's been doing this for over 10 years, I've only been DJing for one. He's been helping me make decisions both professionally and musically."

Alesso has recently played at Electric Daisy Carnival in New York, Digital Dreams in Toronto, and even Coachella in the California deserts. Ten years ago, this kind of meteoric fame was harder to come by. The DJ/producer figures modern communication is to thank for that.

"The internet has been a great way for me to promote myself," says Alesso. "All I have to do is announce a tour on Facebook, and boom, everyone knows! It's delivered to the public much faster than ever before."

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Calling (R3hab & Swanky Tunes Chainsaw Madness Mix)

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Sebastian Ingrosso & Alesso - Calling (Lose My Mind) [official music video]

The music video for 'Calling (Lose My Mind)' is finally here!  You can only watch it on Youtube because Refune hasn't enabled embedding.  However click the youtube box below to be taken the website to view it.  Enjoy after the JUMP!

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Keane – Silenced By The Night (Alesso Remix) || EDMBoston New Tunes

Alesso's newest remix "Silence By the Night" was revealed during Pete Tongs  Radio 1 Essential Mix Last Friday.

You knew Pete Tong wasn't going to let Miami Music week over shadow his weekly radio show.  He previewed some big tunes and we will bring you the set later this week!

For Now: Keane Silenced By The Night (Alesso Remix)

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IDMA 2012 Winners Announced At Miami Music Conference

Last night the 27th Annual International Dance Music Awards were held.  Artists, producers, and Dance Music industry folk gathered in Miami for the annual awards show.  Unfortunately it did not get any network time on tv but that is not an indication of how big the IDMA's are.  In dance music, an IDMA is practically more important then winning a grammy because it is an industry award.  While a grammy may carry more prestige and notoriety, an IDMA is more meaningful in EDM.

Here is the shortlist of winners:

Best American Dj - Deadmau5

Best progressive track - Pressure(alesso remix)

Best Global DJ - Armin Van Buuren

Best Radioshow - Armin Van Buuren

Best Podcast - Armin Van Buuren

Best Trance Track - Armin Van Buuren

Best Label - Armin Van Buuren

Source: Artists Facebook feeds

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Calling (Lose My Mind) (Extended Club Mix) - Sebastian Ingrosso & Alesso

Sebastian Ingrosso & Alesso (feat. Ryan Tedder) - Calling (Lose My Mind) [Extended Club Mix]

Sebastian Ingrosso & Alesso (feat. Ryan Tedder) - Calling (Lose My Mind) [Radio Edit]

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Alesso – Years (Project 46 ‘Praise You’ Edit)

Alesso has dropped the title of his latest ID track. "Years" will be the name given to the Fatboy Slim Vocal rework.  Just like any other classic Alesso track, wait classic alesso? kids been around for like 2 years lol.  Getting back to it, Years has a sweet big room drop and a nice melo vocal, set to the most peaceful piano chord to slow things down.  The rest in Years is so spiritual in the way it convicts emotion before being geared back up for the drop.  Nicely done! 

Alesso - Years

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Alesso Performs Avicii's "Levels" At The Winter White Tour Taking you into the Weekend

Is this track loosing momentum or still going full tilt? You be the judge!

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Sebastian Ingrosso & Alesso - Calling "Lose My Mind" (Official Vocal Preview 2)

Alesso dropped the second preview of the vocal version of calling.  The Big Room tune is being alternatively named "Lose my Mind".  We are looking forward to the vocal cut as Calling is starting to get a little repetitive, as almost every DJ is featuring it in their set.

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Sebastian Ingrosso & Alesso - Calling "Lose My Mind" (New vocals Preview 1)

Sebastian Ingrosso is giving calling new vocals.  The owner of refune records dropped this sample in the wee hours of monday morning for us to listen in on. take a listen:

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Sebastian Ingrosso, Steve Angello, Alesso – Eclipse (Why Am I Doing This)

As you heard earlier this morning, Sebastian Ingrosso, dropped an exclusive new track he's been working on.  Its called "Why am I doing this".  He colloaborated with his boys Alesso and Steve Angello to make a dark surging progressive track with energetic breakdown.  We'll be hearing this one for a while, given the swedish house mafia's popularity, although this track goes harder then their traditional sound.

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Alesso - ID | Played by Ingrosso

Ingrosso dropped this bomb a while back that is said to be Alesso's upcoming track.  It sounds incredible. Can't wait for a HQ version.

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Pete Tong – Essential Mix – 1-06-2012

Action packed Essential mix from Pete Tong to start the year off.  He played world exclusive first air plays and unreleased tracks.  Great start to 2012!  

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Tracklist:

Alesso – Raise Your Head [Refune]
Adrian Lux feat. The Good Natured – Alive (Basto Remix) [Ultra]
Dirty South & Thomas Gold feat. Kate Elsworth – Eyes Wide Open [Phazing]
Delilah – Love You So (Joe Goddard Remix) [Atlantic]
Kaskade feat. Skylar Grey – Room For Happiness (Fire Version) [Ultra]
Erick Morillo feat. Alexandra Burke – Elephant (Sympho Nympho Remix) [Sony]
The 2 Bears – Work (Oliver $ Remix) [Southern Fried]
Bubba B – Dance With Me [Hot Creations]
Jon Pearn & Michael Gray – Jupiter One [XTR]

ESSENTIAL CONTENDER 1

Rob Marmot – In Love [White Label]

ESSENTIAL CONTENDER 2

Javeon McCarthy – Lost Time (Eats Everything Remix) [PMR]

ESSENTIAL NEW TUNE

Luke Abbott – Brazil [Border Community]

SKRILLEX ON THE PHONE

Skrillex feat. The Doors – Breakn’ A Sweat [Big Beat]

PBR Streetgang – The Downstroke [Hot Natured]
Bubba B – Keep L.O.V.E [Dogmatic]
Subb-An – This Place (Nic Fanciulli Remix) [Saved]
Guti – Keep It [SAW]
Jamie Andersen – Back Then (Jesse Rose Edit) [White Label]
Afrojack & Shermanology – Can’t Stop Me Now [Wall]
Julio Bashmore – Ensnare [Futureboogie]
Madeon – Icarus [White Label]
Goldfrapp – Strict Machine (Jamie Jones Remix) [Mute]
Kavinsky feat. Lovefoxxx – Nightcall (MMMatthias Remix) [Record Makers]
Apparat – Ash / Black Veil [Mute]
Lovebirds feat. Stee Downes – Want You In My Soul [Winding Road]
Zane Lowe – Spacedrone [White Label]
Claude von Stroke & Eats Everything – Ignorance Is Bliss [White Label]
Sébastien Léger – Packbo [Mistakes]
DJ Mar T – Dolce Vita [Cocoon]
David K feat. Opium – Ghost Train [Visionquest]
David Mayer – Word Is Bond [Keinemusik]
Modeselektor – Evil Twin [Monkeytown]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/petetong

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Alesso Pacha NYC

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Alesso & Sebastian Ingrosso @ The Guvernment Nightclub in Toronto 2011

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