John Digweed Transitions Podcast -12th June 2012

Transitions with John Digweed -12th June 2012 by John Digweed on Mixcloud

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Markus Schulz EDC Las Vegas Behind the Scenes Day 2 Hero

article taken from lasvegasweekly and is not the property of EDMBoston.com 

Markus Schulz (left) joins Armin Van Buuren for a live Sirus XM broadcast after Electric Daisy Carnival’s Night 2 shutdown.

Photo: Sarah Gianetto

"I’m on a two-hour trek to travel a mere 12 miles. I need to pee very badly. And there’s a DJ snoring in my lap.

I’m traveling to EDC Las Vegas with Markus Schulz, who is tuckered out after gigs the past few days that have included Houston, Berlin, Poland, Ibiza and Romania, where he shot a video for his upcoming single, “Caught,” with Adina Butar.

Our SUV includes team members from Armada management, and we’re tuned into “Electric Area” on Sirius, which is broadcasting live from EDC. When Markus' name gets mentioned during the rundown of the lineup still to come tonight, everyone pokes a little fun, repeating his name like crazed fans, “Markus Schulz!”

By the time Schulz’s head eases up on my bladder,

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Sensation Innerspace, St Petersburg Full Set Download [FREE DOWNLOAD]

Sensation Innerspace is a wrap in St Petersburg in Russia. A really nice line-up was put together for the event and it featured Matisse & Sadko, Axwell, Sander Van Doorn, Daniel Sanchez, Alexey Romeo and Mr. White. Here is the 4 first sets.

Matisse & Sadko
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Tracklist:

01. M-3ox feat. Heidrun – Beating Of My Heart (Matisse & Sadko Remix) [Heat]
02. ID w/Fatboy Slim – The Rockafeller Skank (Acapella)
03. Deniz Koyu – Bong (Original Mix) [Refune]
04. Avicii vs. Lenny Kravitz – Superlove (Original Mix) [Big Beat]
05. ID w/ Red Hot Chili Peppers – Otherside (Acappella)
06. Hardwell – Three Triangles (Original Mix) [Toolroom] w/ Musical Youth – Pass The Dutchie (Acappella)
07. Arty, Matisse & Sadko – Trio (Original Mix) [Axtone]
08. Helvetic Nerds – Herodes (Original Mix) [Unreleased Digital] w/ Gotye feat. Kimbra – Somebody That I Used To Know (Acappella) w/ Denzal Park – Militia (Original Mix) [Neon]
09. Third Party feat. Loleatta Holloway – Thank You (Original Mix) [Ultra]
10. Eric Prydz & Andreas Postl – Mighty Love (Instrumental Mix) [Virgin]

Axwell
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Tracklist:

 01. Hard Rock Sofa & Swanky Tunes – Here We Go [Axtone]
02. Henrik B & Rudy – Leave A Light On (NO_ID Remix) [Axtone] w/ Thomas Gold – Marsch Marsch (2011 Rework) [Toolroom]
03. ID w/ Nicky Romero & ZROQ – WTF [Protocol]
04. Ivan Gough & Feenixpawl feat. Georgi Kay – In My Mind (Axwell Mix) [Axtone]
05. Swedish House Mafia – Greyhound [EMI]
06. Michael Calfan – Resurrection (Axwell’s Recut Club Version) [Axtone] w/ Coldplay – Paradise (Acappella)
07. Deniz Koyu – Hertz [Flamingo] w/ Eric Prydz – 2Night [Pryda] w/ Axwell & Sebastian Ingrosso feat. Michael Feiner – Together (Acappella)
08. Martin Solveig – The Night Out (A-Trak Remix) [Mixture] (Edit) w/ Qulinez – Troll [Size]
09. Miike Snow – The Wave (Thomas Gold Remix) [Axtone]
10. Sebastian Ingrosso & Alesso – Calling [Refune] w/ Axwell feat. Max C – I Found U (Acappella)
11. Alex Kenji – Blue Strobe Light [Toolroom] w/ Rob Adans – Abash [Work Machine] w/ ID w/ Axwell feat. Errol Reid – Nothing But Love (Acappella)
12. Deniz Koyu – Tung! [Flamingo] w/ Calvin Harris – Feel So Close [Sony]
13. Nari & Milani – Atom [Size] w/ Leave The World Behind (Acappella)
14. Skitzofrenix & Jeff Doubleu – Rushin’ [Sneakerz Muzik] w/ M83 – Midnight City (Eric Prydz Remix) [Naive]
15. fRew feat. John Dubbs & Honorebel – Wicked Woman (Tommy Trash Remix) [Onelove]
16. Swedish House Mafia vs. Knife Party – Antidote [EMI] w/ Dirty South & Those Usual Suspects feat. Erik Hecht – Walking Alone [Phazing] w/ Swedish House Mafia vs. Tinie Tempah – Miami 2 Ibiza [Virgin] w/ Energy 52 – Café del Mar (Michael Woods ‘Out Of Office’ Remix) [Ultra]
17. Nero – Promises (Calvin Harris Remix) [MTA] w/ Pendulum – The Island (Steve Angello, AN21 & Max Vangeli Remix) [Size / OMT]
18. Steve Aoki feat. Wynter Gordon – Ladi Dadi (Tommy Trash Remix) [Ultra] w/ Thomas Gold – Sing2Me [Axtone] w/ Red Carpet – Alright (Acappella)
19. Hard Rock Sofa – Quasar [Axtone] w/ Diddy, Dirty Money feat. Skylar Grey – Coming Home (Dirty South Remix) [Interscope] w/ Daft Punk – Aerodynamic [Virgin]
20. Coldplay vs. Swedish House Mafia – Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall [Parlophone]
21. Alesso – Clash w/ Adrian Lux – Teenage Crime [Axtone]
22. Miike Snow – Devil’s Work (Dirty South Remix) [Phazing]
23. Swedish House Mafia – One [Virgin] w/ Tommy Trash – The End [Downright] w/ Florence and the Machine – You’ve Got The Love (Mark Knight Remix) [Toolroom] w/ Gotye feat. Kimbra – Somebody That I Used To Know (Acappella)
24. Axwell – Heart Is King [Axtone] w/ Swedish House Mafia feat. John Martin – Save The World (Acappella vs. Knife Party Remix vs. Original) w/ Ferry Corsten – Punk (Arty ‘Rock-N-Rolla’ Remix) [Flashover]

Sander Van Doorn
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Tracklist:

 01. Sander van Doorn – Chasin’ [Doorn]
02. Nari & Milani – Atom [Size]
03. Laidback Luke & Sander van Doorn – Who’s Wearing The Cap [Mixmash]
04. Abel Ramos – Latex [Deeperfect]
05. Swanky Tunes & Hard Rock Sofa – The Edge [Wall]
06. Sander van Doorn & Mayaeni – Nothing Inside [Doorn]
07. Nicky Romero & ZROQ – WTF [Protocol]
08. Hardwell – Three Triangles [Toolroom]
09. Moguai – Lyme (Moguai’s ‘Crushed Lyme’ Mix) [Mau5trap]
10. The Naked & Famous – Young Blood (Tiësto & Hardwell Remix) [Musical Freedom]
11. Jacob Van Hage – On Stage [Reset] w/ The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition (Acappella)
12. Thomas Gold – The Beginning [Axtone]
13. Third Party vs. Cicada – Feel [Size]
14. Dada Life – Rolling Stones T-Shirt (Cazzette Remix) [So Much Dada]
15. Sander van Doorn – Reach Out (Thomas Gold Remix) [Doorn]
16. ID (57min)
17. Sander van Doorn & Julian Jordan – Kangaroo [Doorn]
18. Eitro – Love Story [Doorn]
19. Mario Ochoa – The Indian Express [100% Pure]
20. Kenneth G – Bazinga [Hysteria] w/ Hardwell & JoeySuki – Munster [Revealed]
21. Dr. Kucho! – To Russia With Love [Doorn]
22. Gotye feat. Kimbra – Somebody That I Used To Know (Tiësto Remix) [Musical Freedom] w/ Sander van Doorn – Koko [Doorn]
23. ID (1h18min)
24. Sander van Doorn feat. Carol Lee – Love Is Darkness [Doorn]
25. Sander van Doorn – Slap My Pitch Up [Doorn] w/ Angger Dimas & Bassjackers – RIA [Doorn]
26. ID (1h29min)
27. ID (1h31min)
28. Sander van Doorn – Renegade w/ Zombie Nation – Kernkraft 400 (Setrise Remix)
29. Sander van Doorn & Adrian Lux – Eagles [Doorn] w/ Inpetto – No More Serious Faces [Cr2]
30. Hard Rock Sofa – Quasar [Axtone]

Daniel Sachez & Juan Sanchez
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Tracklist:

01. U96 – Das Boot
02. ID
03. ID
04. ID
05. Julian Jeweil – Soho w/ ID (“funky rhythm” acappella)
06. Grooveyard – Watch Me Now (Egbert Remix)
07. ID w/ Eddie Amador – House Music (Acappella)
08. Bryan Zentz – D-Clash w/ Inner City – Good Life (Acappella)
09. Riccardo Ferri & Mauro Picotto – Tormented
10. ID
11. Bushwacka! – West Side (Christian Smith & Wehbba Remix) w/ DJ Le Roi feat. Roland Clark – I Get Deep (Joris Voorn This Is Not A Remix)
12. Taster Peter & Phunx – Jack This Tune
13. Julian Jeweil – Color w/ Ronan Portela – Beat Up
14. Zombie Nation – Kernkraft 400 (Dave Clarke Remix)
15. ID
16. Juan Sanchez vs. Chantal – Inner Sense vs. The Realm (Sensation Edit)
17. Etta James – Something’s Got A Hold On Me (Acappella)
18. Jaydee – Plastic Dreams (Koen Groeneveld Remix)
19. Daniel Sanchez feat. Cardace & Perazzini – Snor
20. Laurent Garnier – Flashback (Christian Smith & Wehbba 3AM Mix)
21. Egbert – Haasten
22. ID
23. ID w/ Technotronic – Pump Up The Jam (Acappella)
24. Jason Little vs. DJ Hammond aka Raiderz Of The Damned – Motherfucka (Acappella)
25. ID
26. Christian Smith & John Selway – Total Departure
27. Radiohead – Everything In Its Right Place (Andi Muller Mix)
28. Human Resource – Dominator (Joey Beltram Mix)

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EDM in Las Vegas: A Desert Mirage? -Spin

EDC Las Vegas, 2011 / Photo by C. Flanigan

June 8 2012, 2:35 PM ET
by Philip Sherburne

Club vets butt heads with bottle-service speculators

(Spin.com)For a while now, boosters have been touting Las Vegas as "the new Ibiza." When I visited a year ago, I thought the comparison was something of a stretch; as I noted in my SPIN feature on Skrillex and the “New Rave Generation,” Ibiza's club scene extends back to the 1980s and, for all its garish excess and monied interests, has grown somewhat organically. The Ibizan scene is tightly connected to a variety of communities — underground and commercial alike across Europe and the United Kingdom — which has helped to preserve stylistic variety on the island: It's not all just big-room crossover fare, and you can encounter a variety of sounds and artists that you wouldn't find on any of Vegas' high-gloss lineups. Vegas' club scene, like many things in the city, looks more like a simulacrum, a Disney-fied fantasy of clubbing that fits perfectly with the fake New York skyline and ersatz Eiffel Tower.

You can't say that Sin City's reality-spinners aren't staying on message, though. I've read reports this year that there are billboards for Las Vegas nightclubs lining the airport road in Ibiza, interspersed with advertisements for local institutions like Amnesia and Pacha. Whether Vegas' presence on the White Isle is a case of bringing coals to Newcastle or the sign of a tectonic shift in global nightlife remains to be seen. This weekend, Insomniac Events will make its case for the latter when it brings its flagship event, Electric Daisy Carnival, back to Vegas for the second year in a row, after getting booted out of Los Angeles in 2010. Last year's EDC was a mammoth spectacle, with a total attendance of around 230,000 people across the three-day event. This year, they're increasing their footprint with a week's worth of pre- and after-parties in the city's clubs; additionally, this week Insomniac sponsored EDMBiz, a professional conference hosted by ultra-insider and KCRW "tastemaker" DJ Jason Bentley, featuring panel discussions like "Brand Integration in EDM: The Hyundai Initiative" and "Circuit Breakers: Breaking EDM Artists."

EDMBiz is clearly an attempt to replace Miami's Winter Music Conference, a long-running professional confab for DJs, A&Rs, and aspirants, which has suffered a dramatic decline in attendance in recent years; it also arrives as a counterpart to Pete Tong's International Music Summit (IMS), which just held its fifth annual installment in Ibiza. But a glimpse at the schedule suggests the extent to which the landscape has changed since the glory days of WMC. The Conference was a cattle-call of epic, and famously democratic, proportions, with eager DJs descending upon Miami with hopes of getting signed, white labels (and later, CD-Rs) in hand. Many succeeded; in my interview with Dirtybird's Justin Martin last month, he told me how a demo CD handed out at WMC got him signed to Ben Watt’s Buzzin' Fly.

But the EDMBiz agenda privileges a top-down model, with a list of speakers tilted heavily toward the major labels and massive talent agencies; keynote speakers include Atlantic Records CEO Craig Kallman and Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino. To be fair, some independent players are represented, like the Windish Agency and Detroit's Paxahau. But, by and large, the conference's agenda reinforces what the New York Times' Ben Sisariodescribed just this week as "a wave of corporate interest in dance music," including a major new salvo from Robert F.X. Sillerman, the founder of Live Nation, who plans to invest $1 billion this year, snapping up electronic-music promoters and merging them into an iron-clad conglomerate.

For evidence of corporate EDM's fling with the big bucks, look no further than Michael Satsky, a representative of Provocateur nightclub in New York’s Hotel Gansevoort. Speaking on the "Circuit Breakers: Breaking EDM Artists" panel, he described his success in tapping into "a niche for electronica within high-net-worth individuals," as August Brown reported in the Los Angeles Times. Once alternately celebrated for its futurism and derided as derivative, electronic dance music is now viewed more like futures and derivatives.

But the love-in between the EDM community and Las Vegas — not to mention those high-net-worth individuals — is already being tested. At the Cosmopolitan hotel's Marquee last weekend, the veteran Chicago house DJ Mark Farina, who was to follow Miguel Migs and Julius Papp, says that he was asked not to play after the day-club's manager received "complaints from their table-service crowd." A Marquee rep told Las Vegas CityLife, vaguely: "It was the end of the afternoon and management made a decision to reschedule him for another day." But, as CityLife's Mike Prevatt reports, "Farina was replaced by another DJ who began playing more commercial house."

The incident echoes a recent kerfluffle at Miami's Mansion nightclub, where the New York house DJ Dennis Ferrer claims he was kicked off the decks "for not playing commercial enough."

As Spinal Tap's lovably cutthroat Bobbi Flekman once explained, "Money talks, and bullshit walks." But if the big money's not careful, it could witness an exodus of the dance-music faithful from the playground being constructed for them with all the haste of a Nevada high-rise. Not that the major labels and mega-agencies don't have a place in the equation, but electronic dance music always has been, fundamentally, a culture of independent labels and intractable fans, and that's not likely to change any time soon. We may be headed for a split in the scene, as the big investors create a gated community designed to their own specifications, and the strong-willed masses make their own rave in the vacant lot adjacent.

None of this need concern actual fans; corporate rock didn't kill off the underground, even when the suits co-opted "alternative rock"; indeed, it could be a good kick in the pants for grassroots electronic music scenes, in the same way that a cash-bloated '70s rock scene helped instigate and sustain punk’s rebellious fury. Vegas certainly needn't worry: High-net-worth individuals, and those willing to fork over the cover charge to party with them, aren't going away any time soon, no matter the soundtrack (or the recession).

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Max Vangeli Podcast ft. Junior Sanchez - June 2012

Max Vangeli Mix:

01. Carl Kennedy - Once Upon A Time (Adrien Mezsi Remix)
02. Steve Aoki Vs. Tommy Trash & Michael Calfan - Ladi Mozaik (POTN Booty)
03. M3ox vs The Temper Trap - Beating Of My Heart In Sweet Disposition
04. Michael Brun, Dirty South Vs. Celeda - Music Is Rising (POTN Booty)
05. Pryda - Allein (Original Mix)
06. Shinedown - Unity (Steve Lade Remix)

Junior Sanchez Mix:

07. Dark Clarke - Now Is The Time w/ The Ting Tings - Hit Me Down (Qulinez Beats)
08. The Ting Tings - Hit Me Down (Qulinez Remix)
09. Congorock - Ivory (Laidback Luke Edit) (Jr. Sanchez EDC Edit) w/ Gotye - Somebody I used To know (Acapella)
10. AN21 & Max Vangeli Vs. Steve Angello - H8RS (Original Mix)
11. Miike Snow - The Wave (Thomas Gold Remix)
12. Nari & Milani Vs. Beastie Boys (Frankie Steel Bootleg)(Junior Sanchez No Sleep Till Atom EDC NYC Edit)
13. Third Party Feat. Loleatta Holloway - Thank You (Original Mix)
14. Ivan gough & Feenixpawl Feat. Georgi Kay - In My Mind (Axwell Mix)

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