ERIC TURNER VS. AVICII – DANCING IN MY HEAD (AVICII’S BEEN CURSED MIX)

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Paul Van Dyk Doesn't Like Danceable Pop Music

Paul Van Dyk talks about his new album "Evolution", albums vs singles, and The Voync Sessions radio show.

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Deadmau5 is grumpy

(Globe and Mail) Electronic dance music – or EDM, that exuberant, propulsive, still-new genre that’s grown so big it now gives pop music its cues – needs a charismatic poster boy. Instead, it has the polarizing Joel Zimmerman, the man better known as deadmau5.

For one camp, the Toronto-based producer is a virtuoso, winning audiences over with his panoply of bass, warm synths and electronic trinkets. For the other, he’s bellicose, self-righteous and staid. But whether they love him or hate him, fans of EDM are showing up. Earlier this month, more than 20,000 people stayed put through a thunderstorm to see Zimmerman headline Toronto’s Veld music festival, one of the world’s biggest EDM gatherings.

The man under the iconic mouse headpiece is more resentful than anything of his abrupt stardom – the Grammy nominations, the Rolling Stone cover, being named sixth on Forbes’s first “Electronic Cash Kings” list of the world’s top-paid DJs. “I wouldn’t be famous in an ideal world,” he said in his trailer before his Veld set. “Everyone would be … happy doing their own … thing.” For all his rising fame, Zimmerman says he just wants to produce music – to do his own thing. Deadmau5 is grumpy.

Unsurprisingly, he’s also tired. The day after this interview, Zimmerman took to Tumblr and wrote he is “pretty miserable,” saying he planned to “unplug for a wee bit.”

Before that admission, Zimmerman sat down with The Globe and Mail to talk about stardom, EDM’s future and the biggest career killer of all.

On his sudden fame

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Kaskade walks around Boston Common

How the F*ck did no one see or report Kaskade walking around Boston Common with a film crew? Bros just chilling in the park with his family cruising around on the swan boats like it ain't no thing.

Scroll into the video to the 4:27 mark and see BOSTON COMMON represented.

isn't it weird that kaskade's team had him in Boston but decided to play a show in worcester?

Be sure to check out our Kaskade Freaks of Nature Review at Worcester DCU Center

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Ultra Music and Ultra Music Festival Join Forces

(MusicWeek) Ultra Music and Ultra Music Festival (UMF) are joining forces to link Ultra Music artists like Deadmau5, Steve Aoki and Calvin Harris with the EDM event giant.

Ultra Music is made up of a record label, publishing house, management company and media platform in one, with an artist roster that includes Pitbull and Calvin Harris.

UMF - the original Miami EDM festival – now hosts six events internationally: this month's inaugural UMF Korea, the country's biggest EDM event with over 60,000 attendees and UMF Chile, which was just announced this week.

Ultra Music President Patrick Moxey told Billboard.biz: "I think we've both come to a realisation that a stronger link between different music areas make the combined Ultra brand even stronger,

"We have various new CDs and DVDs which will be...

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