
Akai Has Announced a New Entry to its Iconic MPC
Japanese electronics company Akai recently announced the MPC One, which will be the latest addition to its renowned MPC product line. This music-making, standalone workstation enjoys a compact form and draws inspiration from other products from Akai, thus offering an affordably-priced MPC product that includes the core features. The MPC X & MPC Live – …

React Presents Bought by LiveXLive (Streaming and Music Platform)
In an interesting twist, Chicago’s React Presents has been bought by live streaming and music platform LiveXLive. This appears to be one of the first times we have seen a live event provided bought by a streaming content company who of course will now provide live (and recorded?) content from events produced by React Presents …

Nicky Romero to Premiere 2 New Tracks Tonight on One World Radio
Dj and Protocal Recordings founder Nicky Romero hosts this weeks Tomorrowland Friendship Mix on One World Radio. During the show Romero will drop two new world exclusive tracks we are sure to excite his fans. In addition, Romero has done a one hour guest mix of his favorite tracks done exclusives for One World Radio. …

Ultra Miami 2020 Live Stage Features Boys Noize, Flume, Madeon, Zedd and More!
Ultra Music Festival in Miami which has featured a live stage since 2007 has multiple big names who will perform live in March. Talent confirmed so far with live shows include (in alphabetical order): Boys Noize Flume Gesaffelstein Gryffin Krewella Laserface by Gareth Emery Madeon Ookay SOFI TUKKER Whethan Zedd presents The Orbit Click here …

Sven Vath and Boris Brejcha Confirmed for EDC Las Vegas
Today Sven Vath confirmed he will be playing in Las Vegas this spring at EDC while Boris Brejcha confirmed via a reply to a fan that he will be spinning at the massive event as well. Those will tickets to the sold out event are in for a treat with rare US appearances by Papa …

Moog announces Subsequent 25 synth at NAMM
At NAMM last week, Moog announced their new Subsequent 25 synth. This model is intended to replace the Sub Phatty synth and as part of this Moog has made tweaks that lead to powerful bass and thicker leads. The Subsequent 25 is a very small keyboard but provides a big sound out of its small …

Tourists stabbed at Tulum ANTS party
For much of the last decade, the BPM Festival in Playa del Carmen dominated the month of January with an epic lineup of house and techno parties. After the shooting at the 2017 BPM event at the Blue Parrot nightclub (see: 2017 BPM Shooting Update, Impact (Banned from Returning?) and DJ statements), BPM was cancelled …

Beatport Link Allows Direct Streaming and Mixing of Beatport/Beatsource Tracks
EDM Life (Greg Wasik): We’ve got Rob McDaniels with us who is the CEO of Beatort. Tonight we’re at the official launch of their Link product which allows for streaming tracks from the Beat Source library. So obviously this is a new product you guys just came out with… how long has it been in …

2020 Grammy Nominations include the Chemical Brothers, Skrillex, Disclosure and RÜFÜS DU SOL
Today the nominations for the 2020 Grammy Awards were announced by the Recording Academy. For Best Dance Recording, the nominees include: Skrille and Boys Noize for “Midnight Hour,” the Chemical Brothers for “Got to Keep On,” RÜFÜS DU SOL for “Underwater” and Bonobo for “Linked.’ Disclosure continued on their Grammy hot streak with their nomination …