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Jimmy Pé won’t mind calling himself a broken beat explorer. His cut-up electronica is gradually finding its way to a worldwide audience, already catching the ear of The Gaslamp Killer, Flying Lotus, Baauer, Dj Craze, Tokimonsta, UZ, Lefto, Daedelus and many others. He released music on labels such as Slow Roast Records, Quality Goods Records, Saturate Records, and others.

Now, he’s back with a thundering new single, “Pé Is Not Dead!” that is utterly irresistible. Pé’s talent in the studio shines on this one, seamlessly cutting up vocal samples that cut in and out of a groovy house rhythm, powered by a wubby bass.

In addition to the single, he’s also released a music video to accompany that’s weird, outrageous, and hypnotic all at the same time. The story expressed is of two reckless, unhinged killers, who get their fix through taking the lives of victims via their lethally produced music. After successfully accomplishing their goal twice, it is the 3rd potential victim where the story takes an unexpected turn.

See it for yourself below!

This article was first published on Your EDM. Source: Jimmy Pé Drops Thundering Bass House Single, “Pé Is Not Dead!” [Slow Roads Records]

The alias of electronic music producer Dave Lang, soundslikeLANG has fashioned
a brand of emotive-house music which invigorates the listeners nostalgia. Groove driven and
atmospheric, soundslikeLANG brings you on new journeys while living within his sonic realm.

He’s developed his own creative sound that can’t help but whisk you away in to his beautiful world. One listen through his debut EP ‘Midnight and the City’ and you’ll see what we mean. The EP offers
insatiable & blissful deep synths, a testament to his ability to blend samples and sounds in a masterful way.

“Back When” kicks off the EP, serenading your ears with a tranquil piano performance amidst a deep, driving beat. “Last Train Home” is deep house at its finest, encapsulating an intoxicating dream-like feeling from start to finish. “Fire Alarm” picks up the tempo with head bopping half time beats and an insatiable groove.

Produced entirely by himself, ‘Midnight and the City’ EP evokes the feelings of freedom within the unlimited boundaries of electronic music.

Listen below!

This article was first published on Your EDM. Source: Emerging Artist soundslikeLANG Releases Debut EP, ‘Midnight and the City’

It’s only been two years since Krewella’s last album, zer0, but it feels like so much longer. Part of that is probably an effect of the pandemic, which effectively stole two years from much of our lives — another part is Krewella only released three songs since 2020, “Never Been Hurt,” “No Control,” and “I’m Just A Monster Underneath, My Darling,” all of which are featured on their new, third album, The Body Never Lies.

The album was created from an intimate, internal space of Krewella’s self-reflection, exploring impermanence, the oddity of human experience, their relationship to the world around them as women in a male-dominated society. The Body Never Lies title hints at the range of emotions within the LP, with each track as unique and varied as our feelings themselves. “Traces” serves as a haunting opener, quickly followed by a series of heavier tracks, including the drum & bass-inspired “In The Water” and the angry yet touching “War Forever.” Krewella hits a different vibe with the last three tracks, which explore the darker and more tender side of the human experience.

“The clench of a fist, the pit in your stomach, the fluid in your veins; the body is a sensor, messenger, keeper of stories, a fortress of the soul, an instrument of knowing, a rocket ship to other worlds. Every cell, pore, and bone recalls the past, absorbs the present, and senses the future. ‘The Body Never Lies’ is at times an angry, sometimes feverish, but always a euphoric conversation about feeling, remembering, and existing in our individual vessels that encase our soul and memories.” – Krewella

Prince Fox was brought on to mix the album, leaving every track sounding crisp and clear to match the emotional tone and varied influence in each track. Listen below!

Photo via Olivia van Rye

This article was first published on Your EDM. Source: Krewella Releases Emotionally Charged 3rd Studio Album, “The Body Never Lies”

Sometimes here at Your EDM, we like to check out the borderlands of electronic music for a while to see how this universe is creating itself at its edges. Sort of a musical Slab City, if you will. Sometimes in that fringe yet endlessly creative space, artists dwell that are excellent but possibly not quite electronic enough for YEDM, but we watch them nonetheless. Post punk/art rock band Cosmopolis is one of those acts who were just on that leading edge of electronica who, with their latest industrial-tinged single “Nixon-Manson,” has pushed their way into the electronica consciousness, and you’d better believe we’re here for it.

“Nixon-Manson” is only Cosmopolis’ fourth single since the trio, based in three different and geographically widespread cities (Brussels, Brisbane and London) but their style is already well-developed and polished. From their first single “God Hotel” in mid-2020, their trippy, semi-psychedelic style of merging guitars with psychobilly-inspired sound design was unique enough for a load of listeners and press to take notice.

Developing along that post rock and post punk line, the haunting, melodic and slightly shoegzey “Sécheresse” and the minimal yet heavy Waits-or-Cave-inspired “The Distances” also contained that ambient electronic flare that once again piqued the interest of crossover music fans to see where they’d go next. Now we have an answer in “Nixon-Manson,” a decidedly EDM-y offering which dropped on Cosmopolis’ Bandcamp page last month.

Hovering on the arty edge of industrial and the Love and Rockets Edge of goth, “Nixon-Manson” does a good job of showing Cosmopolis’ compositional bones, which are rooted in the classical and theatrical. Even though the song changes tempos, beat structures and even genres quite a bit along its journey to give it that arty, post rock illusion of organized chaos, it’s clear all the parts of the track were plotted meticulously along a score sheet (or screen, more likely). They would have to be, given the number of moving parts and the chaotic crescendo at the end. When the eerie, droning vox are the main grounding force of a track, you know it’s got to be meticulously designed.

While it’s nice to see Cosmopolis firmly in the electronica camp now, it seems clear with their work so far that “Nixon-Manson” is not necessarily a watchword of them moving that way permanently. With a style as fluid with theirs and clear talent to make almost limitless sound ideas happen, we can’t really predict where they’ll go next, but that’s the fun of Slab City, isn’t it? You never know what you’re going to see when you venture out that way, but you know it’s always going to be impressive.

“Nixon-Manson” is out now and can be streamed or purchased on Cosmopolis’ Bandcamp page. Check out their YouTube channel for more intense videos.

This article was first published on Your EDM. Source: New Artist Spotlight: Cosmopolis Combine Arty Post Rock With Electronic Sound Design for a Smoother Entre Into their Dark World [Video]

In 2017, Calvin Harris made a massive statement releasing Funk Wav Bounces Vol 1, featuring a literal who’s-who of collaborators including Frank Ocean, Future, Khalid, Nicki Minaj, Kehlani, Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry, Snoop Dogg, John Legend, Ariana Grande, ScHoolboy Q, and more.

And then… nothing. It seemed like the ‘Vol 1’ was simply an extraneous afterthought for years, with no sign that any further volume would ever be coming. In 2018, he even tweeted that he was “moving on” from the sound, though that tweet has been deleted and now we know why.

Vol 2 is gonna be mad

— Calvin Harris (@CalvinHarris) March 3, 2022

Predictably, the tweet ignited his fandom, but presumably extended far beyond even. The album, or EP, whatever you want to call it, was so pop heavy and impressive that it is still one of his best releases altogether with over two billion streams between all the songs. Two of those songs, “Slide” and “Feels,” make up around 80% of those streams.

Stay tuned for more news on Vol 2, but for now you can listen to Vol 1 again below.

Photo: Mike Davies

This article was first published on Your EDM. Source: Calvin Harris Finally Teases ‘Funk Wav Bounces Vol 2’ After Five Years

Just a little less than a month ago, Rezz and Subtronics teased doing a collaboration together. Today, fans can have the pleasure of streaming “Puzzle Box” from their homes, cars, or wherever any time they want.

The collaboration is a brilliant combination of both artists’ unique styles, with both of them just recently releasing albums — for Rezz, her third; for Subtronics, his first.

Proceeds from sales of a limited edition T-Shirt featuring the track artwork will be donated to Voices Of Children Ukraine who is providing assistance to affected children and families from all over Ukraine, providing emergency psychological assistance, and assisting in the evacuation process.

https://voices.org.ua/

Listen below!

This article was first published on Your EDM. Source: Rezz & Subtronics Unite On Monster Collab, “Puzzle Box,” With Charity Merch Drop For Ukraine

Since Nick De La Hoyde established his dedicated EDM/lofi trio D.E.L with his brothers Matt and Timm, it seems he’s decided to focus more on the pop end of things with his solo work, at least for now. While D.E.L focuses on sound design, EDM beats and ravey composition, Nick’s last few singles have been more pop-leaning, albeit still beautifully produced with the help of those same brothers. “Devotion” is the latest example of the heady, almost ballad-like vibes this musician is capable of conjuring.

The last track You EDM looked at from Nick and his brothers, “About U,” came as a double release with a D.E.L track called “Yoko,” and it’s clear in both those tracks there’s a bit of mingling of styles. With the last track of the year, however, there seems to be a conscious shift to more indie pop vibes. “No Sense” was a look at anxiety from inside one’s own head and the swirling thoughts that can lead to being overwhelmed. Certainly resonant with the bulk of the western world at the moment as a concept, “No Sense” has a Twenty One Pilots’ “Stressed Out” vibe that, while it uses some electronic production methods, lands squarely on the side of indie pop.

Written by all three De La brothers, “Devotion” is only pop in terms of composition, really and it’s interesting to see them delve even deeper into indie pop. Hearkening back to indie pop’s inception with bands like fellow Aussies INXS (there’s a strong “Never Tear Us Apart” vein here), “Devotion” is bluesy, dramatic, melodic and orchestral in addition to indie and poppy. Probably one of the biggest tracks in terms of sound saturation the trio have made to-date, fans will swear they’ve heard it in a blockbuster movie. Nick, Timm and Joseph’s work has always been high quality but this is a new echelon. If “Devotion” isn’t in a film by summer, that’s the industry’s loss.

It seems that separating their projects into D.E.L and Nick’s “solo” stuff has freed up the De La Hoydes to play with style, substance and genre on both sides of things, though fans probably shouldn’t get too comfortable with one being EDM and the other being pop. If anything it looks like the brothers will be folding even more mashups into their work, and no one said there wouldn’t be crossover work again. It just seems all part of the ever-expanding De La Hoyde pop/indie pop/EDM/blues/lofi/whatever else empire, and we’re definitely here for it.

“Devotion” is out now on Gatacombe Music and can be streamed or purchased here. For more videos and lyric videos, visit Nick De La Hoyde’s YouTube channel.

This article was first published on Your EDM. Source: Track Review: Nick De La Hoyde Doubles Down on the Pop for His First Single of 2022 [Gatacombe Music] [Lyric Video]

When Pitbull and Ne-Yo came together in 2014, they created a timeless hit that still can be heard every weekend all over the world, “Time Of Our Lives“. We’re always keen to hear remixes of the old hits, which is why we’re so excited about Gianni Blu and D. Lylez’s epic future house rendition that is sure to go off in clubs and festivals alike all summer.

Signed to Loudkult, this cover of “Time Of Our Lives” encapsulates that essential summer feeling with bright melodies and a punchy bass line that seems to transport you to the glistening beaches of Miami. The range and timbre D. Lylez brings to the table is nothing short of jaw-dropping, keeping the listener on the edge of their seat curious as to what may come next.

This is a song you don’t want to sleep on, check it out below!

This article was first published on Your EDM. Source: Gianni Blu And D. Lylez Provide Fresh Take On Pitbull & Ne-Yo’s “Time Of Our Lives”

Whenever Big Gigantic drops new music, you can also count on them delivering an epic remix EP to accompany. Most recently, the Colorado based duo dropped with a six-track remix pack to ‘Leisure Season Vol. 1’ EP that traverses a wide range of electronic sounds.

Bruer kicks off the EP with a thunderous take on “I Can Feel It” that is the perfect track to get a party started. LP Giobbi follows, giving “Got Me Like” an etheric house touch, taking Big Gigantic’s futuristic helping of festival-ready bass to the underground. Sippy doesn’t disappoint, delivering an electrifying, bass heavy remix to “I Like That” that you can count on hearing in Big Gigantic sets this summer.

Heckler get’s glitched out on “I Like That” that can’t help but leave you in awe of his production capabilities. INZO keeps it real funky with “Keep It Low“, blessing our ears with a massive, wobbly drop. Koastle caps things off wonderfully with a Flume-esque future bass rendition of “Champagne“.

Listen below!

This article was first published on Your EDM. Source: LP Giobbi, INZO, Koastle + More Appear On Big Gigantic’s ‘Leisure Season Vol. 1’ Remix EP

With every release, Bensley proves time and again that he is a growing force to be reckoned with. We caught onto the Canadian producer with his debut album, Next Generation, all the way back in 2015 but he’s experienced a significant resurgence especially in the past couple of years. Last year he released his hit, “That Feeling,” including a positively delectable house edit and the hits haven’t stopped there.

Out today is his new single on UKF, “Roll The Dice.” The song sounds like it has huge influences from the Cross The Line-era of Camo & Krooked, which is not only hard to pull off but one of the highest compliments. Catchy vocals and an even catchier melody drive this single from start to finish and keep the energy pumping.

Check it out below (get it here), and be sure to catch him for his US debut next month with Brownies & Lemonade in Los Angeles.

This article was first published on Your EDM. Source: Bensley Releases Next Electrifying Single With UKF, “Roll The Dice”