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When it comes to D&B, it’s always great when artists strike that perfect balance between old school and modern, amens and crunchy neuro synths, classic and innovative. Spain-based Kursiva has made a name for himself by walking that none-too-tricky line, developing more and more ways to push the technical envelope in D&B whilst never forgetting its dub, hardcore and ragga roots. His new tune, the aptly named “Big Tune” due out on Bad Taste Recordings tomorrow, once again continues that well-balanced compositional storyline.

So named because of the vox samples from live MC performances shouting “you wanna hear some big tunes, say yes” among other classic MC catch phrases, “Big Tune” opens and breaks with another throwback style: darkstep. You can almost hear the vinyl wobble in the intro tones, the kind that almost always opened a dark or deep track back in the mid-to-late 90s. Said intro picks up the MC/show samples before dropping into a chunky, scrambled egg of a beat with complex, early techstep-style syncopation. Said beat has a modern feel because of said syncopation, but it’s as classic as they come.

The track is ornamented with amens at the phrase transitions while an expertly crafted and equally crunchy bass synth is the main melody, for lack of a better phrase, that pushes the track forward. Also hearkening back to techstep and early neuro, this synth also wouldn’t be out of place on any modern stage. Kusriva’s sort of brought production full circle with this “Big Tune,” successfully showing fans of all ages how the more things change, the more they stay the same.

It would be interesting to take a tour of Kursiva’s studio and see how much production he does on modern software and gadgets and what sort of vintage gems or analog-built mods he’s working with. A true genre-melder by nature, Kursiva proves once again with “Big Tune” that as long as a track slaps, it’ll keep the fans coming back.

“Big Tune” drops tomorrow on Bad Taste Recordings on Beatport and Spotify. Hit up Bad Taste’s website to pre-order for any other platforms for the December 24 world wide drop.

This article was first published on Your EDM. Source: Your EDM Premiere: New Kursiva Single ‘Big Tune’ Is, Well, a Big Tune [Bad Taste]

Following the success of Brownies & Lemonade Lake Havasu earlier this year, the renowned Los Angeles-based promoters are heading even further south to Puerto Vallarta next year for their new Spring Break festival — and the lineup just dropped.

In typical Brownies & Lemonade fashion, the music lineup features a highly-curated mix of established and up-and-coming names in electronic music from across the globe. The phase one lineup includes multi-talented Australian producer and singer Alison Wonderland, beloved pop-leaning duo Louis The Child performing a Playground Set, trap and bass music legend RL Grime, rising twin DJ duo Coco & Breezy, veteran French dance music producer Dombresky, House Call Records founder Dr. Fresch, genre-bending Vancouver artist Juelz, versatile bass act Peekaboo, high-energy DJ and producer Rossy, Los Angeles house music favorite SNBRN, and the Australian born and now LA-based standout Wax Motif.

Beyond the announced music lineup, the experience will also feature special guests and surprises. This has become a standard for Brownies & Lemonade since the beginning, and their first-ever spring break parties are truly not to be missed. Attendees can also expect to hear a non-stop supply of cutting-edge dance, electronic, and hip-hop tunes mixed throughout.

The official headquarters for the experience will be Meliá Puerto Vallarta, while also featuring additional hotel options for guests to choose from along with local nightclub takeovers.

For more information about the experience, including payment plans, package upgrades, and FAQs, visit Pollen’s website to stay up-to-date with the latest in lineup, pricing, and news.

Photo by Jacqueline Verdugo

This article was first published on Your EDM. Source: Brownies & Lemonade announce RL Grime, Alison Wonderland, Louis The Child + more for Spring Break Puerto Vallarta

Gustavo Bravetti’s incredibly popular take on the theme music to the gripping film Babel has just been released via Virgin Germany. It has proved an instant hit since the musician, magician and producer started playing it in live sets and it prompted an unofficial upload that has gone viral across YouTube and TikTok channels. Now ‘Babel’ is up for grabs as a full single and is ready to properly soak up.

There is serious musicality on show here and Bravetti re-recorded the original sample with his own instrumentation. Speaking on the tune’s inspiration, he says: “The core idea for the track came up while watching the movie Babel for the second time. The melody is on the ending credits, which I missed the first time I saw it. I immediately fell In love with its melancholic foreign flavors and wanted to contrast it with a deep-visceral bass. The result went beyond expectations.”

Stream ‘Babel’ now.

This article was first published on Your EDM. Source: Gustavo Bravetti – Babel

France’s WODD is closing out his biggest year yet with his second EP on Kannibalen Records, The Garden. After dropping his 4th Dimension EP earlier this year, as well as playing the main stage at Lost Lands, WODD is dropping three new bass-fueled hits that many fans got to preview live already.

Capping off the EP is a stunning and trippy bass tune, “Turn Off The Light.” Filled with menacing whispers and a dastardly bassline, the song easily conveys a sense of fear and foreboding that sends chills up the spine and rattles the chest.

Check out “Turn Off The Light” below and go here to listen to the full EP, out now!

This article was first published on Your EDM. Source: Wodd Drops “Turn Off The Light” Off The Garden EP On Kannibalen

Ultra Music Festival makes its return to Bayfront Park for the first time since 2018 next year, and the phase 1 and phase 2 lineups already have us all excited to return to where it all started.

Today, RESISTANCE announces the roster for its Ultra 2022 showcase. Headliners making their debut performances include atmospheric techno maven Amelie Lens, fast-rising techno talent Anfisa Letyago, hypnotic house purveyor Dom Dolla, Italian composer and multi-instrumentalist Giorgia Angiuli [Live], tech-house sensation John Summit, Solid Grooves label boss Michael Bibi, global techno figure Nina Kraviz, Filth On Acid label head Reinier Zonneveld [Live], and Palestinian underground treasure Sama’ Abdulhadi.

UMF will also welcome back headlining festival veterans such as Drumcode founder and techno leader Adam Beyer, Brazilian beat dealer ANNA, Deep Moves label founder Ilario Alicante, the iconic Joseph Capriati, Grammy-nominated producer Nic Fanciulli, tastemaker techno duo Pan-Pot, British dynamic pair Sasha | John Digweed, and Beatport chart-shredders Solardo.

Taking residence on the northern perimeter of the revamped festival layout, RESISTANCE Miami will feature multiple areas, including The Carl Cox Megastructure and the debut of The Cove. Aptly titled, The Cove features unique waterfront positioning to transport attendees back to the spirit of RESISTANCE Island, all nestled perfectly under Miami’s signature palm trees, while overlooking Biscayne Bay.

Photo via aLIVE Coverage

This article was first published on Your EDM. Source: Ultra Music Festival announces RESISTANCE lineup with house and techno talent

Electric Forest is back next year! Officially.

The annual Michigan event counted itself among the festivals that weren’t able to return this year, after already having their 2020 event slashed due to the then-novel pandemic. It was a particularly crushing blow after already losing so many other festivals that year, to then not have it when others like Ubbi Dubbi, EDC, Austin City Limits, Outside Lands, and more were returning. But all of that changes when it comes back next June 23-26.

Yesterday saw the official lineup reveal, which offered a ton of incredible acts to see. However, many who were on the original 2019 lineup did not have their booking restored EF’s return.

Bassnectar getting pulled off the headliners is an obvious result, one no one should be surprised about. Flume, unfortunately, is another casualty of perhaps album mode as his name is now also absent. Diplo, Petit Biscuit, Lindsey Stirling, Gryffin, Tchami, Boys Noize, and more are also missing. So, too, are Noisia and G Jones. One artist of note not seen on next year’s lineup is 12th Planet, who was recently a focus of a sexual assault accusation from 2018. Whether his name being absent is related or if it stems from the same reasons as any of the aforementioned is obviously not clear.

Now, on to who we’re getting instead…

New names include Porter Robinson, Slander, Griz, Sylvan Esso, Disclosure, Liquid Stranger, Dom Dolla, John Summit, Shiba San, Sidepiece, Wax Motif, VNSSA, and more. Mija and GG Magree were both individually on the lineup in 2019, but now their project So Tuff So Cute is in second line. Deathpact, Khiva, Moore Kismet, Uniiqu3, Wreckno, and more also show some expanded women, LGBTQ, POC, and “AI” bookings.

Limited Wristbands On Sale December 10th, 2021 at 10 AM EST

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This article was first published on Your EDM. Source: Electric Forest Reveals 2022 Artist Lineup: Who’s New, Who’s Been Replaced

Apollo XO is an artist consistently on an upwards trajectory. His resume is impressive, as he has performed with some of the biggest artists around like Drake, Rae Sremmurd and Wiz Khalifa and has even played star studded celebrity birthday parties for the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio & Toby Mcguire. We featured his previous tune “I’ll Be There” in October and since then he’s showed no signs of slowing down.

Now, he’s back with a explosive tech house tune, “MetaMore“, this time teaming up with talented producer Tanner Dixon for what’s another club smash. “MetaMora” is mesmerizing, drizzled with components of acid house, deep house, and trance, all working off of the tech house platform that holds the structure together. The end result is an underground themed banger that we can imagine would rock clubs all around the world.

Listen to “MetaMora” below!

This article was first published on Your EDM. Source: Apollo XO & Tanner Dixon Team Up For Explosive Tech House Track, “MetaMora”

This article was first published on Your EDM. Source: BADVOID Provides Gritty, Electrifying Remix To BIJOU’S “Rockstar” [Do Not Duplicate Recordings]

It’s clear there’s a lot going on upon first listen to one of the three singles Melbourne, Australia band Chained Lizard has released thus far. Theatrical sound design, thrash metal-level guitar shreds and beat structures that range anywhere from industrial to future bass come together in “Broken Glass,” “Take Me for a Ride” and their latest psycho-sexual offering, “Electric Vibes” in a way that hearkens memories of Evanessence or early Linkin Park. There’s even more going on beyond the first listen, however.

With composition that’s more like an orchestral arrangement than a rock, pop or standard EDM track, Chained Lizard might truly be able to be called progressive EDM. That said, the group is put together like a standard jam band, with the only exceptions being vocalist Olivia Lisa Marie adding synths and drummer Chris Vozz producing the “electronics.” That’s the thing about being progressive though, isn’t it? Transcending the expected in every way possible. Are Chained Lizard improv or highly composed or both? From the sound of it, both.

The band say that their latest “Electric Vibes” single is an amalgam of the styles in their previous tracks, “Broken Glass” and “Take Me for a Ride,” but each of those tracks has plenty of style-melding of their own. “Broken Glass” is a future bass beat and seemingly quite minimal, mostly featuring Olivia Lisa Marie’s extraordinary vocals and acoustic 12-string accompaniment from metal guitarist John Vozz. The sound design, however, borders on industrial or drone. Towards the end of the track, both Vozzes get to show their real chops as it drops into even heavier, nu metal-style sound design and John’s Alexi Laiho-level electric shredding.

“Take Me for a Ride” has more pop cachet but still heavily seated in nu metal, with the guitars now a bit more 80s hair metal-inspired. It’s interesting for a guitarist of Vozz’s caliber to be so ensemble-minded, but with his bandmates also being so talented, “Take Me…” seems like a real ensemble effort. it’s anyone’s guess which band member made these compositions or, again, if it was a jam-style effort.

The band sort of answers the question with “Electric Vibes,” saying that more time in the studio over the lockdown allowed them to create even more complex and complete music.

“If there is any silver lining to lockdown it’s that with all this extra time in the studio we have been able to produce our most technical and ambitious song so far. We think our existing and new audience will really enjoy this track as it is an amalgamation of styles of our first 2 releases. It begins very isolated and delicate and builds to a thumping upbeat and catchy electric vibe.”

Indeed all the rough edges from the previous tracks have been sanded down in “Electric Vibes,” and while this track has the most pop feel out of the three tracks thanks to the starburst future bass beat and the A-B-A-B-C-B vocal structure, once again it’s much more complex. Lines of rock and industrial are written into the breaks, ensuring that “electric” bit is felt as emotively as possible at the crescendo, a cacophony of sound reaching the operatic right before the song cuts off.

With a sound that’s already so amped up and volatile and so many styles interwoven in the fabric of compositions, it’ll be interesting to see where Chained Lizard go next. More complex beat arrangements? Full tilt progressive black metal (we bet Olivia has a good screech in her vocal repertoire)? Despite their obvious collective skill, it’s likely the band don’t even know what’s coming next. What will happen with the lizard is unchained? Better wait and see.

“Electric Vibes” is out now and can be streamed along with “Broken Glass” and “Take Me for a Ride” on multiple platforms by clicking here. Check out other studio content from Chained Lizard on their YouTube channel.

This article was first published on Your EDM. Source: New Artist Spotlight: Chained Lizard Melds Genres to Create ‘Electric Vibes’ [Video]

As the 2nd track off of Kanye West’s 2021 album Donda, the single “Jail,” is well known within the collective global consciousness. The song is steady and simple, using empty space as a vehicle to drive an impacting and suspenseful feel. Rich Furniss felt those traits and was hit by a wave of inspiration, feeling how “Jail,” was begging for someone to uproot it’s stems and transform it into an enhanced version of its former self. “Jail (Rich Furniss Remix)” not only does justice to the original, it sedates the listener with a grace and smoothness that needed to be made.



Rich Furniss converts what is already a soulfully sunkissed flow and takes it to a more heavenly place – the vocals featuring more echo/delay, the basslines giving off a more crisp disposition, and a soft percussion inclusion that rejects any type of harshness. “Jail (Rich Furniss Remix)” lightens the atmosphere and fuses what’s good about “Jail,” with the best aspects of rich Furniss. Rich Furniss will be performing again at the Electric Hotel in Chicago, USA this December 10th. This date doesn’t just represent a high-caliber event from the solo DJ/producer – it symbolizes a return to the city where he found his love for house music.

This article was first published on Your EDM. Source: Rich Furniss Gives Fresh Take On Kayne’s, ‘Jail’