In the heart of Kansas City, Dancefestopia boasts the reputation of the first high energy music festival of its kind in the city's history. Boasting a strong blend of EDM and hip-hop, festival-goers are provided with a multi-stage experience that promoters are promising as a full-on 'sensory experience.' Focusing on a high-energy level of production and a refreshing variety of bookings, Dancefestopia is filling the gap that many EDM-only festivals have left wide open. For rap lovers, on the agenda this year is Wiz...
![Freddie Gibbs - 'Eastside Moonwalker' [Video]](/thumbs/post/485x231/freddie-gibbs.png)
It's become pretty evident over the course of the last ten years that this decade probably won't be marked in history as the reign of gangsta rap. Those days marked by suburban kids playing G-Unit out loud in their car has, somewhat thankfully for parents I suppose, give way to bros bumping Drake. Not that I mean disrespect to the Toronto rapper, but he hasn't been shot multiple times and lived to tell the tale, or gone to prison for dealing drugs... and I did just say "Toronto," not exactly the toughest of all cities...
![Style of Eye & Tom Staar - After Dark [Remix EP]](/thumbs/post/320x152/lonely.png)
Diverging away from their classic sound of hard-hitting Dutch house, Wall Recordings started off 2013 with a more melodic progressive number from Style of Eye and Tom Staar entitled “After Dark”. With original support from mainstage names like Thomas Gold, Sander Van Doorn, and label...
"If I could take off this mask, will you laugh at me?" intones Mauro Remiddi—better known to the world these days as Porcelain Raft—on "Think of the Ocean". Who hasn't asked the same? The song lilts and curves with transcendent anxiety, the kind that'll keep you staring at the sea, phone...
I am no Twitch or Cyrus (shout out to my SYTYCD lovers) but I have been known to shake my booty from time to time. Whether or not that shaking is “good” by conventional terms is up for debate, but hey, Diplo said to express myself! One song that always gets my body grooving is none other than...
![The Stepkids - The Lottery [Official Video]](/thumbs/post/320x152/the-stepkids.png)
I could have done without the male stripper in a thong, but The Stepkids brought forth a funky track courtesy of the always magnificent Stones Throw Records. Featuring some questionable dancing and a trombone, this very much feels Mayer Hawthorne-esque circa his A Strange Arrangement days with...
The summertime is made for those songs that you can play loud in the sun, and Sourface has dropped another smooth remix for the season. This time around, the UK-born producer provides a silky instrumental to Little Brother's "Welcome To Durham". In typical Sourface fashion, he's flipped the sample...
![Tiësto - CLUB LIFE Vol. 3: Stockholm [RELEASE]](/thumbs/post/320x152/Tiesto.png)
Tiësto is a superstar whose taste we have watched ebb and flow throughout his career. Currently at the crossroads of club hits, festival jumpers and mainstream radio, the Dutch producer has come a long way from his start in the early heyday of trance. Those who follow Tij have looked forward to...
