DUBBYstep

The moment is here. After more than seventy events for millions of visitors in over twenty countries Sensation, presented by Bud Light Platinum, will hit the US.

Due to the great demand, the world’s leading dance event will take place two successive nights in a row. Both events will take place at the brand new Barclays Center in Brooklyn New York on Friday the 26th and Saturday the 27th of October.

For those who want to combine an amazing Sensation night with a weekend in NYC, Sensation offers travel packages. The packages include of one or more overnight stays in a hotel, a Regular or Deluxe ticket and a transfer to and from the venue. The packages are now available on sensation.com.

Be part of the night, dress in white!

Movement: Detroit’s Electronic Music Festival is a staple on the EDM community, specifically to house and techno music which were born in  Chicago and Detroit respectively.  The Detroit based festival began in 2000 and has over-come management changes as well as other controversy to become a successful 3 day mecca for dance music fans and artists alike.  Staying true to the original concept of featuring the progressive and underground dance acts along side the veterans of the craft, Paxahau’s Movement should be a bucket list item that any dance music fan should experience.

DUBBYstep’s weekend in Detroit was short, but packed with amazing music and stories.  Arriving Saturday in Detroit, as DEMF is always over Memorial Day weekend running from Saturday to Monday, we attended the Dirtybird Records after party held at the legendary Leland Hotel City Club thanks to label head and long time Detroit local, Claude Vonstroke, pulling some strings.  Every act on that lineup (Justin Jay, WORTHY, JPhlip, Eats Everything, Justin Martin, Claude Vonstroke, and Christian Martin in that order) was flawless in getting the crowd built up to the point of dripping sweat yet still jumping out of their shoes until 6 AM! There is no doubt in anyone’s mind who made it to the end that Christian Martin aka Leroy Peppers unveiling his new remix of “Don’t Go” for brother Justin Martin was the highlight of the night.  A true “life moment” for the Martin brother’s and die hard Dirtybird fans alike… Justin Martin screams out in the video, “You are witnessing history!!! You are witnessing f***ing history!!!” as his brother concludes playing his “surprise present”.

Video from DUBBYstep provided below, and keep an eye out for DAY TWO of DEMF from your very own DUBBYstep.com…

The Wakarusa festival will kick off this weekend in Ozark, Arkansas, and much to my dismay, I will not be attending. Although offered a free artist pass and all but my flight paid for, my failure to return a text in a timely manner resulted in an expired offer and a really, really  salty me…

Now in its 9^th year (the fourth year at the present Mulberry Mountain location(Left)), Wakarusa has drawn serious attention from music fans and has found itself in a position to land big name acts from numerous music genres (think Slightly Stoopid – The Avett Brothers – Pretty Lights).

Though not attending, we here at Dubby will be paying close attention to the stories, pictures and video coming out of this years Wakarusa festival, so if you’re into it–stay tuned—we’ll be passing along the good word.

The third annual North Coast Music Festival has just announced the second wave for Summer’s Last Stand! Joining an already stellar line up are Chicago’s own UMPHREY’S McGEE, rising electro/dubstep production duo KNIFE PARTY, the legendary PAUL OAKENFOLD, Dutch DJ CHUCKIE, southern-fried hip-hop star YELAWOLF, electronic-jam band EOTO, disco rockers BOOMBOX, Laser Extraordinaire’s  SAVOY, West Coast hip-hoppers PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS and more!

See the full lineup and details later today at www.northcoastfestival.com/

Tickets for the festival at Clubtix.com

Here is a snapshot of the lineup thus far.

Chicago’s very first beachfront music festival has just amped up its credibility even more by announcing a 2nd wave of artists. Electronic duo MSTRKRFT, Chicago’s own dance music pioneer Bad Boy Bill and the legendary swede Eric Prydz (Pryda) will join Erick Morillo, Boys Noize, Duck Sauce and Sasha to round out the headliners for the wild weekend on Montrose Beach. See the full lineup, details and tickets at http://www.wavefrontmusicfestival.com/

Below is a shot of the map. Take a look at how Chicago does Miami.

In 3 weeks, Chicago’s very first Electronic-Only music festival will take place at Soldier Field.  Names like Skrillex, Benny Bennassi and Afrojack will make EDM history as they share the honor of playing inside soldier field with the likes U2, Bon Jovi and The Rolling Stones.

Below is a snapshot of the map of the festival grounds where everything will take place.  Visit the Spring Awakening Facebook page to see the full schedule.

Feast you’re eyes on the lineup for one of 2012′s biggest moves in EDM history…Holy Ship!

The lineup features a wide array of artists ranging from Parisian D.A.N.C.E. kings Justice to new dubstepping extraordinaires Knife Party.  See the full lineup below:

Out now on San Francisco based Dirtybird Records are Justin Martin’s first two singles off his up and coming debut artist album “Ghettos and Gardens”, The two tracks are, ‘Hood Rich,’ and the title track, ‘Ghettos and Gardens.’ Leading the way for Dirtybird to have a massive year is Justin Martin with this full length album; in addition to the Hatched Spring World Tour already banging beautiful bass lines from city to city across the globe.  Justin’s productions and DJ sets are commonly a juxtaposition of soft melodic sounds that one would want to listen to on a beach during a sunset immediately dropping into some of the biggest, most grimey, out of this world bass-lines in the game right now.

With a scheduled release date of May 21st, it has already been one of the most anticipated releases of 2012.  Check out, https://drip.fm/dirtybird for a monthly membership to get exclusive early dirtybird releases as well as a lot of “exclusive to drip members” releases that never make it to the public.

Instead of providing the title track, “Ghettos and Gardens” I decided to include the second single, “Hood Rich” because it so accurately states, “We gonna hit the spot, we gonna drop the jams, and every booty gonna drop like DAMN!”

deadmau5 is set to officially release his new single ft. Chris James, ‘The Veldt.’  The radio edit will be released on May 6th and The Veldt EP is out on June 25th.

Fans may remember this song being worked on a few weeks ago when deadmau5 was live streaming the production.  The Canadian DJ/Producer uploaded the song to his FML Soundcloud page.

This is where Chris James comes in.  James added vocals to the track, and deadmau5 was amazed.  He contacted James, and had his manager work on setting up the official collaboration.  This all happened on live stream.

‘The Veldt’ is inspired by a short, sci-fi story written by Ray Bradbury, who also wrote Fahrenheit 451.  deadmau5′ EP will include this track and also a new single that he produced with Cypress Hill. 

Check out the stream of ‘The Veldt’ below.

The already exciting lineup for North Coast Music Festival has just added another member of the Swedish House Mafia to its bill.  Axwell was confirmed at the midnight revealing of wave one of the line-up and now they have added Steve Angello.  Will Sebastian Ingrosso be named next?  Will Swedish House Mafia be headlining the three year old festival this summer in Chicago?  I guess we will have to wait and see.