10 tracks to celebrate the End of the World
Well, as predicated by the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, it’s the end of the world as we know it. Unfortunately, only one of us is John Cusack, so the rest of us have no choice but to party into oblivion. At least we can thank the Mayans for conceding doomsday to a Friday. To accompany Armageddon, we have provided a list of tunes that will add appropriate theme music to the backdrop of imminent annihilation. Hopefully, you can find consolation in their uplifting message. Godspeed.
Free Download: Coldplay – Fix You (Aylen Remix)
It’s not often a Coldplay remix will take the form of serenity-step. A traplicious masterpiece, Aylen caresses the senses by way of kicks, snares, and hi-hats. If you can forestall the inevitable euphoric stupor, brace yourself for Aylen's symphonious outro.
Who is Al Walser? Grammys fumble Best Dance Recording category
Reading through the nominees for the 55th Grammy Awards seemed pretty standard. Kelly Clarkson? Check. Fun.? Check. Adele? You better believe it. Venturing to our beloved Best Dance Recording category, I followed a similar checklist with Avicii, Skrillex, and Swedish House Mafia. It wasn't until I reached Al Walser that my confusion bordered on stupefaction and became pervasive enough to challenge my own sense of reality.
HTDA – Ice Age (Deadmau5 remix)
When Nine Inch Nails frontman, Trent Reznor, isn't winning the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Social Network or composing the theme song for Black Ops II, he finds time to produce seductively eerie music as How to Destroy Angels. To our satisfaction, Deadmau5 got his mouse-killing hands on the juxtaposized folk masterpiece adding an arousing array of his own bleeps and bloops.
Seven Lions – Days To Come (Coyote Kisses Cover)
A healthy blend of cloudstep, spacerock, and glitterpunk, the Coyote Kisses’ cover of Seven Lions is a mellifluous and multifarious symphony of sound. With a mix of live instrumentation and software production, this adaptation ending up taking the form of a cover more than a remix.
Editorial: Beatport, add genres and we all win
As fans and artists, we use Beatport religiously to buy, sell, and find new music. In other words -- Beatport is our Beat-Bible. As such, we all share the same stake in Beatport's underlying issue; the current limited arrangement of genres hinders music discovery, profit potential, and more. Let's unify as fans and artists to ask Beatport to take on a more fair and avant-garde understanding of genres. This antiquated system is just not cutting it.
Funkin Matt – I Wish (Original Mix)
Essential to festival sets from the likes of A-Trak, Crookers, and Nicky Romero, “I Wish” is a buzzing, eccentric jam that feels right at home on Fool’s Gold Records. As A-Trak asserted in the August edition of Fool’s Gold Radio, “This song is not by R. Kelly.” Instead, we get raspy vocals and carnal desires from a whimsical robot who most likely listened to the song “I Believe I Can Fly” one too many times. The reverberating robo-yearnings not only drew our sympathy, but also an uncontrollable desire to dance. Funkin Matt's funky joie de vivre is now available at 320 kbps. Just ask our favorite R&B urophiliac: “This is the remix to ignition, Hot and fresh out the kitchen.” Admit it, you continued humming the lyrics.