Author Archives: Kunal Bambawale

With a stunning three night run at Los Angeles' historic Shrine Auditorium, Above & Beyond demonstrated that, in the right hands, dance music can become more than just entertainment. The Group Therapy experience defies rational explanation. It's magical.

Live sets from EDC NY are now available for download. Featuring: Armin van Buuren, Alesso, Cazzette, Chris Lake, EDX, Rank 1, Tritonal, Jochen Miller, Paige, Funkagenda, Cosmic Gate, Madeon, Fatboy Slim, Chase & Status,

Sirius XM's Electric Area will be streaming live and recorded sets from EDC New York, beginning in less than half an hour with Cosmic Gate's performance from the Kinetic Field.

Above & Beyond would like you to submit a video of you and your friends preparing for, driving to, and dancing your shoes off at their upcoming Group Therapy LA gigs (you can include afterparty footage, too). The video should be 90 seconds or less.

With the addition of techno superstars Joris Voorn, Nic Fanciulli, Seth Troxler, and Guy Gerber, Insomniac Events has signalled that EDC Las Vegas 2012 will be a truly world-class music festival experience.

Anjunabeats wunderkid Mat Zo shows us the lighter side of his personality in the first episode of "ZoTV," a new web series that will document his life on stage and backstage.

To be honest, there isn't a bad track on Anjunabeats Worldwide 04. Trying to curate the best ones for you was painful, because all of Nitrous Oxide's contributions on CD2 are worthy of mention. If you're a trance fan, you need this album. Ineed, it's superior to any of the mix compilations Anjunabeats has put out recently -- includings Anjunabeats Vol. 8 and Vol. 9, both of which were mixed by Above & Beyond themselves.

With "Tung," "Hertz," and now "Bong," Deniz Koyu is beginning to articulate his own distinct style -- a musical identity, as it were. Why is this important? Call it the Afrojack model.

W&W's Shotgun" treads the fine line between trance and big-room house, and it would be confusing to classify it as one or the other. The synths, when we hear them, are distinctively trancey. But we don't hear them much -- most of the track is rhythmic rather than melodic. Rumble, thump, pummel. Rumble, thump, pummel.

The kind folks at Insomniac are back with Wet Wonderland, a weekly pool party at Marquee. The new event begins on April 29, when Kaskade returns to Sin City. If you like big beats and itty-bitty-bikinis, this is right up your alley.