Reasons to wake up early for Ultra Weekend One
With the prospect of a long day ahead, festivals can be tempting times for ticket holders to stay in bed a little bit longer. You're missing the opening acts, but hey, at least you'll have energy for the end of the night, right? Wrong. Showing up early to festivals have led me to some of my favorite sets in memory. Lines are shorter, stages aren't as crowded, and you have the opportunity to catch some of the most promising talent of the day. Artists opening festival stages feel a lot of pressure and tend to deliver far beyond expectations. With Weekend One of Ultra fast approaching, start planning your first sets of the day.
Dancing Astronaut presents Axis, Episode 043: Mixed by Shreddie Mercury
On a special Wednesday edition of Axis, Shreddie Mercury stops by to deliver a 30 minute minimix of both his own heavy electro mashups, original remixes and some of the hardest hitting tracks of the last few months. After winning Zedd's "Spectrum" remix contest, Shreddie put himself on the map as an up-and-coming complextro producer whose unique approach to blaring synthesis resulted in him once again being commissioned to remix the complextro kingpin on "Clarity." There is no shortage of style here, as Shreddie ignores any call for subtlety stuttering and chopping his way through 19 tracks of bone-rattling electro.
Dancing Astronaut Minimix; Dave Winnel drops a gauntlet of 210 tracks in 18 minutes
In a frenetic display of launchpad mastery, Dave Winnel has delivered to Dancing Astronaut a 210 track assault on the senses. Much like Madeon, Winnel curates an expansive library of sound clips, building a narrative with little more than an APC-40 and his imaginative ear. Clocking in at 18 minutes, this exclusive minimix is an ADHD-sufferers soundtrack, no track gets more than a few seconds of play time before Winnel blends and chops it to smithereens creating a cocktail of dubstep blasts, progressive builds and electro grit.