Mysteryland USA announces camping-only Friday lineups
Mysteryland USA returns to Bethel Woods this year with an incredible new camping experience. The campgrounds this year will include "The Plaza Central" and additional bathrooms, showers, lockers and food vendors. The entertainment this year also gets a huge upgrade. The $500,000 improvements went into the entertainment as well, with 3 stages competing for your attention at this year's festival. The Friday Day and Night parties include Richie Hawtin, Maceo Plex, and Josh Wink closing out the evening and A-Trak, GTA, and Tropkillaz getting the day started. BANGON! returns with The Golden Pony, Dirty Looks, Real Eyes, Tribes DJ's. This year's new stage is Pineapple Paradise hosted by Bounce Brunch, a collection of bounce and bass menaces including FIGHT CLVB, KLEP ONE, NADUS and more.
In defense of tropical house: understanding the rise, the ‘experience,’ and foreseeing its future
In less than 12 months, names like Kygo, Thomas Jack, Klingande and Bakermat have been placed underneath the latest subgenre to leave its mark on the EDM phenomenon. Kygo, arguably the most successful pioneer of the movement was handed unspoken confirmation of his arrival in dance music when he acted as a stand in for a coveted main stage slot during Avicii's absence at TomorrowWorld in 2014. Kygo then signed to Sony Music within just a few months of emerging into the electronic music sphere. Thomas Jack, an Australian who coined the term tropical house, was hand-selected by radio mogul Pete Tong as a leading tastemaker in the modern day music sphere with the probable potential of curating his own station on BBC. Where big room house once stood and dubstep was once primed to do, tropical house has now achieved and in record time.