10 Reasons You Have to Attend Movement Festival
Memorial Day Weekend marks the start of the insane summer festival season when dance music pandemonium sweeps the nation week after week. As Movement Electronic Music Festival enters its fifteenth year, we take a look at the historic Paxahau event, and what makes this event such a dance music gem.
DA Exclusive: Galantis release their ‘Seafoxchella Live Set’
One of the most buzzed about sets at this year's Coachella Arts and Music Festival came at the hands of Christian Karlsson and Linus Eklow, the pop dance phenoms behind the newly-formed Galantis. Dubbed 'Seafoxchella,' their live debut blurred the lines between pop hooks and crisp electro, pushing the envelope of the live electronic paradigm. Living up to their well-deserved hype, the duo stunned crowds with an expertly crafted hour long set, complete with live controllers, gorgeous visuals and tantalizing melodies all designed to capture and captivate an audience eager to see something different. Exclusively through Dancing Astronaut, Galantis have released their hour-long live debut for those of us unlucky enough to have missed it live and anyone seeking to relive the magic one more time.
Nero – Satisfy (Original Mix)
NERO is back to revive the smoldering corpse of dance music left in the wake of a year's worth of festival-focused drops and formulaic banality. The embodiment of all that is right in the dance music zeitgeist, NERO's debut album Welcome Reality came at a time when electronic music in the States was just beginning to re-emerge and the "EDM boom" was only a twinkle in every blogger's eye. Since its release there have been few attempts to emulate it. Perhaps the album's lofty sound design and industrial mystique proved too difficult to capture for the YouTube production tutorial generation. Now, three years later and into a very different landscape, the group returns to show fans how electronic music is properly done. Debuted on Zane Lowe's BBC1 Radio Show, the first original release off their forthcoming sophomore effort re-introduces fans to Alana Watson's gorgeous vocals and true unadulterated electronica. Reviving their old stylistic cues, "Satisfy" captures the true essence of the NERO aesthetic, propelling itself forward as a heaping mass of greyscale synthesis and stunningly wisp-like vocals demolish everything unlucky enough to be in their path.