Electronic music

Ultra Music Festival in the US landed second place, with the UK’s Glastonbury Festival coming in third. Electronic music festival Tomorrowland has been voted as the number one festival in the world in a reader poll run by DJ Mag. The EDM festival was launched in 2005 and takes place annually in Boom, Belgium. This […]

The industry has surged ever since pandemic-era restrictions have been lifted, with 34% revenue growth and revenue up across all categories. The dance music industry has been valued at a whopping $11.3 billion following a spate of post-pandemic growth. A new report authored by MIDiA Research’s Mark Mulligan from thought leadership platform IMS Ibiza has […]

Remember Face to Face? Yup. Savvy music fans have begun using Google Assistant to identify obscure samples from the music of artists like Daft Punk and Oneohtrix Point Never. Sampling service Tracklib reports that the technique was pioneered by members of a Discord community named Sample Hunting. By running audio directly from their computers into […]

Independent label, distributor, and publisher EMPIRE has acquired San Francisco-based dance record label, Dirtybird. Founded in 2010 by Bay Area native Ghazi Shami, EMPIRE has worked with various multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning artists such as Kendrick Lamar, Anderson .Paak, XXXTentacion, Fireboy DML and more. The acquisition now marks EMPIRE’s entrance into the dance music scene. Dirtybird […]