Thugli and Autoerotique win MMVA awards!

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(Source: MMVA.MUCHMUSIC.COM)

(Source: MMVA.MUCHMUSIC.COM)

The 2014 Much Music Video Awards just took place last night in Toronto and two electronic dance music artists won big.

Thugli won the "Director of the Year" award for the video "Run This" (Directed by Amos LeBlanc, Ohji Inoue): 

Autoerotique won the award for "Dance Video Of The Year" for the video "Asphyxiation": 

Congratulations to both Thugli and Autoerotique for their MMVA awards! 

Listen to ETC!ETC! Mad Decent Block Party mixtape (free download)

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ETC!ETC!, a trap/moombahton producer/DJ from Los Angeles has just released a special 40 minute mixtape to hype the upcoming Mad Decent Block Party events that will begin this Friday:

 (Source: Thump)

The Mad Decent Block Party will be kicking off in Calgary tomorrow featuring a stellar lineup including Major Lazer Zeds Dead, Dillon Francis, Flosstradamus, Big Gigantic, Paul Devro, and Smalltown DJs. Click here for ticket information.

Update - Set times for Calgary's MDBP:  

1:00 PM – GATES OPEN
1:00 PM – Smalltown DJs
2:00 PM – Paul Devro
3:15 PM – Big Gigantic
4:15 PM – Flosstradamus
5:15 PM – Dillon Francis
6:45 PM – ZEDS DEAD
8:30 PM – Major Lazer
10:00 PM – CURFEW

Next Friday the MDBP will be in Toronto with Major Lazer, Zeds Dead, RiFF RAFF, Grandtheft, Thugli, and DJ El Dusty. Click here for ticket information.

Eventhough ETC!ETC! will not be joining the Canadian MDBP dates, he will be spinning next Thursday at Edmonton's Union Hall, click here for more information.

 

Are you ready for Ottawa's Bluesfest?

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Starting this Thursday is the first day of the annual 2-week long Ottawa Bluesfest which will be taking place at Lebreton Flats. Traditionally a festival that features a wide array of talent across many genres of music, Ottawa's Bluesfest has increasingly made more space for electronic dance music acts to appear over the years to great success. One of the biggest turnouts for last year's Bluesfest was Skrillex' led Full Flex Express and this year's promise of having Dog Blood (Skrillex and Boys Noize) featured on the main stage should be an exciting prospect for those looking for their OWSLA/Boys Noize Records fix.

This year's Bluesfest offers a diverse selection of EDM performers, check out the full selection:  

Ottawa's Bluesfest

The festival kicks off this Thursday with the Montreal duo Adventure Club with support from DVBBS. This Saturday will headline Zeds Dead, another duo from Canada that has taken the world by storm, with support from the talented Keys N Krates, and Adrian Lux. Monday, July 8th will probably go down as the biggest EDM night in Ottawa's history with Baauer & RL Grime going B2B with Thugli providing warm up duties. Next Wednesday will feature the hometown trio A Tribe Called Red, who has been longlisted for this year's Polaris Prize.

On July 12th you'll get your rage on with Tommy Trash and up and comers Dzeko & Torres which has epic night written all over it. On the last night of Bluesfest Dog Blood will be the final headlining act on the main stage to cap off the festivities. If you want to check out how nutty it was the last time Skrillex visited Ottawa, click here to read my review from last year.

If the above didn't get you riled up enough, check out Bluesfest's special video preview of their EDM lineup:  

For all ticket information, click here.