If your festival ticket costs $126, the promoter only receives $22 - at least in Australia anyways. Check out the full cost breakdown of an EDM festival ticket in Australia. It's a quick read I promise.
(Source: Stoneyroads)
I've had a lot of fun listening to a lot new music recently because of these 'best of 2012' lists from other sites. Not only does it give you a completely different point of view and opinion, but it also widens your sphere to new DJ/producers to look out for in the new year.
With that said, here are the lists that are link worthy:
Inthemix's '30 Albums of 2012'. Very eclectic list. Not what you would expect.
Future Proofing's 'Top 50 Tracks of 2012'. Vancouver writer Andrew Ryce has compiled an interesting list with plenty of subtext for each track.
Lessthan3's 'The Top 15 Drum & Bass Tracks of 2012'. DnB is one of these genres that I'd like to get back into in 2013 so I enjoyed checking out this selection.
*Update: Electrojams also released a 'best of 2012' series which included one for Drum & Bass with an easy to listen to Soundcloud playlist. Enjoy.
The Worst Guy's 'The Best Of: Indubitably Dubstep 2012'. I like it for the simple fact that it doesn't make you click a page for every track listed like some other 'best of' lists.
According to Niles Rodgers, there will be something new to hear from Daft Punk soon.
From my point of view, Daft Punk rumours and reporting on whatever Deadmau5 has said were the most overused click bait ploys in 2012. Hopefully this rumour turns out to be true.
(Source: Nile Rodgers, via DA/Mixmag)
Originally created in March 2010, the Boiler Room have been host to a wide variety of DJs (mostly underground UK DJs) giving online viewers a front row seat to the show. There have been a lot of fantastic sets from the Boiler Room but here are two of my favourites:
Lunice (From TNGHT):
This Montreal producer, along with Hudson Mohawke, have been setting the world on fire with TNGHT's ground breaking self-titled EP that was included in Jon Caramanica's top ten albums of 2012 from the New York Times. 'Higher Ground' was also recently crowned as A-Trak's favourite track of 2012 on Twitter. Lunice is really in his own world for the 45 minute set in the Boiler Room and to say that he threw down would be an understatement. I've probably seen this set 3 times now and I'm still not bored of it.
Lunice will be in Toronto at the Hoxton on January 18th, and in Montreal on January 26th at Igloofest as part of TNGHT.
RL Grime:
RL Grime/Clockwork is primed to become one of the biggest names in EDM starting in 2013. His remixes of Kanye West's 'Mercy' and Benny Benassi's 'Satisfaction' have put him on the map as one of the top producers of 2012. This boiler room set from LA showcases some of the best the genre has to offer.
There are literally hundreds of Boiler Room sets from almost every genre (no Trance) for you to choose from on Youtube, check it out.
