The Veld Music Festival surprises fans with 4 noteworthy DJs added to the lineup

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Today the Veld Music Festival surprises fans by announcing 4 DJs to the lineup that offers up a lot of diverse styles to the Toronto festival. Whereas last year there was a huge focus on big room DJs, this year they make a statement by booking the legendary New York DJ Danny Tenaglia and Toronto DJ of underground fame, Carlo Lio. There is also something for bass fans as 12th Planet and Pretty Lights were also added to the lineup. 

The important takeaway from this announcement is that the Veld Music Festival is branching out to more genres of EDM this year and that you can expect more underground and bass/dubstep DJs in future lineup releases. EDM Canada fully supports festivals booking on a more diverse lineup that allows fans to stage hop and experience new DJs that they may never have thought of if these DJs came to Toronto by themselves. The Veld Music Festival will continue to add to their DJ lineup everyday until April 3rd.

Click here to check out the Veld Music Festival event page.​

Update: the organizers have since ​added Dirty South, Adventure Club, Thomas Gold, GTA,  Sub Focus, Modestep, John Digweed, and Victor Calderone ​to the lineup:

DJ Mag releases top 100 clubs results *Updated

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Canadian results: ​

  • #22 - Guvernment (Toronto)
  • ​#36 - Footwork (Toronto)
  • #62 - Beta Nightclub (Waterloo)​ (​Thank you @DJMalek)
  • ​#69  - Circus Afterhours (Montreal)
  • #86 - Stereo (Montreal)

Last year it was Circus Afterhours that carried the flag as DJ Mag's top Canadian club at #19 while the Guvernment came in at #27. Beta was ranked at #40 while Footwork and Stereo were unranked in 2012. Klub OMFG from Alberta was ranked #49 while Cobra London came in at #44 in 2012, but both clubs did not make the 2013 cut.

From what I noticed from this year vs. last year was that Circus Afterhours, the Montreal afterhours club, was engaged in an active campaign in 2012 to encourage fans to vote and as a result they were awarded the 19th spot in the 2012 rankings. This year, I have noticed virtually no campaigning of any kind from either Circus or Stereo, while Guvernment in Toronto was by far the most active campaigner in 2013, highlighted by this promotional video.​

The takeaway lesson is that if you want to rank high in the DJ Mag rankings in the future, you must invest a lot of time and effort and in return your fans will take the time to vote for you.

Toronto's Veld Festival announces Deadmau5, Above & Beyond, and Kaskade as headliners

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The Veld Festival will be held on August 3-4 this year at Downsview Park in Toronto and feature Deadmau5, Above & Beyond, and Kaskade as the main headliners. Like the Digital Dreams Festival, the Veld Festival will be releasing a new DJ to the lineup everyday starting today until April 3rd. So stay tuned to the Veld event page as EDM Canada will continue to update the lineup as new names are released!

Listen to this: Greg Downey's 2 hour live set from L.A

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As you all probably know by now I am a big supporter of DJs mixing techno, psy-trance, and trance into sets as I believe dark techno fits like a glove when combined with tech-trance and psy-trance tracks in an overall mix. Over the past month I have found some great DJs that have been moving over to this style such as Simon Patterson and Will Atkinson, and now I'm happy to add Greg Downey to the list. Greg Downey put together a great set live from L.A and I hope you check it out below: