Hooks from Zeds Dead shows off his graffiti skills (Video)

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Hooks from Zeds Dead showed off his graffiti art skills to Thump in a video to promote his upcoming Altered States tour starting this Fall: 

Apparently Hooks was active in the graffiti Toronto scene from 2005-2008:

"I was really active from about 2005 to 2008, then I started to slow down a lot when we started touring. I was really influenced early on by a lot of writers from Toronto like Causr, Kane, Sight, Skam, Bacon, Kwest, Sent2, Koner, Fathom... to name a few. Also the book Subway Art had a big impact on my style. It's hard to pick a favorite of all time, but right now some of my favorites are Askew, Roids, Rime, Horfee, Revok, Atlas, and Sofles, in no particular order.

Did you ever have any graffiti-related drama?
 
Hooks: I've been in a lot of sketchy situations through graff. Been caught a few times. Painting at strange hours of the night in weird areas, you see a lot of the seedy underbelly of a city.

(Source: Thump) 

Bonus pic: Hooks posed on Zeds Dead's Facebook a collaborative graffiti piece he did with Fake Blood at Mysteryland: 

Hooks and Fake Blood graffiti art

EDM snubbed at the VMAs

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As reported by Dancing Astronaut:

"Despite MTV’s recent MTV Clubland outlet, dance music stars were snubbed of awards at last night’s VMAs. There was Zedd being beat out by Austin Mahone for the fan-voted Artist to Watch, Calvin Harris falling short to Pink for Best Collaboration and to Justin Timberlake for best editing, A-Trak & Tommy Trash being toppled by Ryan Lewis & Macklemore for Best Cinematography, and both Skrillex and Duck Sauce taking a back seat to Capital Cities for Best Visual Effects." 

Can't say that I'm surprised, but I was hoping for at least one award going to an EDM act this year. 

Watch a clip from Daft Punk's upcoming official video for "Lose Yourself To Dance"

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Everyone who watched the VMA's yesterday were treated to a promo clip of Daft Punk's upcoming official video for their next release "Lose Yourself To Dance", check it out: 

Kinda weird that they didn't perform live though, especially after that entire Colbert incident.  

(Source: Beatport) 

Top tracks from trance Thursday

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It was another successful week of back to back episodes for trance Thursday on di.fm and here are the top tracks from this week's edition:

Markus Schulz' Global DJ Broadcast "Global Selection": Lange - "Imagineer" 
  

A State of Trance (ASOT) 627 "Tune Of The Week": Mark Eteson - "The Firm"

ASOT 627 "Future Favourite": Dash Berlin ft. Sarah Howells - "Go It Alone" (Andrew Rayel Remix) 

M.I.K.E Club Elite Sessions 318 "Track Of The Week": Meridian - "Full Anger"

Simon Patterson's Open Up 030 (EDM Canada's pick): Simon Patterson & Blazer - "Contraband" (Simon Patterson Remix) 

You can tune into the trance Thursdays broadcasts every week starting at 12:00 pm EDT for free on di.fm.