Nicky Romero criticizes ghost producing

Watch the revealing FuseTV video below with Nicky Romero: 

Here are some choice quotes taken from the video as reported by Mixmag: 

"With regards to these artists, he said: “They don’t even know how to make their music. They don’t even know how to start the software. That’s not right.”

He continues: “We spend so much time and effort making the sounds, making arrangements and finding the chords.

"There are rich dads in this world that just pay for their sons and pay producers tons of money to have music out there and make them a big artist. An artist is created by creativity and originality and discipline. It is not created by money.”  

He also admitted to having ghost produced for "Rihanna, Britney Spears, and David Guetta." 

Tiesto talks about why he left trance (Video)

Tiesto recently talked to DJ Mag where he was asked why he left trance, here's his response: 

Hopefully Tiesto will make his trance EP collaboration with M.I.K.E. Push a reality. 

Frozen + Armin = Awesome

When I first heard that Disney invited a few choice artists to remix famous Disney songs, I was immediately skeptical. It felt like a stretch, like Disney had made a business-inspired move to embrace electronic dance music because it was simply popular and the "in" sound at the moment. But according to Armin Van Buuren in yesterday's A State of Trance broadcast, they gave him carte blanche and allowed him to remix the track any way he'd like. I was pleasantly surprised by the results, check it out: 

What do you think? I'd say Armin Van Buuren did an outstanding track of creating a breathtaking and uplifting remix of the Oscar winning track from Frozen. 

Armin Van Buuren will be in Toronto for his only Eastern Canada stop of the Armin Only tour on Saturday, April 19th - click here for more information. 

Want even more trap? Get this free download by Vancouver's own Calamalka

Run The Trap grabbed the exclusive on this excellent trap track called "Shuttles" made by Calamalka, a Vancouver based artist, check it out: 

To get this as a free download, click here. 

(VIA @MatTheAlien)

Listen to the Rene LaVice remix of Chris Lake's "Helium" right now

I really like this drum & bass remix by Toronto's own Rene LaVice of Chris Lake's "Helium" featuring Jareth, check it out: 

It's out now on Beatport, click here for more information.