Tiesto and Laidback Luke confirmed for ILESONIQ

This morning Montreal got a glimpse of what the ILESONIQ Festival's lineup will look like with its phase 1 announcement: 

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Artists like Tiesto, Laidback Luke, 3LAU, and Bingo Players will be representing the big room side of things while Adventure Club, Snails and Botnek will be playing to their home crowd. In a surprise move by organizers, ILESONIQ will also be featuring some hip hop flair with the likes of Iggy Azalea, Juicy J, and Tyga added to the lineup. 

Tickets go on sale tomorrow and will start from $95 for general admission, and $300 for VIP, click below for more information: 

The Mat Zo Mix 017

Get the latest Mat Zo Mix for your earbuds to start off the week right: 

You can download this mix for free, click here. 

Mat Zo and Kill The Noise are coming to Montreal on Friday, May 30th, click here for more information. 

Tracklist: 

01. The Knocks - Move Me
02. Phonat- Never
03. Touch Sensitive - Pizza Guy
04. Chromeo - Over Your Shoulder
05. Alex Metric & Oliver - Galaxy
06. Chemical Brothers - The Boxer
07. The Toxic Avenger - Speed
08. Neosignal - 1000 Volts
09. Porter Robinson - Sad Machine
10. Flume - Holdin On
11. Alix Perez - Gully Halves
12. Aero Chord - Surface
13. Cyantific - Hard Times
14. Scar - Burnside
15. Skrillex - Fuck That
16. Jack Beats - Beatbox
17. Bart B More - The Heat
18. Paul Johnson - Get Get Down
19. Duck Sauce - NRG (Skrillex Kill The Noise & Milo & Otis Remix)
20. Armin Van Buuren - Pong (Kryder & Tom Staar Remix)
21. Dyro - Sounds Like
22. Mr Oscar - Roar
23. Armine Edge - Halfway Crooks
24. Mat Zo ft The Knocks - Get Down 2 Get Up

Hottest tracks of the week

Here's this week's selection of the hottest tracks hand-picked by the biggest radio shows in the land. I know that it's hard to keep up with so many EDM shows on a weekly basis so let this list help you out and keep you up to date on the hottest tracks of the week, enjoy: 

Pete Tong's "Essential New Tune": Chris Malinchak feat. Mikky Ekko - Stranger 

Above & Beyond's Group Therapy Radio 079's "Record Of The Week": Sunny Lax - "Karma"

BIG ROOM

Nicky Romero's Protocol Radio 092 #1: John Christian - "Next Level" (Nicky Romero Edit)

TRANCE

A State of Trance 663 "Tune Of The Week": Cosmic Gate - "Yai"

Markus Schulz's GDJB's "Global Selection": Cosmic Gate & KhoMha - "Tomenta"

M.I.K.E. Push's Club Elite Sessions 357 "Track Of The Week": Max Freegrant & Yuji Ono - "Tokyo Drift"

DRUM & BASS

Crissy Criss' The Drum N Bass show #1 pick: DC Breaks  - "Lock In"

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Bonus: Current Beatport #1: TJR, VINAI - "Bounce Generation"

When SNL makes fun of EDM

Yesterday during Saturday Night Live's "Digital Short", Andy Samberg starred as "Davvincii" (David Guetta + Avicii - get it?) and took the term "killing it" way too literally. Check it out: 

Montreal will be getting its own EDM festival this August

Looks like Montreal will finally be getting its own electronic dance music festival this August at Parc Jean-Drapeau, check out the video teaser: 

The backers of the ILESONIQ music festival are heavyweights within the industry. Evenko, the organizers behind Osheaga and many other events in Montreal, are one of the largest promoters within Quebec. They have teamed up with Electronic Nation Canada, the dance music division of Live Nation Canada, the organizers behind Digital Dreams in Toronto. Also joining them will be Ink Entertainment, one of the biggest nightlife entities in Toronto and organizers of Veld and Chasing Summer via Ink Promotions in Calgary. Put these three promoters together and you know that ILESONIQ will be something special. 

ILESONIQ will be taking place at Parc Jean-Drapeau from August 15th until August 16th, 2014. According to the official website, they will be announcing more details on May 21st. EDM Canada will keep you updated as more information is released. 

Click below for more ILESONIQ event information: