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Welcome to Episode 49! Before we summarize this episode, we have a very special announcement to make... our website has finally launched! You can find the full show notes, music playlists, and more at www.beyondthebeats.co.

A big shout out to this week's Artists We're Watching: FATE (dark future, bass) and Rohaan (DnB).

To check out the full show notes please visit: www.beyondthebeats.co/episode-49

Welcome to Episode 48! This week's topics include Afrojack's techno alias, EDC Vegas's 2020 lineup, Supreme entering the turntable market, and we debate whether the return of vinyls are a good thing for the music industry. We also talk about new music from the likes of Nostalgix, Qlank,Jax Jones, Dombresky, Charlotte de Witte, Seven Lions, and Rezz x Zeds Dead.

A major shoutout to this week's Artists We're Watching: Capshun (trap, trap blend /future) and SAYVRE (trap). Thanks to Colin from FUXWITHIT for putting them on our radar and now subsequently on your radar too.

Check out the full show notes by visiting www.beyondthebeats.co/episode-48

Lastly, THANK YOU FOR TUNING IN. We couldn't do this without you!

Welcome to Episode 47! We hope you're ready for a bass-heavy show because we are joined this week by Electric Hawk Founder, Dariel Leiva.

It was an absolute pleasure to talk about all things electronic music with him. The topics we covered include Electric Hawk's mission, how to network properly in the music industry, Pasquale Rotella's roadmap for EDC and much more. We also discussed new releases from the likes of MEDUZA, Boys Noize, Blanke, Getter, Black Tiger Sex Machine x ATLiens, and others.

A major shoutout to this week's Artists We're Watching: SuperAve, Tre Justice, and BOM.

Check out the full show notes by visiting www.beyondthebeats.co/episode-47

Welcome to Episode 46! This week's topics include Green Day making fun of Trap Beats, a new Made Events and TD&T partnership, What So Not taking a break, GriZ produces house track and much more. We also talk about new music from Tyler Lawrence, Allen Mock, NGHTMRE, i_o, GriZ, and others.

A major shoutout to this week's Artists We're Watching: Swaylo (deep house, tribal trap); galva (dnb, trap, chill-trap; lots of moods).

Check out the full show notes by visiting www.beyondthebeats.co/episode-46

Welcome to Episode 45! This week's topics include Elon Musk's first EDM song, Soundcloud is now a $200m + company and DJs share their tips on staying sober at raves. We also discuss new music from Yellow Claw, Arty, Don Diablo, Louis the Child, Porter Robinson, Eliminate and others.

A major shoutout to this week's Artists We're Watching: Oakk (bass, trap, old school dubstep); Esofact (future, future bass).

Check out the full show notes by visiting www.beyondthebeats.co/episode-45

Welcome to Episode 44! This week's topics include Tomorrowland's lineup, Ultra finally signing a contract, how music streaming has exponentially grown and more. We also have the honor of giving an exclusive preview of JAVAX's new song - Turn. We discuss new music from people like Skrybe, Uknew & TYPE3, Jauz, Zeds Dead, Ekali, Calvin Harris's new sound Love Regenerator, and others.

A major shoutout to this week's Artists We're Watching - Ghost Dance (techno with electro elements) and Drew Daps (a concoction of deep, minimal, and tech).

Check out the full show notes by visiting www.beyondthebeats.co/episode-44

EDM Champions, we're officially back from our season break! Welcome to Episode 43 - there's a lot to catch you up on.

We discuss some big things that happened while we away: Coachella's lineup drop, what electronic music artists have done to support Australia during the bushfires, and Ultra Miami's continued drama at Bayfront Park. We also discuss new music from the likes of Coldwall, DWAM, Adiidas, Duke Dumont, ATLiens, Nicky Romero, Steve Aoki, and others.

A major shoutout to this week's Artists We're Watching: DirtyFun (house) and KRUDE (house).

Check out the full show notes by visiting www.beyondthebeats.co/episode-43

Welcome to Episode 42 - the last episode of Season 1!!

We want to thank all of our listeners- whether OG or new - for continuing to support this podcast. It means the absolute world to us. We will be back in January 2020 after the holidays with Season 2. We promise you - there's so much coming in 2020.

This week's topics include whether openers should go hard in their sets, #bansunburn, and legal action from the Justice apartment against Live Nation. We also discuss new music the likes of Voltra, Saint Punk, and Coldwall, Oliver Heldens, Four Tet, SIDEPIECE, and others.

Check out the full show notes by visiting www.beyondthebeats.co/episode-42

Throughout December (and before we venture into a new decade) we will release "lost interviews." These interviews simply got lost in the shuffle and some were literally lost in a memory card. Most of these "lost interviews" are from our first year as an ongoing podcast.

This "lost interview" from 2017 features local DJ Ray Mendoza. He talks about El Paso electronic music scene history, his approach to crafting sounds and how El Paso has inspired his musical journey. Stay tuned for a FULL track at the end!!!

This episode produced by M. De Santiago and G. Armendariz. Hosted by M. De Santiago. Intro/outro music by Ray Mendoza. Cover by You Know Who. RATED NSFW 

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And make sure to check out our playlists which contain all the music we mention! You can find the music by episode on our Spotify user profile and all the Artists We're Watching on our Soundcloud

On Repeat

Samir: Alesso - In the Middle

New Music from Artists We’re Watching

Voliik - Dissever

Inzo - Angst

Social Kid, LYRA - Trust Me

• Lyra's Spotify

New Music

Jason Ross, Seven Lions - Known before You

Rezz, Yultron - Hell on Earth

ANNA - Galactic Highways

Steve Aoki, Sting, Shaed - 2 In A Million

News & Culture

E-Forest Lineup controversy - people have mixed feelings about it?

• EForest is completely sold out

Community question/topic - thanks to @bedfo017 for sending this in: What’s going on with the fake ticket resellers? We discuss this!

How will music be produced in the future? Especially with the rise of AI?

• Amazon announces launch of AWS Deepcomposer
• "AWS DeepComposer is the world’s first musical keyboard powered by machine learning to enable developers of all skill levels to learn Generative AI while creating original music outputs. DeepComposer consists of a USB keyboard that connects to the developer’s computer, and the DeepComposer service, accessed through the AWS Management Console. DeepComposer includes tutorials, sample code, and training data that can be used to start building generative models."

Anti - Plur Moment

Articles with misleading titles/headers designed to get you to click on them...

What Are We Listening To?

Apashe ft. Geoffroy - Distance

The Chainsmokers, Kygo - Family

Artists We’re Watching

Alec: KarameL // Soundcloud // Instagram // Akira - Hope That Its You (KarameL Remix) (track)

Samir : MSFT // Soundcloud // Instagram // not my birthday (track)

On Repeat

Alec: Skazi - Brothers (psy-trance!)

New Music from Artists We’re Watching

Trip Trop - Jungle War

Koos - Mo Fo

New Music

deadmau5 - Coasted

RL Grime, Juelz - Formula

Gorgon City - Roped In

Mat Zo - Games

Glass Animals - Tokyo Drift (feat. Denzel Curry)

• Been gone for two years

News & Culture

Ultra Music Festival drops phase one of their lineup

Grammy nominees announced

Sky high Dj fees ruining nightlife?

Anti - Plur Moment

People who argue with you about identifying genres. Discussion is fine, but arguing is just lame.

What Are We Listening To?

Illenium, Ekali - Hard to Say Goodbye (feat. Chloe Angelides)

i_o - Rave 444

Artists We’re Watching

Alec: Keiden // Soundcloud // Instagram // GHOSTS (track)

Samir : Inadze // Soundcloud // Instagram // Miles (track)

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Welcome to Episode 39! This week's topics include whether the EDM bubble has burst, the Top 100 Clubs in the World, who the visual artists are behind the biggest names in EDM, and much more. We also had the honor of speaking to Kevin Bhatia - Business Affairs Lawyer at United Talent Agency (UTA).

Topics include tips to Artists who are trying to make it, describes how contracts between venues and artists are done, and all the details about what goes on behind the scenes in EDM from a business perspective.

We also chat about new music from the likes of Wenzday, Coastal, Chris Lake x Solardo, Deadmau5, MK x Sonny Fodera, and Dillon Nathaniel, Madeon, GriZ, and others.

A major shoutout to this week's Artists We're Watching: Gaba (house) and Muvy (big room trance).

Check out the full show notes by visiting www.beyondthebeats.co/episode-39

Welcome to Episode 38! This week's topics include Alec's experience seeing Chris Lorenzo in San Francisco, our thoughts on Datsik's apology, and how the fall of the Berlin Wall created Berlin's famed techno scene. We also had the honor of speaking with Deanna - the Founder and CEO of Beyond Dope. She delves into the amazing work that Beyond Dope is doing for raising awareness around addiction problems, harm reduction strategies, and moderation training.

We discuss new music from the likes of Talkre, Koos, Vily Vinilo, Camelphat, Louis the Child, Bonnie x Clyde, Nora En Pure Remix Jacknife x Elvis Brown, and others.

A major shoutout to this week's Artists We're Watching: Newtone (Bass house, house), and Ascent (bass).

Check out the full show notes by visiting www.beyondthebeats.co/episode-38

Welcome to Episode 37! This week we had the absolute honor of having the one and only Colin Vlasak on the show. Colin is the founder of FUXWITHIT - a pioneer in cultivating and spreading the sounds of the underground trap scene.

Topics include Colin's background, how the underground is thriving, RL Grime's Halloween 8 mix, police allowing an illegal rave in the UK, and more. New music from Herobust, Louis the Child, Rezz x Malaa, Getter, Boombox Cartel, Quix, Noizu, YVNG Jalapeno, and others.

A major shoutout to this week's Artists We're Watching: anti (trap - mentioned by Colin); DWAM (trap - mentioned by Samir); Algo (Dubstep - mentioned by Alec).

Check out the full show notes by visiting www.beyondthebeats.co/episode-37

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On Repeat

Alec: Dom Dolla - San Frandisco

New Music from Artists We’re Watching

BLVD - Game Day

Tyler Lawrence - Circles

Adiidas, MeSo - Eerie

New Music

Armin Van Buuren, Cimo Frankel - All Comes Down

Jauz - Get to Me

Ghastly, Brohug - Get Down

Black Tiger Sex Machine, YOOKiE - Spiders

PEEKABOO, Calcium - HANDS UP!

News & Culture

Zedd is banned from China after liking South Park tweet

• South Park banned for their tweet
• Then Zedd is banned for liking South Park's tweet
• South Park responds to their ban

Decadence Arizona drops their lineup

Fifa 20 has multiple EDM artists in their soundtrack

• Don Diablo
• Flume
• Alison Wonderland
• Disclosure
• Kaskade
• Louis the Child
• San Holo
• Wolfgang Gartner
• Zeds Dead x Jauz (lights go down song)

Environmental responsibilities and music festivals

• Shambala also takes its carbon footprint seriously
  • They've partnered with a company called Energy Revolution. A not-for-profit organization that aims to tackle one of the largest portions of a festival’s carbon footprint – audience travel.
  • They have a travel calculator on its website that works out much you would need to donate to renewable energy schemes to balance out your journey to and from a festival.
• Lots of other non-profits looking to help festivals be more eco-friendly
  • A Greener Festival - helps festivals and events around the world reach their green goals through a combination of sustainability training, discussion, and its celebrated Greener Festival Awards scheme, are also working to make the industry more sustainable.
  • They also provide festivals with feedback

Anti - Plur Moment

Alec: When a girl aggressively told me to get off my phone assuming that I was texting when I was actually making notes about the DJ’s set in order to talk to him...

What Are We Listening To?

Chris Lorenzo - Late Checkout

MEDUZA, Goodboys, Becky Hill - Lose Control

Artists We’re Watching

Alec: SHIZUO // Soundcloud // Instagram // Crywolf - Athetosis (SHIZUO Remix) (track)

• SHIZUO's name could be from a character of the same name in the anime show "Durarara!!!".

Samir : anbuu // Soundcloud // Instagram // Frequencies (track)

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On Repeat

Samir: Pryda - Project Prayer

New Music

JOYRYDE - SELECTA 19

Big Gigantic- Where I Wanna Be

Steve Aoki, Will Sparks - Send It

Chirs Lorenzo, The Streets - Take Me As I Am

News & Culture

Lost Lands Just Happened

• Floss announced after his set that he is taking a touring break after his two Halloween shows
• Illenium and Excision dropped an unreleased collab during their set

Alison Wonderland is doing a 7 stop warehouse tour

Is Jack U coming back?

Our chat with Ashlyn, Damask, Joey from H<3art Beats NYC 

• Facebook
• Instagram
• Email them

Anti - Plur Moment

Ridiculously long lines

What Are We Listening To?

Dillon Francis - Still Not Butter

Pryda - Pryda 15 Vol III

Artists We’re Watching

Alec: Adiidas // Soundcloud // Instagram // A Grey (track)

Proppa : // Soundcloud // Instagram // PBS (track)

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On Repeat

Besides Natasha Bedingfield’s Unwritten...

Samir: Chris Lake - Stay With Me

New Music from Artists We’re Watching

Duke Dumont - Need U (100%) (Trip Trop Twist)

New Music

Dillion Francis, Alison Wonderland - Lost My Mind NGHTMRE Remix

Eptic x Dillon Francis - Let it Go

Afrojack - Bass is Kicking

i_o - Possession EP

Pryda 15 Vol II

Illenium (with Foy Vance) - Blood

Flume - Quits EP

News & Culture

Samir saw Drezo last weekend. Talk to one of the openers - Kitty Pack.

Moonrise lineup

Tomorrowland Recap:

• Was Swedish House Mafia supposed to close? Gareth Emery says so
• Insane stages
• Killer lineups
• Freedom stage collapsed on weekend 2 so no Eric Prydz Holosphere for W2

A$AP Rocky released from jail in Sweden, pending verdict.

Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano will be Deejaying IN SPACE on Aug 13
First person ever to (obviously)

Illenium released tracklist for next album

Woodstock 50 finally throws in the towel

Five Islands Festival releases 2019 lineup; website

• One of the first major festivals to be held in the Middle East
• In Lebanon mountains, at MZAAR SKI RESORT, KFARDEBIAN, LEBANON.
• 1300 metres elevation which is ~ 4265.092 ft high.
• Music, art and camping festival
• Starts August 10th

Anti - Plur Moment

Alec - Mau5trap documentary - looks cool af - is only available on Tidal… sign of over commercialization of electronic music?

What Are We Listening To?

Knife Party - Lost Souls EP

Idris Elba - On Life

Artists We’re Watching

Alec: NADDA // Soundcloud // Instagram // NADDA x AMBERGALE Faithless Monk (track)

Samir : ORB // Soundcloud // Instagram // 360 Feeling (track)

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On Repeat

Alec: Liu - Nave Espacial

• Another big Brazilian DJ/producer!

New Music from Artists We’re Watching

Skrybe ft. Shae - Shadow and A Ruin

Uknew - Fundamentals Vol. 2

New Music

Illenium, The Chainsmokers - Takeaway

Rezz - Beyond the Senses EP

Hot Since 82 - 8-track LP

Above and Beyond, Seven Lions - See The End ft. Opposite The Other

W&W & 3 Are Legend - Khaleesi

News & Culture

Ultra is back at Bayfront Park with some conditions

Rezz releases EP in virtual reality

Seismic Dance Event releases a RIDICULOUS LINEUP

Numark releases Numark Scratch

DJ Snake b2b Malaa announced to close the pink tent at Hard Summer

A new documentary exploring acid house’s impact on 80’s Britain is out August 2nd on BBC Four

Anti - Plur Moment

Alec - I'm back with the Anti-Plur! This week, I rant about how venues need to take better care of their equipment/tech.

What Are We Listening To?

DJ Snake - Carte Blanche

Skrillex - Show Tracks EP

Artists We’re Watching

Samir: RemK // Soundcloud // Instagram // RemK - Flip It (track)

Alec: Banza // Soundcloud // Instagram // Blow Your Mind His song with Paskal supported by Malaa, Tchami.

• Banza's other song Guarana (track)