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Stockholm
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The city is spread across 14 islands on the coast in the southeast of Sweden at the mouth of Lake Mälaren, by the Stockholm archipelago and the Baltic Sea. The area has settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC. It is also the capital of Stockholm County, Stockholm is the cultural, media, political, and economic centre of Sweden. The Stockholm region alone accounts for over a third of the countrys GDP and it is an important global city, and the main centre for corporate headquarters in the Nordic region. The city is home to some of Europes top ranking universities, such as the Stockholm School of Economics, Karolinska Institute and it hosts the annual Nobel Prize ceremonies and banquet at the Stockholm Concert Hall and Stockholm City Hall. One of the citys most prized museums, the Vasa Museum, is the most visited museum in Scandinavia. The Stockholm metro, opened in 1950, is known for its decoration of the stations. Swedens national football arena is located north of the city centre, Ericsson Globe, the national indoor arena, is in the southern part of the city. The city was the host of the 1912 Summer Olympics, and hosted the equestrian portion of the 1956 Summer Olympics otherwise held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Stockholm is the seat of the Swedish government and most of its agencies, including the highest courts in the judiciary, and the official residencies of the Swedish monarch and the Prime Minister. The government has its seat in the Rosenbad building, the Riksdag is seated in the Parliament House, and the Prime Ministers residence is adjacent at the Sager House. After the Ice Age, around 8,000 BCE, there were already a number of people living in the present-day Stockholm area. Thousands of years later, as the ground thawed, the climate became tolerable, at the intersection of the Baltic Sea and lake Mälaren is an archipelago site where the Old Town of Stockholm was first built from about 1000 CE by Vikings. They had a positive impact on the area because of the trade routes they created. Stockholms location appears in Norse sagas as Agnafit, and in Heimskringla in connection with the legendary king Agne, the earliest written mention of the name Stockholm dates from 1252, by which time the mines in Bergslagen made it an important site in the iron trade. The first part of the name means log in Swedish, although it may also be connected to an old German word meaning fortification, the second part of the name means islet, and is thought to refer to the islet Helgeandsholmen in central Stockholm. Stockholms core, the present Old Town was built on the island next to Helgeandsholmen from the mid 13th century onward. The city originally rose to prominence as a result of the Baltic trade of the Hanseatic League, Stockholm developed strong economic and cultural linkages with Lübeck, Hamburg, Gdańsk, Visby, Reval, and Riga during this time
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Electro house
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Electro house is a form of house music. Electro house is characterized by a prominent bassline and/or kick drum and its origins were influenced by electro, electroclash, electropop, synthpop, and tech house. The term has been used to describe the music of many DJ Mag Top 100 DJs, including Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Hardwell, Skrillex, electro-house is typified by its heavy bass. This is often in the form of buzzing basslines, such as those created with sawtooth waves and it is also often in the form of large bass drum sounds in a four-on-the-floor pattern. The tempo of electro house is usually around 130 beats per minute, electro house sometimes resembles tech house, but it can contain melodic elements and electro-influenced samples and synths. The genre has been described as a genre of house and electro, either in its original form or as fused with electropop and techno in its late-1990s revival. The word electro is now used as an adjective, such as electro-house. Early songs that have been labelled retroactively as electro-house include Dark Invader by Arrivers in 1996, mr. Oizos 1999 hit Flat Beat has also been considered an early example of the genre. Benny Benassi, with his track Satisfaction released in 2002, is seen as the forerunner of electro-house who brought it to the mainstream, by the mid 2000s, electro-house saw an increase in popularity. Since then, electro-house producers such as Feed Me, Knife Party, The M Machine, Porter Robinson, in the early 2010s, a type of electro-house known as big room began to develop, particularly gaining popularity through EDM-oriented events and festivals such as Tomorrowland. Big room now is beginning to subside from the classification of a subgenre of electro house, big room songs resemble Dutch house, often incorporating drops, minimalist percussion, regular beats, sub-bass layered kicks, simple melodies, and synth-driven breakdowns. The layout of a big room track is similar to the layout of a typical electro-house song. Big room is thought of as a subgenre of electro-house, complextro is typified by glitchy, intricate basslines and textures created by sharply cutting between instruments in quick succession. The term, a portmanteau of the complex and electro, was coined by Porter Robinson to describe the sound of the music he was making in 2010. He has cited video game sounds, or chiptunes, as an influence on his style of music along with 1980s analog synth music and it is primarily defined by complex rhythms made from Latin-influenced drum kits, a lower emphasis on basslines, and squeaky, high-pitched lead synths. Influences on the subgenre include Detroit techno, hip hop and other styles of music. It contains influences from Chicago house, Detroit techno, Baltimore club, Kuduro, Pimba, bassline, bouncy techno, dubstep, techstep, hip hop easy listening and world music. Purveyors of the genre include The Bloody Beetroots, AC Slater, Danger, Hervé, Sinden, Jack Beats, the term fidget house was coined by DJs/producers Jesse Rose and Switch, as a joke, which has now gone a little too far
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Dance-pop
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Dance-pop is a pop and dance subgenre that originated in the early 1980s. It is generally up-tempo music intended for nightclubs with the intention of being danceable, the genre, on the whole, tends to be producer-driven, despite some notable exceptions. Dance-pop borrowed influences from other genres, which varied by producer, artist, such include contemporary R&B, house, trance, techno, new jack swing, funk, synthpop, electropop and some forms of europop. Dance-pop is a mainstream style of music and there have been numerous pop artists. As the term started to go out of fashion by the late 1970s to early 1980s, other terms were commonly used to describe disco-based music, such as post-disco, club. Dance-pop music emerged in the 1980s as a combination of dance and pop, or post-disco, Dance-pop music was usually created, composed and produced by record producers who would then hire singers to perform the songs. In the beginning of the 80s disco was an anathema to the mainstream pop, according to prominent Allmusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Madonna had a huge role in popularizing dance music as mainstream music, utilizing her charisma, chutzpah and sex appeal. Erlewine claimed that Madonna launched dance-pop and set the standard for the genre for the two decades. The staff of Vice magazine stated that her debut album drew the blueprint for future dance-pop, in the 1980s dance-pop was closely aligned to other up-tempo electronic genres, such as Hi-NRG. Prominent producers in the 1980s included Stock, Aitken and Waterman, during the decade, dance-pop borrowed influences from funk, new jack swing, and contemporary R&B. Other prominent dance-pop artists and groups of the 1980s included the Pet Shop Boys, Mel and Kim, Samantha Fox, Debbie Gibson, by the 1990s, dance-pop had become a major genre in popular music. Several dance-pop groups and artists emerged during the 1990s, such as the Spice Girls, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, Backstreet Boys, during the early 1990s, dance-pop borrowed influences from house music, as well as contemporary R&B and new jack swing. Additionally, also in 1998, Cher released a song called Believe which made usage of a technological innovation of the time. An audio processor and a form of pitch modification software, Auto-Tune is commonly used as a way to correct pitch, since the late 1990s, the use of Auto-Tune processing has become a common feature of dance-pop music. Celine Dion also released a dance-pop song Thats the Way It Is by the end of 1999 and it has a moderately slow tempo but an up-beat song. At the beginning of the 2000s, dance-pop music was still prominent, nonetheless, as R&B and hip hop became extremely popular from the early part of the decade onwards, dance-pop often borrowed a lot of its influences from urban music. Dance-pop stars from the 1980s and 1990s such as Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Madonna, Janet Jackson, in Madonnas case, her album Music contained elements of Euro disco, especially the successful eponymous lead single. Britney Spears album Blackout contained influences of Euro disco, the mid-to-late 2000s saw the arrival of several new dance-pop artists, including Rihanna, Kesha, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry
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Big room house
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Big room house is a subgenre of electro house music. It has become one of the most appealing form of dance music. It is regarded as a form of progressive house, electro house. It has gained popularity after artists like Hardwell, Nicky Romero. The genre is generally 126 to 132 bpm and it is composed of lengthy trance-influenced build-ups, a powerful and driving electro-style drop. It is also known to include a 4/4 hard style kick, a typical big room house track features bass-heavy kicks, with minimal musical elements and sometimes only a syncopated supersaw or percussion. It often incorporates drops, minimalist percussion, regular beats, sub-bass layered kicks, simple melodies, in the early 2010s, big room house began developing and gained popularity at electronic dance music events and festivals such as Tomorrowland. Despite being considered a subgenre of house, big room house music has been developing into a genre of its own throughout the years. Martin Garrixs best selling single, Animals is regarded as one of the most notable big room house song, the genre gained notability in the early 2010s as DJs and producers began playing big room house songs at festivals and clubs. In 2016, Beatport reclassified electro house as a subgenre of big room house, putting notable producers such as Deadmau5, the genre has been criticized by several musicians, describing it as stereotypical EDM sound lacking originality and creativity, and that it sounds homogenous. Mixmag described the genre as composing of titanic breakdowns and spotless, Wolfgang Gartner described the genre as a joke, and disregarded it, alongside conglomerates such as SFX Entertainment, as digestible cheap dance music. In mid-2013, Swedish duo Daleri posted a mix on SoundCloud entitled Epic mashleg, every day, new tracks, all the same. It just keeps coming all the time, the duo defended their use of big room characteristics in their own music, by emphasizing their complextro influences. The structure of bigroom is similar in terms to that of progressive house/trance, there are two build-ups complete with breaks, two drop sections, and one or two breakdowns, one of which may or may not include the intro/outro phase. Unlike progressive house, however, bigroom is adapted to radio edited format, the basic characteristic of bigroom lies in its minimalism. One bassline, often aided by one or two highs and lows, creates the mood for the whole composition and this bassline is reverberated so that the echo is cut and spontaneously released only on 1/4 of the tab, usually the last. Unlike in electro house proper, where the bass itself is subject to additional wave effects in order to beautify the melody, in bigroom, henceforth, the drum beats are made minimal, sometimes with only a kick/tom and a couple of hit-hats. Big room house first appeared in early 2010 and was influenced by early electro house tracks
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Big Beat Records (American record label)
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Big Beat Records is an American record label owned by the Atlantic Records Group, a division of Warner Music Group. Founded as a label in 1987 by 22-year-old New York City deejay Craig Kallman. After achieving some notoriety on the dance music circuit, Doug Morris — then head of Atlantic Records — brought Kallman. Atlantic purchased the label outright in 1992 and it also had a sub-label named Turnstyle. In 1998, Kallman was promoted to Vice President of Atlantic, following his promotion, Big Beat was subsequently absorbed into its parent company. Big Beats artists included Lil Kim, Po Broke & Lonely, Mad Skillz, Changing Faces, junior Mafia, Artifacts, Art n Soul, Jomanda, Double X Posse, Jody Watley, The Bucketheads, Jay Williams, David DOr, and Quad City DJs. French house musician David Guetta became part of Big Beat in 2013 following the purchase of Parlophone by Warner Music Group, list of record labels Official website
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Atlantic Records
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Atlantic Recording Corporation is an American major record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson. In 2004, Atlantic Records and its sister label Elektra Records merged into Atlantic Records Group, craig Kallman is currently the chairman of Atlantic Records. Ahmet Ertegün served as founding chairman until his death on December 14,2006, the brothers had become ardent fans of jazz and rhythm & blues music, amassing a collection of over 15,00078 RPM records. He convinced the family dentist, Dr Vahdi Sabit, to invest $10,000 and recruited Herb Abramson, Abramson had worked as a part-time A&R manager/producer for the jazz label National Records, signing Big Joe Turner and Billy Eckstine. He founded Jubilee Records in 1946, but had no interest in its most successful artists, so, in September 1947, he sold his share in Jubilee to his partner, Jerry Blaine, and invested $2500 in the new Atlantic label. When interviewed in 2009 she attributed her reputation to the companys chronic cash-flow shortage, most of the problems we had with artists were that they wanted advances, and that was very difficult for us. We were undercapitalized for a long time, the labels original office in the Ritz Hotel, Manhattan proved too expensive so they relocated to an $85 per month room in the Hotel Jefferson. In its early years Atlantic focused principally on modern jazz although it released some country and western and spoken word recordings. The union action forced Atlantic to use almost all its capital to cut and stockpile enough recordings to last through the ban, Ertegun and Abramson spent much of the late 1940s and early 1950s scouring nightclubs in search of talent. Ertegun composed many songs under the alias A, in early 1949 a New Orleans distributor phoned Ertegun trying to obtain Stick McGhees Drinking Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee, which was unavailable due to the closure of McGhees previous label. Ertegun knew Sticks younger brother Brownie McGhee, with whom Stick happened to be staying, so he contacted the McGhee brothers, Ertegun asked about artists royalties, which he paid, which surprised Columbia executives, who did not, which scuttled the deal. On the recommendation of broadcaster Willis Conover, Ertegun and Abramson went to see Ruth Brown at the Crystal Caverns club in Washington and she was badly injured in a car accident en route to New York but Atlantic supported her for nine months and then signed her. Her first release for the label So Long, cut at her second Atlantic session on May 25,1949 with the Eddie Condon band, was a major hit, reaching #6 on the R&B chart. Brown went on to more than eighty songs for the label, becoming the most prolific. So significant was Browns success to Atlantics fortunes that the label became known colloquially as The House That Ruth Built. The Clovers Dont You Know I Love You became the labels first R&B #1 in September 1951 and she hit #1 again in March–April 1952 with 5-10-15 Hours. After she left the label in 1961 Browns fortunes declined rapidly - within a few years was reduced to working as a cleaner and bus-driver to support her children. Brown eventually received a payment of $20,000 and founded a charity
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Style of Eye
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Linus Eklöw, better known by his stage name Style of Eye, is a Swedish DJ, record producer, and songwriter. He is part of the music group Galantis. He has worked with Usher, Kylie Minogue, Lily Allen, Zedd, Miike Snow, Slagsmålsklubben, Tom Staar, Lars Allertz, Soso and his early 2013 single Taken Over, featuring Rebecca & Fiona, peaked at 33 on the Swedish charts. In 2013, Linus teamed up with Christian Karlsson of Miike Snow to form the super duo, Galantis. On April 23,2014, Linus was awarded at ASCAPs 31st Annual Pop Music Awards for Icona Pops international hit, I Love It featuring Charli XCX, footprints, his second full length released in October 2014 on Ultra Records, was nominated for a Swedish Grammy. The album includes the singles, Kids, The Game. Linus Eklöw was raised in Stockholm, Sweden, Linus began experimenting with production as early as 14 years old, creating weird downtempo and trip hop songs, as well as spinning drum & bass at his school discos. “I’m always looking to connect dots from my own history, ” Linus explains, Eklöw started his house music career in 2003, when he released tracks on Derrick Carters Chicago label, Classic. During these early years, Linus made Chicago Jackin House music with Swedish refinement and high energy flair,2008 was also the year that Claude VonStroke and his Dirtybird imprint released Linus The Big Kazoo EP, which was followed up the next year by The Race EP. “I’m always about high-energy with a need to push things forward, in addition, Linus’s “Homeless” track alongside Slagsmålsklubben for A-Trak’s Fool’s Gold was followed up this year with his debut EP on the label, “Ray Dee Oh. Linus has been an international DJ, gigging at major festivals, Eklöw has performed at, Swedish House Mafia’s show at the 35,000 capacity Friends Arena in Stockholm, Pier 94 in New York, Tomorrowland, Mysteryland, Snowbombing and Sunburn Festival in India. Linus teamed up with Christian Karlsson of Miike Snow near the end of 2013 to form the group Galantis and they then took their Galantis live show on the road across the US, including two performances at Coachellas Gobi stage in April 2014. As of May 5,2014, Galantis has finished most of the songwriting of their first full-length album
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Miike Snow
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Miike Snow is a Swedish indie pop band formed in 2007. The band consists of producing team Bloodshy & Avant and American singer Andrew Wyatt, the band is often represented by a silhouette image of a jackalope. Since their debut, they have released three albums, Miike Snow, Happy to You, and iii. Miike Snow was formed in 2007 in Stockholm, Sweden, band members Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg were childhood friends who spent time playing in bands and working on various projects in studios throughout the city of Gothenburg. Karlsson was a member of the Swedish hip-hop band Goldmine. After separate moves to Stockholm, they reunited in 2000, Karlsson and Winnberg collaborated under the moniker Bloodshy & Avant and enjoyed a significant amount of success as producers and songwriters. They have worked with such as Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Kelis, Sky Ferreira. Actually, it turns out Id met Christian in the studio maybe a year before, the name Miike Snow is said to have come from one of their friends named Mike Snow. We liked it and added the extra I because we liked the look of it and we once found a possible classic Swedish film on our tour bus once, called Jävligt Jagad. Its a bit like if Bergmans ancestors would make a movie inspired by Takashi Miike, Miike Snow have, however, indicated that they are fans of Miikes work, specifically noting Audition, Visitor Q,13 Assassins, and Ichi the Killer. Miike Snow is Miike Snows eponymous debut album and it was recorded in Stockholm and released in the United States on 9 June 2009 by Downtown Records. A single for the track Animal was released on 17 February 2009, upon a UK release of the song later in the same year, the track reached number 98 on the UK Singles Chart. The Punks Jump Up remix of Animal is used as the music for the British Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner. The second single was Black & Blue, both singles have made the BBC Radio 1 Playlist B-List. The Guardian spoke highly of the band, saying Miike Snows coolly emotional pop suggests A-ha meets Animal Collective, in an interview for ClashMusic. com, Wyatt revealed their unexpected popularity, saying, I dont think our project was that thought out when we started. We just wanted to make music together, I dont think we anticipated the level of attention that its getting right now. We didnt even think about touring when we started the album, Miike Snow have remixed tracks for Depeche Mode, Passion Pit, Peter Bjorn and John, Kings of Leon, I Blame Coco and Vampire Weekend. A remix of the song Silvia by DJs Sebastian Ingrosso and Dirty South was released on 2 April 2010 and their song In Search Of was originally a collaboration with Crookers for the song Remedy
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Bloodshy & Avant
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Bloodshy & Avant are a Swedish songwriting and production duo of Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg. In addition to their work, Karlsson and Winnberg are also members of the synthpop group Miike Snow. Also, Christian is one half of the dance music duo Galantis. Bloodshy and Avant scored their first success working with American singer/songwriter Christina Milian for her début album, the collaboration resulted in two hit singles, AM to PM, and When You Look at Me, both of which hit number three on the UK Singles Chart. They were then commissioned to work with UK hip-hop singer/rapper, Ms. Dynamite, the collaboration with Ms. Dynamite resulted in several tracks which appeared on her début album, A Little Deeper, including her hit début single, It Takes More. They also produced tracks for her 2005 second release, Judgement Days, Bloodshy and Avant co-wrote and produced two songs which appeared on Britney Spears 2003 album In the Zone, the hit single, Toxic, that merited a Grammy award, and Showdown. They also produced all the three new songs on her 2004 Greatest Hits, My Prerogative album and the song for Britney & Kevin. Bloodshy alone co-produced two songs for Britney Spears 7th studio album Femme Fatale, How I Roll and Trip to Your Heart, the duo co-wrote and co-produced two tracks with Madonna, How High and Like It or Not, for her 2005 Confessions on a Dance Floor album. In 2007, for Kylie Minogues 10th studio album X, Bloodshy and Avant co-wrote and produced Speakerphone, Nu-di-ty and Cherry Bomb, in 2008, Bloodshy and Avant produced few songs for BoAs English début BoA. A year later they produced Chocolate Love for South Korean girl groups Girls Generation, in 2010 Bloodshy signed Sky Ferreira and produced songs like One,17 and Haters Anonymous Bloodshy & Avant have also gained fame by remixes. They have remixed songs from Britney Spears including a remix for Piece of Me which charted number one on the US Billboard Hot Club Play chart, also other remixes for Toxic and Me Against the Music have topped the US Billboard charts. Outside of being Bloodshy and Avant, Christian and Pontus are in a band together with Andrew Wyatt called Miike Snow. They also run a label called Ändersson with signed artists and musicians including Little Majorette, Sky Ferreira and Meadow (a project with their friends Sebastian Ingrosso and they are also working on the music for a videogame with EA Games/Dice to be released in 2010. Winnberg is a member of a band called Amason together with Gustav Ejstes, Idiot Wind, Nils Törnqvist, Karlsson and Linus Eklöw comprise the band Galantis. Wyatt and Winnberg were among 13 founding members of Swedish artist collective, Bloodshy and Avant own a studio based in a 150-year-old fire station in the middle of Söder, Stockholm
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Christian Karlsson (DJ)
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Bloodshy & Avant notably co-wrote and produced Britney Spears single Toxic, which earned them a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording in 2005. While continuing to work with Bloodshy and Avant, Karlsson also became a member of the pop band Miike Snow around 2007. Miike Snow, the debut album, was released in 2009. Miike Snow won the 2011 European Border Breakers Award, and their sophomore album Happy to You reached No.1 on the Belgian Heatseekers Albums Chart and 43 on the Billboard 200, Karlsson is also a member of a band called Galantis together with Linus Eklöw. Their debut self-titled EP Galantis was released on April 1,2014, the duo won Coachella 2014’s Best Dance Music Moment from Billboard, beating Calvin Harris and Chromeo with 52% of the vote. Galantis had international success with their single Runaway in October 2014, Galantis released their debut album Pharmacy on June 8,2015, and that year the duo was named Best Breakthrough Artist at the International Dance Music Awards. Karlsson continues to tour with both Galantis and Miike Snow, the latter of which released their album, iii. Christian Karlsson was born and raised in Sweden and he began focusing on music at age thirteen, recollecting I come from skateboard culture, so it was punk rock, and I got into hip hop when hip hop got into skateboarding. I had never done anything else but music and he began working in the studio mixing and producing music as a teengaer, and held stints with Swedish pop groups such as Goldmine, who at one point opened for the Fugees. Early in his career, Bloodshy began working with his childhood friend Pontus Winnberg on electronic music. Karlsson adopted the moniker Bloodshy, and began working avidly on songwriting and producing with Winnberg as Bloodshy, the duo scored their first success working with American singer-songwriter Christina Milian for her late 2001 début album. The duo were then commissioned to work with English pop group Sugababes and their subsequent collaboration with Ms. Dynamite resulted in several tracks on her 2002 album A Little Deeper, including her hit début single, It Takes More. Bloodshy and Avant subsequently produced all three new songs on Spears 2004 Greatest Hits, My Prerogative, and also produced the song for her Britney & Kevin. After working with Spears, the duo continued to work with pop stars such as Katy Perry, Kylie Minogue. In 2005, Bloodshy and Avant co-wrote and co-produced two tracks with Madonna for her Confessions on a Dance Floor album and they also produced tracks for Ms. Dynamites 2005 release Judgement Days. Bloodshy and Avant worked with Spears on her album Blackout in 2007, collaborating on songs such as Piece of Me, in 2007, for Kylie Minogues 10th studio album X, Bloodshy and Avant co-wrote and produced songs such as Speakerphone. Bloodshy and Avant again helped Spears on her 2008 album Circus, Bloodshy and Avant encountered and befriended American vocalist Andrew Wyatt in 2007, formulating the idea for a future collaboration. Bloodshy and Avant soon formed the band Miike Snow with Wyatt, and Miike Snow, the first single to be taken from the album was the electro-pop Animal, released on February 17,2009
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Electronic dance music
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Electronic dance music is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres made largely for nightclubs, raves, and festivals. EDM is generally produced for playback by disc jockeys who create seamless selections of tracks, called a mix, EDM producers also perform their music live in a concert or festival setting in what is sometimes called a live PA. In the United Kingdom and in continental Europe, EDM is more commonly called dance music or simply dance. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, following the emergence of raving, pirate radio, at this time a perceived association between EDM and drug culture led governments at state and city level to enact laws and policies intended to halt the spread of rave culture. By the early 2010s the term dance music and the initialism EDM was being pushed by the US music industry. Early examples of dance music include the disco music of Giorgio Moroder. During the early 1980s, the popularity of disco music declined in the United States, abandoned by major US record labels. European disco continued evolving within the mainstream pop music scene. European acts Silver Convention, Love and Kisses, Munich Machine, and American acts Donna Summer, in 1977, Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte produced I Feel Love for Donna Summer. It became the first well-known disco hit to have a completely synthesised backing track, other disco producers, most famously American producer Tom Moulton, grabbed ideas and techniques from dub music to provide alternatives to the four on the floor style that dominated. The sound that originated from P-Funk the electronic side of disco, dub music. Much of the music produced during this time was, like disco, at this time creative control started shifting to independent record companies, less established producers, and club DJs. Other dance styles that began to become popular during the era include dance-pop, boogie, electro, Italo disco, house. In the early 1980s, electro emerged as a fusion of funk, also called electro-boogie, but later shortened to electro, cited pioneers include Zapp, D. Train, Sinnamon. Early hip hop and rap combined with German and Japanese electropop influences such as Kraftwerk, as the electronic sound developed, instruments such as the bass guitar and drums were replaced by synthesizers and most notably by iconic drum machines, particularly the Roland TR-808. Early uses of the TR-808 include several Yellow Magic Orchestra tracks in 1980-1981, the 1982 track Planet Rock by Afrikaa Bambaataa, and the 1982 song Sexual Healing by Marvin Gaye. In 1982, producer Arthur Baker with Afrika Bambaataa released the seminal Planet Rock which was influenced by the Yellow Magic Orchestra using Kraftwerk samples, Planet Rock was followed later that year by another breakthrough electro record, Nunk by Warp 9. In 1983, Hashim created an electro funk sound which influenced Herbie Hancock, the early 1980s were electros mainstream peak
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Songwriting
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A songwriter is an individual who writes the lyrics, melodies and chord progressions for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music. A songwriter can also be called a composer, although the term tends to be used mainly for individuals from the classical music genre. The pressure from the industry to produce popular hits means that songwriting is often an activity for which the tasks are distributed between a number of people. For example, a songwriter who excels at writing lyrics might be paired with a songwriter with a gift for creating original melodies, pop songs may be written by group members from the band or by staff writers – songwriters directly employed by music publishers. Some songwriters serve as their own publishers, while others have outside publishers. The old-style apprenticeship approach to learning how to write songs is being supplemented by university degrees and college diplomas, a knowledge of modern music technology, songwriting elements and business skills are necessary requirements to make a songwriting career in the 2010s. Several music colleges offer songwriting diplomas and degrees with music business modules, the legal power to grant these permissions may be bought, sold or transferred. This is governed by international copyright law, song pitching can be done on a songwriters behalf by their publisher or independently using tip sheets like RowFax, the MusicRow publication and SongQuarters. Skills associated with song-writing include entrepreneurism and creativity, songwriters who sign an exclusive songwriting agreement with a publisher are called staff writers. In the Nashville country music scene, there is a staff writer culture where contracted writers work normal 9-to-5 hours at the publishing office and are paid a regular salary. This salary is in effect the writers draw, an advance on future earnings, the publisher owns the copyright of songs written during the term of the agreement for a designated period, after which the songwriter can reclaim the copyright. In an interview with HitQuarters, songwriter Dave Berg extolled the benefits of the set-up, unlike contracted writers, some staff writers operate as employees for their respective publishers. Under the terms of work for hire agreements, the compositions created are fully owned by the publisher. In Nashville, young writers are often encouraged to avoid these types of contracts. Staff writers are common across the industry, but without the more office-like working arrangements favored in Nashville. All the major publishers employ writers under contract, songwriter Allan Eshuijs described his staff writer contract at Universal Music Publishing as a starter deal. His success under the arrangement eventually allowed him to found his own publishing company, so that he could. keep as much as possible, songwriters are also often skilled musicians. In addition to selling their songs and musical concepts for other artists to sing, songwriters need to create a number of elements for a song
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Runaway (U & I)
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Runaway is a song by Swedish electronic music duo Galantis. It was released on 5 October 2014 as the single from their debut studio album Pharmacy. The song features Julia Karlsson performing the chorus and Cathy Dennis performing two verses on heavily processed and uncredited vocals, in early 2015 it achieved chart success on the Australian Singles Chart reaching number four, and on the New Zealand Singles Chart, where it peaked at number six. It also debuted at four on the UK Singles Chart and has since sold over 600,000 units to date. The song was written by Anton Rundberg, Julia Karlsson, Linus Eklöw, Christian Karlsson, Jimmy Koitzsch, billboard ranked the song at number five on its The 10 Best Electronic/Dance Songs of 2014 list. Runaway received a nomination for Best Dance Recording at the 58th Grammy Awards, the song is written in B-flat minor at a tempo of 126 beats per minute. A music video to accompany the release of Runaway was first uploaded onto YouTube on 19 January 2015, Runaway has been remixed by several high-profile producers. Dillon Francis, DJ Mustard, KSHMR, Kaskade and Quintino are among the artists who have remixed the track, dillon Francis version in particular has grabbed the highest praise with a trap version of the song. An additional remix by electronic artists Svidden and Jarly was featured in the film Paper Towns, the song was sampled in the Shades remixed version of Canons Grow Up featuring Tragic Hero, Runaway music video on YouTube
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Peanut Butter Jelly (song)
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Peanut Butter Jelly is a song by Swedish electronic music duo Galantis featuring uncredited vocals from Martina Sorbara of Dragonette. It was released on 20 April 2015 as the single from their debut studio album Pharmacy. It became available on 4 April 2015 upon pre-order of the LP and it heavily features a sample of the 1974 single Kiss My Love Goodbye by Bettye Swann. The music video, directed by Dano Cerny, was posted to YouTube on July 26,2015, the video shows two people wearing black jackets casually walking into a supermarket as the song begins to play over the PA system. The video features Jillian Sipkins who appears as a girl on roller-skates, the two men then exit the store, leaving the customers and employees in a raucous party
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Katy Perry
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Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer and songwriter. After singing in church during her childhood, she pursued a career in music as a teenager. Perry signed with Red Hill Records and released her studio album Katy Hudson under her birth name in 2001. She moved to Los Angeles the following year to venture into music after Red Hill ceased operations and she subsequently began working with producers Glen Ballard, Dr. Luke. After adopting the stage name Katy Perry and being dropped by The Island Def Jam Music Group and Columbia Records, the album became the first by a female artist to produce five number-one songs in the U. S. and the second overall after Michael Jacksons album Bad. In March 2012, she re-issued the album as Teenage Dream, The Complete Confection and her fourth album, Prism, was released in 2013, and is influenced by pop and dance. She became the first artist with multiple videos to one billion views on Vevo with the videos for its songs Roar. Perry has received awards, including four Guinness World Records, a Brit Award, and a Juno Award. Her estimated net worth as of 2016 is $125 million and she is one of the best-selling musical artists of all time, having sold 100 million records globally throughout her career. In film, she released a documentary titled Katy Perry, Part of Me in 2012. Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson was born in Santa Barbara, California, to Pentecostal pastors Mary Christine and her parents are born again Christians, each having turned to religion after a wild youth. Perry has English, German, Irish, and Portuguese ancestry, through her mother, she is a niece of film director Frank Perry. She has a brother named David, who is a singer. From ages 3 to 11, Perry often moved across the country as her parents set up churches before settling again in Santa Barbara. Growing up, she attended schools and camps, including Paradise Valley Christian School in Arizona. Her family struggled financially, sometimes using food stamps and eating from the bank intended to feed the congregation at her parents church. Growing up, Perry and her siblings were not allowed to eat Lucky Charms as the term luck reminded their mother of Lucifer, Perry primarily listened to gospel music, as secular music was generally discouraged in the familys home. She discovered popular music through CDs she sneaked from her friends, while not strictly identifying as religious, Perry has stated, I pray all the time – for self-control, for humility
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Britney Spears
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Britney Jean Spears is an American singer, dancer, and actress. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, she performed acting roles in stage productions, Spearss first and second studio albums. Baby One More Time and Oops. I Did It Again, became international successes, with the former becoming the album by a teenage solo artist. Title tracks. Baby One More Time and Oops, I Did It Again broke international sales records. In 2001, Spears released her third studio album, Britney. She assumed creative control of her studio album, In the Zone. In 2007, Spearss much-publicized personal issues sent her career into hiatus and her fifth studio album, Blackout, was released later that year, and spawned singles such as Gimme More and Piece of Me. Her erratic behavior and hospitalizations continued through the year, at which point she was placed under a still ongoing conservatorship. Spearss sixth studio album, Circus, included the international chart-topping single Womanizer and her seventh studio album, Femme Fatale, became her first to yield three top-ten singles in the United States. She released her studio album Britney Jean in 2013. Later that year, Spears began the four-year residency show, Britney, Piece of Me, in 2016, Spears released her ninth studio album, Glory. Spears is regarded as a pop icon and credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s and she became the best-selling teenage artist of all time and garnered honorific titles including the Princess of Pop. In 2009, Billboard ranked her as the 8th overall Artist of the Decade, the Recording Industry Association of America lists Spears as the eighth top-selling female artist in the United States, with 34 million certified albums. She has sold 100 million albums and over 100 million singles worldwide making her one of the music artists of all time. According to Billboard Spears has sold about 22.38 million singles in digital downloads in US and is the fourth best-selling female artist since Nielsen SoundScan began. Forbes reported that Spears was the highest paid musician of 2012, with earnings of $58 million. Spears was born in McComb, Mississippi, the child of Lynne Irene Bridges and James Parnell Spears. Her maternal grandmother, Lillian Portell, was English, and one of Spearss maternal great-great-grandfathers was Maltese and her siblings are Bryan James and Jamie Lynn
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Jennifer Lopez
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Jennifer Lynn Lopez, also known as JLo, is an American singer, actress, dancer, fashion designer, author, and producer. Lopez gained her first high-profile job as a Fly Girl dancer on In Living Color in 1991 and she received her first leading role in the Selena biopic of the same name in 1997, a portrayal that earned her a Golden Globe nomination. For her role in Out of Sight the following year, Lopez became the first Latina actress to earn over US$1 million for a film. She ventured into the industry in 1999 with her debut studio album On the 6. With the simultaneous release of her studio album J. Lo and her film The Wedding Planner in 2001, Lopez became the first woman to have a number one album. Her 2002 remix album, J to tha L–O, the Remixes, became the first in history to debut at number one on the U. S. Billboard 200. Following her second divorce, Lopez had a relationship with Ben Affleck. Then, while also overshadowing the release of Gigli, a critical and commercial failure and she subsequently married longtime friend Marc Anthony, and rebounded with the box office successes Shall We Dance. and Monster-in-Law. Her fifth studio album, Como Ama una Mujer, received the highest first-week sales for a debut Spanish album in the United States, in 2016, she began starring as Harlee Santos in the crime drama series Shades of Blue. Time listed her as one of the 25 most influential Hispanic Americans, for her contributions to the arts, Lopez has received a landmark star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Billboard Icon Award, among other honors. Beyond entertainment, she enjoys a successful business career consisting of various clothing lines, accessories, fragrances, a company. Jennifer Lynn Lopez was born on July 24,1969, in the Castle Hill neighborhood of The Bronx, New York, to Puerto Rican parents Guadalupe Rodríguez and she has an older sister, Leslie, and a younger sister, Lynda, a journalist. David worked the night shift at the Guardian Insurance Company before becoming a technician at the firm. When Lopez was born, the family was living in a small apartment, a few years later, her parents had saved up enough money to be able to purchase a two-story house, which was considered a big deal for the relatively poor family. At the age of five, Lopez began taking singing and dancing lessons and she toured New York with her school when she was seven years old. Her parents stressed the importance of work ethic and being able to speak English and they encouraged their three daughters to put on performances at home—singing and dancing in front of each other and their friends so that they would stay out of trouble. Lopez spent her academic career in Catholic schools, finishing at Preston High School. In school, Lopez did gymnastics, ran track on a national level and she excelled athletically rather than academically, competing in national track championships
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Kylie Minogue
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Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE, often known simply as Kylie, is an Australian singer, songwriter, dancer and actress. She achieved recognition starring in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, where she played tomboy mechanic Charlene Robinson, since then, Minogue has been a recording artist and has achieved commercial success and critical acclaim in the entertainment industry. Minogue has been recognised with several nicknames including Princess of Pop. She is recognised as the highest-selling Australian artist of all time by the Australian Recording Industry Association, born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, Minogue has for many years worked and lived in London. She signed to PWL in 1987 and released her first studio album Kylie the next year, in 1992, she left PWL and signed with Deconstruction Records and where she created her self-titled studio album and Impossible Princess, both of which received positive reviews from critics. Returning to more mainstream dance-oriented music, Minogue signed to Parlophone and her 2001 single Cant Get You Out of My Head became one of the most successful singles during the 2000s, selling over ten million units. It is recognised as her song and was named the catchiest song ever by Yahoo. Her album Fever was a hit in countries, including the United States. In 2005, while Minogue was on her Showgirl, The Greatest Hits Tour, after treatment, she resumed the tour under the title Showgirl, The Homecoming Tour, which critics viewed as a triumph. Minogue resumed work as an actress and appeared in the films Moulin Rouge, Jack & Diane, and Holy Motors. In 2014, she appeared as a judge on the series of The Voice UK. Her other ventures include product endorsements, children books and fashion, as of 2015, Minogue has had worldwide record sales of more than 80 million. She has mounted several successful and critically acclaimed concert world tours and she was appointed OBE by Charles, Prince of Wales in 2008. She was appointed by the French government as a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her contribution to the enrichment of French culture, Minogue was awarded an honorary Doctor of Health Science degree by Anglia Ruskin University for her work in raising awareness for breast cancer. In November 2011, on the 25th anniversary of the ARIA Music Awards, in December 2016, Billboard ranked her as the 18th most successful dance artist of all-time. Kylie was born to Ronald Charles Minogue and Carol Ann Jones in Melbourne, Australia and her father is a fifth generation Australian, and has Irish ancestry, while her mother came from Maesteg, Wales. Jones had lived in Wales until age ten when her mother and father, Millie and Denis Jones, just before Kylies birth, Ron qualified as an accountant and worked through several jobs while Carol worked as a professional dancer. Kylies younger brother, Brendan, is a cameraman in Australia, while her younger sister Dannii Minogue is also a singer
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Toxic (song)
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Toxic is a song recorded by American singer Britney Spears for her fourth studio album In the Zone. It was written and produced by Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg, with writing from Cathy Dennis. The song released on January 13,2004, by Jive Records, after trying to choose between Boom Boom and Outrageous to be the second single from In the Zone, Spears selected Toxic instead. A dance song with elements of music, Toxic features varied instrumentation, such as drums, synthesizers. It is accompanied by high-pitched Bollywood strings and breathy vocals and its lyrics draw an extended metaphor of a lover as a dangerous yet addictive drug. The song has received acclaim from critics, deeming it the strongest track of In the Zone. Toxic won Spears her first and only Grammy Award at the 2005 ceremony in the category of Best Dance Recording, Toxic attained worldwide success, reaching the top-five in 15 countries, while topping the charts in Australia, Canada, Hungary, Ireland, Norway and the United Kingdom. In the United States, it became her fourth top-ten single, the accompanying music video for the song was directed by Joseph Kahn and features references to Blade Runner, The Seven Year Itch and the films of John Woo. It portrays Spears as an agent in the search of a vial of green liquid. After she steals it, she enters an apartment and poisons her unfaithful boyfriend, the video also includes interspersed scenes of Spears naked with diamonds on her body. After Janet Jacksons Super Bowl incident, the video was considered too racy for MTV and was moved to late-night programming, Spears has performed Toxic in a number of live appearances, including the 2004 NRJ Music Awards and in three of her concert tours. Toxic has been covered by such as Mark Ronson, A Static Lullaby, Reece Mastin and Ingrid Michaelson. The song has appeared in feature films such as Knocked Up, You Again. The song has been included in lists by Pitchfork, NME, Toxic was written by Cathy Dennis, Henrik Jonback, Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg, and Sanchi Gupta from production team Bloodshy & Avant, while produced by the latter two. The song was offered to Kylie Minogue for her ninth studio album Body Language. Minogue later commented, I wasnt at all angry when it worked for her and its like the fish that got away. You just have to accept it, Toxic was recorded at Murlyn Studios in Stockholm, Sweden and Record Plant in Hollywood, California. The song was mixed by Niklas Flyckt at Khabang Studios in Stockholm
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Ivor Novello Awards
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The Ivor Novello Awards, named after the Cardiff-born entertainer Ivor Novello, are awards for songwriting and composing. They have been presented annually in London by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors since 1955, nicknamed The Ivors, the awards take place each May and are sponsored by PRS for Music. They are respected worldwide as the platform for recognising and rewarding Britain. The Ivors remain the only award ceremony in the calendar that is not influenced by publishers and record companies. The Award itself is a bronze sculpture of Euterpe, the muse of lyric poetry. In 2008 Amy Winehouse received three nominations for Ivors, including two nominations in the same category, in 2010, an Ivor was awarded for the first time to a video game soundtrack, the PS3 title, Killzone 2, composed by Joris de Man. Category, Ivor Novello Award winners List of Ivor Novello Award winners TheIvors. co. uk - Official website BASCA Bucks Music Group - Ivor Novello Awards
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Grammy Award
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A Grammy Award, or Grammy, is an honor awarded by The Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the mainly English-language music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of awards that have a more popular interest. It shares recognition of the industry as that of the other performance awards such as the Emmy Awards, the Tony Awards. The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4,1959, to honor, following the 2011 ceremony, The Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 59th Grammy Awards, honoring the best achievements from October 2015 to September 2016, was held on February 12,2017, the Grammys had their origin in the Hollywood Walk of Fame project in the 1950s. The music executives decided to rectify this by creating a given by their industry similar to the Oscars. This was the beginning of the National Academy of Recording Arts, after it was decided to create such an award, there was still a question of what to call it, one working title was the Eddie, to honor the inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison. They finally settled on using the name of the invention of Emile Berliner, the gramophone, for the awards, the number of awards given grew and fluctuated over the years with categories added and removed, at one time reaching over 100. The second Grammy Awards, also held in 1959, was the first ceremony to be televised, the gold-plated trophies, each depicting a gilded gramophone, are made and assembled by hand by Billings Artworks in Ridgway, Colorado. In 1990 the original Grammy design was revamped, changing the traditional soft lead for a stronger alloy less prone to damage, Billings developed a zinc alloy named grammium, which is trademarked. The trophies with the name engraved on them are not available until after the award announcements. By February 2009,7,578 Grammy trophies had been awarded, the General Field are four awards which are not restricted by genre. Album of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a full album if other than the performer. Record of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a single song if other than the performer. Song of the Year is awarded to the writer/composer of a single song, Best New Artist is awarded to a promising breakthrough performer who releases, during the Eligibility Year, the first recording that establishes the public identity of that artist. The only two artists to win all four of these awards are Christopher Cross, who won all four in 1980, and Adele, who won the Best New Artist award in 2009 and the other three in 2012 and 2017. Other awards are given for performance and production in specific genres, as well as for other such as artwork. Special awards are given for longer-lasting contributions to the music industry, the many other Grammy trophies are presented in a pre-telecast Premiere Ceremony earlier in the afternoon before the Grammy Awards telecast
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Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording
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The award for Best Dance Recording was first presented to Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder in 1998 for the song Carry On. In 2003, the Academy moved the category from the Pop field into a new Dance field, according to the Academy, the award is designated for solo, duo, group or collaborative performances, and is limited to singles or tracks only. Award recipients have included the producers, engineers, and/or mixers associated with the nominated work in addition to the recording artists. Justin Timberlake and Skrillex are the artists to win the award more than once. Madonna holds the record for the most nominations, with five, gloria Estefan holds the record for the most nominations without a win, with three. Some Academy members debated whether dance music, with its use of layering, remixing, lack of melody or verse. In 1998, Harris efforts paid off when the Academy first presented the award to Donna Summer, ^ Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year. Dance Music Hall of Fame Official site of the Grammy Awards
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Ingrid (record label)
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Ingrid is a Swedish artist collective and record label founded in 2012. They released their first compilation on Record Store Day in 2012, all of the bands featured on the compilation are of this nature or are solo works. The record label has been managed by Niklas Hallberg since March 2013, during that performance all of the founding members participated and the concerts special guest was the Swedish musician José González. This concert took place at Trädgården in Gothenburg, the second time Ingrid performed live was at Roskildefestivalen during the summer of 2013 where they played with Chrissie Hynde and the Swedish musician Tallest Man on Earth. During this concert the two founding members Jocke Åhlund and Coco Morier could not participate, Ingrid as a record label has two different studios - Ingrid and Spegeln. The two studios are owned by Björn Yttling, Nille Perned and Pontus Winnberg, Ingrid is located in the former studio KMH/Polarstudion at Södermalm. This studio is the one of the two and it usually here where most of the recordings take place. Spegeln is a combination of the HQ as well as a smaller studio, often used for both rehearsal time as well as recording
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Icona Pop
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Icona Pop is a Swedish electropop duo that formed in 2009, with electro house, punk and indie pop music influences. The two members Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo, who grew up in Stockholm, create music you can laugh and cry to at the same time. They signed to TEN Music Group in 2009 and their biggest hit to date has been I Love It. The duo received international attention following their debut single Manners, released by Neon Gold on French label Kitsuné, since September 2012, the duo have been based in the United States, in Los Angeles and New York City. Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo attended the music school in Stockholm. Four weeks later, they had songs for their very first performance as a duo. Two years later, the duo described their music as classical pop melodies with drums, the press, including NME, The Guardian, Rolling Stone and Pitchfork Media, have praised the duo. The Guardian described the debut single Manners as effortlessly cool, the duo has worked in the studio with producers including Style of Eye, Patrik Berger, Elof Loelv and Starsmith. In fall 2012, the duo released an extended play Iconic in the US, the duo have performed in Sweden, the US, the UK, Germany, Italy, Canada, and Hong Kong and have also been interviewed by Swedish and foreign press. I Love It, a pre-release of their debut album Icona Pop charted on Sverigetopplistan. The second single Ready for the Weekend was released on 11 September 2012, both tracks appear on their second extended-play album, released on 16 October 2012. I Love It was also used in the advert for the Samsung Galaxy S4 and their EP Iconic EP reached a peak height of 21 on the U. S. iTunes dance chart. In 2013, they embarked on a tour of the United States with Passion Pit, in January 2013, I Love It was featured in the third episode of the second season of Girls, an HBO show created by Lena Dunham. In March 2013, the duo was named one of Fuse televisions 30 must-see artists at the South by Southwest festival, in March 2013, I Love It was featured in the sixteenth episode of the fourth season, named Bring It On, of The Vampire Diaries. On 26 March 2013, I Love It was performed on the week 2 results show of Dancing with the Stars. On 3 May 2013, the duo performed I Love It on the talk show. On 6 May 2013, I Love It was featured in the FOX musical-comedy series, the song was performed by the New Directions in Glees twenty-second and final episode of season four, All or Nothing. This song is featured in a 2013 ShoeDazzle commercial, on 19 May 2013 the duo performed I Love It on the Billboard Music Awards, wearing custom light up garments by designer Geoffrey Mac
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I Love It (Icona Pop song)
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I Love It is a song by Swedish DJ duo Icona Pop featuring vocals from British recording artist Charli XCX. It was released in May 2012 as a download in Sweden. The song was added to their studio album, Icona Pop, as well as their EP Iconic and their debut international album. The song received positive reviews music critics, and publications Rolling Stone. In June 2013, over a year after it was released elsewhere and it has gone on to sell 4.3 million certified downloads. The song was written by Charli XCX, whom Icona Pop met several times in London. Swedish producer Patrik Berger sent Charli two beats, and she wrote songs for each of them, one of which became I Love It. However, she stated that she knew she would not end up releasing it herself because she could not reconcile it with her sound. While recording Good for You with Icona Pop, Berger presented them with Charlis work on I Love It. Band member Aino Jawo said she felt a connection to the song because it mirrored her own experiences, member Caroline Hjelt described Charli XCXs original demo as more cute, in a way…really cool and cocky. Icona Pop approached Swedish producer Style of Eye to make a version of the track, telling him. We want the fuck it feeling, I Love It is set in common time with a tempo of 126 beats per minute, and is described as an electropop and dance-pop song. It is written in A♭ major, with an authentic cadence for the chord progression. Billboard critic Jessica Hopper defined the instrumental by its swells of revving synths, the songs lyrics describe breaking up with an older boyfriend. In its chorus, Icona Pop and Charli XCX shout in unison I dont care / I love it, I Love It was released in Sweden in May 2012. It entered the Swedish Singles Chart the following month at number 48, after its January 2013 appearance on an episode of Girls, the song performed better in digital downloads than it had upon initial release. Ten days later it entered the Billboard Hot 100, eventually climbing to seven on the chart. Jawo and Hjelts first performance with Charli XCX happened in April 2013, in June 2013, several cover versions of the song entered the UK Singles Chart, including one by vlogger Venus Angelic
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Charli XCX
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Charlotte Emma Aitchison, better known by her stage name Charli XCX, is a British singer, songwriter, and actress. She released her debut single independently in 2008 and initially performed at raves in London. She signed to Asylum Records with producer Tim Gonzalez in 2010, Charli XCXs major label debut album, True Romance, was released in 2013, accompanied by singles including You and Nuclear Seasons. She rose to prominence during 2013 and 2014 when she was featured on two singles, Icona Pops I Love It and Iggy Azaleas Fancy. Her 2014 single Boom Clap from the album of The Fault in Our Stars became a top ten single in a number of countries. It also preceded the release of her album, Sucker. In 2016, she released the extended play Vroom Vroom, in March 2017, she released the mixtape Number 1 Angel. Her upcoming third album is expected to be released in late 2017. Charlotte Emma Aitchison was born on 2 August 1992, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, to a Scottish father, Jon Aitchison, and a Gujarati Indian mother, Shameera and her father is an entrepreneur and former show-booker and her mother is a former nurse and air hostess. Aitchison grew up in Start Hill, near Bishops Stortford, and attended Bishops Stortford College, Aitchison also studied at UCLs Slade School of Fine Art in London, but left during the second year of her degree course. Aitchison started writing songs when she was 14 years old and began recording an album on a loan granted by her parents, in early 2008, she began posting songs from the album, as well as numerous other demos, on her official MySpace page. This caught the attention of a promoter running numerous illegal warehouse raves and parties in east London, Aitchison was billed on flyers under the stage name Charli XCX, her MSN Messenger display name when she was younger. Despite the illicit nature of the gigs, her parents were supportive of her career and she released two singles. Franchesckaar. and double A-side Emelline/Art Bitch, in late 2008 under Orgy Music. The album she recorded at this time,14, was never released, although several promotional copies were issued. After being signed to Asylum Records in 2010, she took a break from music in what she describes as a lost period, early in 2011, Alex Metric released the single End of the World which featured her vocals. When the song appeared on BBCs Radio One, her age, success, in May 2011, she released the single Stay Away, followed by Nuclear Seasons in November. Both tracks were produced by Ariel Rechtshaid and released exclusively in the United Kingdom, the singles gained attention from music website Pitchfork Media, where she earned Best New Track accolades for both, the former was eventually named to the sites Best Tracks of 2011 list. In May 2012, Charli XCX released her first mixtape, Heartbreaks and Earthquakes and she supported Santigold and Coldplay on tour during that year
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Techno
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Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, in the United States during the mid-to-late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno in reference to a genre of music was in 1988. Many styles of techno now exist, but Detroit techno is seen as the foundation upon which a number of subgenres have been built. Added to this is the influence of futuristic and fictional themes relevant to life in American late capitalist society, pioneering producer Juan Atkins cites Tofflers phrase techno rebels as inspiring him to use the word techno to describe the musical style he helped to create. This unique blend of influences aligns techno with the referred to as afrofuturism. To producers such as Derrick May, the transference of spirit from the body to the machine is often a central preoccupation, in this manner, techno dance music defeats what Adorno saw as the alienating effect of mechanisation on the modern consciousness. Stylistically, techno is generally repetitive instrumental music, oftentimes produced for use in a continuous DJ set, the tempo tends to vary between approximately 120 to 150 beats per minute, depending on the style of techno. The creative use of production technology, such as drum machines, synthesizers. Many producers use retro electronic musical devices to create what they consider to be an authentic techno sound, drum machines from the 1980s such as Rolands TR-808 and TR-909 are highly prized, and software emulations of such retro technology are popular among techno producers. The Electrifying Mojo was the first radio DJ to play music by the Detroit techno producers Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Mojo refused to follow pre-established radio formats or playlists, and he promoted social and cultural awareness of the African American community. In exploring technos origins writer Kodwo Eshun maintains that Kraftwerk are to Techno what Muddy Waters is to the Rolling Stones, the authentic, the origin, the real. Juan Atkins has acknowledged that he had an enthusiasm for Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder, particularly Moroders work with Donna Summer. Atkins also mentions that around 1980 I had a tape of nothing but Kraftwerk, Telex, Devo, Giorgio Moroder and Gary Numan, and Id ride around in my car playing it. Regarding his initial impression of Kraftwerk, Atkins notes that they were clean, Derrick May identified the influence of Kraftwerk and other European synthesizer music in commenting that it was just classy and clean, and to us it was beautiful, like outer space. Living around Detroit, there was so little beauty, everything is an ugly mess in Detroit, and so we were attracted to this music. May has commented that he considered his music a direct continuation of the European synthesizer tradition and he also identified Japanese synthpop act Yellow Magic Orchestra, particularly member Ryuichi Sakamoto, and British band Ultravox, as influences, along with Kraftwerk. In 1980 or 1981 they met with Mojo and proposed that they provide mixes for his show, which they did end up doing the following year. These young promoters developed and nurtured the local music scene by both catering to the tastes of the local audience of young people and by marketing parties with new DJs
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House music
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House music is a genre of electronic music created by club DJs and music producers in Chicago in the early 1980s. Early house music was characterized by repetitive 4/4 beats, rhythms mainly provided by drum machines, off-beat hi-hat cymbals. While house displayed several characteristics similar to music, it was more electronic and minimalistic. House music became popular in Chicago clubs in 1984 and it was pioneered by figures such as Frankie Knuckles, Phuture, Kym Mazelle, and Mr. Fingers, and was associated with African-American and gay subcultures. House music quickly spread to other American cities such as Detroit, New York City, Baltimore, in the mid-to-late 1980s, house music became popular in Europe as well as major cities in South America, and Australia. Since the early to mid-1990s, house music has been infused in mainstream pop, in the late 1980s, many local Chicago house music artists suddenly found themselves presented with major label deals. House music proved to be a successful genre and a more mainstream pop-based variation grew increasingly popular. House music has also fused with other genres creating fusion subgenres, such as euro house, tech house, electro house. After enjoying significant success in the early to mid-90s, house music grew even larger during the wave of progressive house. The genre has remained popular and fused into other subgenres, for example, ghetto house, deep house. As of 2016, house music popular in both clubs and in the mainstream pop scene while retaining a foothold on underground scenes across the globe. The song structure of music songs typically involves an intro, a chorus, various verse sections, a midsection. Some songs do not have a verse, taking a part from the chorus. The drum beat is one of the important elements within the genre and is almost always provided by an electronic drum machine rather than by a human drummer playing drumkit. The drum beats of house are four on the floor, with bass drums played on every beat, House music is often based on bass-heavy loops or basslines produced by a synthesizer and/or from samples of disco or funk songs. The tempo of most house songs is between 118 and 135 beats per minute, soul music and disco influenced house music. These artists produced longer, more repetitive, and percussive arrangements of existing disco recordings, early house producers such as Frankie Knuckles created similar compositions from scratch, using samplers, synthesizers, sequencers, and drum machines. Rachel Cain, co-founder of an influential Trax Records, was involved in the burgeoning punk scene and cites industrial
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Jazz
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Jazz is a music genre that originated amongst African Americans in New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in Blues and Ragtime. Since the 1920s jazz age, jazz has become recognized as a form of musical expression. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms, Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions including blues and ragtime, as well as European military band music. Although the foundation of jazz is deeply rooted within the Black experience of the United States, different cultures have contributed their own experience, intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as one of Americas original art forms. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on different national, regional, and local musical cultures, New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass-band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. In the 1930s, heavily arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz, bebop emerged in the 1940s, shifting jazz from danceable popular music toward a more challenging musicians music which was played at faster tempos and used more chord-based improvisation. Cool jazz developed in the end of the 1940s, introducing calmer, smoother sounds and long, modal jazz developed in the late 1950s, using the mode, or musical scale, as the basis of musical structure and improvisation. Jazz-rock fusion appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s, combining jazz improvisation with rock rhythms, electric instruments. In the early 1980s, a form of jazz fusion called smooth jazz became successful. Other styles and genres abound in the 2000s, such as Latin, the question of the origin of the word jazz has resulted in considerable research, and its history is well documented. It is believed to be related to jasm, a term dating back to 1860 meaning pep. The use of the word in a context was documented as early as 1915 in the Chicago Daily Tribune. Its first documented use in a context in New Orleans was in a November 14,1916 Times-Picayune article about jas bands. In an interview with NPR, musician Eubie Blake offered his recollections of the slang connotations of the term, saying, When Broadway picked it up. That was dirty, and if you knew what it was, the American Dialect Society named it the Word of the Twentieth Century. Jazz has proved to be difficult to define, since it encompasses such a wide range of music spanning a period of over 100 years. Attempts have been made to define jazz from the perspective of other musical traditions, in the opinion of Robert Christgau, most of us would say that inventing meaning while letting loose is the essence and promise of jazz. As Duke Ellington, one of jazzs most famous figures, said, although jazz is considered highly difficult to define, at least in part because it contains so many varied subgenres, improvisation is consistently regarded as being one of its key elements
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Soul music
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Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It combines elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues, Soul music became popular for dancing and listening in the United States, where record labels such as Motown, Atlantic and Stax were influential during the Civil Rights Movement. Soul also became popular around the world, directly influencing rock music, catchy rhythms, stressed by handclaps and extemporaneous body moves, are an important feature of soul music. Other characteristics are a call and response between the lead vocalist and the chorus and a tense vocal sound. The style also occasionally uses improvisational additions, twirls and auxiliary sounds, Soul music reflected the African-American identity and it stressed the importance of an African-American culture. The new-found African-American consciousness led to new styles of music, which boasted pride in being black, Soul music dominated the U. S. R&B chart in the 1960s, and many recordings crossed over into the pop charts in the U. S. By 1968, the music genre had begun to splinter. Some soul artists developed funk music, while other singers and groups developed slicker, more sophisticated, by the early 1970s, soul music had been influenced by psychedelic rock and other genres, leading to psychedelic soul. The United States saw the development of neo soul around 1994, there are also several other subgenres and offshoots of soul music. The term soul had been used among African-American musicians to emphasize the feeling of being an African-American in the United States, according to another source, Soul music was the result of the urbanization and commercialization of rhythm and blues in the 60s. The phrase soul music itself, referring to music with secular lyrics, is first attested in 1961. The term soul in African-American parlance has connotations of African-American pride, gospel groups in the 1940s and 1950s occasionally used the term as part of their name. The jazz style that derived from gospel came to be called soul jazz, important innovators whose recordings in the 1950s contributed to the emergence of soul music included Clyde McPhatter, Hank Ballard, and Etta James. Ray Charles is often cited as popularizing the genre with his string of hits starting with 1954s I Got a Woman. Singer Bobby Womack said, Ray was the genius and he turned the world onto soul music. Charles was open in acknowledging the influence of Pilgrim Travelers vocalist Jesse Whitaker on his singing style, little Richard and James Brown were equally influential. Sam Cooke and Jackie Wilson are also acknowledged as soul forefathers. Cooke became popular as the singer of gospel group The Soul Stirrers
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Baltic Sea
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The Baltic Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, enclosed by Scandinavia, Finland, the Baltic countries, and the North European Plain. It includes the Gulf of Bothnia, the Bay of Bothnia, the Gulf of Finland, the Gulf of Riga, the sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 10°E to 30°E longitude. The Baltic Sea is connected by waterways to the White Sea via the White Sea Canal. Traffic history Historically, the Kingdom of Denmark collected Sound Dues from ships at the border between the ocean and the land-locked Baltic Sea and they were collected in the Øresund at Kronborg castle near Helsingør, in the Great Belt at Nyborg. In the Little Belt, the site of intake was moved to Fredericia, the narrowest part of Little Belt is the Middelfart Sund near Middelfart. Oceanography Geographers widely agree that the physical border of the Baltic is a line drawn through the southern Danish islands, Drogden-Sill. The Drogden Sill is situated north of Køge Bugt and connects Dragør in the south of Copenhagen to Malmö, it is used by the Øresund Bridge, including the Drogden Tunnel. By this definition, the Danish Straits are part of the entrance, but the Bay of Mecklenburg, another usual border is the line between Falsterbo, Sweden and Stevns Klint, Denmark, as this is the southern border of Øresund. Its also the border between the shallow southern Øresund and notably deeper water, hydrography and biology Drogden Sill sets a limit to Øresund and Darss Sill, and a limit to the Belt Sea. The shallow sills are obstacles to the flow of salt water from the Kattegat into the basins around Bornholm. The Kattegat and the southwestern Baltic Sea are well oxygenated and have a rich biology, the remainder of the Sea is brackish, poor in oxygen and in species. While Tacitus called it Mare Suebicum after the Germanic people called the Suebi, the origin of the latter name is speculative. Adam of Bremen himself compared the sea with a belt, stating that it is so named because it stretches through the land as a belt and he might also have been influenced by the name of a legendary island mentioned in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder. Pliny mentions an island named Baltia with reference to accounts of Pytheas and it is possible that Pliny refers to an island named Basilia in On the Ocean by Pytheas. Baltia also might be derived from belt and mean near belt of sea, meanwhile, others have suggested that the name of the island originates from the Proto-Indo-European root *bhel meaning white, fair. This root and its meaning were retained in both Lithuanian and Latvian. On this basis, a related hypothesis holds that the name originated from this Indo-European root via a Baltic language such as Lithuanian, yet another explanation is that the name originally meant enclosed sea, bay as opposed to open sea. Some Swedish historians believe the name derives from the god Balder of Nordic mythology, in the Middle Ages the sea was known by variety of names
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Kaskade
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Ryan Gary Raddon, better known by his stage name Kaskade, is an American DJ, record producer and remixer. On October 20,2011, DJ Mag announced the results of their magazine, with Ultra Music, DJ Times voted Kaskade Americas Best DJ2011 and Americas Best DJ2013. Along with producers deadmau5 and Wolfgang Gartner, Kaskade became popular during the revival of American progressive house in late 2008–early 2009, born in Chicago, Kaskade grew up in nearby Northbrook and attended Glenbrook North High School. His brother, Rich Raddon, became an entrepreneur and film producer and he attended Brigham Young University in Provo, UT from 1989 to 1990, working on his DJ skills in his dorm room. At age 19, Raddon served a two-year full-time mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Japan, following his mission, in 1992, he moved to Salt Lake City to attend the University of Utah, eventually graduating with a degree in communications. While attending school, Kaskade and friend Jodi Call ran a store in Salt Lake City called Mechanized. In 1995, Raddon began DJing his first monthly Monday night party at a basement venue called Club Manhattan and he used this additional income to purchase studio essentials. In May 2000, Raddon moved to San Francisco where he got a job working as an A&R assistant to John Elkins at Om Records, to Raddons benefit, San Francisco was an emerging site of a new deep house movement. While at OM records he continued DJing and producing music, soon after, Raddon created his alter ego, Kaskade, which his wife worried would remind people of the dish detergent. He took his name from a nature book when he saw a picture of a waterfall and a co-worker agreed cascade was a good choice. He did not take his name from the Cascade Range in the Pacific Northwest as fans sometimes cite, after mixing the third volume in the Sounds of Om series, Ryan was offered a three-album deal for Kaskade. He kicked off the deal with a full-length house debut, Its You Its Me, concentrating on his DJing skills, Kaskade started to experiment and develop his own sound. Kaskade released his first single What I Say on the label in 2001, in the Moment saw Kaskades first top 10 single with Steppin Out reaching No.5 on Billboard Magazines Hot Dance Club Play chart and No.6 on Dance Radio Airplay. The fourth single to be released from the album, Everything, Kaskades fourth solo album Love Mysterious was released in September 2006. The first single from the album, Be Still, reached No.4 on Billboard Magazines Hot Dance Club Play, the single features vocalist Sunsun, and includes remixes by Jay-J and Robbie Rivera. Follow up single Stars Align hit number No.8 on Billboard Magazine Hot Dance Airplay chart and just missed the top ten,11, on the Hot Dance Club Play chart. His fourth single released from Love Mysterious, Sorry, was his third top ten hit on Billboards Hot Dance Airplay Chart. Dirty South provided a remix for Sorry, the remix was nominated for a 2008 Grammy for Best Remixed Recording
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Ultra Music Festival
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Ultra Music Festival is an annual outdoor electronic music festival that takes place during March in the city of Miami, Florida. The festival was founded in 1999 by Russell Faibisch and Alex Omes and is named after the 1997 Depeche Mode album, Ultra Music Festival is held in Downtown Miami at Bayfront Park. It was a festival from 1999 to 2006, then grew into a two-day weekend event from 2007 to 2010. Since 2011, Ultra has taken place three days during the month of March. In 2012, an attendance of 155,000 people attended the festival. In 2013, for the first time in Ultra’s history, the took place across two consecutive weekends welcoming a combined attendance of 330,000 people. In 2014, the returned to its original one weekend format. The most recent edition of Ultra, in 2016, welcomed 165,000 people to the festival, although they share names, Ultra Music Festival was not directly tied to Ultra Records, an electronic music record label. However, the two entities did announce an alliance in August 2012, which would allow them to collaborate on marketing. The twentieth edition of Ultra Music Festival will be taking place March 23–25,2018, Ultra Music Festival was inaugurated and produced in 1999 by business partners Russell Faibisch and Alex Omes. The first festival was held as an event on March 13,1999. Artists at Ultras first festival included Paul van Dyk, Rabbit in the Moon, Josh Wink, the first Ultra Beach Music Festival, which was held at Collins Park in Miami Beach proved popular, with an estimated ten thousand concertgoers in attendance. However, Faibisch and Omes still saw a loss of between $10,000 to $20,000 during the festivals inaugural year. Although, in March 2000 the festival returned to South Beachs Collins Park and was met with more success. The festival was immediately renewed for a third year, due to the massive rise in attendance between 1999 and 2000, festival organizers decided to relocate to Bayfront Park in Downtown Miami for Ultras third annual event in 2001. In 2005, Fabisch met with Adam Russakoff, who has since been the producer, director of business affairs. With the record-breaking attendance of the seventh annual Ultra Music Festival in 2005, in 2007, the festival held its first two-day event at Bicentennial Park with more than 50,000 concert goers in attendance, which was another record at the time for Ultra. With an estimated attendance of over 70,000 people, Ultra Music Festival set a new record for the City of Miami for number of tickets sold at a single event, each stage was accompanied with visual arts provided by VJs Vello Virkhaus, Psyberpixie, and Cozer
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Shazam (company)
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Shazam Entertainment Limited was founded in 1999 by Chris Barton, Philip Inghelbrecht, Avery Wang, and Dhiraj Mukherjee. In December 2013, according to its CEO, Shazam was one of the top ten most popular apps in the world, as of August 2014, the Shazam app had more than 100 million monthly active users and had been used on more than 500 million mobile devices. In October 2014, Shazam announced its technology has been used to identify 15 billion songs, in October 2016, Shazam announced its mobile apps have been downloaded more than 1 billion times, and users have performed more than 30 billion Shazams since launch. Shazam uses a smartphone or computers built-in microphone to gather a sample of audio being played. It creates an acoustic fingerprint based on the sample and compares it against a database for a match. If it finds a match, it sends information such as the artist, song title, some implementations of Shazam incorporate relevant links to services such as iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, or Groove Music. Shazam works by analyzing the captured sound and seeking a match based on a fingerprint in a database of more than 11 million songs. Shazam identifies songs based on an audio fingerprint based on a graph called a spectrogram. Shazam stores a catalogue of audio fingerprints in a database, the user tags a song for 10 seconds and the application creates an audio fingerprint. Once it creates the fingerprint of the audio, Shazam starts the search for matches in the database, if there is a match, it returns the information to the user, otherwise it returns a song not known dialogue. Shazam offers two types of applications, a free app simply called Shazam, and an app called Shazam Encore. The update also featured a News Feed and Auto-Shazam, a feature introduced in December 2013, Shazam is a free or low-cost application that runs on Android, iOS, BlackBerry OS, and Windows systems. Shazam is also available for Mac, as a desktop application, Apple’s launch of iOS8 in September 2014 came with the seamless integration of Shazam into Apple’s intelligent personal assistant Siri function. On 24 April 2015, Shazam was also confirmed as a new optional app on watchOS, the company was founded in 1999 by Barton and Inghelbrecht, who were students at University of California, Berkeley, and Mukherjee, who worked at a London-based internet consulting firm called Viant. In need of a signal processing specialist, the founding team then hired Wang. As of September 2012, Wang is the member of the original team to remain in the company. Riley replaced Andrew Fisher, who was hired from Infospace into the CEO role in 2005 to strengthen industry partnerships, as the service grew to have a worldwide userbase, it needed to keep its database up-to-date, which it does by having relationships with labels globally. By December 2008, the database had grown to 8 million songs, in February 2013, Shazam announced a partnership with the music store Beatport, adding its library of electronic music to the service
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Galantis (EP)
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Galantis is the debut extended play by Swedish electronic music duo Galantis, released on 1 April 2014. The album features two singles, Smile and You and their first single with Big Beat Records, Smile, was released that following November. Its controversial video premiered on Stereogum, Smile received several remixes from various artists, and an extended mix by dance music heavyweight Kaskade. In February, the duo released their second single You, the track was subsequently played heavily at Winter Music Conference, becoming the 8th most Shazamed track at the festival. Smile also marked the first instance of the Seafox, a creature that is the brainchild of visual artist Mat Maitland, the Seafox is the Galantis mascot of sorts, appearing in all their videos, cover art and even their live show. The duo also refer to their fans as Seafox Nation and can often be seen using #seafoxnation on their social media sites, each track has an artwork that goes along with it. These artworks were released on the date as the album. The artwork go along with versions of the song on their YouTube channel
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Pharmacy (album)
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Pharmacy is the debut studio album by Swedish electronic music duo Galantis, released on 8 June 2015. Overall, four Seafoxes are included in the album artwork, the cover features a unique Seafox, only seen on the album artwork. The booklet features a Seafox also used for the You single artwork, the inside panel of the Digipak features a Seafox used for the Peanut Butter Jelly single artwork, and also the YouTube audio for Louder, Harder, Better. Behind the CD tray is a Seafox also used to front the Gold Dust single artwork, the booklet included also includes a picture of Galantis themselves, standing back to back. The first single You was originally on their self-titled EP and currently has eight million plays on Spotify. However, it was not intended to promote Pharmacy, making Runaway the albums first official single, Galantis released the single Gold Dust on 19 February 2015 as the album second official single. It reached number one on Hype Machines Popular Chart, Peanut Butter Jelly was later released as the third official single on the pre-release of the album on 20 April 2015. In My Head was released as the fourth official single on 30 October 2015. John Cameron from WeGotThisCovered. com gave Pharmacy a 3, Cameron also stated that the tracks on Pharmacy are not poorly done by any means – its just that very few of the new ones are all that memorable. On May 21,2015 Galantis began their summer tour in support of Pharmacy which ended on August 6,2015. There were 22 dates on the tour in total, there were performances in multiple continents including Europe and North America. Notes The CD is packaged only as a digipak, track 1 features uncredited vocals from Jennifer Decilveo and Stephen Simmonds. Track 2 features uncredited vocals from Vincent Pontare, track 3 features uncredited vocals from Jennifer Decilveo. Track 4 features uncredited vocals from Cathy Dennis and Julia Karlsson, track 5 features uncredited vocals from Nicole Coco Morier and Vincent Pontare. Track 6 features uncredited vocals from Cathy Dennis, track 8 features uncredited vocals from Blackbear. Track 9 features sampled production work from 1974 song Kiss My Love Goodbye by Bettye Swann, tracks 9 and 10 feature uncredited vocals from Martina Sorbara, who is known for being one of the members of Dragonette. Track 11 features uncredited vocals from Leon Jean-Marie and production works from East & Young, track 12 features production work and uncredited vocals from Vincent Pontare. Track 13 features uncredited vocals from Andrew Jackson
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BBC Radio 1
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Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7,00 pm, including electronic dance, hip hop, rock, indie or interviews. It was launched in 1967 to meet the demand for music generated by radio stations. Recently, the BBC claimed that it targets the 15–29 age group. BBC Radio 1 started 24-hour broadcasting on 1 May 1991, Radio 1 was established in 1967 as a successor to the BBC Light Programme, which had broadcast popular music and other entertainment since 1945. Radio 1 was conceived as a response to the popularity of offshore pirate radio stations such as Radio Caroline and Radio London. Radio 1 was launched at 7,00 am on Saturday 30 September 1967. The first words on Radio 1 – after a countdown by the Controller of Radios 1 and 2, Robin Scott, welcome to the exciting new sound of Radio 1. This was the first use of US-style jingles on BBC radio, the first complete record played on Radio 1 was Flowers in the Rain by The Move. The second single was Massachusetts by The Bee Gees, the breakfast show remains the most prized slot in the Radio 1 schedule, with every change of breakfast show presenter exciting considerable media interest. Despite this, it gained massive audiences, becoming the most listened to station in the world with audiences of over 10 million claimed for some of its shows, in the early-mid-1970s Radio 1 presenters were rarely out of the British tabloids, thanks to the Publicity Departments high-profile work. Alan Freemans Saturday Rock Show was voted Best Radio Show 5 years running by readers of a music publication. In his last few months as controller, Johnny Beerling commissioned a handful of new shows that in some set the tone for what was to come under Matthew Bannister. One of these Loudnproud was the UKs first national radio series aimed at a gay audience, far from being a parting quirk, the show was a surprise hit and led to the networks first coverage of the large outdoor Gay Pride event in 1994. Bannister took the reins fully in October 1993 and his aim was to rid the station of its Smashie and Nicey image and make it appeal to the under 25s. Although originally launched as a station, by the early 1990s. Many listeners rebelled as the first new DJs to be introduced represented a crossover from other parts of the BBC with Emma Freud, Evans was a popular but controversial presenter who was eventually sacked in 1997 after he demanded to present the breakfast show for only four days per week. Evans was replaced from 17 February 1997 by Mark and Lard – Mark Radcliffe and they were replaced by Zoë Ball and Kevin Greening eight months later in October 1997, with Greening moving on and leaving Ball as solo presenter. Documentaries like John Peels Lost in Music which looked at the influence that the use of drugs have had over popular musicians received critical acclaim but were slated inside Broadcasting House, later in the 1990s the Britpop boom declined, and manufactured chart pop came to dominate the charts
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LP record
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The LP is an analog sound storage medium, a vinyl record format characterized by a speed of 33 1⁄3 rpm, a 12 or 10 inch diameter, and use of the microgroove groove specification. Introduced by Columbia in 1948, it was adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry. Apart from a few relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound, the new product was a 12- or 10-inch fine-grooved disc made of vinyl and played with a smaller-tipped microgroove stylus at a speed of 33 1⁄3 rpm. Each side of a 12-inch LP could play for more than 20 minutes, although the LP was suited to classical music because of its extended continuous playing time, it also allowed a collection of ten or more pop music recordings to be put on a single disc. The use of the word album persisted for the one-disc LP equivalent, the prototype of the LP was the soundtrack disc used by the Vitaphone motion picture sound system, developed by Western Electric and introduced in 1926. For soundtrack purposes, the less than five minutes of playing time of side of a conventional 12-inch 78 rpm disc was not acceptable. The sound had to play continuously for at least 11 minutes, long enough to accompany a full 1, the disc diameter was increased to 16 inches and the speed was reduced to 33 1⁄3 revolutions per minute. Unlike their smaller LP descendants, they were made with the same large standard groove used by 78s, unlike conventional records, the groove started at the inside of the recorded area near the label and proceeded outward toward the edge. Like 78s, early soundtrack discs were pressed in an abrasive shellac compound, syndicated radio programming was distributed on 78 rpm discs beginning in 1928. The desirability of a longer continuous playing time soon led to the adoption of the Vitaphone soundtrack disc format, 16-inch 33 1⁄3 rpm discs playing about 15 minutes per side were used for most of these electrical transcriptions beginning about 1930. Transcriptions were variously recorded inside out like soundtrack discs or with an outside start, some transcriptions were recorded with a vertically modulated hill and dale groove. This was found to allow deeper bass and also an extension of the frequency response. Neither of these was necessarily an advantage in practice because of the limitations of AM broadcasting. Today we can enjoy the benefits of those higher-fidelity recordings, even if the radio audiences could not. Initially, transcription discs were pressed only in shellac, but by 1932 pressings in RCA Victors vinyl-based Victrolac were appearing, by the late 1930s, vinyl was standard for nearly all kinds of pressed discs except ordinary commercial 78s, which continued to be made of shellac. Use of the LPs microgroove standard began in the late 1950s, the King Biscuit Flower Hour is a late example, as are Westwood Ones The Beatle Years and Doctor Demento programs, which were sent to stations on LP at least through 1992. RCA Victor introduced a version of a long-playing record for home use in September 1931. These Program Transcription discs, as Victor called them, played at 33 1⁄3 rpm and used a somewhat finer and they were to be played with a special Chromium Orange chrome-plated steel needle
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Billboard Hot 100
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The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for singles, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales, radio play and online streaming, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday, when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but was changed to Friday to Thursday in July 2015. Radio airplay, which, unlike sales figures and streaming data, is available on a real-time basis. A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by Billboard on Tuesdays, as of the issue for the week ending on April 15,2017, the Hot 100 has had 1,061 different number one hits. The current number one song is Shape of You by Ed Sheeran, prior to 1955, Billboard did not have a unified, all-encompassing popularity chart, instead measuring songs by individual metrics. At the start of the era in 1955, three such charts existed, Best Sellers in Stores was the first Billboard chart, established in 1936. This chart ranked the biggest selling singles in retail stores, as reported by merchants surveyed throughout the country, Most Played by Jockeys was Billboards original airplay chart. It ranked the most played songs on United States radio stations, as reported by radio disc jockeys, Most Played in Jukeboxes ranked the most played songs in jukeboxes across the United States. On the week ending November 12,1955, Billboard published The Top 100 for the first time, the Top 100 combined all aspects of a singles performance, based on a point system that typically gave sales more weight than radio airplay. The Best Sellers In Stores, Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes charts continued to be published concurrently with the new Top 100 chart. The week ending July 28,1958 was the publication of the Most Played By Jockeys and Top 100 charts. On August 4,1958, Billboard premiered one main all-genre singles chart, the Hot 100 quickly became the industry standard and Billboard discontinued the Best Sellers In Stores chart on October 13,1958. The Billboard Hot 100 is still the standard by which a songs popularity is measured in the United States, the Hot 100 is ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data compiled by Nielsen Soundscan and streaming activity provided by online music sources. There are several component charts that contribute to the calculation of the Hot 100. Charts are ranked by number of gross audience impressions, computed by cross-referencing exact times of radio airplay with Arbitron listener data. Hot Singles Sales, the top selling singles compiled from a sample of retail store, mass merchant and internet sales reports collected, compiled. The chart is released weekly and measures sales of commercial singles. With the decline in sales of singles in the US
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Hook n Sling
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Anthony Maniscalco, better known by his stage name Hook n Sling, is an Australian multiplatinum ARIA-nominated record producer, songwriter and DJ residing in Los Angeles, California. Hook n Sling has played at venues and festivals across the world including Pacha, Space Ibiza, Global Gathering, Future Music Festival, in 2011 he toured the United States and played with Wolfgang Gartner at the infamous Music Box in Los Angeles. In February 2012 he sets off on a tour across the United States, Dominican Republic. In 2011 he claimed a Hype Machine number one with the track Take You Higher with Goodwill, in 2014 his single Tokyo by Night was released with a remix from Swedish DJ Axwell, on his label Axtone. The remix was premiered on 18 April 2014 and gained BBC Radio 1 support from Danny Howard and it topped the Beatport charts the week after its release. Hook n Sling is published by Kobalt for the world, and managed by Dave Frank, Nat Esten and Lucas Keller at Milk & Honey. 2008 Clubbers Guide Ministry of Sound 2009 Progression 22010 Clubbers Guide Ministry of Sound 2011 The Annual Ministry of Sound Hook N Sling Official Website 360 Agency Beatport - Hook N Sling
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Las Vegas Weekly
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Las Vegas Weekly is a free alternative weekly newspaper based in Henderson, Nevada, covering Las Vegas arts, entertainment, culture and news. Las Vegas Weekly is published by Greenspun Media Group, in 1996, Reza partnered with Daniel Greenspun, forming a new company to publish Scope. During this partnership, Reza continued on as Managing Editor, broadening the coverage to a traditional alternative newsweekly style. In 1998, Reza sold his remaining interest in Scope to The Greenspun Corporation, as of December 2009, Las Vegas Weekly had a circulation of 65,000
