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Divergent (film)
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Divergent is a 2014 American science fiction action film directed by Neil Burger, based on the novel of the same name by Veronica Roth. The film is the first installment in The Divergent Series and was produced by Lucy Fisher, Pouya Shabazian, and Douglas Wick, with a screenplay by Evan Daugherty and Vanessa Taylor. It stars Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ashley Judd, Jai Courtney, Ray Stevenson, Zoë Kravitz, Miles Teller, Tony Goldwyn, Ansel Elgort, Maggie Q and Kate Winslet. The story takes place in a dystopian and post-apocalyptic Chicago where people are divided into factions based on human virtues. Beatrice Prior is warned that she is Divergent and thus will never fit any one of the factions. She soon learns that a plot is brewing in the seemingly perfect society. Development of Divergent began in March 2011 when Summit Entertainment picked up the rights to the novel with Douglas Wick. Principal photography began April 16,2013, and concluded on July 16,2013, production mostly took place in Chicago. Divergent was released on March 21,2014, in the United States, the film received mixed reviews from critics, with praise going towards its concepts and action, and criticism focused on its execution. Reviewers found the film to be generic and unoriginal, comparing it unfavorably to other young adult fiction adaptations, despite this, the film was a financial success as it reached the #1 spot at the box office during its opening weekend. After its release, the film earned over US$288 million worldwide against its budget of US$85 million and it was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 5,2014. A sequel, The Divergent Series, Insurgent, was released on March 20,2015 in the United States, in a futuristic dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Dauntless and Erudite. The remaining population are the Factionless, who have no status or privilege in this society, Beatrice Prior was born into Abnegation, which runs the government. Her father, Andrew Prior, serves on the council along with the head of Abnegation. Beatrice takes her test with a Dauntless woman named Tori Wu as her proctor and her results show equal attributes of multiple factions, meaning she is Divergent. Her divergence includes Abnegation, Erudite, and Dauntless, the next day at the Choosing Ceremony, Beatrices brother Caleb Prior chooses Erudite. After some indecision, Beatrice defects to Dauntless, after the ceremony, Beatrice meets Christina, Al, and Will, three other initiates from other factions who also chose Dauntless. Christina and Al are from Candor, and Will is from Erudite, Beatrice is the first to volunteer for a leap of faith from a tall building into a dark hole, landing in a net
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Saratov
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Saratov is a city and the administrative center of Saratov Oblast, Russia, and a major port on the Volga River located upstream of Volgograd. The name Saratov may be derived from the Turkic words Saryk Atov, another version of the name origin is Sary Tau, meaning yellow mountain in the Tatar language. Uvek, a city of the Golden Horde, stood near the site of the city of Saratov from the mid-13th century until its destruction by Tamerlane in 1395. While the exact date of the foundation of modern Saratov is unknown,1590, during the reign of Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich, who constructed several settlements along the Volga River in order to secure the southeastern boundary of his state. Town status was granted to it in 1708, by the 1800s, Saratov had grown to become an important shipping port on the Volga. The Ryazan-Ural Railroad reached Saratov in 1870, in 1896, the line crossed the Volga and continued its eastward expansion. During World War II, Saratov was a station on the North-South Volzhskaya Rokada, the city of Saratov played an important role in the history of the Volga Germans. Until 1941, the town of Pokrovsk, located just across the Volga from Saratov, the ethnic German population of the region numbered 800,000 in the early 20th century, with some people whose families had been there for generations. The Volga German community came to include industrialists, scientists, musicians and architects, others were expelled to western Europe after World War II ended in 1945. Beginning in the 1980s, a portion of the surviving members of the ethnic Germans emigrated from the Soviet Union to Germany. Reminders of the prominent place of Germans in the city remain. The building was converted into the childrens cinema Pioneer during the Soviet period, a new cathedral was built in 2000 elsewhere in the city, the Cathedral of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Saratov. As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the city of oblast significance of Saratov—an administrative unit with the equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the city of oblast significance of Saratov is incorporated as Saratov Urban Okrug, Saratov has moderately continental climate with warm and dry summers and an abundance of sunny days. The warmest month is July with daily temperature near +23 °C. Summers are hot and dry in Saratov, daytime temperatures of +30 °C or higher are commonplace, up to +40.9 °C during a heat wave in 2010. Snow and ice are dominant during the winter season, days well above freezing and nights below −25 °C both occur in the winter. Saratov Oblast is highly industrialized, due in part to the richness in natural and industrial resources of the area, the oblast is also one of the more important and largest cultural and scientific centers in Russia
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Saratov Oblast
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Saratov Oblast is a federal subject of Russia, located in the Volga Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Saratov, as of the 2010 Census, its population was 2,521,892. The oblast is located in the southeast of European Russia, in the part of the Lower Volga region. From west to east its territory stretches for 575 kilometers, the oblast has many water resources, besides the river Volga there are many identified sources and mineral-water deposits. In 1991, the CPSU lost all its power, and the head of the Oblast administration, the Charter of Saratov Oblast is the fundamental law of the oblast. The Legislative Assembly of Saratov Oblast is the provinces standing legislative body, the Legislative Assembly exercises its authority by passing laws, resolutions, and other legal acts and by supervising the implementation and observance of the laws and other legal acts it passes. Ethnic groups, most of the ethnic Germans who used to live in the area have been repatriated. The ethnic composition was reported to be, Russians, Kazakhs, Tatars, Ukrainians, Armenians, Azerbaijani, Chuvash,64,878 people were registered from administrative databases, and could not declare an ethnicity. It is estimated that the proportion of ethnicities in this group is the same as that of the declared group, 2% are Muslims, 1% of the population adheres to Rodnovery, and 0. 5% adheres to forms of Hinduism. In addition, 38% of the population declares to be spiritual but not religious, 16% is atheist, list of Chairmen of the Saratov Oblast Duma Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Саратовская областная Дума. Закон №46-ЗСО от2 июня2005 г, Закона №54-ЗСО от28 апреля2015 г. «О внесении изменений в Устав Саратовской области», Вступил в силу после официального опубликования. Опубликован, Неделя области, Спецвыпуск, №38,4 июня2005 г
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Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
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The Republic comprised sixteen autonomous republics, five autonomous oblasts, ten autonomous okrugs, six krais, and forty oblasts. Russians formed the largest ethnic group, the capital of the Russian SFSR was Moscow and the other major urban centers included Leningrad, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara. The Russian Soviet Republic was proclaimed on November 7,1917 as a sovereign state, the first Constitution was adopted in 1918. In 1922 the Russian SFSR signed the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR, the economy of Russia became heavily industrialized, accounting for about two-thirds of the electricity produced in the USSR. It was, by 1961, the third largest producer of petroleum due to new discoveries in the Volga-Urals region and Siberia, trailing only the United States and Saudi Arabia. In 1974, there were 475 institutes of education in the republic providing education in 47 languages to some 23,941,000 students. A network of territorially organized public-health services provided health care, the effects of market policies led to the failure of many enterprises and total instability by 1990. On June 12,1990, the Congress of Peoples Deputies adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty, on June 12,1991, Boris Yeltsin was elected the first President. On December 8,1991, heads of Russia, Ukraine, the agreement declared dissolution of the USSR by its founder states and established the Commonwealth of Independent States. On December 12, the agreement was ratified by the Russian Parliament, therefore Russian SFSR denounced the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and de facto declared Russias independence from the USSR. On December 25,1991, following the resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev as president of the Soviet Union, on December 26,1991, the USSR was self-dissolved by the Soviet of Nationalities, which by that time was the only functioning house of the Supreme Soviet. After dissolution of the USSR, Russia declared that it assumed the rights and obligations of the dissolved central Soviet government, the new Russian constitution, adopted on December 12,1993 after a constitutional crisis, abolished the Soviet system of government in its entirety. Initially, the state did not have a name and wasnt recognized by neighboring countries for five months. Meanwhile, anti-Bolsheviks coined the mocking label Sovdepia for the nascent state of the Soviets of Workers, on January 25,1918 the third meeting of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets renamed the unrecognized state the Soviet Russian Republic. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed on March 3,1918, on July 10,1918, the Russian Constitution of 1918 renamed the country the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. By 1918, during the Russian Civil War, several states within the former Russian Empire seceded, internationally, in 1920, the RSFSR was recognized as an independent state only by Estonia, Finland, Latvia and Lithuania in the Treaty of Tartu and by the short-lived Irish Republic. On December 30,1922, with the creation of the Soviet Union, the final Soviet name for the republic, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, was adopted in the Soviet Constitution of 1936. By that time, Soviet Russia had gained roughly the same borders of the old Tsardom of Russia before the Great Northern War of 1700
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Soviet Union
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The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. It was nominally a union of national republics, but its government. The Soviet Union had its roots in the October Revolution of 1917 and this established the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic and started the Russian Civil War between the revolutionary Reds and the counter-revolutionary Whites. In 1922, the communists were victorious, forming the Soviet Union with the unification of the Russian, Transcaucasian, Ukrainian, following Lenins death in 1924, a collective leadership and a brief power struggle, Joseph Stalin came to power in the mid-1920s. Stalin suppressed all opposition to his rule, committed the state ideology to Marxism–Leninism. As a result, the country underwent a period of rapid industrialization and collectivization which laid the foundation for its victory in World War II and postwar dominance of Eastern Europe. Shortly before World War II, Stalin signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact agreeing to non-aggression with Nazi Germany, in June 1941, the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, opening the largest and bloodiest theater of war in history. Soviet war casualties accounted for the highest proportion of the conflict in the effort of acquiring the upper hand over Axis forces at battles such as Stalingrad. Soviet forces eventually captured Berlin in 1945, the territory overtaken by the Red Army became satellite states of the Eastern Bloc. The Cold War emerged by 1947 as the Soviet bloc confronted the Western states that united in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949. Following Stalins death in 1953, a period of political and economic liberalization, known as de-Stalinization and Khrushchevs Thaw, the country developed rapidly, as millions of peasants were moved into industrialized cities. The USSR took a lead in the Space Race with Sputnik 1, the first ever satellite, and Vostok 1. In the 1970s, there was a brief détente of relations with the United States, the war drained economic resources and was matched by an escalation of American military aid to Mujahideen fighters. In the mid-1980s, the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, sought to reform and liberalize the economy through his policies of glasnost. The goal was to preserve the Communist Party while reversing the economic stagnation, the Cold War ended during his tenure, and in 1989 Soviet satellite countries in Eastern Europe overthrew their respective communist regimes. This led to the rise of strong nationalist and separatist movements inside the USSR as well, in August 1991, a coup détat was attempted by Communist Party hardliners. It failed, with Russian President Boris Yeltsin playing a role in facing down the coup. On 25 December 1991, Gorbachev resigned and the twelve constituent republics emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union as independent post-Soviet states
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Kaiserslautern
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Kaiserslautern is a city in southwest Germany, located in the Bundesland of Rhineland-Palatinate at the edge of the Palatinate Forest. The historic centre dates to the 9th century and it is 459 kilometres from Paris,117 km from Frankfurt am Main, and 159 km from Luxembourg. Kaiserslautern is home to 98,166 people, additionally, approximately 45,000 NATO military personnel inhabit the city and its surrounding district, and contribute approximately US$1 billion annually to the local economy. The city is home to football club 1. FC Kaiserslautern that has won the German championship four times, prehistoric settlement in the area of what is now Kaiserslautern has been traced to at least 800 BC. Some 2, 500-year-old Celtic tombs were uncovered at Miesau, a town about 29 kilometres west of Kaiserslautern, the recovered relics are now in the Museum for Palatinate History at Speyer. Kaiserslautern received its name from the hunting retreat of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa who ruled the Holy Roman Empire from 1155 until 1190. The small river Lauter made the old section of Kaiserslautern an island in medieval times, ruins of Fredericks original castle, built 1152–1160, can still be seen in front of the Rathaus. A second castle, Nanstein Castle, was built at Landstuhl to guard the approach to the city. Barbarossas influence on Kaiserslautern remains today, both in its nickname as a Barbarossa city and the open-mouthed pike on the coat of arms. The Stiftkirche, Kaiserslauterns oldest church, was constructed in 1250–1350, as the population of Kaiserslautern grew, King Rudolf von Habsburg chartered the town in 1276. St. Martins Kirche was built from 1300–1350 for an order of monks, today a section of the original city wall still stands in the courtyard of the church. In 1375, the city of Kaiserslautern was pledged to Electoral Palatinate, in 1519, Franz von Sickingen became the owner of Nanstein Castle. He became a Protestant, and in 1522 Nanstein was a stronghold for local nobles favouring the Reformation, Sickingen and the local nobles began their battle against the Archbishop of Trier, but the attack was unsuccessful, and they retreated to Nanstein. Nanstein was then besieged by cannon-armed German Catholic princes, Sickingen died after the castle surrendered, and the Protestant nobility of the Electoral Palatinate were subdued by the Catholic princes. Count of the Electoral Palatinate Johann Casimir, came to Kaiserslautern during the Thirty Years War, spanish occupation in 1621–1632 ended when Protestant Swedish armies liberated the area. In 1635, however, Croatian troops of the Austrian emperors army entered Kaiserslautern, Landstuhl was saved from a similar fate by surrendering without a fight. It took Kaiserslautern about 160 years to repopulate itself, conflict did not end with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648
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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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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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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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Interscope Records
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Interscope Records is an American record company. At the time, it differed from most record companies by giving decision-making authority to its A&R staff and it had its first hit records less than a year after it was founded and achieved profitability in 1993. In 1992, Interscope acquired the rights to market and distribute the hardcore rap label Death Row. Albums by Death Row artists included rappers Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, as a result, Time Warner severed ties with Interscope by selling its 50 percent stake back to Field and Iovine for $115 million in 1995. In 1996, 50% of the label was acquired by the MCA Music Entertainment Group for a reported $200 million, Iovine served as chairman and CEO until May 2014. He was succeeded by John Janick, Interscope is headquartered in Santa Monica, California. The labels best-selling artists include U2, Eminem, Lady Gaga, in 1989, Ted Field began to build Interscope Records as a division of his film company, Interscope Communications. To run it, he hired John McClain, who had played a role in Janet Jacksons success at A&M Records, and Tom Whalley. Separately, Iovine, who had produced records by U2, Bruce Springsteen, I thought, Music is going to change, Iovine said in 1997. Young bands arent going to be asking for me, but I love working with the new thing. I always liked the part of the business thats the first time you hear something, Iovine and Field were introduced by Paul McGuinness, then U2s manager. After a series of negotiations led by David Geffen, they came to an agreement, in a 1997 article in Rolling Stone, David Wild wrote, Interscopes start-up coincided with a period of incredible change in the music world. Nirvana had ushered in the alternative revolution, based in Westwood, California, Interscope was run by music men. It was a departure from the industry practices of the 1970s and 1980s. A founding tenet of the label was that artists would have creative control. Interscopes first release was Rico Suave by Ecuadoran rapper Gerardo in December 1990, Primus Interscope debut was released in May, followed by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunchs Music for the People in July. It included the #1 single Good Vibrations, two days after first hearing his demo, Whalley signed Tupac Shakur, and in November 1991, Interscope released 2pacalypse Now, Shakurs studio debut. Interscope began to develop a significant presence in the genre in 1992
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OWSLA
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OWSLA is a record label and creative collective founded by Sonny Skrillex Moore and co-founded by Tim Bitvargen Smith, Kathryn Frazier, and Clayton Blaha. Skrillex announced the label on 17 August 2011, the labels first release was Porter Robinsons Spitfire, which reached number one on Beatport. Prior to the label, Skrillex had teamed up with Zedd, 12th Planet. The 19-track sequel was released on the label on March 13,2012 and also included KOAN Sound, The M Machine, Ghastly, Zardonic. The name OWSLA is a reference to Richard Adams fantasy novel Watership Down which is about a group of anthropomorphized rabbits who live in a Sandleford warren
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Spinnin' Records
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Spinnin Records is a Dutch independent record label, founded in 1999 by Eelko van Kooten and Roger de Graaf. Van Kooten is the son of former Dutch radio DJ and businessman Willem van Kooten, together with Roger de Graaf, a former employee of the specialist dance retailer Rhythm Import, van Kooten formed Spinnin Records in 1999. Initially they concentrated on the pressing of vinyl for artists, besides their main imprint, Spinnin Records hosts approximately forty sub-labels, the majority linked to a specific artist. The label provides A&R, management, publishing and marketing for artists they have under contract, notable sublabels include Heldeep Records, Musical Freedom, Spinnin Deep and Spinnin Premium. All of the focus on various sorts of dance and electronic music. Official website Spinnin Records discography at Discogs Spinnin Records at LabelsBase Interview with Eelko van Kooten
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Dim Mak Records
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Dim Mak is an independent, Los Angeles, CA-based record label, events company, and lifestyle brand founded by Steve Aoki in 1996. The label has released music in punk, indie rock, hardcore, hip hop, the label is driven by Aoki’s Do It Yourself ethos and the company’s By Any Means Necessary mantra. Dim Mak has promoted artists including The Bloody Beetroots, Bloc Party, The Kills, Battles, The Gossip, Andys iLL, Klaxons, MSTRKRFT, Felix Cartal, Datsik. In 2014, the label made its 500th release with the King Babies EP from The Death Set, Dim Mak’s current roster includes releases from Garmiani, Ookay, Botnek, Autoerotique, Rain Man, Henry Fong, Morten, Keys N Krates, Dirtyphonics and many more. Steve Aoki started Dim Mak Records at the age of 19 out of his dorm at the University of California. In 2001, Dim Mak released one of the label’s first major projects with the self-titled debut EP from Pretty Girls Make Graves, releases from The Kills and The Black Rooster followed the year after. Aoki relocated Dim Mak to Los Angeles in 2002 on the success of these projects, in 2003, U. K. indie rock band Bloc Party personally mailed Aoki a 7-inch of the track “She’s Hearing Voices” and signed to Dim Mak shortly thereafter. Dim Mak teamed up with VICE, a subsidiary of Atlantic Records, Dim Mak and Atlantic later released Bloc Party’s critically acclaimed and commercially successful Silent Alarm in 2005. Subsequently, Dim Mak continued to release indie/dance bands Neon Blonde, Be Your Own Pet, Klaxons, Scanners, in 2009, Dim Mak Records broke into the electronic dance music scene with the release of “Warp” from The Bloody Beetroots featuring Steve Aoki. The song became a club anthem and established Dim Mak as a player in the dance world. Dim Mak continued to release commercially successful projects from MSTRKRFT, Battles, Fischerspooner, The Blood Brothers, The Von Bondies, Dada Life, and Atari Teenage Riot. Key releases with various electronic music producers and DJs helped Dim Mak Records become a leading influencer in the music world recognized by media. Off the success of “Warp” and Steve Aoki’s solo DJ career, Dim Mak continued to sign and break numerous electronic dance producers like Azari & III, Datsik, Felix Cartal. From 2003-2014, Dim Mak held the weekly Dim Mak Tuesdays event at Dim Mak Studios in Hollywood, in 2006, Steve Aoki and Dim Mak teamed up with the late producer DJ AM to launch the weekly Sunday party Banana Split Sundaes at Los Angeles nightclub LAX. From 2010-2013, Dim Mak hosted the weekly Dim Mak Sundays party at Hollywood club Drai’s, Dim Mak hosts Dim Mak-branded stages at music festivals around the world. In the United States, Dim Mak has partnered with Hard Events, Electric Daisy Carnival, Electric Forest, Identity Festival, Beyond Wonderland, and Electric Zoo. Dim Mak also launched the Deadmeat North American Tour in 2012 headlined by Steve Aoki, in 2013, Dim Mak hosted the Dim Mak Up All Night Stage at the inaugural TomorrowWorld in Chattahoochee Hills, GA. In Europe, Dim Mak has presence at several festivals like Beatpatrol, Get Loaded, Optimus Alive. Dim Mak has produced the main stage at the Playground Festival, We Love Sounds/Winterland Soundsystem Festival, and Future Music Festival
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Matthew Koma
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Matthew Koma is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and DJ. Matthew Koma is one of the writers behind numerous hit songs, including Zedd’s Spectrum, Koma was born and raised in Seaford, New York, on Long Island. Inspired by Elvis Costello and Bruce Springsteen, Koma started his career in punk rock, later transitioning into a mixture of genres ranging from pop. Komas early collaborations include work with Hardwell, Zedd, Miriam Bryant, Sebastian Ingrosso, Alesso, Tiësto, Vicetone, Koma was noticed by Jimmy Iovine who signed him to Interscope Records after watching an acoustic performance of the record She. Since then he has part in the Sorry For Party Rocking worldwide tour with LMFAO and Far East Movement. In March 2012, Bruce Springsteen released Rocky Ground, a remix that Koma co-produced with Ron Aniello as a single from his album Wrecking Ball, in 2012 Koma also did the main vocals for the song End of Pretend by Black Cards. The following spring, he toured Europe supporting Ellie Goulding alongside Charli XCX, in 2014, Koma and DJ Hardwell released the single Dare You, appeared on RACs debut album, featuring on the single Cheap Sunglasses. EDM star Audiens single Serotonin, and on Showteks Cannonball which reached number one on the UK Dance Chart, Koma collaborated with the The Knocks on I Wish, which was released as a single in September 2015 and later appeared on the Knocks 2016 album,55
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Lady Gaga
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Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She performed initially in theater, appearing in school plays. From there, Akon noticed her vocal abilities and helped her to sign a joint deal with Interscope Records and her debut album The Fame was a critical and commercial success that produced international chart-topping singles such as Just Dance and Poker Face. A follow-up EP, The Fame Monster, was met with a reception and Bad Romance, Telephone. Her second full-length album Born This Way was released in 2011, topping the charts in more than 20 countries, including the United States, the album produced the number-one single Born This Way. Her third album Artpop, released in 2013, topped the US charts, in 2014, Gaga released a collaborative jazz album with Tony Bennett titled Cheek to Cheek, which became her third consecutive number one in the United States. For her work in the television series American Horror Story, Hotel, with her fifth studio album Joanne, she became the first woman to have four US number one albums in the 2010s. In February 2017, Gaga headlined the Super Bowl LI halftime show which had an audience of over 150 million across various platforms worldwide. With global album and single sales of 27 million and 146 million respectively, as of January 2016 and her achievements include twelve Guinness World Records, three Brit Awards, and six Grammy Awards. She is also the first artist to win the Songwriters Hall of Fames Contemporary Icon Award, in 2013, Gaga finished second on Times readers poll of the most influential people of the past ten years, while in 2015, she was named Billboards Woman of the Year. Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta was born on March 28,1986 and she is the elder daughter of Cynthia Louise Cindy and Internet entrepreneur Joseph Joe Germanotta. Gaga has three Italian grandparents and one American grandparent, as well as French Canadian ancestry, Gagas sister Natali is a fashion student. From age 11, she attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart and she described her academic life in high school as very dedicated, very studious, very disciplined but also a bit insecure. I used to get made fun of for being too provocative or too eccentric. I didnt fit in, and I felt like a freak, in 2014, Gaga said she was raped at the age of 19. She stated, I went through some things that Im able to laugh now, because Ive gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy. Gaga later said that she suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder because of the rape, and that support from doctors, family, and friends really saved my life. Gaga began playing the piano at the age of four, wrote her first piano ballad at 13 and she performed lead roles in high school productions, including Adelaide in Guys and Dolls and Philia in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
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Russian language
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Russian is an East Slavic language and an official language in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and many minor or unrecognised territories. Russian belongs to the family of Indo-European languages and is one of the four living members of the East Slavic languages, written examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the 10th century and beyond. It is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia and the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages and it is also the largest native language in Europe, with 144 million native speakers in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Russian is the eighth most spoken language in the world by number of native speakers, the language is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Russian is also the second most widespread language on the Internet after English, Russian distinguishes between consonant phonemes with palatal secondary articulation and those without, the so-called soft and hard sounds. This distinction is found between pairs of almost all consonants and is one of the most distinguishing features of the language, another important aspect is the reduction of unstressed vowels. Russian is a Slavic language of the Indo-European family and it is a lineal descendant of the language used in Kievan Rus. From the point of view of the language, its closest relatives are Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Rusyn. An East Slavic Old Novgorod dialect, although vanished during the 15th or 16th century, is considered to have played a significant role in the formation of modern Russian. In the 19th century, the language was often called Great Russian to distinguish it from Belarusian, then called White Russian and Ukrainian, however, the East Slavic forms have tended to be used exclusively in the various dialects that are experiencing a rapid decline. In some cases, both the East Slavic and the Church Slavonic forms are in use, with different meanings. For details, see Russian phonology and History of the Russian language and it is also regarded by the United States Intelligence Community as a hard target language, due to both its difficulty to master for English speakers and its critical role in American world policy. The standard form of Russian is generally regarded as the modern Russian literary language, mikhail Lomonosov first compiled a normalizing grammar book in 1755, in 1783 the Russian Academys first explanatory Russian dictionary appeared. By the mid-20th century, such dialects were forced out with the introduction of the education system that was established by the Soviet government. Despite the formalization of Standard Russian, some nonstandard dialectal features are observed in colloquial speech. Thus, the Russian language is the 6th largest in the world by number of speakers, after English, Mandarin, Hindi/Urdu, Spanish, Russian is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Education in Russian is still a choice for both Russian as a second language and native speakers in Russia as well as many of the former Soviet republics. Russian is still seen as an important language for children to learn in most of the former Soviet republics, samuel P. Huntington wrote in the Clash of Civilizations, During the heyday of the Soviet Union, Russian was the lingua franca from Prague to Hanoi
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Dubstep
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Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London, England. It emerged in the late 1990s as a development within a lineage of related styles such as 2-step garage, dub, techno, drum and bass, broken beat, jungle, and reggae. In the United Kingdom the origins of the genre can be traced back to the growth of the Jamaican sound system party scene in the early 1980s, the music generally features sparse, syncopated drum and percussion patterns with bass lines that contain prominent sub bass frequencies. The earliest dubstep releases date back to 1998, and were featured as B-sides of 2-step garage single releases. These tracks were darker, more experimental remixes with less emphasis on vocals, a very early supporter of the sound was BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, who started playing it from 2003 onwards. In 2004, the last year of his show, his listeners voted Distance, Digital Mystikz, simultaneously, the genre was receiving extensive coverage in music magazines such as The Wire and online publications such as Pitchfork, with a regular feature entitled The Month In, Grime/Dubstep. Interest in dubstep grew significantly after BBC Radio 1 DJ Mary Anne Hobbs started championing the genre, towards the end of the 2000s and into the early 2010s, the genre started to become more commercially successful in the UK, with more singles and remixes entering the music charts. Music journalists and critics noticed a dubstep influence in several pop artists work. The music website Allmusic has described Dubsteps overall sound as tightly coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals. According to Simon Reynolds, Dubsteps constituents originally came from different points in the 1989—99 UK lineage, bleep n bass, jungle, techstep, Photek-style neurofunk, speed garage,2 step. Reynolds comments that the traces of pre-existing styles worked through their intrinsic sonic effects but also as signifiers, Dubsteps early roots are in the more experimental releases of UK garage producers, seeking to incorporate elements of drum and bass into the South London-based 2-step garage sound. These experiments often ended up on the B-side of a label or commercial garage release. Similar to a vocal garage hybrid – grime – the genres feel is commonly dark, tracks frequently use a minor key, other distinguishing features often found are the use of samples, a propulsive, sparse rhythm, and an almost omnipresent sub-bass. Some dubstep artists have incorporated a variety of outside influences. Dubstep rhythms are usually syncopated, and often shuffled or incorporating tuplets, the tempo is nearly always in the range of 138–142 beats per minute, with a clap or snare usually inserted every third beat in a bar. In its early stages, dubstep was often more percussive, with influences from 2‑step drum patterns. A lot of producers were experimenting with tribal drum samples, such as Loefahs early release Truly Dread. One characteristic of certain strands of dubstep is the bass, often referred to as the wub
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Classical music
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Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western music, including both liturgical and secular music. The central norms of this tradition became codified between 1550 and 1900, which is known as the common-practice period, Western staff notation is used by composers to indicate to the performer the pitches, tempo, meter and rhythms for a piece of music. This can leave less room for such as improvisation and ad libitum ornamentation. The term classical music did not appear until the early 19th century, the earliest reference to classical music recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary is from about 1836. This score typically determines details of rhythm, pitch, and, the written quality of the music has enabled a high level of complexity within them, J. S. The use of written notation also preserves a record of the works, Musical notation enables 2000s-era performers to sing a choral work from the 1300s Renaissance era or a 1700s Baroque concerto with many of the features of the music being reproduced. That said, the score does not provide complete and exact instructions on how to perform a historical work, even if the tempo is written with an Italian instruction, we do not know exactly how fast the piece should be played. Bach was particularly noted for his complex improvisations, during the Classical era, the composer-performer Mozart was noted for his ability to improvise melodies in different styles. During the Classical era, some virtuoso soloists would improvise the cadenza sections of a concerto, during the Romantic era, Beethoven would improvise at the piano. The instruments currently used in most classical music were largely invented before the mid-19th century and they consist of the instruments found in an orchestra or in a concert band, together with several other solo instruments. The symphony orchestra is the most widely known medium for music and includes members of the string, woodwind, brass. The concert band consists of members of the woodwind, brass and it generally has a larger variety and number of woodwind and brass instruments than the orchestra but does not have a string section. However, many bands use a double bass. Many of the used to perform medieval music still exist. Medieval instruments included the flute, the recorder and plucked string instruments like the lute. As well, early versions of the organ, fiddle, Medieval instruments in Europe had most commonly been used singly, often self accompanied with a drone note, or occasionally in parts. From at least as early as the 13th century through the 15th century there was a division of instruments into haut, during the earlier medieval period, the vocal music from the liturgical genre, predominantly Gregorian chant, was monophonic, using a single, unaccompanied vocal melody line. Polyphonic vocal genres, which used multiple independent vocal melodies, began to develop during the medieval era, becoming prevalent by the later 13th
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Alessia Cara
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Alessia Caracciolo, professionally known as Alessia Cara, is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She is signed to EP Entertainment and Def Jam Recordings and released her single, Here, from the debut studio album, Know-It-All. A sleeper hit, the reached the top five in the United States. Prior to her work for Def Jam, she produced acoustic covers on YouTube, in 2016, Cara found greater success in the release of her third single, Scars to Your Beautiful. The single reached the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100, in 2017, Cara collaborated with producer Zedd to create the single Stay, which has since reached number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100. Caracciolo is from Brampton, Ontario where she attended Cardinal Ambrozic Catholic Secondary School and she is of Italian descent from Calabria, her father was born in Canada to Italian parents, and her mother is an Italian immigrant. As a child, she wrote poetry and did theatre and she began playing guitar at the age of 10 and taught herself how to play various songs. At the age of 13 she began her own YouTube channel where she posted covers of songs that she performed, Caras singing and writing style has been compared to singers such as Lorde, Amy Winehouse, Rihanna, and Norah Jones. She also appeared on radio stations, including 15 Seconds of Fame on Mix 104.1 Boston. In 2015, she signed a deal with EP Entertainment imprint, in April 2015, Cara released her official debut single, through Def Jam. Titled Here, it was described as a song for everyone who secretly hates parties by MTV, produced by Pop & Oak and Sebastian Kole, the song is her personal experience with going to a party before realizing how much she hated parties. On May 5,2015, the song was chosen as the track by Spin. The song was named one of the best Canadian songs of April by Complex. Rolling Stone later ranked Here at number 21 on its year-end list of the 50 best songs of 2015, on July 29,2015, Cara made her first-televised debut performing her single, Here on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Here then received a nomination for the Original Song at the Streamy Award and she released the EP Four Pink Walls, containing five songs, including her debut single, Here. Her debut album Know-It-All was released on November 13,2015 and she was short-listed for the BBC Music Sound of. Award for 2016 and finished as the runner-up, Cara was awarded as Breakthrough Artist of the Year at the 2016 Juno Awards. On March 7,2016, the video for Wild Things was released
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Clarity (Zedd song)
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Clarity is a Grammy Award-winning song by Russian-German electronic dance music producer Zedd featuring the vocals of British singer Foxes. It serves as the single from his debut studio album of the same name. The song was written by Zedd, Matthew Koma, Porter Robinson and Skylar Grey and released as iTunes Single of the Week on October 2,2012, Zedd has released an extended mix of the song exclusively on Beatport on November 12,2012. When Zedd listened to Foxes song Youth, he Skyped her, after Foxes did research on Wikipedia about Zedd, she accepted the offer. It ended up being awarded Silver certification by the BPI following the intake of streaming into Official Charts data in the UK, the extended play of the track was released on February 18,2013. It features ten remixes including Tiësto, Headhunterz and Funkagenda, among others, from December 2012 to February 4,2013, Zedd hosted a remix contest for the track. The winning remix by Tom Budin is due to be featured on an upcoming Zedd release, Clarity won the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording at the 56th Grammy Awards, becoming their first win. Clarity has a tempo of 128 beats per minute, and is written in the A♭ major key and its main chord progression is B♭m7/E♭sus4/Fm7/Cm7/D♭ – B♭m7/E♭sus4/Fm7/Cm7/D♭/A♭. A music video for Clarity directed by Jodeb was released on 11 January 2013, the music video featured Foxes and actor and model AJ English as a couple. The male lead wakes up after being knocked unconscious from the collision, however, she runs away through the desert, making him follow her until she falls unconscious in the sand. A rewind of the event was shown afterwards, before in the final scene. All scenes were accompanied by computer effects of collisions and other images that synchronize with the music, the music video also features a cameo from Zedd. As of January 2017, the video has received more than 186 million views, the song was also featured as the background music of the introduction video of F12013. The song was covered by Jessica Sanchez in her 2013 guest starring on Glee where she performed this song for Regionals competition in the episode All or Nothing, Jessica also performed an acoustic version of this song with Zedd which was uploaded on YouTube. Michelle Chamuel also covered this song on the season of the North American version of The Voice. The song was covered on the season of The X Factor USA during the audition round by auditionee Rylie Brown. It debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 86, peaked at number 8 and it has sold 2,238,000 copies in the United States as of March 2014. This song was performed by Jena Irene on American Idol 2014, charlie Puth has an acoustic cover as well. The Song was Covered by Singer M/s Nida Mansuri at recording Studio, Song was Recorded on 23th of October 2016 and it was released on 26th October 2016
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Foxes (singer)
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Louisa Rose Allen, better known by her stage name Foxes, is a British singer, songwriter and actress. Her vocals featured on Zedds 2012 single Clarity, which peaked at eight on the Billboard Hot 100. Foxes debut album, Glorious, was released in the United Kingdom in 2014 and features the top 20 singles Youth, Let Go for Tonight and her second album, All I Need, was released on 5 February 2016. The album includes the singles Body Talk, Better Love, Amazing, Allen was born in Southampton, Hampshire, and grew up in the citys Swaythling and St Denys areas. She attended St Denys Primary School, Cantell School, and Eastleigh College and she started writing music when she was 14 years old and reached the final of a local talent competition in 2009. At 18 years old, she considered training as a beauty therapist and she attended the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance but dropped out, preferring to write and perform music than study it. Allen devised a stage name to differentiate herself from British pop singer Lily Allen, Allen chose Foxes based on this connection. She began performing gigs as Foxes in London in 2011, Foxes released her debut single, Youth, in January 2012 on Neon Gold Records, and the following month was signed to Sign of the Times, a Simon Fuller-owned UK imprint of Sony Music Entertainment. Youth and its B-side, Home, were featured in the American television series Gossip Girl and an EP, Warrior, followed in July 2012, later in 2012, Foxes toured with Marina and the Diamonds on her Lonely Hearts Club Tour and released a second single, Echo. Youth caught the attention of dance producer Zedd, who invited Foxes to feature on his song Clarity. Clarity was released as a single in late 2012 and became a hit during 2013, reaching number eight on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song was certified platinum in Australia, platinum in the United States, and silver in the United Kingdom. At the 56th Annual Grammy Awards, Zedd and Foxes won the award for Best Dance Recording, Foxes teaser single Beauty Queen was released in May 2013, followed by a US re-release of Youth in August 2013 after Foxes signed to RCA Records in the country. In the United Kingdom, Youth reached number 12 on the chart in October 2013. During late 2013, Foxes embarked on a tour of the United Kingdom. On 17 April 2014, Foxes appeared on BBC Radio 1s Innuendo Bingo, Foxes debut album, Glorious, was released in May 2014 following the single Holding onto Heaven, and debuted at number five on the UK Albums Chart. A fourth single, Glorious, followed in August 2014 and was used in an ITV advertising campaign promoting the networks autumn season of programmes, during September and October 2014, Foxes served as the opening act for R&B musician Pharrells Dear Girl Tour, playing to arenas across Europe. Also in October, Foxes featured in the series of the iconic BBC science fiction series Doctor Who
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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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Ariana Grande
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Ariana Grande-Butera, known as Ariana Grande, is an American singer and actress. She began her career in the Broadway musical 13, before landing the role of Cat Valentine on the Nickelodeon television series Victorious in 2009, the show ended after four seasons, and Grande starred on the spinoff, Sam & Cat, which ended in 2014. She has also appeared in theatre, television and film roles. Grandes music career began with the soundtrack Music from Victorious and she signed a recording contract with Republic Records and released her debut studio album, Yours Truly in 2013, which debuted at No.1 on the US Billboard 200. The albums lead single, The Way, debuted in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, Grandes second studio album, My Everything, debuted at No.1 in the US and charted in the top 10 in various other countries. In 2015, Grande promoted My Everything with her first world tour, The Honeymoon Tour, and guest-starred in the Fox comedy horror television series, Scream Queens. She also released the single Focus, which debuted at No.7 in the US, and a holiday EP album, Christmas & Chill, in 2016, she released her third studio album, Dangerous Woman, as well as several songs from the album. The title track debuted at No.10 on the Billboard Hot 100, the album debuted at No.2 on the Billboard 200. As of January 2017, Grandes music videos had been viewed a total of more than 7 billion times online, All three of her albums have been certified platinum or better by the RIAA. In 2016, Time named Grande one of the 100 most influential people in the world on the annual Time 100 list, Grande has a large following on social media, including the 2nd most followed Instagram account. In 2017, Grande is touring in North America and then Europe and her name was originally inspired by Princess Oriana from Felix the Cat. She has an older half-brother, Frankie Grande, who is an actor, dancer and producer, Grandes family moved from New York to Florida when her mother was pregnant with Grande, and her parents separated when she was around 8 or 9 years old. As a child, Grande performed with the Fort Lauderdale Childrens Theater, playing her first role as Annie, as well as performing in the musicals The Wizard of Oz and Beauty and she attended Pine Crest School and North Broward Preparatory School. By age 13, she became serious about pursuing a music career, who is going to buy a 14-year-olds R&B album. In 2008, Grande was cast in the role of cheerleader Charlotte in the musical 13 on Broadway. When she joined the musical, Grande left her school, North Broward Preparatory School. The school sent materials to her so she could study with tutors and she also sang various times at the New York City jazz club, Birdland. Grande auditioned for the Nickelodeon television show Victorious in New York along with 13 co-star Elizabeth Gillies in 2009, in this sitcom set in a performing arts high school, Grande was cast as Cat Valentine
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Break Free (song)
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Break Free is a song by American singer Ariana Grande featuring Russian-German music producer Zedd. It was the single from Grandes sophomore studio album My Everything. It premiered on July 2,2014 on Total Ariana Live, MTVs revival of Total Request Live, musically, the song explores EDM and electro genres, a musical departure for Grande, whose discography is primarily composed of pop and R&B. Break Free peaked at four on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Grandes third consecutive top-ten from My Everything. As of March 2016, the song has sold 1.8 million copies in the United States, Break Free reached the Billboard Hot 100 top ten on the same week with Bang Bang and Problem. Consequently, she became the lead female artist to simultaneously have three top ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100 after Adele. Break Free was written by Savan Kotecha, Zedd and Max Martin, in a May 2014 interview during which he talked about Break Free, Zedd spoke about wanting to collaborate with Grande after hearing her voice for the first time at a Universal showcase. He said, I was backstage and I heard someone sing, and I didnt know who it was, and I just said I want to make a song with whoever is singing right now. I didnt know who it was, and it turned out being her, and luckily, now theres a song. Grande first spoke about collaborating on a song with Zedd in late April in an interview with Billboard. She described the song as fantastic and super-experimental for me and further stated, I never thought Id do an EDM song, but that was an eye-opening experience and she later talked about the song at Wango Tango and shared that she wanted it to be the next single. According to the music published at Musicnotes. com by Kobalt Music Services America. Ariana Grande commented on the seeming lack of sense, telling Time magazine. I am not going to sing a grammatically incorrect lyric, help me, Max was like, ‘It’s funny — just do it. On May 10,2014, during an interview after her performance at Wango Tango and she said, I did a song with Zedd, who I just met for the first time here, and Im really excited about that song. I really want that to be the second single and my whole team is like, Oh its too early to pick a new single, but Im really leaning towards that one. I love that song so much, hes fantastic and the song is really fun. To build hype, Grande started a countdown for the ten days leading up to Break Frees release
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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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Billboard (magazine)
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Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events and it is also known for its music charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular singles and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows, Billboard was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegens interest in 1900 for $500, in the 1900s, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows. It also created a service for travelling entertainers. Billboard began focusing more on the industry as the jukebox, phonograph. Many topics it covered were spun-off into different magazines, including Amusement Business in 1961 to cover outdoor entertainment so that it could focus on music. After Donaldson died in 1925, Billboard was passed down to his children and Hennegans children, until it was sold to investors in 1985. The first issue of Billboard was published in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 1,1894 by William Donaldson, initially, it covered the advertising and bill posting industry and was called Billboard Advertising. At the time, billboards, posters and paper advertisements placed in public spaces were the means of advertising. Donaldson handled editorial and advertising, while Hennegan, who owned Hennegan Printing Co. managed magazine production, the first issues were just eight pages long. The paper had columns like The Bill Room Gossip and The Indefatigable, a department for agricultural fairs was established in 1896. The title was changed to The Billboard in 1897, after a brief departure over editorial differences, Donaldson purchased Hennegans interest in the business in 1900 for $500, to save it from bankruptcy. That May, Donaldson changed it from a monthly to a paper with a greater emphasis on breaking news. He improved editorial quality and opened new offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London and he also re-focused the magazine on outdoor entertainment like fairs, carnivals, circuses, vaudeville and burlesque shows. A section devoted to circuses was introduced in 1900, followed by more prominent coverage of events in 1901. Billboard also covered topics including regulation, a lack of professionalism, economics and it had a stage gossip column covering the private lives of entertainers, a tent show section covering traveling shows and a sub-section called Freaks to order. According to The Seattle Times, Donaldson also published articles attacking censorship, praising productions exhibiting good taste
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Russia
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Russia, also officially the Russian Federation, is a country in Eurasia. The European western part of the country is more populated and urbanised than the eastern. Russias capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world, other urban centers include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a range of environments. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk, the East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, in 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus ultimately disintegrated into a number of states, most of the Rus lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion. The Soviet Union played a role in the Allied victory in World War II. The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the worlds first human-made satellite and the launching of the first humans in space. By the end of 1990, the Soviet Union had the second largest economy, largest standing military in the world. It is governed as a federal semi-presidential republic, the Russian economy ranks as the twelfth largest by nominal GDP and sixth largest by purchasing power parity in 2015. Russias extensive mineral and energy resources are the largest such reserves in the world, making it one of the producers of oil. The country is one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possesses the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction, Russia is a great power as well as a regional power and has been characterised as a potential superpower. The name Russia is derived from Rus, a state populated mostly by the East Slavs. However, this name became more prominent in the later history, and the country typically was called by its inhabitants Русская Земля. In order to distinguish this state from other states derived from it, it is denoted as Kievan Rus by modern historiography, an old Latin version of the name Rus was Ruthenia, mostly applied to the western and southern regions of Rus that were adjacent to Catholic Europe. The current name of the country, Россия, comes from the Byzantine Greek designation of the Kievan Rus, the standard way to refer to citizens of Russia is Russians in English and rossiyane in Russian. There are two Russian words which are translated into English as Russians
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Deathcore
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Deathcore is an extreme metal fusion genre that combines the characteristics of death metal and metalcore and sometimes hardcore punk. It makes use of death metal riffs and blast beats, as well as metalcore breakdowns, Deathcore gained most prominence within the southwestern United States, especially Arizona and inland southern California, which are home to many notable bands and various festivals. Deathcore combines death metal such as blast beats, down-tuned guitars, tremolo picking. The genre is defined by breakdowns and death metal riffs or metalcore riffs played in the usual death metal tuning. Like in other extreme metal genres, deathcore guitarists down-tune their guitars to give their music a heavier sound. Deathcore bands may also employ guitar solos as well, low growls and shrieked screams are common vocalizations. Some other techniques that deathcore vocalists have used include what is known as pig squeals, sung vocals in the genre are extremely rare and most deathcore bands have never used them, but the idea has been experimented with by a few bands such as All Shall Perish and Oceano. The term deathcore originated in the mid-1990s, in 1996, Nick Terry of Terrorizer magazine wrote, in spite of this, Antagony and Despised Icon are considered to be the pioneers of deathcore. However, Despised Icon has rejected the label, Nick Vasallo is credited as being the father of deathcore. Deathcore also began to gain popularity in the late 2000s. Notable bands that brought the genre in the highlight include Bring Me the Horizon, after its release, Whitechapels album This Is Exile sold 5,900 in copies, which made it enter the Billboard 200 chart at position 118. Their self-titled album peaked at number 65 on the Canadian Albums Chart and their third album A New Era of Corruption sold about 10,600 copies in the United States in its first week of being released and peaked at position number 43 on the Billboard 200 chart. Furthermore, Bring Me the Horizon won the 2006 Kerrang, awards for Best British Newcomer after they released their 2006 debut record Count Your Blessings. However, Bring Me the Horizon abandoned the genre after the release of this album. Lastly, San Diego natives Carnifex, witnessed success with their first album Dead in My Arms, on top of their non-stop touring and methodical songwriting resulted in Carnifex quickly getting signed to label Victory Records. A variety of deathcore bands experimented with other genres into their music as influence as time went by, for example, early material by the band Fallujah was described as carrying deathcore and black metal influence respectively. On the other hand, Emmure has been credited to be influenced by nu metal and was described as the new Limp Bizkit. Deathcore has been criticized and looked down upon, especially by fans of some other heavy metal subgenres
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Cross (Justice album)
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† is the debut studio album by French electronic music duo Justice. It was first released on 18 June 2007 through Ed Banger Records and Because Music in most countries, recorded during 2005 and 2006 in Paris, Cross was aimed to be an opera-disco album. It features many samples and microsamples throughout, with about 400 albums being used as sampled material, the song D. A. N. C. E. was inspired by and dedicated to Michael Jackson. French musician DVNO and vocalist Uffie both make appearances on the album as featured artists for DVNO and TThhEe PPaARRtTYY, respectively, Cross was supported by the singles Waters of Nazareth, D. A. N. C. E. A controversial music video was released for Stress. Upon release, it received reviews from critics and was a commercial success, reaching number 11 on the French albums chart and number one on the UK. The album was nominated for Best Electronic/Dance Album and D. A. N. C. E. was nominated for Best Dance Recording, Cross was later certified gold in the UK on 9 December 2011, for passing shipments of 100,000 copies. Cross was recorded in Paris during 2005 and 2006, the concept for the album was for it to be an opera-disco album. The best example is the song Waters of Nazareth, which does not sound like disco when you listen to it for the first time, but if you forget that everything is distorted, the bass lines are just really basic disco patterns. Two songs were released as singles before the albums release, Waters of Nazareth was the first single released by the group in 2005 and featured Let There Be Light as its B-side. D. A. N. C. E. was the single from the album released on 23 April 2007. The single also featured the song Phantom, which was released on the Ed Rec Vol.2 compilation album prior to the release of this album. The song D. A. N. C. E. is about, a music video for the song Stress, directed by Romain Gavras, was released on 1 May 2008 through the website of rapper Kanye West. It was subject to heavy criticism upon release and received a ban from French television due to its violent content. However, the band has stated there are samples in the form of microsamples present on the album which the author of the original composition would not recognize their work was sampled. De Rosnay stated that as many as 400 albums were used as sampled material, the ones from Slipknot, for example, are just tiny bits of the voice. Cross received critical acclaim from critics, rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone stated that with loads of melodrama and not a moment of subtlety, Justice define the new-jacques swing. Club described it as a study in contrasts and a killer party record
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Justice (band)
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Not to be confused with the American hip hop emcee Just-Ice. Justice is a French electronic music duo consisting of Gaspard Augé, the duo is the most successful group on Ed Banger Records and is managed by the labels head, Pedro Winter. Justice is known for incorporating a strong rock and indie influence into its music, the bands debut album † was released in June 2007 to critical acclaim. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album and came in at number 15 on Pitchforks Top 50 Albums of 2007. It was nominated for the 2007 Shortlist Prize, losing out to The Reminder by Feist, the bands remix of the MGMT song Electric Feel won the Grammy Award for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical in 2009. In September 2009, it was announced that Justice would be moving to WMG/Atlantics newly relaunched Elektra Records label, the band reportedly started to work on its second album in mid-2010. The first single entitled Civilization was released on 28 March 2011, the band released its second album, Audio, Video, Disco, on 24 October 2011. This was followed by the album on 7 May 2013. Justice announced their album, Woman, through their Facebook page. Justice first produced tracks together for Musclorvisions Hits Up to You, the compilation included two of their songs, and a track by Augés alter-ego Microloisir. Justice first came to prominence through its 2003 remix of Simians track Never Be Alone, the remix resulted in the group being signed to Ed Banger and became a hit in clubs and on the Internet. The track was re-released in 2006 with additional remixes, the duos prolific remix work continued, as it turned in mixes for Franz Ferdinand, Mystery Jets, Soulwax, and Mr. Oizo. Justice won the award for Best Video at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2006 for Justice vs. Simian – We Are Your Friends. Augé and de Rosnay were not present at the ceremony, Justices debut album, titled †, was released on Ed Banger Records on 11 June 2007. The album was released in the United States on Downtown/Ed Banger, the album was preceded by the D. A. N. C. E. EP, released on 28 May 2007, which featured the tracks Phantom, D. A. N. C. E. was nominated for Video of the Year at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards. On 1 November, Justice received the Video Star award at the European Music Awards in Munich and was named the Best French Act of the Year, Justice was chosen to do a mix for the Fabriclive series in 2008, but Fabric rejected it. De Rosnay said that, hey werent ready for something like this, now titled Justice Xmas Mix, the mix is available on the Internet
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Beatport
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Beatport is an electronic music-oriented online music store owned by LiveStyle. The company is based in Denver with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Beatport is oriented primarily towards DJs, selling full songs as well as resources that can be used for remixes. Established in 2004, the service was acquired in 2013 by Robert F. X. Sillermans company SFX Entertainment for a price of slightly over $50 million. SFX Entertainment filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy on February 1,2016, however, in May 2016, SFX suspended its proposed auction of the company, and cut its streaming and original content operations in order to focus on its core music sales business. SFX has since emerged from bankruptcy as LiveStyle, and continues to operate as a music store. The first version of Beatports web store, Beatport 1.0, was released on January 7,2004, half a year later, Beatport was beginning to become recognized after a few collaborations with well-known DJs and partnerships with the technology company Native Instruments. In January 2005, a revised Beatport 2.0 was released, Beatport was also made accessible through a scaled-down GUI embedded within DJ software, Traktor DJ Studio by Native Instruments. In February 2007, Beatport launched the Beatport Player, a viral marketing web widget to play back relevant content by Artist, Label, Genre, and Chart. Built using Adobe Flash and HTML, the player gives users the ability to create custom, in August 2007, Beatport launched a community-oriented music site, Beatportal, whose stated mission is. to provide music lovers with up-to-date information about the world of electronic music. Following up on the idea of the site, Beatport introduced the Beatport Music Awards on March 18,2008. Each year Beatport users can vote for the best electronic music artists in an effort to trace the progress of these artists over the years or determine which has the largest growing fan base. The BMAs are broken down into 19 categories, including Best Artist categories from each genre, Best Remix, the nominees for the BMAs are based solely on unit sales at Beatport. The third version of the store, named The New Beatport, was released on January 21,2009. Multiple features were added to the site including embedded artwork in purchased music, as a newer version of the store, it integrated the use of a Adobe Flex 3 web application provided by RealEyes Media. On July 14,2011, Beatport launched their HTML5 website with new features, designs, the annual revenue of Beatport for 2012 was reportedly around $15–18 million, with losses of $2 million. In February 2013, Beatport was acquired by Robert F. X, Sillermans SFX Entertainment, a conglomerate focusing on EDM properties such as festivals and promoters. Additionally, Beatport announced a partnership with the music recognition service Shazam, in December 2013, the company laid off 20 employees in the Denver office and six in San Francisco, reportedly leaving the sites technical infrastructure supported by only a skeleton crew. Under SFX ownership, Beatport began to reposition itself towards the electronic dance music culture
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Skrillex
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Sonny John Moore, known professionally as Skrillex, is an American electronic dance music producer, DJ, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He began his first tour as a solo artist in late 2007, after releasing the Gypsyhook EP in 2009, Moore was scheduled to record his debut studio album, Bells, with producer Noah Shain. However, he ceased production of the album and began performing under the name Skrillex, subsequently, he released the Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites EP in late–2010 and More Monsters and Sprites EP in mid–2011, both of which have since become moderate commercial successes. On December 5,2011, the BBC announced that he had nominated for their Sound of 2012 poll. On December 12,2011, he was also named MTVs Electronic Dance Music Artist of the Year, Skrillex has won a total of eight Grammy Awards and holds the world record for most Grammys won by an Electronic Dance Music artist. Skrillex has collaborated with Diplo, Boys Noize to form the groups of Jack Ü, on Moores 29th birthday in 2017, he reunited with From First To Last to release a single named Make War. Moore was born in the Highland Park neighborhood of Northeast Los Angeles, but moved to the Forest Hill neighborhood of San Francisco at the age of 2, where he attended elementary school. At the ages of 9 and 10, Moore attended a boarding school located in the Mojave Desert LV. By the time he was 12, his family moved back to his birthplace of Northeast Los Angeles, There he enrolled in a private academy school specializing in arts, the school used some of L Ron Hubbards teachings. Later he was schooled at the age of 14 due to bullying. In 2004, he learned he was adopted and dropped out of the program when he was 16, in 2004, Moore contacted Matt Good of From First to Last about playing guitar for the band on their debut album. After flying out to Georgia, Moore was heard singing by three producers, Derrick Thomas, Eric Dale, and McHale Butler, and was then made lead singer. In June 2004, Epitaph Records released the bands first full-length record with their new bandmate, Dear Diary, after performing on several successful tours, two being the Vans Warped Tour and Dead by Dawn tour, they began recording their second album, Heroine with producer Ross Robinson. The album was released in March 2006 on Epitaph, with high record sales once again, the band found themselves part of many successful tours, until Moore started suffering vocal problems, causing the band to resign from several tours. After going through a successful surgical procedure, Moore informed the band he would be permanently resigning to work on a solo career. FFTLs last show performed with Moore was in their hometown of Orlando at The House of Blues while touring with Atreyu, Moore announced he had left From First to Last to pursue a solo career. He then launched a Myspace page displaying three demos and this led to Moores first performance since his leaving From First to Last. On April 7,2007, alongside harpist Carol Robbins, Moore played several songs at a local art building
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Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites (song)
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Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites is a song by American electronic dance music producer Skrillex. It was released as the single from his second EP of the same name. It uses a sample of exclamations from Rachael Nedrow shouting Yes. On October 3,2013, the song was certified Double Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America and it was also certified Gold within Canada, with sales exceeding 40,000 units. On February 12, the song won Best Dance Recording at the 54th Grammy Awards and it was used in the 2012 film Spring Breakers, and an ad for GoPro titled Kayak Kiss with Ben Brown, and also the video games MLB 2K12 and Ridge Racer Unbounded. Dirtyphonics Remix The Juggernaut Remix Kaskade Remix Noisia Remix Phonat Remix Zedd Remix
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Justin Bieber
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Justin Drew Bieber is a Canadian singer and songwriter. After a talent manager discovered him through his YouTube videos covering songs in 2008 and signed to RBMG, Bieber released his debut EP, My World and it was certified Platinum in the U. S. He became the first artist to have seven songs from a record chart on the Billboard Hot 100. Bieber released his first full-length studio album, My World 2.0 and it debuted at or near number one in several countries, was certified triple Platinum in the U. S. and contained his most successful single at the time, Baby. He released his studio album, Under the Mistletoe, in November 2011. Bieber released his studio album, Believe, in 2012. His fourth studio album Purpose was released in November 2015 to commercial success and his U. S. album and singles sales total 44.7 million. He has sold an estimated 100 million records, making him one of the world’s best-selling music artists, Bieber has won numerous awards, including the American Music Award for Artist of the Year in 2010 and 2012. In his career, he has won one Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording for the song Where Are Ü Now at the 2016 ceremony. He has been listed four times by Forbes magazine among the top ten most powerful celebrities in the world in 2011,2012, Bieber also became the first artist to surpass 10 billion total video views on Vevo. Bieber was born on March 1,1994, in London, Ontario, at St Josephs Hospital and he is the only child of Jeremy Jack Bieber and Patricia Pattie Mallette. Pattie raised her son with the help of her mother, Diane and his mother is of French-Canadian descent, his paternal great-grandfather was of German ancestry, and his other roots are English, Scottish and Irish. He has also claimed that he has some undetermined Aboriginal Canadian ancestry, through Jeremy, Bieber has two younger half-siblings, Jazmyn and Jaxon. Pattie worked a series of low-paying office jobs, raising Bieber as a mother in low-income housing. Bieber has maintained contact with his father, Bieber attended a French-language immersion elementary school in Stratford, the Jeanne Sauvé Catholic School. Growing up, he learned to play the piano, drums, guitar and he graduated from high school in Stratford, Ontario, the St. Michael Catholic Secondary School in 2012 with a 4.0 GPA. In early 2007, aged 12, Bieber sang Ne-Yos So Sick for a singing competition in Stratford and was placed second. Mallette posted a video of the performance on YouTube for their family and she continued to upload videos of Bieber singing covers of various R&B songs, and Biebers popularity on the site grew
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The Black Eyed Peas
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The Black Eyed Peas is an American group, consisting of rappers will. i. am, apl. de. ap, Taboo, and singer Fergie. Originally an alternative hip hop group, they changed their musical sound to pop and dance-pop music. Although the group was founded in Los Angeles in 1995, it was not until the release of their third album Elephunk in 2003 that they achieved record sales. Since that time, the group has sold an estimated 76 million records, according to Nielsen SoundScan, the Black Eyed Peas were the second-best-selling artist/group of all time for downloaded tracks, with over 42 million sales as of the end of 2011. Their first major hit was the 2003 single Where Is the Love, from Elephunk, which topped the charts in 13 countries, including the United Kingdom, where it spent seven weeks at number one and went on to become Britains biggest selling single of 2003. Another European hit single from the album was Shut Up. Their fourth album, Monkey Business, was an even bigger success, certified 4× Platinum in the U. S. and spawning four singles, Dont Phunk with My Heart, Dont Lie, My Humps. I Gotta Feeling became the first single to more than one million downloads in the United Kingdom. The Black Eyed Peas were ranked 12th on Billboards Decade-End Chart Artist of the Decade, at the 52nd Grammy Awards ceremony, held in January 2010, they won three awards out of six nominations. In November 2010, they released the album The Beginning, in February 2011, the group performed at the Super Bowl XLV halftime show. The Black Eyed Peas date back to 1988, when eighth-graders William Adams and Allan Pineda met, the pair signed to Ruthless Records in 1992, catching the attention of Eazy-E manager Jerry Hellers nephew. Along with another friend of theirs, Dante Santiago, they called their trio Atban Klann, will 1X, apl. de. ap, Mookie Mook, DJ Motiv8, and Dante Santiago formed Atban Klann. Their debut album, Grass Roots, was never released due to Ruthless records founder Eazy-Es death, after Eazy-E died in 1995, Atban Klann reformed and changed their name to Black Eyed Pods, and then Black Eyed Peas. Dante Santiago was replaced with Jaime Gomez, and Kim Hill became a background singer. Unlike the gangsta rap sounds of Los Angeles-based hip hop acts at the time, after being signed to Interscope Records and releasing their debut, Behind the Front the group earned critical acclaim. One of the singles from the album was Joints & Jam, singer Sierra Swan joined in 1998, appearing on the 1998 song Fallin Up, before she left in 2000. Their second album, Bridging the Gap, produced the singles Weekends featuring Esthero, Hill left the band while producing the album, but was still featured on the album tracks for Hot and Tell Your Mama Come as well as in the video for Weekends. Their third album Elephunk began development on November 2,2001 and it was the first album to feature the vocals of current member Fergie
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Periphery (band)
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Periphery is an American progressive metal band based in Washington, D. C. formed in 2005. They are considered one of the pioneers of the djent movement within progressive metal, the band consists of vocalist Spencer Sotelo, guitarists Misha Mansoor, Mark Holcomb, and Jake Bowen, drummer Matt Halpern, and bassist Adam Nolly Getgood. Periphery released their debut in 2010, followed by Periphery II. On December 3,2013 they released a teaser for their EP Clear, Peripherys third and fourth studio albums, entitled Juggernaut, Alpha and Juggernaut, Omega respectively, were released on January 15,2015. Most recently, Periphery released their third self-titled album, Periphery III, all Periphery material is self-produced by the members of the band. org message boards. Before and during Peripherys tenure in the scene, Mansoor developed a reputation for doing his own audio production, the majority of which was performed with a home computer. Mansoor has continued to update his personal project, Bulb, often transferring songs between the two projects, Mansoor also continues to be involved in a number of other musical projects, including Haunted Shores, Four Seconds Ago, and Of Man Not of Machine. Periphery went through a number of changes during its early history. Originally, Misha played drums and guitar in the band, but began scoping out local talent and found local drummer Jason Berlin, Berlin was planning to pursue interests in Los Angeles and was replaced upon departure by Travis Orbin. In 2009, Travis Orbin left the band to pursue a career as a session drummer and he was then replaced by Matt Halpern, who was scouted by Mansoor whilst playing for a local pop band. Periphery released their debut album, Periphery, through Sumerian Records on April 20,2010. It debuted at No.128 on the Billboard Top 200, the band ran into multiple health issues during the tour, Spencer Sotelo had a case of bronchitis and was regularly unable to perform the entire set. Jake Bowen fell and broke a finger in the first week of the UK tour and was unable to play for the rest of their headlining tour. He recovered and joined the band during the last couple of shows on their tour with Fair to Midland and Scale the Summit right before they dropped out of the tour. On March 22, Periphery released a cover of Metallicas song One, on January 19,2011, the music video for Jetpacks Was Yes. was posted on NME. The video features a re-recorded and re-structured version of the song which was released on The Icarus EP, Peripherys first single, from their Icarus EP titled Frak the Gods, was released on March 24. On July 6,2011, Periphery announced via a MySpace blog post that the band had parted ways with guitarist Alex Bois. However, they did not change touring schedules, hiring Mark Holcomb, on 7 September 2011, they were announced as the opening act for Dream Theater on the European leg of A Dramatic Turn of Events Tour starting in January 2012
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Steinberg Cubase
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Cubase is a music software product developed by German musical software and equipment company Steinberg for music recording, arranging and editing as part of a digital audio workstation. The first version, which ran on the Atari ST computer, in January 2003, Steinberg was acquired by U. S. firm Pinnacle Systems, within which it operated as an independent company before being sold to Yamaha Corporation in December,2004. The operator can mix the various tracks down into a stereo. wav file ready to be burned to a compact disc in Red Book format, or. mp3 burned to CD or DVD as files. Cubase has existed in three main incarnations, initially Cubase, which featured only MIDI, and which was available on the Atari ST, Macintosh and Windows. After a brief period with audio integration, the version, Cubase VST. It added Virtual Studio Technology support, a standard for audio plug-ins, Cubase VST was only for Macintosh and Windows, Atari support had been effectively dropped by this time, despite such hardware still being a mainstay in many studios. Cubase VST was offering an amount of power to the home user. By the time it did, VSTs audio editing ability was found to be lacking, to address this, a new version of the program, Cubase SX was introduced, which dramatically altered the way the program ran. This version required much relearning for users of older Cubase versions, however, once the new methods of working were learned, the improvements in handling of audio and automation made for a more professional sequencer and audio editor. A notable improvement with the introduction of Cubase SX was the audio editing. Early versions of Cubase VST did not have this ability, Cubase SX also featured real-time time-stretching and adjustment of audio tempo, much like Sonic Foundrys ground-breaking ACID. In September 2006 Steinberg announced Cubase 4 - the successor to Cubase SX3, notable new features include control room, a feature designed to help create monitor mixes, and a new set of VST3 plug-ins and instruments. There are also lighter economic alternatives by Steinberg, originally named Cubasis, later becoming Cubase SE, for its sixth generation, the program was renamed Cubase Elements 6. The name change was done presumably, because its rival Cakewalk had taken the Essential branding for its own entry-level DAW software, while the full version of Cubase features unlimited audio and MIDI tracks, lesser versions have limits. For instance, Cubase Elements 6 has a maximum of 48 audio track and 64 MIDI tracks, in 2013, Steinberg introduced Cubasis for iPad, a Cubase for iOS. This version was a rewrite and supports MIDI and audio tracks, audiobus. 2014 Updates brought automation and Inter-App Audio, Cubase does not support high DPI screens. Cubase VST3.7 in 1999 introduced a virtual instrument interface for software known as VSTi
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Born This Way (song)
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Born This Way is a song by American singer Lady Gaga, and the lead single from her second studio album of the same name. Written by Gaga and Jeppe Laursen, who produced it along with Fernando Garibay and DJ White Shadow, inspired by 1990s music which empowered women and the gay community, Gaga explained that Born This Way was her freedom song. She sang part of the chorus at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards in 2010 and announced the song as the single from the album. The record is backed by rumbling sounds, a humming bass and additional chorus percussion. Critics positively reviewed the song, calling it a club-ready anthem, the song reached number one in over 25 countries and was her third single to top the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and the 1, 000th song in that charts history to reach number one. Born This Way has sold 8.2 million copies worldwide, Nick Knight directed the accompanying music video, which was inspired by surrealist painters like Salvador Dalí and Francis Bacon. Gaga is depicted as giving birth to a new race during a prologue, after a series of dance sequences, the video concludes with the view of a city populated by this race. Critics noted the references to the work of Madonna, Michael Jackson, Björk. Gaga performed the song at the 53rd Grammy Awards after coming out of an incubating vessel and it was also performed during the last leg of The Monster Ball Tour and on television shows such as Saturday Night Live, Dick Clarks New Years Rockin Eve and Good Morning America. The song was treated with different remixes, including a Country Road version recorded by Gaga herself, alice Cooper, Madonna, Katy Perry, Maria Aragon, and the cast of the TV series Glee have covered the song. In 2010, Lady Gaga was touring for her world tour. At that time she started developing ideas for her studio album. The first song written and recorded for the album was the track itself which she wrote in Liverpool and Manchester, England. She wrote it in ten minutes and compared the process to an Immaculate Conception, White Shadow, one of the producers of the track, credited Gaga for coming up with the idea and the theme behind the song. We recorded it around the world, on the road, in whatever was available and it sounds like it reads, but not like you think until you hear it, he added. I want it to be an attack, an assault on the issue because I think, especially in music, everything gets kind of washy sometimes. Thats the record going to shake up the industry. Anyone could sing Born This Way, Born This Way is who I am
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Born This Way (album)
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Born This Way is the second studio album by American singer Lady Gaga, released by Interscope Records on May 23,2011. It is a follow-up to her successful album The Fame. As co-producer of every track on the album, Gaga collaborated with producers, including RedOne and Fernando Garibay. She also worked with such as E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons. It features a range of genres such as opera, heavy metal, disco, house and rock and roll while its lyrical topics include sexuality, religion, freedom, feminism. Several publications included the album in their year-end best-of lists, Born This Way received three Grammy Award nominations, including Gagas third consecutive nomination for Album of the Year. Born This Way debuted in the top five spots of every major chart and it sold six million copies worldwide. The title track was once the fastest-selling single in iTunes history. Gaga has performed songs from the album on different occasions, including the 53rd Grammy Awards, in November 2011, Born This Way, and the remix album, Born This Way, The Remix, were packaged with the compilation album, Born This Way, The Collection. In March 2010, Gaga disclosed that she was working on a new album, meanwhile, producer RedOne described it as Gagas freedom album as her manager, Troy Carter, felt her public image would begin to change after the release of Born This Way. A few months after the announcement, Gaga exclaimed that she had finished writing songs for the album, Ive been working on it for months, and I feel very strongly that its finished right now. In another interview, she declared the album the anthem of generation, as she continued, Ive already written the first single for the new album and I promise you, that this album is the greatest of my career. Brian May, a guitarist of Queen, and Clarence Clemons, in terms of musical composition, Born This Way is considered to be a notable departure from Gagas previous works. The songs Hair and The Edge of Glory are distinguishable from the rest of the album, as a saxophone – performed by Clarence Clemons, the album contains mainly moderate-tempo dance songs, described as anthemic style melodies with really sledge-hammering dance beats. The album includes references to religious figures of Christianity, notably Judas Iscariot, Mary Magdalene. Several songs on the album give reference to sexuality and feminism, other themes referenced in the album include individualism, equality, and freedom. The album opens with Marry the Night, a song written as a homage to New York City, the songs sound has been compared to that of 1980s pop and glam metal artists, including Bon Jovi, Pat Benatar and Bonnie Tyler. The next, Born This Way is about how everybody is equal, regardless of color, sexuality, or creed
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Shave It
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Shave It is a song by Russian-German electronic music producer Zedd. The song was produced and written by Zedd, and released on October 4,2011 via Skrillexs record label OWSLA, the song peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart on March 3,2012. An extended play of the track – featuring remixes by Kaskade, Tommy Trash, the alternate version of the song, Shave It Up, is included on Zedds debut studio album, Clarity. The extended version was released exclusively on Beatport on 22 October 2012, another song that incorporates the use of Shave It is Zedds song Hourglass, the track before Shave It Up in Clarity. After the 4 minutes of the part of the song, it becomes a 1. A music video directed by Sean Stiegemeier and produced by Mike Longenbach was released on November 1,2011, as of January 2015, the video has received over 200,000 views on YouTube. Zedd – producer, songwriter Shave It debuted at number 39 on the Hot Dance Club Songs chart for the week of January 21,2012, Shave It Up at AllMusic Shave It official music video on YouTube
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Porter Robinson
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Porter Robinson is an American DJ, record producer and musician from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Robinson has released multiple number one singles across different electronic genres and his debut album, Worlds, was released on August 12,2014. On March 20,2015, he was named MTVu Artist of the Year and he is currently ranked number 90 on DJ Mags Top 100 DJs list for 2016. Robinson began producing at the age of 12, achieving international notice by the time he was 18 and his early influences include video gaming music, in particular, Dance Dance Revolution. He is a fan of anime and Japanese culture. Three of Robinsons records reached number one on Beatports overall chart before the time he was 21 and he currently lives in his hometown of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Robinsons brother is Polygon video producer Nick Robinson, a self-taught producer, Robinson originally released a variety of original singles on Glamara Records and Big Fish Recordings. In 2011, he signed a deal with OWSLA, a new label operated by Skrillex. As the first release on OWSLA, it reached number one on the iTunes Dance chart as well as one on Beatports overall chart. Robinson next released a single, Language, on April 10,2012 through Big Beat Records in North America, the song rose to the #1 overall chart position on Beatport as well as the iTunes Dance chart. The single was premiered initially via a live BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix on January 27, the music video, directed by Jodeb, was released via Ministry of Sounds YouTube channel on August 1,2012. He co-wrote Zedds US top 10 hit Clarity, and also backing vocals on this song. The full official release occurred in Spring 2013, and was accompanied by a music video. Robinson has been commissioned for remixes by artists including Avicii. Porters debut studio album Worlds was released through Astralwerks and Virgin EMI on August 12,2014 and he made his official vocal debut on the single Sad Machine The Vocaloid software voice, AVANNA, was also used as a vocalist for this single. On June 21,2014, Robinson made his appearance on the BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix. On January 31,2016, Robinson announced on his Twitter account that he was producing new material after being stuck for a year, on August 11,2016, Robinson released a collaboration with fellow musician and friend Madeon titled Shelter. On October 14,2016, Robinson announced on his Twitter account that he had spent 2016 working on an animation with A-1 Pictures for Shelter and it was released on October 18,2016
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SXSW
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South by Southwest is an annual conglomerate of film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States. It began in 1987, and has continued to grow in scope and size every year. In 2011, the conference lasted for 10 days with SXSW Interactive lasting for 5 days, Music for 6 days, SXSW is run by the company SXSW, LLC which organizes conferences, trade shows, festivals, and other events. SXSW Music is the largest music festival of its kind in the world, SXSW Music offers artist-provided music and video samples of featured artists at each festival via their official YouTube channel. The music event has grown from 700 registrants in 1987 to over 28,000 registrants, SXSW Film and SXSW Interactive events have grown every year, most recently bringing over 51,000 registrants to Austin every March. Bands must cover their own expenses for travel and lodging at the event, All performers are offered a cash payment or a wristband package that allows access to all music events. SXSW Film Conference spans five days of conference panels and sessions, programming consists of keynote speakers, panels, workshops, mentor sessions and more, with expert filmmakers and industry leaders. In 2015, the SXSW Film Conference programmed over 250 sessions with 735 speakers, the SXSW Film Festival runs nine days, simultaneously with the SXSW Film Conference, and celebrates raw innovation and emerging talent both behind and in front of the camera. The SXSW Film Awards, which occur on the last day of the Film Conference, honor films selected by the Feature, in 2015, the SXSW Film Festival programmed 150 feature films and 106 short films, selected from 7,361 submissions. Past notable world premieres include Furious 7, Neighbors, Chef,21 Jump Street, The Cabin in the Woods, Bridesmaids and Insidious, and the TV series Girls, Silicon Valley and Penny Dreadful. SXSW Interactive is focused on emerging technology, a focus which has earned the festival a reputation as a ground for new ideas. The festival includes a show, speakers, parties. According to a festival organizer Louis Black, SXSW Interactive has probably been the biggest of its kind in the world since 2007, Louis Meyers, a booking agent and musician, was also brought on board. Black came up with the name, as a play on the name of the Alfred Hitchcock film North by Northwest, the event was first held in March 1987. The organizers considered it an event and expected around 150 attendees to show up, but over 700 came. Meyers left Austin and the festival in the early 1990s, but Black, Barbaro, singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked was the keynote speaker at the 1992 South by Southwest. In 1993, SXSW moved into the Austin Convention Center, where it is still held, in 1994, SXSW added a component for film and other media, named the SXSW Film and Multimedia Conference. Johnny Cash was the keynote speaker and that year, the three brothers of the band Hanson were brought to SXSW by their father in order to perform impromptu auditions for music executives, in the hopes of getting industry attention
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Chicago
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Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois, and it is the county seat of Cook County. In 2012, Chicago was listed as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Chicago has the third-largest gross metropolitan product in the United States—about $640 billion according to 2015 estimates, the city has one of the worlds largest and most diversified economies with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. In 2016, Chicago hosted over 54 million domestic and international visitors, landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis Tower, Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicagos culture includes the arts, novels, film, theater, especially improvisational comedy. Chicago also has sports teams in each of the major professional leagues. The city has many nicknames, the best-known being the Windy City, the name Chicago is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, known to botanists as Allium tricoccum, from the Miami-Illinois language. The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as Checagou was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir, henri Joutel, in his journal of 1688, noted that the wild garlic, called chicagoua, grew abundantly in the area. In the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a Native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. Du Sable was of African and French descent and arrived in the 1780s and he is commonly known as the Founder of Chicago. In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in 1812 in the Battle of Fort Dearborn, the Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi tribes had ceded additional land to the United States in the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis. The Potawatomi were forcibly removed from their land after the Treaty of Chicago in 1833, on August 12,1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of about 200. Within seven years it grew to more than 4,000 people, on June 15,1835, the first public land sales began with Edmund Dick Taylor as U. S. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4,1837, as the site of the Chicago Portage, the city became an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States. Chicagos first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, and the Illinois, the canal allowed steamboats and sailing ships on the Great Lakes to connect to the Mississippi River. A flourishing economy brought residents from rural communities and immigrants from abroad, manufacturing and retail and finance sectors became dominant, influencing the American economy. The Chicago Board of Trade listed the first ever standardized exchange traded forward contracts and these issues also helped propel another Illinoisan, Abraham Lincoln, to the national stage
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Spectrum (song)
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Spectrum is a song by Russian-German electronic music producer Zedd. It features the vocals from American singer Matthew Koma and it was released as a single on June 4,2012, and serves as the first single from Zedds debut studio album Clarity. It was written by Koma and Zedd, an extended play of the track – featuring remixes by Armin van Buuren, Arty, Deniz Koyu, as well as Congorock – was released on July 31,2012. It also features a track titled Human, which was released as a single on July 31,2012. TVXQs Yunho, Super Juniors Donghae and Eunhyuk, EXOs Kai and Lay and SHINees Taemin, the Performance released a Korean version, featuring the vocals of Taemin, Donghae and Yunho. This version was released on December 30,2012 by S. M, Entertainment and the proceeds were given to charity. There is also a new remix, which features English vocals by Hatsune Miku, made by the Japanese music group, Livetune, which will be featured in the Japanese release of Zedds album Clarity. Livetune had originally remixed the song as a fan of Zedds music and Zedd was impressed with the result of the remix, Spectrum was written and produced by Zedd, with vocals and additional writing from Matthew Koma. Zedd started with the progression, saying that he wasnt sure if it would be a really hard club song or end up being a song for another artist. After Koma finished touring with LMFAO, he emailed Zedd that he wanted to work together again, Zedd finished producing the instrumental for Spectrum, and brought him to the studio to show him the beat. According to Zedd, he was singing along, and I heard parts of the melody which I liked, I forced him to stay a few hours even though he was tired as s***. He also said the lyrics took quite a few weeks to write, Spectrum was released on June 4,2012. Zedd said he wanted Spectrum to be Claritys lead single because he felt like it sums up my album the best so far and it shows what the album will be about so well. The official music video for the song premiered on August 15,2012 and it is directed by Petro and stars Taryn Manning and Derek Magyar. Discussing the video with Rolling Stone, Zedd said the following, I wanted the video to capture the ever-changing energy and it takes you on a journey through love, loss, contentment and anxiety. Musically, the chord progression I wrote captured the feeling and tension, unpredictability, the video portrays this through a relationship between a man and woman and the dynamics/excitement between the two of them. All versions of Spectrum listed below feature Matthew Koma, the cover was released as a digital download on December 30,2012, in South Korea under the label of SM Entertainment. The first dance performance of Spectrum was during SBS Gayo Daejeon held on December 29,2012, the choreography was created by NappyTabs who previously collaborated with Christina Aguilera, BoAs Only One and TVXQs Humanoids
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