"Running For Our Lives" - Newly Released Hit for Dance Floors Everywhere

Sarah Charness

Disco Killerz

Katt

As summer is approaching full swing, Sarah Charness, Kat Nestel and Disco Killerz have teamed up to release their new song “Running For Our Lives”, an up-beat dance track that will uplift any party. Disco Killerz and Sarah Charness have previously worked on "We Came to Party" and "Grip" before deciding to partner with KATT, the vocalist on their new track. Sarah and Disco Killerz fell in love with her voice the moment they heard her sing, and decided to work together on this feel good track.

This song will be an anthem for Summer ’16: Kat’s soulful vocals bring the words to life, and Sarah’s electric violin adds a vibrant layer to Disco Killerz stellar production.

Sarah Charness: Hailing from New York, electronic violinist Sarah Charness creates a singular blend of music that straddles the worlds of classical, pop and electronic dance music (EDM). Her vibrant, physically thrilling live performances continuously captivate audiences both large and intimate and spectators are completely absorbed the moment she begins playing her signature hot-pink six-string violin. In 2015, Charness released her first track with Disco Killerz, “We Came to Party” which reached #48 on the Beatport “Hot 100 Electro House” chart. As a follow up to "We Came to Party", Charness and Disco Killerz released "Grip" which premiered on SiriusXM Radio BPM and BBC Radio.  As a soloist, Charness has toured North America with the American progressive-rock band, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. In 2015, she headlined at the Summer Experience Music Festival in Capetown, South Africa, and she was the feature performer during the New York Knicks halftime show at “The World’s Most Famous Arena®,” New York City’s Madison Square Garden, as well as on the runway during Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. Charness has opened for DJ's including Steve Aoki, W&W, and MAKJ and has made debut's at Radio City Music Hall® and Carnegie Hall in New York City, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., The Chicago Theatre in Chicago, Massey Hall in Toronto, and the Prague Opera House.

DISCO KILLERZ: Disco Killerz are a DJ/Producer/Writer duo based in NY. They produce and co/write with collaborators including Delaney Jane, Kat Rockell, Larcy, Jimmy Gnecco, Kat Nestel, and others.  Their music has been featured in publications including Dancing Astronaut and The Music Ninja, premiered on SiriusXM BPM, Played on BBC Radio, as well as supported by DJ’s ranging from Tiesto to Morgan Page, Don Diablo, Paul Oakenfold, Massive Vibes, among others.  Their last single, Satisfaction, currently has over 1,200,000 plays on Spotify. 

KATT: Katherine "KATT" Nestel is an American recording artist and songwriter. In June 2013 she signed with management company 1916 MGMT,[1] and soon after she signed a publishing deal with BMG Chrysalis. As of February 2014, Kat has signed with production team The Monsters and the Strangerz for her artist project. She is currently writing on various Top 40 projects with The Suspex, Jonas Jeberg, Matt Squire, The Stereotypes, Jean Baptiste and more. Kat gained mainstream recognition for her brief stint on the popular Fox show American Idol.[2] She has also gained notability from her various YouTube videos with Rome from Sublime with Rome, many of which have garnered over 2 million views. In 2010, Kat sang background vocals on the Dirty Heads song "Lay Me Down" which eventually became a #1 Hit on the Billboard Alternative and All Formats Rock charts.[3] In January 2015, she collaborated with Dutch EDM duo Vicetone to provide vocals for the track 'No Way Out' which was released on Spinnin' Records, as well as for 'Nothing Stopping Me' and 'Angels'.

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Anamanaguchi & virtual pop star Hatsune Miku pioneer the future of Pop Music

The shape of pop creation is currently shifting. Instead of an elite team of specialists grooming a child through adolescence for a public audience, inventive artists with computers can make themselves, their friends, or a stranger off the street into hyperrealmanifestations that go even further. This phenomenon is showcased best via New York City band Anamanaguchi’s collaboration with Japanese virtual star Hatsune Miku on her crossover pop track “Miku.”

Portrayed as a 16-year-old girl with long, turquoise pigtails, Hatsune Miku is voiced by a singing synthesizer application calledVocaloid. Despite not being a ‘real person’, she is selling out arena concerts worldwide and her vocaloid software has allowed 100,000+ songs to be made using her voice. Miku’s countless endorsement deals, including her own Super GT racing team and modeling partnership with Givenchy Haute Couture by Riccardo Tisci, would certainly be the envy of any ‘real’ pop star.

Anamanaguchi is a digital pop group featuring the warped productions and hyperactive melodies of songwriters Peter Berkman,Ary Warnaar, and Luke Silas, playing under custom-fabricated lights made by bassist James DeVito (who most recently designed LED outfits for Taylor Swift’s 1989 World Tour). They are a team of playful DIY internet anarchists whose colorful iconoclasm comes with a heavy sense of humor and a seriousness about having fun. When they’re not busy touring, Berkman and Warnaaralongside Web Master Neil Cline have been heading hypermedia titan NHX on internet music releases such as: ⒶⓃⒶⓇⒸⒽⓎ,Capsule Silence XXIV, Maxo’s Chordslayer EP, and many more.

The track they have collaborated on tells the story Miku becoming self-aware - a transhuman singularity spurred by the pop star’s desire for independence and agency. Lyrically, the song is about the how Miku is seen and what she's capable of - a personal anthem of sorts. She sings both about how she's grateful of what she's become, and how she owes it to the support of the communities around her, as well as her understanding that she was initially created as a tool - a continuous facade for her users remote fascinations.

The mechanics behind working with a virtual artist usher in a new method of creating pop music. Anamanaguchi started the track in a grimy art-squat basement in chinatown NYC and finished it in a state-of-the-art recording studio in Shibuya, Tokyo. And whileMiku may not have physically been in the booth with them, weekly skype meetings with her and her team (Crypton Future Media) kept her very involved in the process.

The release of “Miku” comes at the peak of Hatsune Miku and Anamanaguchi’s joint Miku Expo 2016 North American Tour whichfeatured the virtual star’s first live performances alongside an American band. Hatsune Miku appears on stage to her devoted fans as a projection, while the band support her with live instrumentation. Although anyone can use the software, performing their song together marks Miku’s live inaugural collaboration with an American artist. Anamanaguchi’s involvement in this extraordinary partnership goes quite past song production, extending even to choreography direction in Miku’s live performance.

TOUR DATES http://mikuexpo.com/na2016/

April 23: Seattle, WA - WaMu Theater

April 30: San Francisco, CA - The Warfield (2 shows)

May 6: Los Angeles, CA - Microsoft Theater

May 14: Dallas, TX - The Bomb Factory

May 17: Houston, TX - NRG Arena

May 20: Toronto, ON - Sony Centre for the Performing Arts

May 25: Chicago, IL - The Chicago Theatre

May 28: New York, NY - Hammerstein Ballroom (2 shows)

Listen: Anamanaguchi - “Miku ft. Hatsune Miku” on Spotify

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WatchTheDuck's "Stretch 2-3-4 (Feat. Pharrell Williams)" Gets Remix Package

Over the winter, WatchTheDuck (WtD) made their Dim Mak debut with the genre-crossing EP, The Trojan Horse. Executively produced by Steve Aoki, Pharrell Williams, T.I., and Tricky Stewart, WtD united hip-hop heads with EDM fans across seven show-stopping singles, with opening track “Stretch 2-3-4 (feat. Pharrell Williams)” quickly becoming a fan favorite. The up-tempo, funkified, exercise call-to-arms earned accolades from Billboard,Okayplayer, Hypetrak, and more, with Revolt proclaiming, “Kanye’s ‘Workout Plan’ might have just been replaced.”

Following a stint in a Samsung Galaxy commercial, “Stretch 2-3-4” returns to television, this time with Gatorade Propel as part of their #MadeToMovecampaign. To celebrate the single’s success, Dim Mak has released two brand new remixes – the hot-and-heavy deep house edit from LA’s Boots N Pantsand the equally deep trapped out revamp from JiKay. Click here to stream both remixes.  

Since The Trojan Horse dropped, WatchTheDuck has been relentlessly active. As revealed in their Inside The Trojan Horse series, Eddie and Jesse don’t just put on a show – they bring the party. This spring, they performed alongside BJ the Chicago Kid for a Revolt Session during Grammy week in Los Angeles and touched down in Tampa for SunFest. They also joined Dim Mak’s 20thAnniversary celebrations at Miami Music Week and SXSW, the latter of which allowed them the opportunity to discuss life on the road with Vibe. Looking ahead, WatchTheDuck will take their talents south for a hometown show at Shaky Beats in Atlanta. Fans can also catch them at the after-party where they’ll rock the stage with Marshmello and other special guests.

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ETC!ETC! & TIGHTTRAXX Drop Turn-Up Anthem “Trompa” In Time For Festival Season

“A long established favorite of the bass favoring masses, ETC!ETC! has fast become one of North America’s most promising trap and moombahton jugglers”
- Dancing Astronaut

If you thought ETC!ETC! would slow down even for a moment, you played yourself. The LA-based beatsmith links with fellow Angeleno TIGHTTRAXX for the rattling turn-up tune “Trompa.” The producing twosome take the track from electro to trap and back again, pummeling the beat with a double-time drumroll and serpentine horn line. Already being supported by Skrillex, Jack Ü and Flosstradamus, the track is moving crowds left and right. Check out the tune going off during ETC!ETC!’s Coachella set here.
 
“Trompa” marks the latest in a long string of collaborations between ETC!ETC! and TIGHTTRAXX. A sought after pairing, Valentino Khan recruited the producers for an official remix of his game-changing record “Deep Down Low.” They’ve also linked for bootlegs of Yellow Claw’s “DJ Turn It Up” and The Chainsmokers’ “Kanye,” and raised the production bar with originals like “Jungla,” and “All Over Di World.”
 
ETC!ETC! arrives fresh off a massive 2015. Following appearances at TomorrowWorld, Beyond Wonderland, EDC Las Vegas, and Mad Decent Boat Party, he delivered his highly anticipated EP Wicked to critical acclaim. Across six highly diversified tracks that saw collaborations with Fatman Scoop, Sanjin, and Hawkeye, the project was ETC!ETC!’s most multi-faceted to date, earning support from Complex, Dancing Astronaut, Your EDM and more.
 
Alex Sardo honed his craft for years ahead of debuting the TIGHTTRAXX alias. Before his solo stint, he was one half of the duo DSKOTEK, who scored stage time at EDC Las Vegas and Nocturnal Wonderland after winning Insomniac's first ever Discovery Project in 2012. When he emerged as a producer in his own right, TIGHTTRAXX began creating exactly that: tracks so tight they caught the attention of upper echelon artists like Diplo and Borgore.

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Party Thieves “Undrafted” EP out now on Flosstradamus’ Hi Def Youth Label

Party Thieves kicks off legendary trap duo Flosstradamus’ new label, Hi Def Youth, with today’s release of “Undrafted” EP. The EP includes four songs consisting of three heavy-hitting bangers and an intro dedicated to his nephew Jon. The prelude, “For Jon,” puts the New York-based producer’s emotions on display with drawn out piano chords that evoke a sense of melancholy. “Death Row” hits hard with an ominous lead, accented by delicate snare patters and a frenetic apex of synth stabs and shuffling vocal chops. “#ZOOTED” brings a slow-churning, trapped-out beat topped with steamy samples, while the EP’s most raucous offering “BADD’” closes things out with percussion-fueled drops and a militant-style drum-kick progression.

Flosstradamus just celebrated their second annual, sold out HDY [Hoodie] Fest at Colorado’s famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre on 4/20. At the show the duo debuted their new production that consists of a 40ft x 15ft bunker equipped with an LED screen, t-shirt machine gun, satellite tower, and DJ booth. This summer, Flosstradamus will perform at some of the biggest festivals including Bonnaroo, Panorama, Lollapalooza and Mad Decent Block Party, to name a few. They will also continue their popularFlossvegas residency in Las Vegas at Surrender Nightclub and Encore Beach Club.  

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ULTRA Brasil Tickets Are Back On Sale

Having SOLD OUT an exclusive pre-sale within a matter of hours back in April, ULTRA BRASIL today releases the next round of tickets for its hotly anticipated debut event in Rio de Janeiro later this year.

Taking place on October 14 & 15, at the stunning waterside Flamengo Park, a limited number of GA and VIP tickets are now available exclusively from ultrabrasil.com. For international fans looking to experience this once-in-a-lifetime event, 2-day weekend tickets start at the incredible price of R$ 679 for GA and R$ 1,649 for VIP. Half price weekend tickets, available exclusively to Brazilian citizens*, start at R$ 339.50.

For full details regarding all ticket prices, head to ultrabrasil.com.

To ensure everybody gets the chance to experience what ULTRA Brasil has to offer, organizers have curated a whole host of deals and travel packages for their incoming Ultranauts. Among these, are travel options and exclusive offers for some of the best accommodation in Rio de Janeiro. Domestic travel packages are available now and international travel packages will go on sale May 17. For registration and further information, visit ultrabrasil.com/travel.

Since ULTRA Worldwide announced plans to make Rio de Janeiro the nineteenth destination on its global tour in 2016, international demand for ULTRA Brasil has been unprecedented, with over 65,000 people registering their interest for the initial pre-sale. While registration is not necessary this time around, tickets will once again be allocated on a first come, first served basis and are in very limited supply.

Landing shortly after the 2016 Summer Olympic Games at the beautiful Flamengo Park in Rio de Janeiro – a site that has been widely compared to Bayfront Park, the home of ULTRA Music Festival in Miami – ULTRA Brasil is well on its way to becoming one of the true highlights in ULTRA Worldwide’s ever growing stable of events.

During ULTRA Miami, Martin Garrix and Carl Cox were announced as ULTRA Brasil headliners to millions tuned into the festival’s global live stream. The full Phase One lineup is expected to drop in the coming weeks. Stay tuned to ultrabrasil.com for the latest info.

*All half-price ticket attendees will have to present their ID upon entering the festival. Half priced tickets are only available to Brazilian citizens who fall under one of the following categories: (i) under the age of 21; (ii) a teacher; (iii) a student; (iv) over the age of 59; (v) the disabled.

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MaRLo at Ultra Music Festival Miami & Raver Magazine

At the last TomorrowWorld, I had the pleasure of sitting with MaRLo about an hour before his live set. This year, Michael Beas of RaverMagazine.com got a chance to do the same while MaRLo was performing at Ultra Music Miami. The scene was a little chaotic in MaRLo's South Beach hotel room and superstar Andrew Rayel even photo-bombs the interview! 

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