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Randall's Island

20 Randall’s Island Park, 10035, New York (NYC), NY, US

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Zedd biography

Anton Zaslavski was born on the 2nd of September 1989, and after taking the stage name Zedd in 2010, he has become one of the most in demand EDM producers, Dj’s and remixers in the world.

So it turns out we still have something to thank MySpace for after the first decade of the new millennium. Since without it, it’s quite likely that we wouldn’t have one of the EDM scene’s brightest hopes for the future in a very long time.

After being inspired to create electronic music by the French electro godheads Justice, Zedd set about making a name for himself and in 2011, decided to try messaging dubstep wunderkind Skrillex with one fateful message.

He said: “Hey, 99.9% of the EDM scene sucks, you’re the last bit that does not, you’re awesome and you’ll like my music.” Before the Kaiserslautern born native knew what was happening, he was put through to Skrillex’s booking agent, and was on tour with him shortly after.

Since then, everyone from Ellie Goulding, to Foxes, Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga have worked with Zedd. His album “Clarity” was released in 2012 to great acclaim and strong sales but his collaboration with Paramore’s Hayley Williams was what broke him out as a solo artist in his own right, leading to the world wide smash hit “Stay The Night”.

This is a man that can write record and release all this while still performing up to 150 shows as a DJ in a year, and there is still a very long time before his 30th birthday. This is an artist with the world at his feet and the best is yet to come.

Porter Robinson biography

Porter Robinson (born July 15th, 1992) is an American electronic musician and DJ from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He released his first studio record in August 2014.

Every now and then, you come across an artist who makes you feel like an underachiever, unambitious, or just plain lazy; given what he’s already achieved at the tender age of just twenty-two, you’d have to count Porter Robinson amongst that number. He kicked his career off at the age of just twelve, and his earlier work was heavily indebted to dance music that he was exposed to through his love of Japanese video games - Dance Dance Revolution being one particular example.

By 2012, he released a debut single, “Language”, that pretty much immediately garnered international attention; it was released outside of his native U.S. via the legendary Ministry of Sound, and was quickly picked up by Radio 1 in the UK, where it was added to their Essential Mix. His ever-growing stature in the dance world led to him being tapped for official remixes of songs by artists as internationally acclaimed as Deadmau5 and Avicii by 2013, and he rounded off a hugely successful summer the same year by playing some of the world’s biggest music festivals. August 2014 saw the release of his debut album, Worlds, which met with critical acclaim and cracked the top twenty in the U.S.

Madeon biography

House, electro, Pop. Songwriter, producer, musician and DJ. These are the credits that Madeon owns and has been providing us with since 2009 from Nantes, France.

Madeon first became known in 2011 when he live sampled 39 hits to create his frantic yet

perfectly sculptural “Pop Culture,” which instantly propelled the then-17-year-old to the

international stage. By the time he released his debut album Adventure in 2015, Madeon was a

globally beloved artist with production credits for Lady Gaga and Coldplay. Soon after, he

teamed with Porter Robinson for “Shelter,” an immersive, ecstatic single he calls their “victory

lap.”

Now, Madeon is perhaps a more deeply seasoned artist than wide-eyed dreamer from Nantes,

France -- but he’s just as ambitious as ever.

“All My Friends” is the radiant introduction to this new era. It’s the sort of pop song that by any

other artist, would have required work from a team of writers and producers. Madeon, of course,

wrote and produced it himself. Following the path he began on Adventure with songs like

“Home,” he is the lead vocalist on the track.

Madeon began working on “All My Friends” when he booked a studio for three days in New York

“just to see what would happen,” he says. “I remember I was walking alone, and the sun was a

particular shade. It struck me all at once, vividly. It was like a flavor: sounds and sights and

smells. I felt impossibly confident and enthusiastic.”

Madeon can seem as much a musician as a world-building architect, and there’s no question his

full vision for what comes next will soon shine through. But for the moment we have a single

song, a brilliant statement of new purpose.

Live reviews

Anton Zaslavki is a grammy winning DJ and producer, and is one of the top EDM artists, but is better known as Zedd. Like most EDM stars these days, a lot of his tracks feature other artists, usually vocalists like his grammy winning song “ Clarity” which features Foxes. But what you may not know is that Zedd is also a classically trained pianist making him a multi-talented artist, as opposed to the “EDM DJs only push buttons and are not real artist” reputation. Knowing this information, you get a better realization of where his inspiration comes from when he makes his own tracks. When given the opportunity, like when I was able to see him live, he played the piano for the popular song “Stay The Night,” instead of staying behind the DJ equipment.
The biggest problem that you encounter with such a huge DJ is that when they have their live sets, the artists that they collaborate with may not be there. Case in point: Hayley Williams, the original vocalist for “Stay The Night” was on tour with her own band and could not make this performance. This meant Zedd needing to use another vocalist, or the recorded track. He went with another vocalist, who wasn’t so great.
Regardless of these possibilities, Zedd is an EDM genius, and his shows are super energetic and loads of fun.

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Ellinoinsta

Recently, EDM has taken the U.S. by storm. Festivals and concerts are popping up everywhere, it’s played all over the radios and these once unknown DJs have become part of our music industry like any other well-known artist. All DJ sets seem to be compromised of a common formula: build up, drop, transition and repeat. Many of these DJs just take this mindset, play an intense set and call it a day. But there’s something special about Porter Robinson and when he’s performing you know it’s a Porter set. It oozes his personality, gives off his own flare and voice— and even if you don’t know much about Porter it’s like his set gives you a glimpse into his creative mind. Ultra Miami 2013, weekend two to be exact - that’s when I first saw him live. If you’ve either witnessed it in person or through the live stream, the Ultra Worldwide stage attracted tens of thousands of people in a space that was probably less than 200 feet long and wide. Not exactly ideal spectator conditions. I was sardined between the people around as I squirmed my way to the front because there was no way I wasn’t going to be front and center for my favorite artist of all time. When Porter came on, the crowd went wild as he played his classic tracks like “Unison” while throwing in some unique material ranging from 172bpm, techno and hardstyle—not your typical EDM set. And that’s what made it so amazing because no one saw it coming. He’s a risk taker and he plays what he believes in, not repeated mainstream music that’s been butchered over and over again. Mixed with his amazing video and light set that shined geometric patterns and beautiful digitally created landscaping like mountains and fields, everything about his set was Porter. The energy was incredible and I even forgot how little space I had as I slowly, but surely grooved my way to the front. Twenty minutes in, I made it. Porter just started playing “Easy” (feat. Mat Zo) and the crowd exploded in energy to his hit single. I shyly turned to this six-foot guy raging next to me asking if he could put me on his shoulders. He gladly obliged and as I rose, every other girl doing a double decker came down and in that moment, I was the only person seven feet above ten thousand people. I’m in tears trying to explain the absolute awe and adrenaline rush I experienced—no words to even describe the pure natural euphoria I felt as I looked to the front and see Porter jamming out as the chorus of “Easy” roles in and everyone including me was screaming the lyrics at the top of our lungs. Porter appropriately ended the emotional roller coaster that was his set with the famous “Language." That song says so little yet so much sentiment is given off by it and it just touches the soul. A perfect farewell song to a beautifully composed set.

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Napersia

At the tender age of twenty, Hugo Pierre Leclercq is younger than most - many of his contemporaries included, as well as your humble reviewer - but that hasn’t stopped him from making a serious mark on the house music scene in his native France; hailing from Nantes, the youngster better known as Madeon has shaken up the movement in a serious way. He’s been making music from when he was just eleven years old, when he got into trance - trance! He was eleven! - and put together compositions under the name of DJ Deamon, but it was in 2011 that he really came to the fore, with his ‘Pop Culture’ video on YouTube; it clocked up in excess of six million views in just a few days. Since then, he’s released a debut single ‘Icarus’, and an EP titled The City to widespread critical acclaim; in an almost comical twist of irony, both have proved big hits in clubs that he’s barely old enough to gain admittance to. That might explain, actually, why he’s hit the festival circuit so hard, playing to massive crowds at the likes of Creamfields last summer to rapturous reviews; there’s hints of that old trance element in his set, but he mainly channels the fresh French house sound that he pioneered so knowingly - this kid could well be the future of the genre.

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