Insomniac announces deadmau5, Testpilot livestreams – Dancing Astronaut


by: Rachel Narozniak


Dec 30, 2020

Throughout 2020, deadmau5 has been a fixture of the drive-in and livestream spaces, and that’s not about to change when the clock strikes midnight on December 31. After tapping deadmau5 for a five-date run of Southern California Park ‘N Rave shows in late November that will take the mau5trap head to the NOS Events Center from December 31 – January 2 and to the North Island Credit Union Ampitheatre Lot from January 7 –8, Insomniac has announced that two of deadmau5’s sought-after stints will be broadcast live via Insomniac TV.

On New Year’s Eve, viewers can tune in at 9:00 p.m. EST / 6:00 p.m. PST to catch not only deadmau5 but also No Mana and Speaker Honey. Shortly thereafter, listeners can double down on the deadmau5 stream content to catch the “Bridged By A Lightwave” collaborator donning his techno alias, Testpilot, for two hours on January 2. This latter stream is slated to start at 11:00 p.m. EST / 8:00 p.m. PST.

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Kendrick Lamar to headline Roskilde Festival 2021


Kendrick Lamar has been announced as a new headliner for Roskilde Festival 2021.

The Danish event, which will run from June 26-July 3 next year, has already confirmed the likes of Tyler, the Creator and Thom Yorke‘s Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes, The Strokes, FKA Twigs, Girl In Red, Kelly Lee Owens and more.

The announcement of a new headliner is giving fans hope that the festival – and 2021’s festival season as a whole – could potentially still go ahead despite ongoing coronavirus fears.

“We are on the threshold of a new year, and we think there is a need and reason to be hopeful,” Roskilde’s head of programming Anders Wahrén said in a statement. “That’s why we’re revealing another act for next year’s festival.”

After cancelling their 2020 edition due to the coronavirus outbreak, the organisers of Roskilde revealed in June that they are pressing forward with plans to host the festival in 2021.

In the absence of this year’s Roskilde, festival organisers asked fans to create their own festival at home on July 4 for charity.

Earlier this month, Primavera Sound festival hailed a successful trial event, investigating the possibility of holding live music events without social distancing.

The event, dubbed PRIMACOV, was organised by Primavera Sound alongside the Hospital Germans Trias in Barcelona and the Fight AIDS and Infectious Diseases Foundations.

At the event on December 12, 1,042 fans attended a concert with local DJs at the 1,608 capacity Sala Apolo venue in Barcelona.

Rapid testing was employed before entry was granted, with every attendee needing to return a negative test, which was available within 15 minutes.





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Arknights Celebrates One-Year Anniversary With New Track by Steve Aoki, Yellow Claw, and RUNN

For the sixth episode of the animated series inspired by the popular mobile game Arknights, developers tapped Steve Aoki and RUNN to soundtrack their narrative back in July. The result was the wobble-heavy bass track “Last Of Me” and its accompanying music video. Now, the duo is back with new recruits, Yellow Claw, for the seventh episode’s theme song. Titled “End Like This,” the new collaboration will help celebrate the game’s first anniversary. 





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San Holo looks ahead to 2021 with ‘goodbye 2020 set’ [Stream] – Dancing Astronaut


by: Austria Masim


Dec 30, 2020

San Holo‘s 2020 is going out with a bang, according to his one-hour, Diplo & Friends-hosted “goodbye 2020 set.” A comprehensive run through the Dutch producer’s bitbird favorites in addition to special edits, remixes, IDs, and even a throwback to the Holo originals that helped spark his career, the mix features the likes of label signees such as EASTGHOST, Cassini, Mystk, Golden Vessel, Manu Dia, and Hundaes, and staples like “BWU,” “Victory,” and “Light.”

The emotive mix follows Holo’s alternative take on Wham!;s “Last Christmas.” His final mix of the year, the “goodbye 2020 set” begins with a VIP of his recently released single “bb u ok?,” and tracks from his stay vibrant series. Listen to San Holo’s “goodbye 2020 set” below.

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Elton John appears on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s new podcast


Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have launched a new podcast with Spotify, and guests on the first episode include Elton John.

Archewell Audio launched on the streaming service this week, and the first episode sees the couple reflecting on the events of 2020 alongside “a few friends and a lot of other folks” that the pair “admire,” aiming to “get their thoughts on what they learned from 2020”.

On the episode, John is joined by TV presenter and Gavin and Stacey co-creator James Corden, Reasons To Stay Alive author Matt Haig, tennis player Naomi Osaka and more.

In his segment, Elton John called 2020 “the worst year I’ve ever known”, while hoping that the pandemic means “that we have become better people” and shared a “hope for healing” in the following years.

Listen to the first episode of Archewell Audio below.

Elsewhere in the episode, Meghan spoke of how all the experiences they’d gathered across the pandemic had “all come back to one thing – to the power of connection,” adding: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that.”

Harry added that the message he wants to leave 2020 with is “about how important it is to take care of one another and how meaningful our connections are, even when they’re physically impossible”.

Meanwhile, John recently revealed it might be a while before fans get to hear another album from him. The music icon says another record isn’t needed “at the moment” and he’s currently enjoying fatherhood after coronavirus derailed plans for his ‘Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour’.

“I have no idea what the fuck I’m going to do next, and that feels great,” he told Record Collector in a recent interview. I just don’t think this is a time for me to think about recording. I’m a dad and I love being a dad. I will get in the mood to record again – and I’ll get in the mood to write.

“But no one needs another Elton John record out at the moment.”





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Max M Keeps the Dance-Pop Anthems Flowing With Latest Single, “I’ll Be Up”

For rising French producer Max M, becoming a dance music producer was always in the cards. Working by day as an accomplished expert in the IT world, just several years ago the artist chose to rekindle his longtime love for electronic music, now living two professional lives and capitalizing on a rare opportunity to live life on his own terms.





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Good Morning Mix: Rewatch Martin Garrix’s hour of house perfection at Tomorrowland 2017 – Dancing Astronaut


by: Ross Goldenberg


Dec 30, 2020

At the end of each July, Martin Garrix heads out of Boom, Belgium with at at least one of the most talked-about performances from either weekend in his pocket, and his 2017 set stands not only amongst his finest at Tomorrowland, but also alongside his greatest of all-time. Before the STMPD RCRDS captain hits the virtual decks to wrap up his 2020 campaign at Tomorrowland’s New Year’s Eve event, where he’ll draw back the curtains on nine IDs, we’re pretending to be in Belgium for the next 57 minutes to relive Garrix’s preeminent mainstage appearance from three years ago.

The 22-piece tracklist stands unequaled from top to bottom. In between an entrance of his most notable releases integrated to the emotive unveiling of “Pizza,” Martin Garrix held nothing back on the second to last day of July in 2017. Garrix dove head-first through polished blends including “Turn Up the Speakers” versus “Waiting For Tomorrow,” was joined by David Guetta to premiere the early version of “So Far Away” with Ellie Goulding, and unloaded a flurry of still-unreleased music like his Ryan Tedder collaboration, “Back In Time,” and the VIP version of “Byte.”

In the time leading up to Tomorrowland’s virtual NYE event, Dancing Astronaut will revisit Tomorrowland sets from artists slated to perform at the dance-focused finale to 2020. Follow the journey with our Tomorrowland NYE Good Morning Mix series, and learn why Tomorrowland’s Around The World festival was named our top digital event of 2020 here.

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Chvrches frontwoman Lauren Mayberry says the band “learnt something” from Billie Eilish’s debut album


Chvrches frontwoman Lauren Mayberry has praised Billie Eilish and admitted that you can “learn something” from her 2019 debut album.

Mayberry also said that Eilish’s LP ‘When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?’ is an “advancement in pop music”.

She told The Guardian: “The vocal production on the Billie Eilish album is absolutely phenomenal – that is an advancement in pop music.

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“Iain [Cook] and Martin [Doherty] like to be across what is happening for production stuff.” She continued. “We want to be aware of it because there’s just awesome pop music and you can learn something from it. Learn the production tricks but don’t learn the other parts: I think that was the challenge of this [our forthcoming] album.

Mayberry added: “We did two albums that existed in a certain space, and by the third record it felt like what we were doing had been popularised by other people. How do you run that race next to other people? Well, we’ve realised that we don’t have to run that race. You’re never going to win in a race that is saturated by people who are bigger, better and more popular, so you might as well pivot and go somewhere else.”

She also said that the band’s forthcoming album had “definitely got the Chvrches DNA” but that the songs on it couldn’t “slot into any of the first three records”.

The band’s fourth LP is due to drop in Spring 2021, following 2018’s ‘Love Is Dead’ and their 2019 collaborative single with Marshmello, ‘Here With Me’.





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Grimes Reveals Remix Album “Miss Anthropocene: Rave Edition” Will Drop New Year’s Day

Grimes has announced that a remixed rave edition of her album Miss Anthropocene is set to arrive on New Years Day. 





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Tomorrowland shares behind-the-scenes look at technology used in virtual New Year’s Eve festival


Tomorrowland organisers have shared a behind-the-scenes look at the technology used in its virtual New Year’s Eve festival.

The unique digital festival will take place on Thursday (December 31) in all 27 time zones in the world with performances by 28 of the best artists across four digital stages.

Over 25 DJ’s from around the world will perform via four Digital 3D platforms in a universe called ‘NAOZ’. Artists lined-up so far include David Guetta, Snoop Dogg (as DJ Snoopadelic), Diplo and many more. Check out the full timetable for Tomorrowland 31.12.2020 here.

Ready to welcome millions of people from around the world, Tomorrowland is set to pull out all the stops to create an unforgettable end of year party, using 1,200 virtual fireworks, 184 virtual lasers, 2,750 virtual lights and 40,000 light cues.

On the digital festival grounds, over 950,000 virtual visitors will each have their own attributes, including 65,000 virtual flags of over 193 different countries.

Over the past few months, a team of over 200 people has been busy refining and advancing the latest technologies in 3D design, video production, gaming and special effects to use for the NYE Tomorrowland special.

Festival visitors will be treated to an immersive music festival experience, combining a 3D decor and artist performances with a spectacular show featuring special effects, fireworks, laser shows and realistic crowd and sound effects.

A total of 120 computers and 30 rendering engines were used, resulting in over 1,000 rendering hours. In addition to 17 4K ultra-HD cameras, 152 virtual cameras were created, resulting in a total of 160 hours of footage.

About 250 real-life extras were hired (all COVID-19 proof) to make sure there are realistic crowd visuals and sounds, cheering, applause and singalongs – all timed according to the artists’ sets – to generate an even more immersive effect.

Tomorrowland 31.12.2020 will feature a number of brand-new records and exclusive unreleased IDs. There’s 21.5 hours of music and over 450 different tracks to choose from, including more than 65 unreleased IDs.

Tickets for range from €20.00-€50.00 and can be purchased here.





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