by: Dancing Astronaut Staff Feb 3, 2021 Over the past year, electronic producers have celebrated the musical contributions of Black artists by compiling ORBIT: AMPLIFY playlists. The playlists have succinctly spotlit productions from Black artists and artists of color that have influenced these artists’ careers, and on a simpler level, kept them moving and grooving. Following respective ORBIT: …
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Kayzo & Black Tiger Sex Machine Release Collab Debut, “Lifeline” ft Point North
Kayzo and Black Tiger Sex Machine are both incredibly heavy artists in their own rights, and now they’ve officially teamed up for the first time on their new collaboration, “Lifeline” featuring Point North. “Lifeline” was previously teased late last year to adoring eager fans and since then they’ve upgraded the heavy hit by adding vocals …
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Honor the Birth of House Music With 10 Influential Black Artists from Chicago
More than 40 years ago in Chicago’s underground club scene, the foundational wave of modern dance music was just starting to hit its stride. It was the 1980s, and house music was booming. Following the decline of disco fever, pioneering Black DJs like Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy were quickly thrust into the city’s spotlight …
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Watch Nandi Bushell cover My Chemical Romance’s ‘Welcome To The Black Parade’
Nandi Bushell has tackled My Chemical Romance’s ‘Welcome To The Black Parade’ for her latest cover. The young musician first went viral for her impressive covers a year ago, when she shared a video of her drumming along to Queens Of The Stone Age’s ‘No One Knows’. With several other viral covers under her belt, …
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Kodak Black addresses Trump pardon on new song ‘Last Day In’
Kodak Black has referenced Donald Trump commuting his prison sentence in new song ‘Last Day In’ – scroll down the page to hear it now. The rapper was serving a 46-month sentence for falsifying documents to obtain a firearm at USP Thompson in Illinois, but was released on Wednesday (January 20) after Trump issued a …
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Ex-AC/DC bassist Mark Evans recalls past tensions between the band and Black Sabbath
Former AC/DC bassist Mark Evans has spoken in a new interview of past tensions between the Aussie rock legends and Black Sabbath. The musician — who was played bass on hits such as ‘T.N.T.’, ‘High Voltage’, ‘Dirty Deeds Done Cheap’ and ‘Let There Be Rock’ during his stint with the band from 1975 to 1977 …
Griff shares new dark pop anthem ‘Black Hole’
Griff has dropped a new single, ‘Black Hole’, marking her first new release of the year. The release was coupled with a lyric video, featuring grainy footage of the singer encapsulated within a pin-hole camera shot. Watch it below: In a press statement, Griff described the track as “a bittersweet heartbreak track”. “I actually love …
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Hear Julien Baker cover Soundgarden’s ‘Fell On Black Days’
Julien Baker has covered Soundgarden‘s 1995 single ‘Fell On Black Days’ – watch below. The singer-songwriter said she was floored by the song when digging into the band’s back catalogue, prompting her to choose it for a filmed home session. Baker told Seattle’s KEPX radio that she is a big fan of Audioslave – one …
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Black Coffee, Diplo, and Elderbrook form power trio on final ‘Subconsciously’ single, ‘Never Gonna Forget – Dancing Astronaut
by: Rachel Narozniak Jan 18, 2021 After an extended run, Subconsciously‘s rollout is coming to an impactful close with Black Coffee‘s final pre-album single, “Never Gonna Forget.” Various facets of the electronic continuum fold together on “Never Gonna Forget,” a one-off that finds Black Coffee aligning his name with Elderbrook‘s and Diplo‘s for the first …
Listen to the New Super-Collab from Diplo, Black Coffee and Elderbrook, “Never Gonna Forget”
Black Coffee has dropped a massive new super-collab with Diplo and Elderbrook, the dreamy track “Never Gonna Forget.” “Never Gonna Forget” is a pristine example of Black Coffee’s distinctive sound, a hypnotic blend of sultry, percussion-driven deep house. Elderbrook’s vocal contribution is not to be slept on, as the Grammy Award-nominated English musician infuses an aching …