A slew of Miami police and fire rescue crews are on their way to Bayfront Park downtown Miami to respond to the collapse of a stage during a sound check for tomorrow’s start of the Ultra Music Festival.
Sources say there are several injuries. Three people are in ambulances on their way to area hospitals and several other people are being treated at the scene.
Crowds estimated at around 60,000 people per night are expected at the park starting tomorrow for the giant DJ festival.
The event, possibly the biggest electronic music festival in the world, takes place over the next two weekend and features DJing’s biggest names, including Afrojack, David Guetta, Snoop Dogg,Swedish House Mafia and more.
Sound checks, which have become popular for fans who don’t want to fight the crowds, started last night on the stages sets up in the waterfront park.
8:45 p.m. UPDATE: The Gossip Extra man at the scene says there could be as many as 20 people injured in tonight’s collapse of a stage at the Ultra Music Festival!
8:56 p.m. UPDATE: A law enforcement source says that one of those injured in tonight’s collapse of a stage at the Ultra Music Festival downtown Miami is not expected to survive. What’s more, Miami authorities have notified the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) of the accident. OSHA investigators are expected at the scene within hours.
9:20 p.m. UPDATE: The Miami Herald reports that the accident could have been caused by falling lighting equipment.
01. Deadmau5 - Limit break
02. Deadmau5 -- Some Chords
03. Deadmau5 Vs Jelo - The Reward is Cheese
04. Deadmau5 -- Bad Selection
05. Deadmau5 -- Cthulhu Sleeps
06. Deadmau5 -- FML
07. Deadmau5 -- Right This Second
08. Deadmau5 -- Raise Your Weapon (feat. Greta Svavo Beach)
09. Deadmau5 - Arguru (Touch Screen "Holodesk" Perfomance)
10. Deadmau5 -- Sofi Needs A Ladder (feat. Sofia Toufa) (LIVE Performance)
11. Deadmau5 -- One Trick Pony (feat. Sofia Toufa) (LIVE Performance)
12. Deadmau5 -- Moar Ghosts 'N' Stuff (+ Hard Intro)
13. Deadmau5 -- Ghosts 'N' Stuff (feat. Rob Swire) (New Intro Edit)
14. Deadmau5 - Maths
15. Deadmau5 - Sometimes Things Get, Whatever
16. Deadmau5 - Get In The Cart, Pig
17. Deadmau5 - I Remember (feat. Kaskade)
18. Deadmau5 - Strobe
19. Deadmau5 - Don't Forget The Paperwork
20. Deadmau5 feat. Wolfgang Gartner - Animal Rights
T R A C K L I S T
01. Intro ( 3:16)
02. Some Chords ( 4:53)
03. Reward Is Cheese ( 2:16)
04. Bad Selection ( 4:51)
05. Cthulhu Sleeps ( 3:42)
06. Fml ( 9:57)
07. Right This Second ( 7:10)
08. Raise Your Weapon ( 8:38)
09. Arguru ( 7:19)
10. Sophie Needs A Ladder ( 6:46)
11. One Trick Pony ( 3:52)
12. Moar Ghosts ( 3:14)
13. Ghosts 'N' Stuff ( 4:26)
14. Maths ( 3:52)
15. Sometimes Things Get Whatever ( 3:55)
16. Get In The Cart ( 2:12)
17. I Remember ( 6:23)
18. Strobe (11:53)
19. Don't Forget The Paperwork ( 7:39)
20. Animal Rights ( 6:36)
21. Interview ( 5:44)
22. Timelapse ( 2:28)
AUSTIN, TEX.—The “Mau5” and the Plastikman, they’re not so different, after all.
Opening day of the South by Southwest music festival was bookended by two generously attended discussions in the Austin Convention Centre, a morning “conversation” with brood-rock icon Nick Cave and a late-afternoon tete-a-tete between Canadian electronic music stars Richie Hawtin and Joel “Deadmau5” Zimmerman.
Hawtin and Zimmerman might have been viewed as interlopers at the historically “rockist” SXSW even just a few years ago, but now that North America has caught up with the rest of the planet in embracing electronic dance music at a mainstream level they were easily as big a draw collectively as Cave — big enough, anyway, that their “Talk. Techno. Technology.” seminar had to be upsized to the same hall as Cave’s at the last minute to accommodate a lineup running the length of the convention centre’s upper level.
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The pair was also tapped to do a tag-team DJ set of “stripped-down techno” for the Media Temple-sponsored SXSW Interactive closing party at the famed outdoor amphitheatre Stubb’s later Tuesday night, while Hawtin is to headline a special Austin edition of his ongoing “CNTRL: Beyond EDM” tour featuring Loco Dice, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Montreal techno bricklayer Tiga, his brother Matthew Hawtin and a DJ set from Toronto’s Azari & III at the Bungalow club on Wednesday night.
The knee-jerk impulse is to view Hawtin, who’s arguably the planet’s most visible and respected purveyor of boundary-pushing underground techno music, and Zimmerman, who moves hundreds of thousands of units as Deadmau5 and sold out the Rogers Centre in December of 2011, polar opposites. As it turns out, though, the two producers actually have rather a lot in common, from a shared appetite for high-tech, eye-popping stage shows — Hawtin’s Plastikman Live multimedia freakout on the one hand and the perpetually “Mau5”-masked Zimmerman’s stadium-filling sci-fi touring spectacle on the other — on down to a shared history of managing electronic bulletin boards as youngsters in Windsor and Welland, respectively.
“Probably how we first bonded was we’re two kids — or we were two kids — who found a love of technology and communicating through technology … that took us to a place where we never imagined we’d be today,” offered Hawtin, 42, at the outset. “It’s probably because we’re both geeks. We feel pretty cool with computers rather than people sometimes.”
No argument on the geek front. Much of Hawtin and Zimmerman’s shared SXSW chat involved deeply technical ruminations on such esoterically techno-specific topics as Roland TB-303s and Juno 60s, the limitations of DJ-ing with simple stereo files, Native Instruments’ “Modern Talking” preset and the merits of downloadable plug-ins over hobbyist modular-synth patches (“Nobody else out there can actually tell the difference, but we can,” laughed Hawtin). Even they, however, had the good humour and self-awareness to admit that such geekery can sometimes be an obstacle to the simply enjoyment of electronic music.
“Do the complexities of what people expect from an electronic performance kind of bring you down sometimes?” asked Hawtin.
Zimmerman concurred that he, like Hawtin, is often guilty of being one of “the four chin-scratchers at the back” picking apart the means of production and performance instead of “living in the production and the event and the sound” like everyone else. “We’re the only people that care,” he laughed. “Everyone is really more interested in just seeing that show.”
Zimmerman also admitted to being somewhat hemmed in by his Deadmau5 persona and the expectations of crowd-pleasing big-room bangers now placed upon him.
“Not to blow smoke up your ass, but if someone had told me 10 years ago that I was gonna DJ with Richie Hawtin … well, whatever: I’m honoured,” he said. “I’ve always aspired to be a little more underground. I listen to techno, I listen to the really dubby old stuff and all of your old stuff. And I like it.”
Hawtin, in turn, urged Zimmerman to use his Deadmau5 notoriety to lead the kids and the new-gen dance-music fans down the rabbit hole.
“You’re probably the No. 1 gatekeeper for electronic music right now,” he said. “I would say that’s your responsibility, to open up the doors as wide as possible.”
As to the question of why two of the biggest names in electronic music today hail from within three or four hours’ drive of one another in Southern Ontario, they both had the same answer.
“Tim Hortons. They put something in it,” said Zimmerman.
“I had one right across from my studio,” offered Hawtin.
“Really? I have one right across from my studio, too,” chuckled Zimmerman, quickly racing to clarify: “There’s a Tim Horton’s on every f—ing corner in Canada.”
Staten Island drew a very bad hand during Hurricane Sandy.
A long time ago an old friend of mine told me. “If it’s
meant to be, it will happen.” I never understood what that meant until I saw
her again in a post hurricane Sandy recovery article about how she lost her
house in the storm. In the article she was holding pictures of her family and
had one of the strangest looks I have ever seen on anyone’s face. It was the
look of despondence when life meets the wake of an uncontrollable event. It was
the look of incomprehensible defeat after an event of immeasurable loss. The unfortunate reality is that once in a while everyone loses control of your life to a
traumatic experience that we are unable to do anything about it. Needless to
say I was saddened for her loss, and all I could only think about is what she
said to me well over a decade ago; “If it’s meant to be, it will happen.” It
was weird to me that this was the first thing that came to mind, and I didn't realize
how profound those words were until I saw her face.
As a species we have a problem seeing our connections to each
other where there aren't obvious inks. In other words even absence can be just
as important catalyst to a person’s direction in life than presence. To the
mother whose son is deployed oversees in combat, their child’s absence fills
them with fear, hope, or sadly both. To the child who has lost a parent their loved
one’s absence defines who they become after the loss, be it for better or for
worse. To the people who have lost others due to Fate’s hand, the sheer
gravitational pull of that loss bends the path of life they walk on. People who
are not with us defines us just as much as people are.
Someone once told that the person who is most important in
you is the person you think about when you go to sleep, and the person who is on
your mind when you wake up. For some people that person is someone who they can
talk to, for others that person is someone they may never see again. Robert Luis
Stevenson once said that absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. The proverbial absence makes the heart grow fonder metaphor,
or the out of site but not out of mind ideology. In essence the heart does not
understand the passage of time nor distances to loved ones. It does not concern
itself with boundaries or reservations created in life that separate
or bring us together. It only knows what it feels, and it keeps those feelings as
bright as the noonday sun, and as delicate as a dew moistened flowers.
Loss had been a constant companion of mine, the most
profound of which was when I lost my best friend from childhood to drug abuse in
his early 20s. He was a consummate comedic storyteller, and no one to this day
has made me laugh as much as he did. He could take a simple line that started
with “so my brother was taking a shower” into a story that still makes me laugh to
this day, well over a decade later. It always saddens me to think about how his
contribution to my life still exists to this day in so many facets through so many of the people I call friends. I would not be the person I am now, and I would most likely be just a memory. His
humor was a great loss to the world, but I feel privileged for having been part
of his life, and unfortunately he will never know how important he was to mine.
There is only one other person in my life that has had a profound life altering influence in it, and that was the person looking back at me
from a Super Storm Sandy relief article with sadness in her eyes. Among so many things I have a crazy loving family, I own my own business and home outright, I am following my dreams, and I have come to
even love cats. I was highly allergic to the cuties when I was a kid, now I
can’t go more than a few hours without hugging my youngest who is now 2 years old. He is so damn cute
I can’t stand it, but digress. Even though I suspect I won’t ever see my Sandy
relief friend again I can’t help to know that I will be thinking about her on
my last days when I wake up that fateful morning, and when I have that last final beautiful dream.
I can’t help but think I will have lots of love in my heart for her, and deep appreciation on
my mind.
Some people believe that you need to walk your path with
someone for them to be meaningful. I have come to know what even if people are
not there walking the path with you, they are as meaningful as those who walk beside
you. When two paths converge they spend time together at the crossroads of
possibility, and when they diverge again they take those possibilities with them. If
you look closely enough, those possibilities that make us who we are. The memories that warm our hearts and fill us with longing for better days. The tears
that soak the ground are where flowers grow. The scars that toughen us so that we can handle even greater hardships. The
losses that we endure help us to appreciate the gains. And the wisdom to know that we are all connected, even in the smallest ways, to each other. Together we are living only one story. In a tale filled with love, joy, sorrow and pain in the end we all matter to each other even if in the smallest ways. What saddens me most is that people don't see that.
This one goes out to everyone who has lost or is losing someone they
cared about for one reason or another. Know that they are with you even after they are gone, and if they truly mattered to you they will be with you forever - because it’s meant to be.
-- Minstra P.S. Just last week the U.S. Senate passed a Super storm Sandy relief bill, but there are still needy families out there that have lost everything. If you willing to donate time, effort, or money don't hesitate to find a charity out there that are still helping people in need like the Red Cross.
At least three young women were trampled to death Wednesday night at a festival in Madrid, Spain, headlined by DJ Steve Aoki. The fatal injuries occurred as the crowd rushed one of the exits. Two more people remain in critical condition.
Wednesday night in Madrid, three people were killed during Steve Aoki's performance. Because of the tragic and fatal crowd-rushing incident, Aoki decided to cancel the next night's show in Bilbao, Spain. "After my performance last night at Thriller Music Park at the Madrid Arena in Spain, I was devastated to hear that three people had died during a crowd rush at one of the exits,"
Aoki wrote on his Facebook page:
"The safety of my fans has always been my top priority and had I known that there was any distress putting people in jeopardy within the venue I would have ended my show immediately. My show in Bilbao, Spain tonight will be cancelled out of respect for those who lost their lives and those who are injured," the DJ added. "I would like to express my deepest condolences and heart felt prayers to the families and loved ones during this difficult time."
According to Spain's El Pais, police are investigating the cause and whether proper security measures were in place at the Thriller Music Park, a dance-music festival featuring Aoki and Autoerotique, among other acts.
A spokesperson for the festival has stated the event was not full and it followed the entry limits of 10,600 in the 12,000-person venue. But, according to SPIN, at least one concertgoer estimated on Twitter that there had been 20,000 people crammed into the space.
It has been believed a flare in the audience caused the stampede, leading to panic, but a witness has told Spain's Cadena SER the flare was lit "long after the avalanche occurred." Another witness said there was a "human plug" in the only way out.
One young woman who witnessed the event told El Pais,
"I lost my friends and I was alone in the middle of the avalanche. I could not breathe... I thought I was dying. I even thought to call my parents and tell them I was dying.
Another young man told the Spanish paper,
"I'll never forget the face of horror about a girl with pink shirt that was trapped in the hallway."
Per the Los Angeles Times, the promoter of the Thriller Music Park event has issued condolences for the loss of life. According to their statement:
"The triggering of events was apparently launched by an assistant flaming a flare in one of nine vomitory access, not on Centre Court," it read. "This action caused panic and isolation in this part of the venue." The promoter also stressed that the venue was not over capacity, adding, "The capacity certified by the foreign company access control was below the required capacity for this event."
Several fellow DJs and producers have been offering their condolences to Aoki. French hitmaker Martin Solveig tweeted,
"So sorry to read this. big thoughts to you and all our Spanish friends."
How many times have you had 'that' discussion with your friends and fellow music lovers. What is the greatest dance track of all time? Which style of music has the best song? Is it Daft Punk, Fatboy Slim, The Prodigy, Faithless, Underworld, Aphex Twins, AVB, or Tiesto the Greatest artist? What about it being an acid house track or a dubstep track? WHAT ABOUT TRANCE!
As we know, it always turns into a heated argument because everyone thinks that they have the right answer. Well now thanks to Mixmag, you can have your voice be heard and vote for the greatest dance track of all time.
Mixmag has compiled a list of over 300 timeless records stretched across every imaginable genre of dance music you can think of. You go down the list and you start thinking to yourself, ‘Oh, I remember this track,’ or ‘I love this one!’ THe beat part of about the process is that while looking at the list, you are able to listen to the tracks and pick which one you think should win the title of "Greatest Dance Track of All Time.!!!" (This year)
But what if you have a track that is not featured on the list? You can simply input their choice manually and pick any track they want. But you can only vote once, so make sure that your voice is heard.
Nick Decosemo, editor for Mixmag, said:
"Of all the polls we’ve ever run at Mixmag, this one has caused the most office arguments! Picking one greatest dance track of all time seems almost like an impossible task to many. So to help people along, we’ve created a list of 300 timeless records that we think could be in contention to win. You can listen to all of these tunes on our bespoke Facebook App and then make your choice. Just be careful, once you start browsing you may find that you’ve lost a day!"
The poll will run until December 21, 2012. And the winner will be announced in the February 2013 issue of Mixmag, set to go on sale January 17. Yes this may be another thinly veiloed marketing tool to get you interested in another contest that will probably be redone in a year or so, but don't you want to kn ow the results? If you are then make sure you vote! It’s your civil liberty as a citizen of these United States of Dance Music. Viva la revolutions, and that ill BPM!
Last November, Red Bull gave us a look into the life of Benga when he’s in the studio with their online show called “The Producers.” Almost one year later, Red Bull has released the trailer and more information about their Benga documentary entitled “I Am Benga.”
It is not a stretch to call Benga one of Bass Music/Dubstep pioneers. He’s literally been there from the beginning in London and played a major role in crafting it’s trajectory. He’s also one of the most charismatic talents to hit the stage and always delivers a killer show. It’s for these reasons and more that Red Bull has decided to make a six-part mini-doc on Benga’s life in 2012. We will get to see Benga’s everyday life, from studio time to traveling to performances and gigs. I for one am really looking forward to seeing the first episode that comes out November 13th. It should be really interesting to get a first hand account of what it’s like to be at the top of your game. Watch the trailer for "I Am Benga" below. We are told that the Red Bull Studios cameras captured some of Benga’s 2012 highlights that include being flown by helicopter into Snowbombing Festival, releasing material from forthcoming solo album ‘Chapter II’ and playing his his first ever live showcase of new material at London’s KOKO. The series will trace Benga’s musical journey from the humble beginnings at Big Apple Records to worldwide acclaim and a slot on Radio 1 with ally Skream. Here’s what the Croydon boy had to say about the series:
“I’m incredibly excited about the series. I can’t wait to show everyone the amazing things I’ve been part of! There’s a great buzz around the show and everyone will get to see what’s next for me!”
Jay Z is a man who knows a good business deal. So it comes as no surprise he's signed one of the world's biggest DJs to Roc Nation.
With a roster that hinges on names like Rita Ora, J. Cole and even 11-year-old pop star Willow Smith, Jay-Z’s Roc Nation isn’t the first place you’d associate with big-room Dutch house and trance. All that’s about to change, though, as Stereosonic-bound scene hero Sander van Doorn dropped some surprise news to Vibe.com in an interview at Amsterdam Dance Event. “My biggest friend at the moment is actually Jay-Z,” the DJ told Vibe, looking like he can’t quite believe it himself. “I just got signed to his label, Roc Nation. So he’s my new best friend.” We’ll have to wait to find out just what’s coming from that friendship.
Roc Nation came about in 2008 as a collaboration between Jay-Z and touring giant Live Nation. Another high-profile dance act in the Roc Nation empire is Chase & Status, who have said they politely turned down working with high-profile associates like Rihanna for their No More Idols album. Other sign-ups to the Roc Nation ‘family’ include UK gun Switch and Stargate, the Norwegian production team that works behind the scenes on pop blockbuster after pop blockbuster.
Sander van Doorn’s last album was 2011’s Eleve11, which impressed our reviewer: “Steering well clear of dropping a collection of disparate club bombs (like he might have been a little guilty of in the past), Doorn has crafted a tight and polished affair with Eleve11. Though in some respects it might sideline the fans that prefer him exclusively in peaktime trance mode, it’ll be a joy for anyone who’s embraced the full range of his musical personality.”
The Dutchman told Vibe at ADE that his recent career has been a whirlwind. “I just did a collaboration together with Mark Knight, and another with a dance group I can’t say too much about yet. My schedule is absolutely ridiculous right now.”
Doorn's obviously pretty happy. He says: “I am incredibly happy about this signing because, as a producer, you always want to reach as many people with your music as you can. 'Nothing Inside' is something I’m very proud of, so having it released on Roc Nation is absolutely insane! It’s a real honour to be on a label with so many amazing talents.”
A slew of Miami police and fire rescue crews are on their way to Bayfront Park downtown Miami to respond to the collapse of a stage during a sound check for tomorrow’s start of the Ultra Music Festival.
