Sarah Purkrabek

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Headhunterz

Sarah Purkrabek
This past year, hardstyle has become one of the biggest subgenres of EDM, with more and more new artists playing it and more festivals booking it. Headhunterz is one of the artists that pioneered hardstyle’s success. He’s got his own podcast, “HARDwithSTYLE”, where he’s been dropping long mixes and featuring......
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Loudpvck

Sarah Purkrabek
Loudpvck (pronounced “loud-pack”—the “v” is an inverted “a”) blew up because of their downright dirty trap music. Loudpvck takes hip-hop and electrifies it, using synths to make the classic hip-hop style go even harder and peppering in as many heavy drops as the duo can fit into a set. The......
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Sound Remedy

Sarah Purkrabek
Sound Remedy comes from classical roots, and it shows. He composes electronic music with a symphonic spirit. Sound Remedy’s tracks are a musical journey, much like the long compositions of the classical composers he grew up with. Sound Remedy is different, though, in that his sound crosses electronic genres instead......
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Kastle & Amtrac

Sarah Purkrabek
Kastle’s brand of dubstep is not your typical headbanging bass. Instead, Kastle focuses on making his bass soulful, resulting in a sound that’s reminiscent of R&B fused with dubstep and house. As suited for the club as it is for evening walks, Kastle’s music is dark and intricate, with varied......
Hardstyle fans at the second "The Sound of Q-dance" at the Shrine.; Credit: Courtesy of Q-dance

Move Over Dubstep and Trap: 2014 Was Hardstyle's Year

Sarah Purkrabek
As EDM has risen into the pop music sector and more and more people have been initiated into dance music, certain genres have taken the lead at one point or another. In 2011 and 2012, dubstep was the fad, thanks to people like 12th Planet and the U.S. king of......
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The Chainsmokers

Sarah Purkrabek
Since they blew up this past year with their tongue-in-cheek hit “#Selfie”, The Chainsmokers have been a staple on the festival circuit, sending dance music fans into frenzies all over the world. However, the DJ/producer duo is known best by older fans for remixing indie tracks into dance bangers. You......
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Ryan Hemsworth

Sarah Purkrabek
Ryan Hemsworth was a singer-songwriter before he started dabbling in hip-hop and R&B, and then eventually found his place as a DJ and producer. Now, he mixes his talents for songwriting, hip-hop and R&B together with synths and samples to create sultry electronic mixes. He’s known for his ambient sound......
Cut Snake; Credit: Photo by Breton Carroso

Cut Snake Turned From Pro Surfers to Professional DJs

Sarah Purkrabek
Leigh Sedley and Paul Fisher — Sedz and Fish to their friends — moved from Australia to America 10 years ago as professional surfers. These days, though, the duo is becoming better known in another field: as the DJs and producers called Cut Snake. “It comes from an Australian saying:......
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EOTO

Sarah Purkrabek
Electronic duo EOTO will put on a performance that you’ve never seen before — or ever see again. That’s because every EOTO set is live (the guys bring a whole slew of state-of-the-art music technology) and 100% improvised — no pre-recorded backing tracks, loops or drops. The entire set, starting......