DJMag Top 100 Djs

So it is over and the results have been revealed . The Undesputed,for the fifth time nr.1 DJ in the world
Armin van Buuren. There are new entries and new records for some like Avicii,Hardwell,Skrillex & Steve Aoki.


Check out the list and for more info 



01. Armin van Buuren 02. (up 1)
02. Tiesto 03. (up 1)
03. Avicii 06. (up 3)
04. David Guetta 01. (down 3)
05. Deadmau5 04. (down 1)
06. Hardwell 24. (up 18)
07. Dash Berlin 08. (up 1)
08. Above & Beyond 05. (down 3)
09. Afrojack 07. (down 2)
10. Skrillex 19. (up 9)
11. Headhunterz 17. (up 6)
12. Swedish House Mafia 10. (down 2)
13. Markus Schulz 09. (down 4)
14. Gareth Emery 13. (down 1)
15. Steve Aoki 42. (up 27)
16. Paul Van Dyk 11. (down 5)
17. Nicky Romero - (new entry)
18. Sander van Doorn 16. (down 2)
19. Aly & Fila 22. (up 3)
20. Alesso 70. (up 50)
21. ATB 15. (down 6)
22. Ferry Corsten 18. (down 4)
23. Axwell 12. (down 11)
24. Dada Life 38. (up 14)
25. W&W 36. (up 11)
26. Fedde Le Grand 14. (down 12)
27. Noisecontrollers 35. (up 8 )
28. Arty 25. (down 3)
29. Laidback Luke 20. (down 9)
30. Kaskade 30. (non-mover)
31. Calvin Harris 34. (up 3)
32. Orjan Nilsen 49. (up 19)
33. Knife Party - (new entry)
34. Sebastian Ingrosso 26. (down 8 )
35. Chuckie 32. (down 3)
36. Zatox 47. (up 11)
37. DJ Coone 41. (up 4)
38. Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike 79. (up 41)
39. Cosmic Gate 43. (up 4)
40. Porter Robinson 96. (up 56)
41. Wildstylez 80. (up 39)
42. Angerfist 39. (down 3)
43. Infected Mushroom 21. (down 22)
44. Daft Punk 28. (down 16)
45. Carl Cox 31. (down 14)
46. Nervo - (new entry)
47. Pete Tha Zouk 37. (down 10)
48. Martin Solveig 29. (down 19)
49. Brennan Heart 98. (up 49)
50. Tenishia 91. (up 41)
51. Zedd - (new entry)
52. Eric Prydz 46. (down 6)
53. Bobina 44. (down 9)
54. Madeon - (new entry)
55. John OíCallaghan 52. (down 3)
56. DJ Feel 57. (up 1)
57. Steve Angello 23. (down 34)
58. Omnia - (new entry)
59. UMEK 60 (up 1)
60. Wolfgang Gartner 56. (down 4)
61. AN21 85. (up 24)
62. Tommy Trash - (new entry)
63. Francis Davila 77. (up 14)
64. D-Block & S-te-Fan 40. (down 24)
65. Tritonal 83. (up 18)
66. Bingo Players - (new entry)
67. Psyko Punkz 78. (up 11)
68. Shogun - (new entry)
69. Paul Oakenfold 69. (non-mover)
70. Benny Benassi 27. (down 43)
71. tyDi 48 (down 23)
72. Mat Zo 73. (up 2)
73. R3hab - (new entry)
74. Quentin Mosimann - (new entry)
75. Wasted Penguinz - (new entry)
76. Dirty South 93. (up 17)
77. Andrew Rayel - (new entry)
78. Richie Hawtin 45. (down 33)
79. Frontliner - (new entry)
80. Myon & Shane 54 66. (down 14)
81. Heatbeat - (new entry)
82. Thomas Gold - (new entry)
83. Nero 88. (up 5)
84. Roger Shah 51. (down 33)
85. Feed Me - (new entry)
86. Mike Candys - (new entry)
87. Andy Moor 50. (down 37)
88. Ran-D - (new entry)
89. Richard Durand 59. (down 30)
90. Felguk 87. (down 3)
91. Paul Kalkbrenner 62. (down 29)
92. Moonbeam 65. (down 27)
93. Sean Tyas 72. (down 21)
94. Bob Sinclar 33. (down 61)
95. Netsky - (new entry)
96. Neelix - (new entry)
97. Mark Knight 71. (down 26)
98. John Digweed 55. (down 43)
99. Da Tweekaz - (new entry)
100. Project 46 - (new entry)


The world's biggest music magazine for electronic dance music, DJMag, has since 1997 allowed the audience to vote for their favorite DJ's. and that has been extremely important in the EDM scene. everyone who hopes to clear a space in the top 100, uses a lot of time on major marketing campaigns. And that there has been much discussion around the last two or three years - especially the point where the list is accused of being the most populer dj in the world.
But that's the way it is now, and you just have to accept that legends disappear from the list to make room for more "appropriate time" artists, even if they are not necessarily better DJs because of it. This year we have already received several shocks, like James Zabiela, Sven Väth, BT, Roger Sanchez, Hernan Cattaneo, Judge Jules, Fatboy Slim and Joris Voorn have all fallen out of the top.

Preliminary results:

111. Bloody Beetroots

112. Bassnectar

113. Leon Bolier

114. Gunz 4 Hire

115. Astrix

116. Joachim Garraud

117. Boy George

118. Ashley Wallbridge

119. Mastiksoul

120. Adaro

121. Super 8 & Tab

122. Skazi

123. James Zabiela

124. Daniel Kandi

125. Klaypex

126. Matt Darey

127. Basto

128. Roger Sanchez

129. Showtek

130. BT

131. Flux Pavilion

132. Judge Jules

133. Hernan Cattaneo

134. Arnej

135. Fatboy Slim

136. Deniz Koyu

137. Zed's Dead

138. Solarstone

139. Sven Väth

140. Stafford Brothers

141. Mark with a K

142. Sidney Samson

143. Ian Carey

144. Gabry Ponte

145. Bryan Kearney

146. Technoboy

147. Kyau & Albert

148. Joris Voorn

149. Evil Activities

150. DJ Vibe

Previous winners:

1997 - Carl Cox

1998 - Paul Oakenfold

1999 - Paul Oakenfold

2000 - Sasha

2001 - John Digweed

2002 - Tiësto

2003 - Tiësto

2004 - Tiësto

2005 - Paul van Dyk

2006 - Paul van Dyk

2007 - Armin van Buuren

2008 - Armin van Buuren

2009 - Armin van Buuren

2010 - Armin van Buuren

2011 - David Guetta

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For producers: Labels to send demos

There are new talents and amateur producers who looks up to be hooked under any label to start their jurney to the Electronic Dance Music scene. Here are some ways to approach some labels and send your demos :

Soundcloud:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/orange-stripes-talent-scout-progressive    Orange Stripes

http://soundcloud.com/enhanced/dropbox    Enhaced

http://soundcloud.com/neuroscience/dropbox    Neuroscience

http://soundcloud.com/monstertunes/dropbox    Monster Tunes

http://soundcloud.com/alteregorecords/dropbox    Alter Ego

http://soundcloud.com/silent-shore-records/dropbox    Silent Shore

http://soundcloud.com/aboverecordings/dropbox/profile    Above

http://soundcloud.com/rimoshee/dropbox/profile    Rimoshee

http://soundcloud.com/megadriverecords/dropbox/profile    Mega Drive

E-mail:

demo@cloud9dance.com    Cloud 9

hello@futurefocusrecordings.com    Future Focus

demos@arisaaudio.com    Arisa

demo@liquid-records.com    Liquid

music@langerecordings.com    Lange

luke@unearthedrecords.com    Unearthed

Demos@stoneflowrecords.com    Stone Flow

Music@ask4records.com    Ask4

demos@recoverworld.com    Recover World

demo@beyourselfmusic.com    Be Yourself

silkdigital@silk-music.com    Silk

demos@echelonrecords.net    Echelon

demos@tranceallstars.com    Treance all stars

info@dmwmusicgroup.com    DWM

demo@wellmixedrecords.com    Wellmixed

richardgalemusic@hotmail.co.uk    

demo@activerecordings.nl    Active

german@amonvision.com    Amon Vision

info@intrenze.com    Intrenze

demo@tieva.com    Tieva

demos@total-digital.co.uk    Total-Digital

info@wavedatarecords.com    Wave Data

label@beatservicemusic.com    Beat Service

Other:

http://www.syncope-recordz.com/hp/contactbooking/2-contact/3-contact    Syncope

http://uploader.elantor.net/upload.php?l=Distinctive    Elantor

http://redforcerecordings.com/contact    Red Force

http://www.abora-recordings.com/submit-demo    Abora

http://www.bonzaiprogressive.com/demos/    Bonzai

http://www.streamlinedrecordings.com/    Stramlined

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For producers: The Novation Zero SL MKII

Written by Adlan

Novation Zero SL MKII

The Novation Zero SL MKII Boasts a sleek style whilst keeping in with the modern compact style of MIDI Controllers , Making it perfects for gigging , Or other live performances.

Although This nifty little controller does not look like much , It has great potential , With the ability to be mapped out onto countless audio emitting programs such as Reason , Fl Studio and Traktor. It may not look like it but the Zero SL MKII is actually a brilliant DJ controller , Featuring the famous Crossfader and boasting over 50 Buttons Just asking you to be mapped out to your favourite effect or modulation , Also included are another 25 Faders in the form of sliders and knobs ,This is perfect for the DJ who are interested in the controllers aspect of the DJ art.

In amongst this fantastic controller , Novation have Placed eight small drum-pads, Although they are not exactly the best drum-pads I have ever used , they still do the job relatively well , But don't be expecting to go all Jackie Chan on them though.

This controller comes along with Novations , State of the art Auto-map Software Giving you the ability to map your controller to most of the top of the line music production software such as Logik , Reason and Ableton Live.

Also featured on the back of this product are several inputs and outputs , Featured are 4 MIDI ports , A MIDI port 2 out , and 3 MIDI port 1 sockets , Thru , Out and In. This controller can also be hooked up to a control pedal and an expression pedal , and this controller has the ability to be powered by 100% BUS Power , meaning that all you really need to get up and running is a USB cable , But you are also givin the option to power it by 9V DC Power.

That's pretty much it , This controller caught my eye a while back and Since then I am still using it to it's full potential , never getting bored.

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Masters of mash up

by Endrit
Myon & Shane 54 - Anatomy Of A Megamix 2

(The full Tracklist)

What is better than one Edm track ? Two,three even four of them at once !
Myon & Shane 54 are famous for their productions and remixes, but the truth is, they are most well known for their mash ups.
They have been called the masters of mashups,justifiable as the tracks they choose to mash up
seems to be created from the very beginning for that reason. While traveling all over the world Elod Csaszar (Shane 54)
films with his own camera (not the best quality but pretty original idea) moments of their jurney,immortalizing and giving to the fans the chance of watching the superstar
tracne duo in action . The tracks have been featured on the " International Departures ",their weekly radio show, one of the
most popular music podcasts around .



For anyone who's interesed to make the same mix and expand their limits as a DJ,here are the featured tracks :

01. Andy Duguid feat Leah - Don't Belong (Acapella)
02. Pryda - Juletider
03. Pryda - With Me
04. Norin & Rad - The Gift
05. BT - Emergency (Acapella)
06. BT feat Kirsty Hawkshaw - A Million Stars (Myon & Shane 54 Summer Of Dub Mix)
07. Lange - Fireworks (Myon & Shane 54 Bigroom reedit)
08. Kane - Rain down on me (Acapella)
09. Cosmic Gate - The Theme
10. Susanna feat Julian Vincent - Fall In Deep (Alexander Popov Instrumental Mix)
11. Luminary - Amsterdam (Acapella)
12. Above & Beyond - Thing Called Love(Acapella)
13. DNS project feat Madeline Zero - Another Day (MS54 re-edit)
14. W&W - 3'o Clock(Acapella)
15. Nadia Ali - Love Story (Acapella)
16. Who.Is - Cryptanalysis (chris schweizer mix)
17. Arty - The Wall (Original Mix)
18. Arty - The Wall (Acapella)
19. Arctic Moon - Adelaide (Ben Nicky Remix)
20. Myon & Shane 54 - Futuristic (Synthapella)
21. Mike Denis - For You (Juventa Remix)
22. Dj Shog - Feel Me Through The Radio (acapella)
23. Mat Zo & Arty - Rebound
24. Hybrid - Original Sin (Myon and Shane 54 Club Redemption Acapella)
25. Anhken pres. Fyrsta - If Not Me (Norin & Rad Remix)
26. Pendulum - Island (Acapella)
27. Tomcraft & Jerome Isma-Ae - Trouble In The Redlight District
28. Jochen Miller - Brace Yourself (Synthapella)
29. Above & Beyond ft Richard Bedford - Every Little Beat (Myon & Shane 54 Summer Of Dub Mix)
30. Cosmic Gate with Myon & Shane 54 and Aruna - All Around You (Acapella)
31. Pink Flood feat Tiff Lacey - Someone Like You (Acapella)
32. Cosmic Gate with Myon & Shane 54 and Aruna - All Around You (Instrumental)
33. Andy Moor vs MIKE - Spirit's Pulse (Dub)
34. Cerf & Mitiska feat Jaren - Another World (Acapella)
35. Gareth Emery - Citadel
36. Above & Beyond feat Richard Bedford - Every Little Beat (Myon & Shane 54 Summer Of Love Acapella)
37. Above & Beyond with Andy Moor - Air For Life (Andy Moor 2011 remix)
38. Ferry Corsten - Punk (Arty Remix)
39. Calvin Harris - Flashback (Acapella)
40. Benny Benassi Feat. Kelis - Spaceship (EDX Remix)
41. Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You (Loopapella)
42. Alex Kunnari - Lost (Tom Fall Remix)
43. Delerium - Silence (Acapella)
44. Marcus Schossow - Swedish Nights
45. Cosmic Gate with Aruna - Free Falling (Acapella)
46. Fedde Le Grand vs. Sultan & Ned Shepard feat. Mitch Crown - Running (Festival Mix)
47. Diddy - Dirty Money Feat. Skylar Grey - Coming Home (Dirty South Club Mix)
48. Marcus Schossow - Acid, Festival, Champagne, Bitches (Acapella)
49. Nitrous Oxide - iPeople
50. Ronski Speed feat Sir Adrian - The Space We Are (Acapella)
51. Rex Mundi - Valley Of Dreams
52. Chakra - I Am (Acapella)
53. Arty - Around The World (Synthapella)
54. Andain - Promises (Myon & Shane 54 Summer Of Love Mix)
55. Nadia Ali, Starkillers & Alex Kenji - Pressure (Acapella)
56. Jochen Miller - Troucid
57. Green & Falkner - Ceylan (Original Mix)
58. Mat Zo - Superman
59. Martin Solveig - Hello (Acapella)
60. Matt Darey & Aeron Aether feat Ridgewalkers - Chasing The Sun (D Mad remix)
61. Roger Shah feat Kosheen - Hide U (Acapella)
62. Sander van Doorn - Love is darkness (Instrumental)
63. OneRepublic - Apologize (Acapella)
64. Arty - Kate
65. Fragma - Toca's Miracle (Acapella)
66. Signum ft Julie Thompson - Never Be The Same (Myon & Shane 54 Monster Mix Acapella)
67. Soundprank - Beginnings (Synthapella)
68. Weekend Heroes, Jerome Isma-Ae - A Monster In My Closet
69. John O Callaghan feat Sarah Howells - Find Yourself (Acapella)
70. Sneijder - Away From Here (Arty remix)
71. Myon & Shane 54 - International Departures (Classic Anthem Mix)
72. Dj Shah feat Adrina Thorpe - Who Will Find Me (Acapella)
73. Within Temptation - Sinead (Myon & Shane 54 Triplet Monster Dub)
74. Rafael Frost - Smash
75. Nadia Ali - Rapture (Acapella)
76. Above & Beyond - You Got To Go (Club \ MS54 Reedit)
77. Dirty South & Thomas Gold - Alive (Instrumental Mix)
78. Andy Moor feat Sue McLaren - Fight The Fire (Acapella)
79. Above & Beyond feat Richard Bedford - Sun & Moon (MS54 Intro Mix)
80. Dark Matters - Quest of a dream (Acapella)
81. Dark Matters - Quest of a dream (Dabruck & Klein Dub)
82. Armin van Buuren - Drowning (Myon & Shane 54 remix acapella)
83. Mark Eteson - Blackboard (Original Mix)
84. Agnelli & Nelson - Everyday (Acapella) -->

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How much money do Djs earn?

Over the past twelve months have the ten most paid Dj's earned $ 125 million.

On the top ten list we see the Dutch DJ Tiesto at the top that has earned 22 million dollars. Much of his money comes from live performance where he gets 250,000 dollars per concert.
Skrillex from California coming in second place on the list with $ 15 million, followed by Swedish House Mafia. They got 1 million less than Skrillex. It is not only the top three will walk away with all the money. David Guetta serve in a little less than the Swedish House Mafia.

Here is the list of highest paid DJs in the last twelve months:

1. Tiesto ($ 22 million)
2. Skrillex ($ 15 million)
3. Swedish House Mafia ($ 14 million)
4. David Guetta ($ 13.5 million)
5. Steve Aoki ($ 12 million)
6. Deadmau5 ($ 11.5 million)
7. DJ Pauly D ($ 11 million)
8. Kaskade ($ 10 million)
9. Afrojack ($ 9 million)
10. Avicii ($ 7 million)
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Electronic Dance Music - A Capella

Hello EDM lovers! Today i am gonna talk about a phenomenon that is on the increase: the re-making of electronic dance music tracks entirely by human voice.

"What the fuck?"

I am sure this is the first thing you've thought by reading this.

How is possible to make all the different instruments which appeared in an Electronic song only using the human voice?

So, there is a way for making music, called "A Capella" that comes from the old Renaissance, in the far 1400, that is performed without any kind of musical instruments, only by using the various shades of the human voice. This way was originally used, and it is still used, for religious music. In particular it's popular in church's choirs.
Have you never listened to a Gospel choir? This is an example!

But, you can say, electronic music has too many instruments and some of them are impossible to be performed by human voice. FALSE!
Some people can control its own voice in an impressive way.

And with the new softwares, they can record "voice instrument" by "voice instrument" and then assemble all the sounds for creating a song.
But now i am sure you just want an example so.. i will put a lot of them!

This is one of the most impressive. This guy is quite famous on YouTube for his A Capella covers:



These are some songs performed a capella i collected for you:

Swedish House Mafia - One (A Capella)

Avicii - Levels (A Capella)

Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites (A Capella Cover)

Feel So Close (A capella)

One More Time (A Capella)

Raise your Weapon and others.. (A Capella)  <--suggested 

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Armin van Buuren's documentary

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Armada founded the documentary: "A Year with Armin van Buuren".
A jurney to the past,talking about the meeting with the manager who changed his life . There for the first time,Armin shows to his fans his daily personal life. Eating with his family,for the first time the parents of AvB speaks for their son, the father had music vein and transfered the passion for music to his sons (Eller van Buuren is a musician too).
Being pissed off,scheduling tours,studio session with Ferry Corsten,showing his childhood room(the place of his first creation - Blue Fear), photography session,Armin van Buuren leaves nothing to imagine .
Showing a guy who is down to earth and the contrast of his fanatic fans,crying for him. The dutch DJ also complains about the way media approaches him,ready to scandalize him about the money he earned or the womans who offers themself to him.
Speaking about his experience as a father soon to become (then),now Fena, his daughter makes the trance superstar forget everything about business as his priority is his biggest love.
Hosted for free on KLM's youtube channel.
Enjoy the following video :

(For subtitles click on the CC button in the right corner of the player.)

Written by: Andrit

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Mikkel Christiansen and Russ tracks

Mikkel Christiansen is an norwegian dj. He makes mostly russ tracks. He is also known as Hockenheim and dj Broiler.

Russ is a norwegian celebration. Where students who finish high school call themselves Russ, and this marks a celebration. A selection of completed students are many places in the world, but the Norwegian celebrations are highly distinctive.
In recent years it has become more and more common to acquire Russ tunes in either Russ or evan russebuss. Russ buses have a "cover-name" that is released prior to the "concept" is coming.
It is common to drop the alias already 10/11 months before graduation time really starts. Competition for the russe track, which will be "Song of the Year", has also been great.
Some pay many thousands of dollars for people to create song for them. Some pay up to 40,000 dollars to get her own russ track.

Popular russ Track-makers:

The Snæss Project Weft

guys

Mikkel Christiansen

Simen Auke

Andreas Schuller

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Zedd's debut album!

Zedd debut album, was today released on Interscope Records, brought forward from the original date which was farther out in October.


To go straight to the point you will in his first album get you a few surprises when otherwise slow songs suddenly slams to a hard drop, like Stache. Said song is perhaps one of the coolest and most playful songs on the album, and vary widely in how the different parties expressed. From electro to progressive and intense acid to a melodic, almost Justice inspired breakdown must be said to be the highlight. For a song and a creativity!

But it does not stop there. For there are several songs that really made me grin broadly when I heard how they eventually dropped. Epos and especially Fall Into The Sky with wonderful Ellie Goulding on vocals were also songs that started sober, but that suddenly appeared in some very massive drop. Furthermore, there is also a couple of songs that keep it steady as its great title track Clarity with a lovely vocal track from Foxes as we know from the radio hit Youth. Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic is also on the album and delivers great vocals to Lost At Sea as one is a thoroughly progressive song. Previously, only the Spectrum and Shave It Up which is released earlier, but what does that matter, when there are two of his best songs?

Clarity is not a typical artist album in my ears for it is focused entirely on the songs in keeping with previous releases. There is no instrumental songs, experimental pieces or else "nonsense" as manufacturers all too often takes the album. Instead, it renspikket electro and progressive from start to finish. There are no songs that fall significantly outside and there's a whole uniformly high quality of the songs.

One thing to note is that several manufacturers are not credited in the track list. For example, the Fall Into The Sky also produced with Lucky Date, and Porter Robinson has played on Codec.

Tracklist (in order of appearance):

01. Hour Glass
02. Shave It Up
03. Spectrum (feat. Matthew Koma)
04. Lost At Sea
05. Clarity
06. Codec
07. Stache
08. Fall Into The Sky
09. Follow You Down
10. Epos

This post was written by: Kasper

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A Collaboration Between Deadmau5 and Armin Van Buuren?!

(click image to enlarge)

As you can see Joel (Deadmau5) asks Armin van Buuren for an open collaboration between them. Techy guy and 4-times #1 DJ in the world are join their forces for some massive music!
What can they probably been doing together, They have been exchanging sounds from zippyshare live from twitter and everybody could participate.
This is the last try of Armin van Buuren on the notes of Deadmau5! (link)



This post was written by: Andrit

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