DMb | Dance Music blog & Podcast

Record your own version of AVICII – Levels (street performance, children’s choir, flash mob etc) and upload to YouTube. Winners get to be a part of the official video for Levels. Contest ends November 1, 2011 so get moving.

Check out the full Info and Rules here.

From an LA Times Article:
If time-lapse photos existed to illustrate the movements of the crowd during the first two nights of the Electric Daisy Carnival this past weekend at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, a bird’s-eye view would show clusters of human ants, an estimated 80,000 for each of the three days of the annual electronic music festival, moving in packs within the grounds of the 1,200-acre complex as if by mysterious force.

Zoom in, and patterns would begin to emerge. Within the facility’s 1.5-mile oval track, home on most weekends to racing events like the Kobalt Tools 400, thousands of bobbing heads gathered in darkness around five booming, crystal clear sound systems, bouncing among carnival rides and strobing lights to the sounds of some of the world’s most popular DJs — including Benny Benassi, DJ Tiësto, David Guetta, Swedish House Mafia, and Skrillex — and some of the genre’s most innovative and forward-thinking masterminds, such as Richie Hawtin, Green Velvet and Rusko.

Focus on just one of the event’s many stages — Guetta’s 1:30 a.m. Sunday set — and witness party trains snaking through the crowd, rolling in time to a 128-beat-per-minute metronomic thump. Notice one fivesome, holding hands; boys musclebound and shirtless; bikini-top girls wearing matching panties that say “booty” on the bottom; faces lost in music; Mona Lisa smiles.
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This was recently posted on the Coachella.com website. It’s a cool time-lapse video shot using a tilt-shift lens to give it that “miniature” feel.

Coachella has just announced its dates for 2011 and the whispers are getting louder as everyone speculates as to the headliners this year. The three-day festival in Indio, CA betwee Los Angeles and Phoenix has earned a reputation for being the top music festival in the United States for Indie, Rock, Hip Hop, and Electronic Dance Music. This year’s event will take place on April 15-17th.

There have been whispers of headliners such as Blur, OutKast, Kanye West, Daft Punk, or The Rolling Stones. You can also expect Dance Music stages from The Do Lab and Pure Filth.

Get your tickets now.

DMb needs your help!

First we would like to thank everyone who has helped us grow to where were are now. We have grown exponentially this year, started our podcast, and we are currently in the Top 10 Google Search Results for: Dance Music, Dance Music Blog, Dance Music Podcast, Dance Music New, Dance Music DJs, and more. We have some exciting things planned for 2010 and we couldn’t do them without your support.

Here’s where the help comes in.

DanceMusicblog.com is looking for some dedicated people around the world who would like to contribute content to the blog. We need people for the following: Music Reviews, DJ/Producer Interviews, New Product Reviewers, Software Reviewers, Festival Reviewers and Photographers, and General Dance Music Information Seekers. This ideal candidate should be able to contribute one or two articles per week and either be an avid blog reader or blogger. Please email: contribute at dancemusicblog dot com and tell us how you would like to contribute and what makes you an ideal candidate.

Secondly, we need you help picking some great DJs to feature on our podcast and letting us know about some of your favorite podcasts are. We have already featured a couple of the world’s top DJs and we have a couple of other big names lined up for, but we would like to know who you would like to hear. We can’t make any promises but we will see if we can get some of the DJs requested. Please leave your suggestions in the comments below (click on the post title if you don’t see the comments section) and remember that we would like to get DJs from all genres of electronic music at some point so be creative.

Thanks again, and we look forward to hearing from you.