DMb | Dance Music blog & Podcast » videos

Arty Exclusive Interview/Photos, Vision Nightclub 11/12/11 – Around the World

Douglas — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:39:50 +0000

Arty at Vision Nightclub Photos by Jennifer Catherine Filmed and Edited by Abhishek Patel Arty & Topher Jones (HQ)By Vision Nightclub | View on Facebook Related posts:

Ravers vs. The Man: CA Bans LED Gloves and Pacifiers

Douglas — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:54:31 +0000

Can you ban a style of music? California Assemblywoman Fiona Ma learned the hard way that doing so might not be so easy when she tried to ban electronic rave music. “We found out later on that, Constitutionally, you can not ban a type of music,” said Ma. “Plus, I, like my opponents said, I didn’t really know what was going on.”

Despite the inability to ban rave music outright, Ma was able to squelch aspects of rave culture like LED gloves and pacifiers by keeping the pressure on event organizers with Assembly Bill 74 (formerly the “Anti-Raves Act” ), which became law on Oct. 9, 2011 when CA Governor Jerry Brown signed it. The Assemblywoman first became concerned with raves when a 15-year-old girl named Sasha Rodriguez died at the popular Los Angeles rave, The Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC).

EDC, a giant festival of electronic music, dancing and lights, was held in Los Angeles for the past 13 years, attracting hundreds of thousands of participants and generating hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue for the Los Angeles economy. When Rodriguez died of an apparent ecstasy overdose, the LA Coliseum banned the event, which subsequently moved to Las Vegas for its 2011 festival.

Much of the political backlash against raves began in 2002, when then-Senator Joe Biden proposed the Reducing Americans’ Vulnerability to Ecstasy, or RAVE Act, which he attached to popular bill targeting child abduction. Produced by Zach Weissmueller and Paul Detrick. Field produced by Alex Manning, Kyle Walker and Paul Feine.

Point Blank Online Dance Music School

HQ — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:08:58 +0000

Looking to further your career in Dance Music as a producer or remixer? We recently came across Point Blank Music School and checked out the numerous programs they offer. I was impressed with the large assortment of classes working with some of the top platforms for Apple OSX: Producing with Ableton Live, DJing with Ableton, Logic Pro, Reason, and Cubase. They also offer classes in all the major genres of Dance Music like: Trance, House, Minimal, Electro House, Progressive, and Hip Hop as well as Songwriting, Mixing, and DJing classes. Their new Mixing Dance Music course looks especially interesting as the mix is one thing that really makes a track shine. In this course you get to upload tracks you created for the teacher to critique and give you pointers on how to get the most our of your sound. DJ Mag has awarded them the “Best Music Production & DJ School” for the past six consecutive years which is pretty impressive.

Check out their course catalog to see what’s right for you.

via: Point Blank Online Music Production School

Dance Music News : LA Dance Under Siege, iPad DJ, Tiesto Lives!