Tag: Toronto
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Andy C Interview: Amazed at EDC Las Vegas, New Excitement and Longevity
There’s many different genres of electronic music and each genre has a pioneering forces behind it and when it comes to drum and bass that name is Andy C, also nicknamed The Executioner. Andy C is also a co-founder of Ram Records that was started in 1992 along with his friend Ant Miles. Twenty two…
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Digital Dreams Toronto Review: A Nightmare on the Outside
The City of Toronto has one of the oldest and most well established electronic music scenes in North America and they also host two of the largest music festivals in Canada as well, Digital Dreams and Veld. The last weekend of June meant it was time for the Digital Dreams Music Festival located on the shore…
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Guvernment Nightclub in Toronto Closing January 2015
There are thousands and thousands of clubs around the world and many more that have come and gone but few have the longevity and impact that can be given the label of icon and legendary, The Guvernment in Toronto is one of those clubs. They announced this week that they will be shutting down for…
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Toronto Bans Electronic Music Events on Some City Property
Toronto Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti fired up a time machine and sent us back to over a decade ago when there was a war on raves across North America. A city committee voted 4-3 on Friday to ban electronic music events from city owned property located at Exhibition Place, an area consisting of many large buildings typically…
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Toronto Rave Footage from 1994
As we inch closer and closer to 2014 here’s a chance to look back nearly 20 years ago to a video from 1994 out of Toronto, Canada titled “Introducing the Rave”. The video features various people talking about raves and an event that night hosted by Pleasure Force Productions which attracted 5,000 people. One of…
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Bryan Kearney Calls Out the Moronic EDM Sound
Bryan Kearney (pronounced KARNAY) joins the ranks of those calling out the “EDM sound” in an interview with Beats Media. The common disgust with the acronym is that it describes a sound that provides instant gratification and are quickly forgotten, also known as the drop. There’ll likely be two groups of people reading this, those who…
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Joel Zimmerman and Steve Duda Playing a Boat Party in Toronto
Toronto is one of the best cities in North America to party in and a unique event like this just adds to the list of reasons. On September 28, 2013 aboard the Enterprise 2000 there’ll be a BSOD reunion, Joel Zimmerman and Steve Duda. Toronto locals Deko-Ze, Chris Ink, Hyland & Kavai will also be…
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Alesso Announces North American Uprising Tour
Alesso is the most recent DJ to plan a North American tour now that festival season is finishing up. The Swedish DJ will travel to 12 different major cities across North America starting in Las Vegas and ending in New York City. Tickets for the select cities go on sale Wednesday, September 18, 2013 at…
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A Look into a Normal Day with Deadmau5 and Zedd
Zedd had just landed in Toronto, Joel’s (Deadmau5) hometown, for his “Clarity” tour. Joel didn’t hesitate showing his friend some hospitality and picked him up in his Ferrari 458 to discuss upcoming music and current projects. This turned out to be a pretty interesting conversation on the way to get coffee. With all of Joel’s…
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2001-11-10 State 01 Toronto with Orkidea and Armin van Buuren
At the tail end of 2001 there was a party held at The Docks in Toronto, Canada that featured a guy by the name of Armin van Buuren and he was billed third on the flyer. Armin was making a name for himself but at the time was nowhere near as popular as Tiesto at…
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Andrew Rayel Waves of Trance in Toronto
On August 11, 2013 Ozmosis Productions in Toronto hosted Andrew Rayel alongside Mr Morton and Shelley on the Stella Borealis. It was an amazing four hour boat cruise on Lake Ontario with some great trance. To view, share, tag, like or comment visit the album on Facebook here. [fbalbum url=https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.537214696333431.1073741829.175212982533606&type=3]
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Boat Cruise with Andrew Rayel in Toronto
Toronto Canada may be one of the most underrated cities of North America when it comes to music and partying. The city has deep roots in the origins of the rave scene and has gone through the great times and rough times and still regularly dances until the sun rises on Sunday mornings. Another amazing…
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Two Day Digital Dreams Festival in Toronto on June 29 and 30
The festival season will be well underway by the end of June to test the strength, will power and wallets of party goers. Electric Daisy Carnival is June 21 to 23 and the following weekend after in Canada is the Digital Dreams festival on June 29 and 30 in Toronto. Anyone who lives within a few…
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Markus Schulz Unicorn Slaying at Labour of Love 2012
(I wrote this and it originally appeared on BeTheRave.com) Markus Schulz has just released his latest artist album titled Scream and I had the amazing experience of being able to hear his fourth and final set of Labor Day weekend in Toronto where he played for four and a half hours inside of the Kool…
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Dj Mag: The Infamous Footwork, Toronto
For every “mega club” that exists in major cities across the globe there’s also places like Footwork in Toronto. Found this article from August that’s worth mentioning. Here’s a great excerpt from the interview, make sure to click through to read the entire thing! The state of the industry. Is it harder or easier to…