]]> http://www.hitthedecks.net/2012/01/10/ultra-music-festival-xiv-officially-sold-out/feed/ 0 http://www.hitthedecks.net/2011/12/24/ultra-music-festival-xiv-phase-1-lineup-announced/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ultra-music-festival-xiv-phase-1-lineup-announced http://www.hitthedecks.net/2011/12/24/ultra-music-festival-xiv-phase-1-lineup-announced/#comments Sat, 24 Dec 2011 20:15:54 +0000 Rudy Kizer http://www.hitthedecks.net/?p=15116

Phase one lineup announcement held a few big surprises, including appearances by Kraftwerk and New Order. Seeing legendary acts such as these alongside the likes of M83, Justice, Duck Sauce and the like should provide festival-goers with more than enough options to satisfy their EDM jones. Press release follows…

photo credit: Adam Caplan

2011 was an incredible year for festivals and electronic music.  With the New Year rapidly approaching, all eyes are focused on what’s to come next with the leader being ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL (ULTRA), the world’s premiere electronic music event.  Tickets are moving at lightning speed, only a limited amount remain (with early bird and advance on-sale tickets selling out in record time), so the promoters are highly encouraging fans not to miss out by unveiling the majority of the ULTRA line-up on the Phase 1 announcement.

ULTRA is also returning to downtown Miami with Bayfront Park as its new location in order to accommodate a larger footprint for increased capacity. Over the last few years, the festival took place at Bicentennial Park, but after reaching a record-breaking 150,000 in attendance this year, and becoming the first ever, and only 3-day music festival of its kind to completely sell out 150,000 tickets six weeks in advance, ULTRA is moving next door to the tropical, waterfront park nestled between Biscayne Bay and Biscayne Boulevard. The ULTRA team is taking it back to Bayfront, where it last took place in 2005, transforming and customizing the park in a way never seen before.

Each day will be helmed by world-class headliners: TIËSTO and KRAFTWERK Friday, March 23;JUSTICE (Live) and AVICII Saturday, March 24; and DAVID GUETTA and ARMIN VAN BUUREN Sunday, March 25.  Other confirmed talent, in every genre of electronic music imaginable, includes: a wide array of international leading electronic music performers including SKRILLEX, KASKADE, AFROJACK, PRETTY LIGHTS, DUCK SAUCE, THE BLOODY BEETROOTS (DJ Set), 2MANYDJS (Live), BASSNECTAR, CHASE & STATUS (Live), FEDDE LE GRAND, KNIFE PARTY and LAIDBACK LUKE; pioneering acts such as NEW ORDER, FATBOY SLIM, and SVEN VÄTH; cutting-edge bands likeM83, MIIKE SNOW, LITTLE DRAGON, NEON INDIAN and METRONOMY; and up-and-coming DJs such as SETH TROXLER and JAMIE JONES.

Confirmed talent for each day of ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL is:

FRIDAY, MARCH 23

Tiësto, Kraftwerk, Carl Cox, Skrillex, Afrojack, Miike Snow, Pretty Lights, New Order, Groove Armada (DJ Set), Dirty South, Loco Dice, A-Trak, Dada Life, Porter Robinson, Neon Indian, Jack Beats, Chris Lake, Michael Woods, Nicky Romero, Tommy Trash, Katy B, DJ Icey, The Knocks, Afrobeta, Jon Rundell

SATURDAY, MARCH 24

Justice (Live), Avicii, Fatboy Slim, Duck Sauce, M83, Sven Väth, Carl Cox, Laidback Luke, 2manydjs (Live), Flux Pavilion, Borgore, Doctor P, Metronomy, Little Dragon, Hardwell, Datsik, Andy C, Zeds Dead, 12th Planet, Magda, Skream + Benga, Zedd, Mord Fustang, Cedric Gervais, Netsky, High Contrast, Mt. Eden, Camo & Krooked, Big Chocolate, Carbon Airways, Yousef

SUNDAY, MARCH 25

David Guetta, Armin Van Buuren, Kaskade, Bassnectar, Chase and Status (Live), The Bloody Beetroots (DJ Set), Fedde Le Grand, Knife Party, Magnetic Man, John Digweed, Steve Aoki, Ferry Corsten, Gareth Emery, Sander van Doorn, Flying Lotus, SBTRKT (live), Adam Beyer, Steve Lawler, Joris Voorn, Jamie, Jones, Seth Troxler, Damian Lazarus, Nic Fanciulli, Layo & Bushwacka!, Marcus Schössow, Popof, Art Department, Big Gigantic, Savoy (Live), Tritonal, Jochen Miller, Keys N Krates, Elio Riso, Remo, Eco, RioTGeaR

Also returning is the Ultra Mega Structure, which will feature specialty areas each day.  One of the few artists to appear at ULTRA almost every year, staple CARL COX returns with the CARL COX & FRIENDSarena Friday and CARL COX PRESENTS COCOON featuring SVEN VÄTH Saturday.  ARMIN VAN BUUREN’s A STATE OF TRANCE 550 will take over Sunday.

With all this and much more, ULTRA has cemented itself as the premium festival for fans of club culture and the electronic genre and artists influenced by the music on a massive scale. More acts will be announced in the coming weeks leading up to the festival.

For up to date information regarding ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL, follow online at:
www.ultramusicfestival.com
www.facebook.com/ultrafanpage
www.twitter.com/ultramusic

Wow… Congrats to Rick & Karl.

PRESS RELEASE…

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) today announced that British electronic music pioneers Underworld have been appointed Music Directors for the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The appointment completes the team of senior creatives that will lead the direction of the London 2012 Ceremonies.

Underworld duo Rick Smith and Karl Hyde will work alongside Oscar winning British filmmaker and producer Danny Boyle, Artistic Director of the Opening Ceremony and will be responsible for all the music in the three-hour ceremony taking place on 27 July next summer.

From the press release…

Blissfully unconcerned with a world obsessed with categorization as a means of definition, Tigran aka MiM0SA crafts music for its own sake, defying expectations with genre bending soundscapes. Hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area and currently residing in Los Angeles, MiM0SA began producing at the tender age of 17.  Blessed with an abundance of talent and an ear for sonic experimentation, this fan-favorite has quickly developed a name for himself as one of the West Coast’s top exports.  And the word is spreading fast. To say that MiM0SA is on the rise is to miss the mark.  Rather, MiM0SA has arrived.

This summer saw MiM0SA globetrotting from festival sites everywhere — including his headlining slot at Lightning in a Bottle, to triumphant performances at Detroit Electronic Music Festival, Shambala Festival, Red Rocks, Electric Zoo, Summer Camp, and Burning Man. MiMOSA also spent quite a bit of time this summer in the lab withSleepyhead, working on new tracks for their highly anticipated collaboration, “Naked Poetry,” which they will release under the moniker SexyTime later this fall. However it was in Brooklyn, NY where MiM0SA found refuge as he wrote, recorded and produced his debut full length album “Sanctuary” to be released October 25 on False Idol Musik.  After just one listen, it’s evident that his versatility as an artist goes hand in hand with his refusal to be tied down by any particular sound or style.

While his previous EP release “58 Degrees” favored a more grittier fusion of unrelenting beats and grime, “Sanctuary” works as one cohesive whole piece of work that finds MiM0SA immersed in rhythm, encompassing and centered around the 808 drum kit most notable on the track “Last Night In Town”.   However the album carries an authenticity by which MiM0SA’s aesthetic appreciation of the origin of sound is fused with layers of various styles, textures, and grooves that embrace Dubstep, HipHop, 2-step, Moombahton, Dub, and Downtempo.  It becomes apparent that while building this collage, his vision was to “Steer away from aggressive tones, but at the same time try to find different avenues to get the same crowd response that a big bass drop would get,” he comments. Take for instance  “Castles in the Sky” which finds MiM0SA opting for the classic sounds of straight dub reggae versus the dubstep infused subwoofer odysseys heard on “Tiger Blood.” MiM0SA extends his flavor for hip hop by sampling and filtering vocals that rush with ambient interludes coupled with pulsating tempos and heavy 808s on songs such as “Starseed” and “Way Back to You”.

“Church Of Noise”
THE BLOODY BEETROOTS
featuring Dennis Lyxzén
XI.XV.MMXI

New Rules
No Rules

Leave it to a band like KORN to continue to reinvent itself two decades and ten albums deep into its career. THE PATH OF TOTALITY—due out December 6 on Roadrunner Records–is an experimental album which finds KORN shifting gears and exploring new territory with some of the most important emerging producers on the electronic music scene today.

For The Path of Totality and its corresponding “P.O.T.” ballroom tour this November, the band will change course again by collaborating with the likes of leading U.S., U.K. and Dutch dubstep trailblazers Skrillex, Feed Me, Excision, Datsik, Noisia, Kill the Noise and 12th Planet on record as well as on stage.  Expect something completely new, yet utterly and definitively KORN.

The band’s first offering from the album “Get Up!” with Skrillex was the surprise Top 10 rock hit of the summer, the buzz of which started in April in Coachella‘s Sahara tent when Jonathan and Munky joinedSkrillex on stage for a show-stealing unannounced performance of the song. Check out the track at: http://tinyurl.com/3q3rmqa  Now KORN has unleashed “Narcissistic Cannibal,” another creation withSkrillex and Kill the Noise at www.korn.com.

Other tracks on The Path of Totality include “Kill Mercy Within” and “Let’s Go” with untouchable Dutch production trio Noisia, Excision tracks “My Wall” and “Illuminati” with Downlink and “Way Too Far” per American dubstep pioneer 12^th Planet.  Deep bass turns come courtesy of the one and only Feed Me on“Bleeding Out.”

Look for KORN to kick off the first leg of their “Path of Totality (P.O.T.)” tour on November 3 at the House of Blues in Boston.  The band will perform material from the new album as well as tracks from their extensive catalog.   On each date, they will be supported by dubstep DJ’s Datsik and Downlink, as well as a live set by young upstart Dutch Dub-rockers Dope D.O.D. for an unforgettable one-of-a-kind musical experience unlike any other KORN tour.

Dates for KORN’s “P.O.T.” tour are: 

*More dates and specific venue information to be announced shortly