Around The World with WEISS: Los Angeles, Ibiza, and Barbados

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Around The World with WEISS: Los Angeles, Ibiza, and Barbados

After emerging onto the scene in 2013, WEISS has ascended through the dance music ranks at an impressive rate, receiving support from a host of legends ranging from Armand van Helden, Eats Everything and Carl Cox to Elton John along the way. His 2018 hit single ‘Feel My Needs’ took the world by storm, reaching #1 in both the BBC Radio 1 Dance Chart and ARIA Club Chart (also being voted the #1 track for the year), and winning ‘Best Track’ at the DJ Mag ‘Best of British’ awards.

WEISS has circled the globe countless times to complete tours worldwide, in the latter part of 2019 he embarked on his biggest ever tours of North America and Oceania covering 30 dates across 7 weeks. It is this connection that brings WEISS and his experiences to CULTR. We present, WEISS’ Around The World.

Los Angeles

California

The mad thing is I wasn’t originally the biggest fan of LA but I’ve fallen in love with it more and more over the years. The restaurants are incredible and if you’re lucky & get an offer to party at someone’s house in the hills, then take it!! 

Ibiza

Spain

It’s always a No.1 go to place for me to party with my friends during the summer. Not only is the nightlife amazing but Old Town is a real mix of old & new with a chilled atmosphere and beautiful restaurants. 

Barbados

Carribbean

Barbados has a special place in my heart: I went there as a kid and love the beaches & crystal clear water. Waking up in the morning and finding yourself surrounded by red crabs and swiminning with the turtles is a memory I’ll never forget.

Exclusive: OTR Breaks Down Debut Album “Lost At Midnight” Track by Track

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Exclusive: OTR Breaks Down Debut Album “Lost At Midnight” Track by Track

OTR has just embarked on his most fulfilling venture in his young career thus far. With the release of his debut album “Lost At Midnight” via Astralwerks, it is exciting to see the artist’s vision finally coming to fruition. Featuring artists like Panama, Shallou, Vancouver Sleep Clinic, Au/Ra, and more, the 12-track LP serves as a digital embodiment of the talent rooted in the 26-year old aerospace engineer-turned-producer.

The captivating project will throw you into a whirlwind of emotions as you are captured by the records alluring atmosphere. Offering enchanting soundscapes, melancholic chord progressions, and catchy toplines along the way, “Lost At Midnight” evidently reaches the peak of electro-pop. Pulling you by the heartstrings, OTR effortlessly transports the listener into a pit of vulnerability which is the very essence as to why the album is incredibly addictive to listen to in the first place. Finally showcasing his genius to the world, we can safely declare that this is OTR’s moment.

“Writing the album over the last two years was an incredible experience. Now that it’s out, I’m happy to see people empathize with the raw emotion I put into each track, signifying different points in my life.” – OTR

With all that being said, what better way to pinpoint the significance of this album than to hear it from the artist himself. Hear the story of how he put this all together in the track-by-track breakdown below.

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Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello’s “Senorita” Breaks Record On Spotify

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Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello’s “Senorita” Breaks Record On Spotify

Shawn Mendes and Cuban born Camila Cabello released their joint single, “Señorita,” last week via Island Records. The song achieved instantaneous success worldwide rocketing to #1 on Spotify’s Global chart as the biggest single-day debut of a male/female duet ever. The video garnered 50 million YouTube streams in the first 48 hours of release while trending #1 around the globe. Other notable chart #1s include Spotify US Chart, iTunes, Apple Music Pop and Apple Music’s Top Videos.

GRAMMY nominated Toronto born multi-platinum singer/songwriter Shawn Mendes released his highly anticipated self-titled third album in May 2018. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart as well as multiple additional worldwide markets, including Australia, Canada, Mexico, Belgium, Holland & more and shot to #1 on iTunes in more than 80 countries immediately upon release. The album became one of the top best-selling album debuts of 2018 and made Shawn the third youngest solo artist to ever have three consecutive #1 albums.

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Multi Grammy nominated Cuban born singer/songwriter Camila Cabello (Epic Records / SYCO) released her debut solo album, CAMILA in January 2018 to rave reviews. It debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart at the same time as her single “Havana” Reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making Camila the first solo artist in nearly 15 years to reach the #1 spot on the Hot 100, Billboard 200 and Artist 100 charts in the same week. The RIAA platinum-certified album, CAMILA, launched its debut at #1 on 110 iTunes charts around the world, breaking the record for most #1 positions for a debut album in iTunes history. Camila also became the #1 artist on global Spotify.

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Ferry Corsten Releases The Latest UNITY Collaboration with BT on ‘1997’

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Ferry Corsten Releases The Latest UNITY Collaboration with BT on ‘1997’

Ferry Corsten is back with his latest ‘Unity’ collaboration, after releasing the last one with Ilan Bluestone back in December – Ferry has teamed up with BT for a special collaboration in ‘1997‘.

Ferry Corsten has been busy with solo music in the first half of 2019, releasing ‘Freefall‘ – which feels like a more commercially viable release. He also returned to his Gouryella alias with ‘Surga‘.

Ferry Corsten has brought in another big name into the Unity project, with the legend that is BT. After remixing BT’s track ‘Suddenly’ in 2010, the pair are familiar with each other’s prowess in the studio, and that united vision is showcased in abundance. The team-up sees both artists strengths utilised to their best potential to create a track that is greater than the sum of its parts. As it should, the production leans heavily on the killer uplifting melody – which is a prominent throughout the entire track. The mix of each artist’s styles is present and concludes in an epic collaboration.

Ferry launched the UNITY project in 2018 with his collaboration alongside Paul Oakenfold titled ‘A Slice Of Heaven’, and continued working with artists within the Trance community throughout the year, such as DIM3NSION, Jordan Suckley, Saad Ayub and Ilan Bluestone, and after the success of 2018 has more releases in store after making his first donation to project partner, VH1’s Save The Music Foundation, an organisation launched to reinstate music programs in public schools, which to date has raised over $53 million and helped over 2,100 public schools.

You can learn more about the Unity project with our Ferry Corsten Interview.

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58,000+ Fans Turn Out To Honour Avicii at Tribute Concert

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58,000+ Fans Turn Out To Honour Avicii at Tribute Concert

In loving memory of Avicii, friends and family got together to celebrate his life today in Stockholm for an official tribute concert. It was a roller coaster of happiness and sadness, which resulted in an incredible concert for not only the fans on location but the ones watching from around the world.

Over 55,000 fans came out to experience not only a wonderful and emotional performance of Avicii tracks, but also acts such as Laidback Luke, Kygo, David Guetta and Nicky Romero. The attendance broke the record for the highest number in the Friends Arena in Stockholm.

Below, you can re-live three hours of highly emotional tributes to the late Swedish producer, with many of his collaborators joining the 30 piece band. The band went through Avicii’s extensive discography and performed some of the best. It was understandably an emotional experience for the performers and the crowd, you can see the extent of that throughout the livestream.

Of the DJ’s, David Guetta performed last and played a special track for both the first and last time. Before Tim’s death, himself and David Guetta, Afrojack and Giorgio (likely David Guetta’s long term producing partner Giorgio Tuinfort) started a record. It was just a beat, but the week of Avicii’s death, David Guetta wanted to write a tribute for him, using the original work in progress they had.

“This is a record I’ve never played before. I felt this was the right time.” “This is the very first time I’ve played it, and will probably be the last.”

As David explained, the unfinished production is likely to be shelved at this point and not see the light of day. In this circumstance it was a touching tribute but it is not close to being legitimately released. However, you can listen to a low quality rip of the track from the concert here.

Over 18 months have passed since Avicii’s heartbreaking death and he still lives on. His presence will continue to be felt throughout music and never die.

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How You Can Listen To Avicii’s Album ‘Tim’ Early Via Special Cubes

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How You Can Listen To Avicii’s Album ‘Tim’ Early Via Special Cubes

Avicii’s post-humous album ‘TIM’ is due for release June 6th in support of his newly formed charity the Tim Bergling Foundation. We were first graced with the Aloe Blacc featuring “S.O.S” as well as “Tough Love” with Agnes and Vargos & Lagola.

After posting a mysterious teaser earlier today about the cube, it’s now officially announced to be playing the unreleased album inside. For only 48 hours, you will have the opportunity to pre-listen to the album on the 1st and 2nd of June. They’ll be six cubes, located in hotposts around the world such as Stockholm, London, New York City, São Paulo, Tokyo and Sydney.

The official description reads;

Avicii’s music was the soundtrack when we fell in love, when we made new friends and that time we danced all night. Avicii connected us. Around the world there are cubes just like this one. Walk inside and place your hand on the glowing Avicii symbol. When the symbols in two cubes are touched at the same time both cubes will activate. Together you will experience the new Avicii album. 1st and 2nd of June Stockholm – London – New York City – São Paulo – Tokyo – Sydney

The upcoming album is set to include collaborations such as the highly anticipated “Heaven” with Coldplay front man Chris Martin. Vargos & Lagola, and British songwriter Joe Janiak feature on a number of songs. Meanwhile Imagine Dragons land on a previously unreleased version of “Heart Upon My Sleeve”, ARIZONA on “Hold The Line” and Martin Svensson features on “Never Leave Me Alone”. There is also one remaining ID feature on a track titled “Freak”.

Update: Avicii’s team announced in a press release that cube installations will surface in the six aforementioned cities, while “smaller cubes” will be accessible in Berlin, Salzburg, Bucharest, Brussels, Zürich, Taipei, Auckland, and Toronto. To activate The Cube, a visitor needs only to place one hand upon the installation’s illuminated screen. Upon touch, the screen will automatically begin a search for another Cube user elsewhere in the world. Once The Cube locates this other person, The Cube will play the same clip from Avicii’s forthcoming album, enabling both Cube users to listen to the clip together. The Cube brings Avicii fans from all over the world together, to share in the experience of listening to TIM.

‘Tim’ Track List

1. “Peace of Mind” featuring Vargas & Lagola
2. “Heaven”
3. “SOS” featuring Aloe Blacc
4. “Tough Love” featuring Agnes, Vargas & Lagola
5. “Bad Reputation” featuring Joe Janiak
6. “Ain’t a Thing” featuring Bonn
7. “Hold the Line” featuring Arizona
8. “Freak” featuring Bonn
9. “Excuse Me Mr Sir” featuring Vargas & Lagola
10. “Heart Upon My Sleeve” featuring Imagine Dragons
11. “Never Leave Me” featuring Joe Janiak
12. “Fades Away” featuring Noonie Bao







Swedish House Mafia Played Multiple New Tracks In Stockholm

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Swedish House Mafia Played Multiple New Tracks In Stockholm

Having returned in March 2018 for Ultra Music Festival, Swedish House Mafia are now officially back – kicking off the first show of their tour in Stockholm. Show 1 of 3 in Stockholm is finished and it looks like the wait was worth it!

According to videos and tracklisting, multiple unreleased Swedish House Mafia originals were played. Most notably, what sounds like a possible follow up to ‘Don’t You Worry Child’ due to it’s radio friendly nature. Potential named ‘Underneath It All‘, people have mentioned it sounds like Kristoffer Fogelmark’s vocals. This is an incredible record that surely gave everyone in attendance goosebumps. This new track can be heard at 44mins into the video. They also opened up with a hard hitting dark track which does sound like something Corey James would release.

Check out the tracklisting down below as well as the entire set. The quality is not ideal as it was streamed live via Periscope – still incredible however!

Swedish House Mafia – Underneath It All

Swedish House Mafia premiered a incredible new vocal track! ????

Posted by CULTR on Friday, May 3, 2019

Tracklist:

1. Swedish House Mafia – ID

2. Axwell & Sebastian Ingrosso – We Come, We Rave, We Love

w/ Magnificence – Out of My Mind

3. Swedish House Mafia – Greyhound

w/ Felix Da Housecat – Jack U (Steve Angello & Sebastian Ingrosso Remix)

w/ Steve Angello & Sebastian Ingrosso – 555

4. Axwell Λ Ingrosso – Dream Bigger

5. Sebastian Ingrosso – Dark River

w/ The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition

6. Sebastian Ingrosso, Alesso – Calling (Lose My Mind)

7. Buy Now – For Sale

w/ Axwell /\ Ingrosso – On My Way

8. Axwell /\ Ingrosso, Angello, Laidback Luke – Leave The World Behind (Daddy’s Groove Magic Island Rework)

w/ Magnificence – Cobra

9. Skitzofrenix & Jeff Doubleu – Rushin’

w/ Danny Freakazoid – Keep Your Hands Up

w/ Green Velvet – Flash (Nicky Romero Remix)

w/ TV Rock – In The Air (Axwell Remix)

10. Steve Angello & Laidback Luke – Be

w/ Steve Angello & Laidback Luke feat. Robin S – Show Me Love

w/ Steve Angello – Knas

11. Steve Angello – Teasing Mr Charlie

w/ Axwell /\ Ingrosso – How Do You Feel Right Now?

12. Swedish House Mafia – ID (‘Underneath it All’)

13. Swedish House Mafia – Miami 2 Ibiza (Intro Edit)

14. Michael Calfan – Resurrection

w/ Axwell /\ Ingrosso – Something New

15. Axwell /\ Ingrosso – This Time

16. Swedish House Mafia & Knife Party – Antidote

w/ Swedish House Mafia + Knife Party – Antidote (Salvatore Ganacci Remix)

17. Dimitri Vangelis & Wyman X Steve Angello – Payback

w/ Axwell Λ Ingrosso – Dreamer

18. Booka Shade – Love Inc

w/ Ivan Gough – In My Mind (Axwell Mix)

w/ Axwell – Barricade

19. Axwell /\ Ingrosso – More Than You Know

20. Steve Angello – Remember

21. Axwell – Heart is King

w/ Sebastian Ingrosso & Tommy Trash – Reload

w/ Supermode – Tell Me Why

22. Pendulum – The Island (Steve Angello & AN21 Remix)

23. Swedish House Mafia – One

w/ Swedish House Mafia – One (Orchestral Edit)

24. Axwell Λ Ingrosso & Salvatore Ganacci ft. Pusha T & Silvana Imam – Can’t Hold Us Down

25. Led Zeppelin – Stairway To Heaven

w/ Swedish House Mafia – Don’t You Worry Child

w/ Axwell Λ Ingrosso – Sun Is Shining

26. Swedish House Mafia – Save The World (NC Edit)

w/ Swedish House Mafia – Save The World

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