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

June 18, 2020

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

Omar Serrano

May 1, 2020

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

Pop Hits

Oliver Tryon

June 27, 2019

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.

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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.

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’

Dance Hits

Oliver Tryon

June 16, 2019

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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elrow Returns To Australia in Extraordinary Style

Event Review

Oliver Tryon

February 5, 2020

elrow Returns To Australia in Extraordinary Style

After skipping 2019, elrow returned to Australia for Melbourne, Sydney and Perth editions. Alongside their Rowmudas Triangle show, they brought Mark Knight, Erick Morillo, Chelina Manuhutu, Eddy M and Viviana Casanova out to perform.

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Melbourne was unlucky with weather, having thunderstorms all day – although, this didn’t stop thousands turning out to the luckily undercover event. The Rowmudas Triangle themed event meant for blow up sea creatures all around the event, even hanging from the roof. It also meant for quite a bit of the crowd dressing up as pirates and the like.

The production was next level, as expected from elrow’s reputation. They focus more on the show, not necessarily the music – which results in a spectacle of confetti, beach balls, people dressed up – it really is like nothing else.

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As stated above; the music wasn’t the sole selling point of the show, but nevertheless perfect anyway! Each artist played amazing sets and whilst all deep house, each act had a sense of uniqueness to their performances.

If there’s ever an elrow show near you, it’s definitely worth going to tick it off the bucket list!

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Festival X Draws 100,000 Attendees To Debut Edition

Event Review

Oliver Tryon

December 3, 2019

Festival X Draws 100,000 Attendees To Debut Edition

Festival X touched down in Australia and New Zealand this past weekend. Kicking off in Auckland, it then toured Australia going from Brisbane, to Sydney and concluding in Melbourne.

With a stacked lineup full of acts such as Calvin Harris, Armin van Buuren, Alison Wonderland, Camelphat and many more – the event drew 100,000 attendees across the four days.

Festival X had their mainstage, as well as 3 other prominent stages. With each stage crowd being quite full, the atmosphere was electric and made for a great festival experience. The diversification of acts allowed for people to find their own stage and potentially stay there the entire day.

Festival X is a new player in the Australian festival market, brought to you by people that were involved in Stereosonic. With many similarities to Ultra Australia, these two will surely battle it out for years to come.

“We’re thrilled to see 100,000 live music fans come together for the first annual edition of Festival X. Audiences in all states treated each other with respect and unity, looking after each other and sharing the love of live music, so we can’t thank attendees enough for joining us on this amazing journey! We’re excited to kick of Summer next year once more with a Festival X tour that will be bigger and better than ever!” – Frank Cotela / Onelove

“We’re incredibly proud of the shows, performances and the behaviour of the crowd at each of the festivals. The response has been phenomenal across all levels and we will be expanding Festival X to two weekends and reaching further cities in Australia next year!” said Richie McNeill / Hardware.

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

Music News

Oliver Tryon

May 24, 2019

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.

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‘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

Ultra Australia Unveils Set Times

Events

Oliver Tryon

February 15, 2019

Ultra Australia is just about to commence in just under two weeks with lineups and stages confirmed for the event. But all ravers are keen to see what the set times will look like.

With headliners such as Martin Garrix, The Chainsmokers and Marshmellow all sharing the MainStage, its always hard to pick the closing act. But for both Melbourne and Sydney shows The Chainsmokers are set to close both shows out and Adam Beyer to do so also on the Resistance stage. Both shows are also bringing out a lot of local acts for the UMF Radio stage and even throwing some of Australias bigger names out on to the MainStage such as Will Sparks and Tigerlily.

Resistance Is Coming to Australia in 2019 with Ultra Australia

Oliver Tryon

July 17, 2018

After the success of the first Ultra event in Australia, a full fetched event is happening in both Melbourne and Sydney in 2019. Ultra holds ‘Road to Ultra’ events in new territories in order to test the viability of that new location for a full festival. Obviously, Melbourne’s ‘Road to Ultra’ event in February was a major success. Ultra Australia takes place the 23rd of February in Melbourne and the 24th of February Sydney next year. In 2019, the festival will be significantly larger, with multiple stages as well as something that fans have been asking for: Resistance! Resistance is coming to Melbourne and Sydney in 2019, along with all your favourite underground dance music acts.

There has been a lot of speculation over the lineup of Ultra Australia in 2019. This years event welcomed acts such as Axwell, KSHMR, Afrojack, Carnage, Will Sparks, Andrew Rayel as well as others. With the addition of Resistance, be sure to expect many more underground acts to fill the lineup. Pictured below is the Resistance lineup from Ultra Miami earlier this March. Take a look at that to gain a better understanding of potential acts for next years Resistance stage at Ultra Australia. A likely fixture to line up could be Carl Cox, a familiar face to the Resistance stage and he also lives part time in Melbourne.

Tickets registrations for Ultra are open now. Register HERE.

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