If you haven't heard of Mr. Belt & Wezol, you've obviously been living under a rock; move to a house instead. (get it, music genre puns?) Mr. Belt & Wezol are a duo from the Netherlands whom have made waves across the world with their 90s influenced House music tracks. The Somebody to Love composers are quite close to the man himself, Oliver Heldens, as well as sick House producer Freejak from the UK.
This first track "Without You" is part of their month giveaway series—Mad Circus Month of Music. The two are giving away 4 tracks in the September-October 2015 months; one per week.
This tune starts off with the signature Wezol mini-kick used in the majority of their songs. Immediately after, the synth comes in, and you already know what type of tune this is going to be. Their signature UK bass synth comes in as well, which can be heard in many other Belt & Wezol songs. The build up is nothing short of awesome. Next, maybe the most important part, the drop. The drop melody is a perfect mix with the kick drums blastin' while the synth is reaching your inner ears. Overall, the track is nothing short of killer. This one is definitely one you'll need to play late at night for it to have the impact it intended to have.
Check it here.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9a5lp5Crok
Tuesday 21 June 2016
Sunday 19 June 2016
Freejak's remix of Lean On
Major Lazer & DJ Snake’s Lean On has been one of the biggest worldwide hits in 2015. From that sick Trap-style beat to MO’s vocals – that track is almost flawless. A track like this needs the house remix justice it deserves. Fortunately, there are many remixes for this track, including the one you’re reading about now. Unfortunately, this remix is unreleased and not obtainable with any conventional methods.
By now you’re probably dying to hear who the remixer is. Luckily, I’m here to convey this information…
Freejak is the remixer for this track. Freejak is the man, with hits reaching #1 on Beatport along with Mr. Belt & Wezol, and releases on Spinnin’ Records. He possesses a unique retro 90s-esque sound that’s similar to those of other producers with a unique flavour. This man surely knows how to twist the knobs properly.
Besides the sped-up vocals you can hear in basically every House remix, everything else about this track is unique. Without further ado, hear this Lean On house remix for yourself.
You may or may not know Bingo Players, the sick EDM-producing duo.
Rather, it used to be a duo. After the tragic passing of the second member Paul Bäumer in 2013, Maarten continued the project as a solo Bingo Player. He's still been making music under that name and touring.
Here at Thrills, the Bingo Players are respected. With remixes of their songs featured on Thrills, obviously the music is high quality.
Related: Sick Lean on Remix
Today the song I am sharing is Bingo Players' remix of Gorgon City's Here for You.
Rather, it used to be a duo. After the tragic passing of the second member Paul Bäumer in 2013, Maarten continued the project as a solo Bingo Player. He's still been making music under that name and touring.
Here at Thrills, the Bingo Players are respected. With remixes of their songs featured on Thrills, obviously the music is high quality.
Related: Sick Lean on Remix
Today the song I am sharing is Bingo Players' remix of Gorgon City's Here for You.
Tchami and DJ Snake cancel tour dates due to injury
The management of Tchami and DJ Snake have just announced that the
two of them have been involved in a non-fatal automobile accident on
October 28th 2015. The driver of the car was their manager. Fortunately
the incident did not involve any fatalities but unfortunately for fans
of the two, they have cancelled the tour dates for the next week.
Doctors recommended to the two of them to avoid travel for a bit whilst
they are healing.
Manager Steve Goncalves claims, “Our lives are not in danger.” According to the manager the three of them are just facing back and neck injuries as it was a strong impact from the back. Some cancelled venues include Las Vegas' Surrender Night Club on October 28, the Roberto Clemente Coliseum in Puerto Rico on October 30th and another venue in San Bernardino in California on Halloween day. Tchami also cancelled a big event on the 1st of November at Voodoo Music Festival in New Orleans.
We at Thrills wish DJ Snake and Tchami a speedy recovery!
Manager Steve Goncalves claims, “Our lives are not in danger.” According to the manager the three of them are just facing back and neck injuries as it was a strong impact from the back. Some cancelled venues include Las Vegas' Surrender Night Club on October 28, the Roberto Clemente Coliseum in Puerto Rico on October 30th and another venue in San Bernardino in California on Halloween day. Tchami also cancelled a big event on the 1st of November at Voodoo Music Festival in New Orleans.
We at Thrills wish DJ Snake and Tchami a speedy recovery!
Tchami's New After Life EP
Have you listened to Tchami's after Life EP?
Missing You is the underground "Night Bass" tune, a signal that Tchami's been hanging out with AC Slater a lot. Vocals from Kaleem Taylor.
Superlativ is the only solo record on the album, a bass house banger uploaded to Thrills' YouTube.
Freakin (originally called Freakin Girl) is Tchami's garage tune with Dombresky.
Lastly the most "chill" song of them all is a collaboration between Illangelo and Tchami, another garage track on the EP.
- After Life
- Missing You
- Superlativ
- Freakin
- Alone
Missing You is the underground "Night Bass" tune, a signal that Tchami's been hanging out with AC Slater a lot. Vocals from Kaleem Taylor.
Superlativ is the only solo record on the album, a bass house banger uploaded to Thrills' YouTube.
Freakin (originally called Freakin Girl) is Tchami's garage tune with Dombresky.
Lastly the most "chill" song of them all is a collaboration between Illangelo and Tchami, another garage track on the EP.
Underground house and its mainstreaming
Underground house has been a common club choice in the United
Kingdom, Benelux, etc for many years. The reason for this is because it
is one of the most danceable genres in the scene. It is the easiest
thing to shuffle, c-walk, cut shapes and more to. The easily
determinable beat as well as the significant bass are what shaped the
club bangers to be what they are today.
The big room era lasted quite long, almost three years in the mainstream. A lot of DJs still play big room tunes at festivals because they make the crowd jump...literally. The post-big room era is happening now, with a lot of artists refusing to play big room in general due to its lack of originality and abundant predictability.
So a question may arise: what house music is being played now? Truthfully the answer is that the community is quite split up, everyone enjoying slightly different types of house. One of the major communities of house fans are focused on the Kygo-inspired tropical house, which there is an abundance of in 2015 following the huge success of Kygo. Massive air-time on UK and American radios for Kygo meant attracting a lot of new fans to the tropical house genre.
Tropical house isn't the only genre that received tons of new attention after big room declined; there is also “future house” which would be typically described as deep house with a metallic synth, typically a few beats per minute faster deep house but also a few beats per minute slower than electro house. Best examples of this genre are Tchami with his unofficial remix of AlunaGeorge’s You Know You Like It. That tune along with his remix of Janet Jackson’s Go Deep are what truly defined the future house known today. Music is constantly evolving, as is future house. Modern acts of future house include Oliver Heldens, Jonas Aden, Mesto (the man responsible for co-producing Martin Garrix’s debut “future house” tune), Mike Williams, DEVI, and more.
Related: http://thrills.xyz/week-in-review-11-11-2015/
Lastly there is the classic case of jackin house which has been popular in UK clubs for the past 20 years, in some form or another. Jackin house often gets influences from older underground house, garage, speed garage, and more combinations of genres. Usually jackin house and related genres are exclusively made for club and dance related environments. Due to this, it is very uncommon to see popular examples of this kind of music. The closest thing to jackin house that has become mainstream is the act known as Gorgon City, scoring a top-ranking album in the UK charts, smashing all competition. Another popular instance of this kind of music is “House Every Weekend” by David Zowie, which is sitting at a cool 22 million views on YouTube. It is still nothing compared to the likes of Taylor Swift or Katy Perry, but it shows that if you expose people to different kinds of music, they will definitely listen to it.
Related: Thrills
It is important to have a varied taste in music, even if that means ditching what you already listen to. There is a lot of good music out there, a lot of it even available for free download. In the underground house scene, exposure is often valued more than money, as most money for artists in this genre comes from performing at events. If you haven't checked out songs in the genres aforementioned in the article, consider doing so and expanding your taste in music.
The big room era lasted quite long, almost three years in the mainstream. A lot of DJs still play big room tunes at festivals because they make the crowd jump...literally. The post-big room era is happening now, with a lot of artists refusing to play big room in general due to its lack of originality and abundant predictability.
So a question may arise: what house music is being played now? Truthfully the answer is that the community is quite split up, everyone enjoying slightly different types of house. One of the major communities of house fans are focused on the Kygo-inspired tropical house, which there is an abundance of in 2015 following the huge success of Kygo. Massive air-time on UK and American radios for Kygo meant attracting a lot of new fans to the tropical house genre.
Tropical house isn't the only genre that received tons of new attention after big room declined; there is also “future house” which would be typically described as deep house with a metallic synth, typically a few beats per minute faster deep house but also a few beats per minute slower than electro house. Best examples of this genre are Tchami with his unofficial remix of AlunaGeorge’s You Know You Like It. That tune along with his remix of Janet Jackson’s Go Deep are what truly defined the future house known today. Music is constantly evolving, as is future house. Modern acts of future house include Oliver Heldens, Jonas Aden, Mesto (the man responsible for co-producing Martin Garrix’s debut “future house” tune), Mike Williams, DEVI, and more.
Related: http://thrills.xyz/week-in-review-11-11-2015/
Lastly there is the classic case of jackin house which has been popular in UK clubs for the past 20 years, in some form or another. Jackin house often gets influences from older underground house, garage, speed garage, and more combinations of genres. Usually jackin house and related genres are exclusively made for club and dance related environments. Due to this, it is very uncommon to see popular examples of this kind of music. The closest thing to jackin house that has become mainstream is the act known as Gorgon City, scoring a top-ranking album in the UK charts, smashing all competition. Another popular instance of this kind of music is “House Every Weekend” by David Zowie, which is sitting at a cool 22 million views on YouTube. It is still nothing compared to the likes of Taylor Swift or Katy Perry, but it shows that if you expose people to different kinds of music, they will definitely listen to it.
Related: Thrills
It is important to have a varied taste in music, even if that means ditching what you already listen to. There is a lot of good music out there, a lot of it even available for free download. In the underground house scene, exposure is often valued more than money, as most money for artists in this genre comes from performing at events. If you haven't checked out songs in the genres aforementioned in the article, consider doing so and expanding your taste in music.
Why you should listen to House music
House music has an extensive history. Frankie Knuckles is one of the
main producers and DJs that can be accredited to giving popularity to
the music genre known as House. Popularized in Chicago in the 1980s,
house music has expanded to the whole world in 2015.
The popularity. Europe lives and breathes house music on a daily basis. Countries like the UK, Benelux, etc have a huge demand for house music. Any club you visit in the aforementioned countries is likely to be playing house music. South Asian countries are also seeing a huge increase in demand for house music. Japan's club scene has recently gotten huge, and it is only getting bigger. House music still has a long way to go in terms of becoming super mainstream albeit acts have been seen in the top 40 charts. Examples of this include Gorgon City.
The
subgenres. House music has a huge variety of subgenres ranging from the
slowest beats at a chilly 110 beats per minute to the dirtiest and
fastest at an energetic 140 beats per minute. There is a huge difference
between all subgenres in house music simply because there are listeners
from all over the world, so the type of house music they enjoy may be
influenced by their culture or similar music tastes from earlier
influences.
The
community. The house music community is huge, the top producers with
millions of followers on social media. The top mainstream producers and
DJs make millions of dollars per year, simply because people are willing
to pay a load of money to see their shows. The underground community is
probably just as big as the mainstream community, albeit there is a
bigger divide between the fans of the two communities. For example one
producer may have 100 times the fans of another producer but may not
necessarily produce music that is 100 times better.
The free downloads. One of the biggest feats of being a house music fan is that you can easily enjoy a lot of music for free. A lot of artists do not charge for a lot of their tunes because they would rather have exposure. The single cost of acquiring these tunes is usually to like an artist on SoundCloud or something similar. It is definitely worth less than the $1.29.
The YouTubers. There are many YouTube channels who's hobby is to literally search for new house music for their fans. These channels spend a lot of their time browsing SoundCloud daily just to hopefully find a good sounding tune to feature on their profile for a few likes and comments. An example of this is a smaller channel named Thrills who promotes Deep House, Future House, Jackin House and more.
The popularity. Europe lives and breathes house music on a daily basis. Countries like the UK, Benelux, etc have a huge demand for house music. Any club you visit in the aforementioned countries is likely to be playing house music. South Asian countries are also seeing a huge increase in demand for house music. Japan's club scene has recently gotten huge, and it is only getting bigger. House music still has a long way to go in terms of becoming super mainstream albeit acts have been seen in the top 40 charts. Examples of this include Gorgon City.
- Lightbox London
- Kygo playing a huge crowd
The free downloads. One of the biggest feats of being a house music fan is that you can easily enjoy a lot of music for free. A lot of artists do not charge for a lot of their tunes because they would rather have exposure. The single cost of acquiring these tunes is usually to like an artist on SoundCloud or something similar. It is definitely worth less than the $1.29.
The YouTubers. There are many YouTube channels who's hobby is to literally search for new house music for their fans. These channels spend a lot of their time browsing SoundCloud daily just to hopefully find a good sounding tune to feature on their profile for a few likes and comments. An example of this is a smaller channel named Thrills who promotes Deep House, Future House, Jackin House and more.
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