Miss it? We got you covered! The top 10 tracks that smashed it this year and had everybody’s hands up, also a bonus recap of the Mad Decent stage with artist like GTA, Dillon Francis, ETC! ETC! and of course the boss man himself, Diplo.
Top 10 tracks of TomorrowWorld 2014:
10. Dirty South ft Sam Martin – Unbreakable (Original Mix)
9. Steve Angelo – Wasted Love (feat. Dougy) (Original Mix)
8. Tom Swoon, Paris & Simo – Wait (Original Mix)
7. Afrojack & Martin Garrix – Turn Up The Speakers (Original Mix)
6. Henry Fong & J-Trick – Scream (Original Mix)
5. Rune RK – Calabria (Firebeatz Remix)
4. KSHMR & DallasK – Burn (Original Mix)
3. Charli XCX – Break The Rules (Tiesto Remix)
2. DVBBS & Joey Dale ft. Delora -Deja Vu (Original Mix)
1. DANNIC & TV Noise – Solid
Have a top 10 of your own? Share your thoughts and tell us what you think, leave it in the comments for others to rate.
1. When sending an e-mail put “Re:” before your subject line, this way they think they already responded to you.
This will help you because they will most likely think they already started a conversation with you, therefore, they will open your e-mail.
2. Research the management team of your favourite DJ or label on Google and try to get in contact with them.
With this information, find them on Facebook and see if they can give you a helping hand by passing on your track to someone who can help. Explain your situation, and upload your track on Soundcloud using a private link. Let them listen to it first, if they like it, they will help! I have tried this and had Tiesto listen to my track the next day.
3. Visit them when they come to your local radio station.
Whenever a DJ is at Z1035 spinning the Drive at 5 Street Mix, I am usually camping outside right after their show with a USB and a business card. In one instance I had Dash Berlin’s promo team message me back on Facebook regarding my music.
4. Make a bootleg of their track
A way to get the attention of a label or DJ is to produce a bootleg from their catalog. Curiosity kills and the likely hood of them taking thirty seconds to listen to your track is pretty high. If the quality is poor, you can bet you will not receive a reply.
5. Catch them at a good time
In the EDM scene we all know that most of the labels come from abroad. Therefore, they are usually four to six hours ahead of us on the clock. Do not tweet them your track in the afternoon, most likely they will be at a gig or sleeping. Try to tweet or send them a message early in the morning.
*Note – this advice is based on quality production. If you feel your production is not at par, save them the spam e-mails. This will help you in the future when you are finally ready to send them good quality music.
As a music lover, I was going through some music from one of my favorite labels, PRMD/ICONS. This new release features a remix by a Stockholm native, “Steerner” who put his own twist to the new single, Bright Lights by Syn Cole.
This track will definitely have its spotlight at every festival. With a euphoric melody to compliment a beautiful vocal, this sound is very fitting for an inspirational moment in life. With a similar sound to the successful, “Dirty South & Alesso – City of Dreams“, this warm, uplifting and emotional build up will put you in a state of happiness.
Be sure to follow Steerner for more releases, as he is someone who will soon make the DJ Mag’s Top 100!
It was the month of November and I was at a general meeting for a new club that was opening in Mississauga. I remember a flock of DJ’s and promoters that were hovering around the club’s General Managers. There were three specific people that caught my eye, being the local Mississauga residents, Graham Gorrie and Gabriel Encalada, also known as, “Tamper Track”. Gorrie and Encalada were introduced to me by their manager, Danny Encalada. After speaking to them regarding what software they were using and what genre they were producing, I could sense their deep-rooted determination and passion. These two Melbourne bounce undergraduates were jumping on a genre that was not tackled by any well-known Toronto producers and during a pivotal time.
I started following these two on Soundcloud and began to notice the quality of their productions improving track by track. With a heavy straight bassline partnered with a groovy-pitched vocal synth, these guys dove into the niche Melbourne Bounce market that has quickly turned into one of the most popular party sub genres of EDM. Already opening up for some of their influential DJ’s, Sidney Samson and Melbourne bounce artists, Will Sparks and Joel Fletcher, these guys are turning their dreams into reality. Don’t be fooled by their age, these twenty-ish year old producers will without a doubt make some noise in 2014.
Download their new bootleg of Alvaro & Carnage – The Underground
It’s the morning of my club gig and like many passionate DJ’s, I need to plan my day accordingly. I have to check out several music sources for new releases, download them and organize it into folders then transfer them to my hard drive. For Serato users you then have to create new folders, and make sure you upload your songs into those folders. That alone can take anywhere from two to three hours easy!
This is where the debate begins, do you show up to the club with a plan in mind, or do you show up and “freestyle” it? I will speak for myself when I say I create sub folders that are named accordingly to the times I start and end my DJ set; 10pm, 10:30pm, 11:00pm, etc. Then depending on my mood and what I want to plan for the night, I go through the last two years of music and distribute them based on two factors. First is, what time will people arrive and secondly what time will they want to hear their song. People tend to arrive to clubs between 11:30pm-12am, based on that this is how I predict the night. Between 10pm-11pm I open my set with music that is familiar, I do this just so I do not scare or irritate the club owner. This is important because if you play what YOU want, you will get an ear full from the owners/promoters and they will expect you to change it up. So never play what you want to play at midnight for the first hour and a half of the night. Keep it groovy, upbeat and at a recognizable level.
The calm before the storm;
This is usually 11:30-11:45pm and the people have started moving to the dance floor. I pretty much build the night with tunes that were big a year ago. The rest is pretty obvious, between midnight and close I play what I want which is usually what the people want. When organizing my music for the night, I organize by time slots and by style. I have songs that I know go well together, and I don’t count on Mixed in Key to tell me what songs do go well together. This usually takes me a few hours to really perfect a set. Now people are going to argue, “How can you determine what you are going to play ten hours before the doors open?” This is just something that comes with experience. Is it cheating? Not to me, but I am sure others beg to differ. Just because you pre-plan what you are going to play, does not mean you will play every song in that folder. Sometimes you will go between folders and mix it up. This format is made to make me feel comfortable when arriving to the club. There are times people come up to the booth and distract you like you have nothing better to do. We don’t care that you went to Tomorrowland, or that you are a DJ, or that your cousins best friends daughter met Hardwell. We are here to do a job and don’t have enough patience or time to put up with your drunken ass. Avoid visiting the DJ booth, avoid touching things and if you have a request be polite and quick. Most likely we will play it if it fits within our set however, if you don’t hear your song please don’t come back and break my balls. It was for a reason, and I did not want to be rude and tell you that your choice of song sucked.
It’s 3am, the club is empty and it’s time to get paid. Don’t forget, we arrived to the club thirty to forty-five minutes early for sound check and we are eager to go home and sleep. Most people think this should be the easiest part of the night, but it’s not, sometimes it’s the hardest part of the night. Most clubs cash out all their bartenders first to make sure their tills are balanced while the DJ’s sit and wait to get paid. This is the part that is confusing! You know you have a DJ expense, and you know it’s going to be accounted for at the end of the night. Why can’t you have an envelope ready with my name on it? This is the part of the night in which I like to call “Judgment Day”. Depending on how the night went, club owners feel that they can give you a pay cut because the night did not do well. How is this my problem? I am not too sure. We did our job from start to finish, and because they did not do their job to fill the club we have to pay the price? I will give credit where credit is due though! During my experience, The Guvernment was the only venue to have my cash ready for me during the middle of the night. I did not even have to ask for it! One of my worst experiences was at Mansion Nightclub on 102 Peter Street, it was New Years Eve and the owner made me wait until 5am to be told to come back tomorrow to get paid. Some DJ’s are weak and others will hold their ground and demand to be paid, and I got paid. But it shows you the character of some club owners.
When all is said and done, after calculating the time spent on preparing my set, downloading music (90% of the time PAYING for my music), transportation, parking, and finally DOING my job along with waiting to get paid, us DJ’s are probably making no more than a minimum wage job. The moral of the story is, we do not get paid enough money to put up with your bullshit or the owners bullshit. Give us a break and let us do what you pay us to do. Pay us in full and on time!
A beautiful Vegas inspired venue right in the heart of Markham. With 14 elegant VIP Booths to compliment a 600 sq. ft. dance floor, this venue really defines what the standard of nightclubs should be in Toronto. With a state of the art sound and lighting system, Mix Markham prides itself with the quality of their venue’s equipment. How could this multi-million dollar facility be struggling to attract a crowd?
In August 2013, the long awaited Grand Opening of Mix Markham arrived. Teaming up with Toronto’s leading dance station Z1035, one could only imagine a positive outcome. After four short lived weeks into the live to air broadcast, Mix Markham pulled the plug on their twelve week contract with Z1035 because of what they perceived to be lower than average numbers.
With the cancelation of their leading source of promotion, the club saw numbers plummet like the Wall Street Crash of 1929. With no plan b, and a go with the flow attitude, the club experienced an all time low of zero patrons. That’s right, at one point it was a ghost town. How do I know? I had the privilege to be their resident DJ for over twelve weeks. The total number of people averaged to be about five to ten on a Friday night. It was something that a club of such a high caliber should never have to experience, along with branded DJs having to show up and play for nobody but the staff. I witnessed Marco V, a 2007 Top 20 ranked DJ on the DJ Mag’s Top 100 play for a crowd of five. Even with a pay cheque of over $10,000, no money could be worth the damage that was done to his ego and reputation. The promoters should have done its due diligence by researching their target demographic.
I wish I could tell you the bleeding stopped there but it didn’t. With the EDM duo, Sex Panthers making their first appearance to Toronto, Mix Markham left them with no choice but to throw on a pre-mix C.D. and get smashed to the rats ass. These Hollywood new aged rock stars with a solid fan base got a bad taste of Canada. Can you blame them? After losing a lot of money and hope, they finally did their research and booked Tenashar, a Singaporean DJ who was crowned #87 on DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs of 2013. The promoters finally packed the dance floor with locals, but the damage was already done.
Mix Markham is still struggling but deserves the best of luck because this venue is operated by some of the nicest and most loyal club owners I have ever met. Putting trust in promoters that don’t know left from right, has left this club in shambles. I encourage everybody to check out this club, and most importantly, DJs and promoters to come together and build something positive with this beautiful venue.
Written by:Zyad Suleiman | Edited by:Julia Corrente
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