The Black Madonna might be a little more of a believer in EDM after her experience on the most recent sailing of Holy Ship!. The floating festival, which just anchored its 12th and 13th editions, booked its annual lineup of dance and hip-hop’s best for two weekends of cruise ship revelry. The lineup featured The […]
Ultra Music Festival is going to be hard pressed to top last year’s Miami edition, but with the delivery of 2019’s first phase lineup it looks like the festival is aiming to do just that. This year’s event of course included Swedish House Mafia‘s not-so-secret headlining reunion and it was the last edition to be […]
Resistance Ibiza looks ahead to the 2019 summer season with the announcement of its first two residents: the ineffable Adam Beyer and Carl Cox. Resistance Ibiza will take over White Island nightclub, Privilege, each Tuesday for nine weeks from July 23 to September 17. Beyer and Cox will each individually play four shows during this […]
2018 has seen Los Angeles’ electronic music scene receive a lot of close attention. Most recently, the Gary Richards-backed All My Friends Festival brought a tailored music experience downtown LA, and now Secret Project has announced its impending arrival this fall. Courtesy of local party promoter A Club Called Rhonda and Factory 93, Secret Project will […]
One of Ibiza’s most iconic venues famously closed at the end of its 2016 season with a party for the history books. Space Ibiza ended its reign as the world’s greatest club for nearly 27 years, maintaining itself as a White Isle fixture and a pilgrimage destination for dance music fans. After its closure, new […]
New Year’s Eve 2018 will be a simultaneous glance both backwards and ahead for Carl Cox, who newly announced an exclusive New Year’s Eve set in honor of the White Island’s iconic Space Ibiza nightclub. There is perhaps no other electronic act better suited to commemorate Space Ibiza through a live performance; Cox notably held […]
The first three days of Tomorrowland 2018 are officially in the books. While there may be another packed weekend of brilliant, Belgian-based mayhem still in store, we took a look back at high points from weekend one of EDM’s most storied celebration. Whether it’s a two-hour euphoria trip with Above & Beyond at the Anjunabeats stage […]
On July 16, techno icon Carl Cox took the decks at the Château de Chambord for a unique concert experience at the foot of the castle in the Loire Valley. With the backdrop of one of France’s most recognizable chateaus and flanked by the building’s 16th century French Renaissance architecture, Cox played a two-hour set […]
Ultra Europe‘s 2018 installment in Split, Croatia brought together some of the finest globetrotting DJs in the world — Afrojack, Axwell Λ Ingrosso, and DJ Snake, just to name a few. Now, with the festival in the review, Dancing Astronaut has gathered some of the highlights in their full set form. Whether it was a set from a […]
Carl Cox and Eric Powell are hitting the road for an extended b2b. The producers will take their Mobile Disco to Australian and New Zealand wineries to play their preferred “soul, funk, and disco records” for those in attendance. The inaugural performance of the initiative will see Cox and Powell stop at Brisbane’s Roma Street […]
London’s Junction 2 festival brought Adam Beyer and Carl Cox together for an iconic b2b set that served as an exemplar of electronic at its very best. The performance will long outlive the single weekend of Junction 2’s 2018 year of production, given the full-length arrival of Beyer and Cox’s appearance, courtesy of Mixmag. “It’s a […]
Carl Cox might be the king of the proverbial techno castle, but that doesn’t mean any king is complete without his knights. As such, Cox has just announced his supporting acts for his Ballinough Castle show in County Westmeath in celebration of his label Intec Digital. Monika Kruse, Darren Emerson, Jon Rundell, and Irish DJ Al Gibbs […]
Legends Carl Cox and Eric Powell remain heroes in the house and techno sphere. Despite clocking in three decades each behind the decks, their passion for their craft and drive to continually move forward musically allows them an endurance that has stood the test of time. Paired with this endurance is a profound connection with […]
Who better to tell the story of dance music’s seemingly overnight ascension into global prominence than the industry’s most famed veteran and youngest superstar. Martin Garrix and Carl Cox have been working over the past two years to star in the upcoming documentary, What We Started, which delves deep into dance music history over the last 30 years to examine exactly the scene came to […]
Carl Cox is scheduled to release his first drum & bass mix in more than seven years on March 30 through Apple‘s Beats 1 Radio show. The performance will be Cox’s first appearance on Beats 1 since his seminal Beats 1 mix from 2016. The mix is a part of Apple Music‘s One Mix Drum & Bass […]
Creamfields announced their 2018 lineup and it’s looking to be behemoth year for the Cheshire-based extravaganza. Rich in both depth and considerable breadth, the festival will bring together 300 artists across 30 stages from August 23–26. Techno don Carl Cox will be making his return to the festival for the first time in over a decade, where […]
Recent converts to electronic music in the last few years may not realize exactly what has transpired in the last half decade or so. The short of it is essentially a massive worldwide overhaul in dance music’s popularity — one that happened seemingly overnight. Dance music completely transformed from a historically underground network to a colossal entertainment subset that’s […]
Carl Cox announced he’ll be playing at San Francisco’s Midway on March 30 in an effort to raise funds for his annual Burning Man camp, Playground. Having been playing on Black Rock City’s playa for over a decade, the techno don has become a festival staple and announced that the funds raised for Playground will all go […]
Morocco’s exotic destination festival Oasis has announced the first wave of acts for 2018.Held September 14–16, 2018 on the outskirts of Marrakech, industry heavyweights like Carl Cox, The Black Madonna, Derrick Cater, and the underground head honcho Rødhåd front the bill are all set to make appearances. Oasis’ fourth edition will also see Lanza, Mount Kimbie, […]
Awakenings Festival has announced its glorious 2018 lineup, which will descend upon the grounds of Spaarnwoude on June 30 and July 1.Over 100 artists will perform over the two days with some of techno’s heaviest acts fronting the bill. Artists like Carl Cox, Adam Beyer, Nina Kraviz, Sven Väth, and more, are some of the […]
