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Skrillex Introduces ‘Incredible’ Koan Sound And Kill The Noise

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What makes Skrillex particularly exciting is his willingness to try new things, much as he did when collaborating with Benny Benassi and Gary Go on their “Cinema” remix, with the remaining members of the Doors on their track “Breaking a Sweat” and as he did recently with Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley on the upcoming single “Make It Bun Dem.”

His label, OWSLA, has shed light on a versatile collection of non-cookie-cutter EDM rock stars like Porter Robinson, Zedd and Dillon Francis. So when Skrillex recently offered to introduce MTV News to two new acts, we jumped at the opportunity. And as expected, they are fresh and exceptional.

“This is Jake, Kill the Noise,” Skrillex said, pointing to his friend Jake Stanczak (stage name Kill the Noise). “He’s been DJing for a while now and been in so many different projects in the drum-and-bass scene. I feel like he’s finally found this really incredible sound that’s his own. Not to say that he hasn’t had his sound before.”

Kill the Noise has heater remixes for Kanye West and Estelle, Rye Rye, and Yelawolf, and collaborated with Skrillex, 12th Planet, Datsik and Korn, in addition to his own series of successful bass singles. Throughout their friendship, Skrillex has been an ardent supporter of KTN, with OWSLA putting out his last EP, Kill Kill Kill (check out bangers “Kill the Noise, Part 1″ and “Deal With It”), among other remixes.

“We’ve been working hard,” KTN said. “I started sending him demos and then that’s really kind of been my inspiration, is getting feedback from him, and obviously the rest of these guys too,” he said, pointing to Koan Sound beside him. “But Sonny [Skrillex] has really kind of pushed me along.”

“And this is Koan Sound,” Skrillex said, indicating Jim Bastow and Will Weeks, a pair of Bristol, U.K., DJ/producers. Theirs is an exciting novel form of EDM: It’s funky. It’s hype. And it’s slow. Like, 100bpm slower than Moombahton slow, but in an exceptional way.

“They are just so incredibly talented,” Skrillex said. “They come from Bristol. It’s a really musical, kind of, artistic city in the U.K., and the tempo and vibe they are coming from is unlike anything else that is happening in bass music right now. … It’s like hip-hop, and it’s slow and it’s got this really fresh vibe, where you can rock a rager and a pool party.”

“This is our first real tour in America,” Weeks said of their recent trip to Miami Music Week. “The reception we’ve been getting is pretty amazing. The stuff we released on OWSLA [Funk Blaster EP] just goes off!”

“It’s kind of mind-blowing,” Bastow said. “People recognize it instantly. That always encourages you, when you go to places that you’ve never been before and play to crowds that you’ve never played to before and they already know you’re music.”

Fans can expect Skrillex and Damian Marley to release “Make It Bun Dem” soon, and new EPs for both Kill the Noise and Koan Sound will likely be served up by OWSLA this summer. And Skrillex will leave the music completely in the hands of its creators.

“I do nothing but make sure their vision is exactly what their vision is,” Skrillex said, “because as soon as you f— with that, [that's] the minute it’s not what you want them for. Both of these guys, I love them because they are making the tunes they make.”

“Honestly, that’s what I love about OWSLA,” Weeks confessed. “Anything I send these guys, they take on board, and they just love anything I send them. I can be as creative as I want to be, which is perfect for being a producer.”

Morgan Page’s In The Air Aims ‘Square At Dance Floor’

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With two Grammy nominations under his belt and having sold out 35 of the 45 shows on his last tour, American DJ/producer Morgan Page went into the recent Miami Music Week on a high.

The title track of his fifth album, “In the Air” featuring Angela McCluskey (a co-production with BT, Sultan and Ned Shepard), went to #1 on Billboard‘s Hot Dance Airplay Chart and spent 25 weeks in the top 10 last year. “Body Work,” featuring MTV family indie darlings Tegan and Sara, followed as the album’s second single, with an ’80s-inspired video set in an auto shop that premiered on MTV’s Buzzworthy in February.

This year, Miami proved fruitful. While he didn’t come away with any International Dance Music Awards (he was nominated for “Best American DJ” and “Best Progressive Track”), MMW provided a fan-galvanizing series of gigs, underscored by his own “Morgan Page Presents” night at Mokai. He showcased his latest remixes and coveted gems from In the Air, which was released Tuesday via Nettwerk Records.

According to Page, the fans in Miami clearly had their favorite songs. “The singles ‘In the Air’ with Angela McCluskey and ‘Body Work’ with Tegan and Sara are doing well,” Page told MTV News. “Right now, ‘In the Air’ is the biggest track. It gets the biggest response when I play it. It was a really cool collaboration.”

“Body Work” occupies its own unique place in Page’s heart. What began as a White Label remix endeavor in 2005 culminated in Page creating three songs with Tegan and Sara, of which “Video” and “Body Work” made it onto ITA.

“They are the coolest,” Page said of the pair. “They are the most professional, put together duo I’ve ever worked with. They just know what they want, and they don’t mess around. ['Body Work'] is very ’80s and has this very ’80s throwback synth vibe that I love. I wanted a track to be out there that was different. It wasn’t a dubstep track or a progressive house track.”

Page says Air is a project for the masses — an effort that, with the help of additional vocalists Nadia Ali, Greg Laswell, Shelley Harland and Richard Walters (to name a few), is aimed to hit the nightclubs hard.

“The last album, Believe, was more melancholy and chill,” Page explained. “And this is aiming a little more square at the dance floor. The next single is right around the corner, called ‘Where Did You Go.’ Jonathan Mendelsohn’s on that. He’s done a lot of cool stuff with Dash Berlin and Laidback Luke. It’s a little more aggressive. It’s something I can play in the middle of my set, peak time, guns blazing. Jonathan is just an amazing, dynamic singer.”

For his next album, Page revealed he’s planning to continue keeping the spirits high.

“I think the next one is going to be even more big-room,” Page shared. “A little more triumph, a little more energy, more peak time. That’s kind of what the crowds want.”

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Ryan Tedder Finds His ‘Calling’ With Sebastian Ingrosso, Alesso

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“Calling (Lose My Mind)” — the vocal version of “Calling” by rising star Alesso and Swedish House Mafia’s Sebastian Ingrosso — was released weeks before Miami Music Week and has become one of the most popular anthems from the annual EDM get-together in Florida.

It serves as a prelude to a collection of new material fans can expect soon courtesy of the Swedish gents. What makes “Calling (Lose My Mind)” extra special is the addition of an A-list vocal by songwriter to the stars and OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder. Tedder wrote and sent over a hook intended for another artist to sing, but what Seb and Alesso heard was too good to replace.

Ingrosso leaned on his friends in the business to arrange some one-on-one Tedder time.

“I called a friend of mine who works for Interscope, Dave Rene,” Sebastian told MTV News. “He is Mr. Magic when it comes to those kinds of things. I’m like, ‘It’s going to be a long shot. Do you think that Ryan Tedder could do it?’ We sent the track. [Ryan] was like, ‘OK. I have 45 minutes in between the American Music Awards.’ We ran to the studio, because I live around the corner. Boom. Recorded. Boom. Done.”

Having arguably the most sought-after songwriter in the business — Tedder has worked with Beyoncé, B.o.B and Kelly Clarkson, to name just a few — has proven quite successful. This week, the song sits at #2 on Beatport’s top 10.

“Ryan Tedder has that voice that everybody likes,” Sebastian continued. “You can have his voice in your home, and he’s a very nice guy. I think he’s one of the most talented songwriters in the world. He does stuff for Adele, so for us, it’s a huge honor even to be working with him.”

The release of Alesso’s next single, the melodious and summery “Years” (Interscope artist Matthew Koma is on the vocal version) is on the way, as well as a banger cut from the cloth of his more sinister hit from last year, “Nillionaire.” “He hasn’t named it yet,” Seb revealed. “I’m dying to release it. I play it all the time. It’s one of my favorite tracks at the moment. It’s really edgy.”

Fans can also expect a Sebastian Ingrosso collab with Tommy Trash, a new solo original, and an Alesso, Steve Angello and Seb team-up on “Why Am I Doing This?” all dropping in the coming months.

Wolfgang Gartner Uses Miami Music Week As His Lab

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MIAMI — MTV News was invited by our colleagues at Pacha NY to take in Wolfgang Gartner and some of his most talented artist friends Saturday at the National Hotel for one of the premiere parties on South Beach, where he was determined to give the crowd his full arsenal of new music — and take in their reaction.

An all-star cast of DJs — including Bart B More, Kill the Noise, Felix Cartel, Porter Robinson and Hardwell — worked the crowd for Gartner, who seemed elated the second he hit the stage. His set let everyone know he was fired up.

Gartner was genuinely excited to tell MTV News he has more than a half-dozen songs ready for release, but he’s not planning to unveil most of those anytime soon. He said he loves playing his creations while they’re still unrecognizable, so he can gauge the crowd’s reaction. That invisible interaction with the crowd energizes him, he told us, and Miami Music Week and parties like the one he threw at the National give him the perfect lab to test his creations.

“When people respond to it when they don’t know it, that’s when you know it’s good,” Gartner explained. “But if you get that same response when nobody’s ever heard it before, that’s when you know it’s real. You’ve got something.”

During his set at the National, Gartner played one song he won’t be able to keep in the bin much longer: “We Own the Night,” his collaboration with Tiësto featuring the subtle enchantment of Luciana on the vocal, contradicting the edginess and power of the track. The song’s a big one — with no better evidence than the frenzy that ensued around the National pool party once the crowd felt the bass drop and the beat kick in full torque.

“The Tiësto collaboration is definitely the one that I’m most excited about,” Gartner said. “We’ve both been playing it out, and judging by the response, we both — I’m going to try and sound humble — but we both think this going to be one of the biggest tracks of the year.”

Tiësto played it to nearly 50,000 on Friday at Ultra Music Festival, where somewhere in the middle of it all, MTV News can testify to the joy of the crowd. Gartner also played it to a huge crowd the night before at Ultra’s Korea World Stage, and told us the reaction was undeniable. But, more importantly, playing new music is what drives him to make your next Wolfgang Gartner experience — like the one that erupted at the National pool — that much better.

“That’s the main thing that I want to hit on: Expose people to new music, and give people a little taste of what’s coming up,” he shared. “People all over the world, all over the country, I want people to know that they’re getting something that’s to come.”

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Felix Cartal Builds On Miami Momentum With Different Faces

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Felix Cartal is one of the most promising young stars of EDM, a fact that became even clearer at this year’s Miami Music Week, where he played multiple shows days before the release of his latest album.

Cartal’s Different Faces was unleashed on iTunes on Tuesday (March 27) under Steve Aoki’s Dim Mak label. Fresh off of his second Ultra Music Festival appearance and the success of his latest single, “Don’t Turn on the Lights,” Cartal told MTV News he’s been eager for the album’s release.

“It’s been the last year of my life kind of putting this thing together,” Cartal said. “The record’s basically all that’s going on in my life. I want people to remember it, and hopefully it means something to them.”

MTV News was able to catch some of Cartal’s set at the National Hotel during Miami Music Week, and it was obvious that “Don’t Turn on the Lights,” featuring Polina, has become a certifiable breakthrough hit. But what was most surprising was how many of Cartal’s fans could be seen singing so many of his songs throughout the set.

“I play all the singles every set, and everyone was singing along today,” Cartal said. “I don’t think you can ever get tired of that feeling.”

He may not have to, because his new album is loaded with potential smashes, already finding tracks trickling into some sets of the biggest DJs in the world. The record will feature some collaborators that EDM fanatics have followed, like Miss Palmer, who he works with on “Black to White”; Miss Palmer is best known to EDM fans for “No Beef,” one of the biggest tracks of 2011 by Afrojack and Steve Aoki.

Cartal also combined with Sebastien Granger, from Death From Above 1979, and his contribution on “H.U.N.T.” pushes the album’s boundaries beyond EDM.

“I think that’s what moves music forward, because anytime genres are colliding, I think that’s what helps music become something new,” Cartal said. “I think a lot of people thought that electronic music was just going to be a passing phase, and I kind of compare it to rap music, where it kind of brought a whole culture with it, and I think that’s why it’s lasted and continued to grow.”

Cartal told MTV News his next move will be a two-month tour through May, touring major cities and finishing up at the Sasquatch Festival in Washington. And since he’s part of the Dim Mak family, and because he’s such a nice guy, we asked if he even had it in him to cake someone, à la Steve Aoki.

“I’ve got it in me to cake someone,” Cartal said. “It’ll happen eventually — at one of Steve’s shows, though. I don’t want to bite on his thing.”

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David Guetta Brings Rousing Set To Ultra Music Festival

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MIAMI — Trance and electro house music reigned supreme at the final day of Ultra Music Festival, closing out the annual three-day dance music mega-fest that saw more than 200,000 people walk through the gates at Miami’s Bayfront Park.

Sunday, Carl Cox handed over the Cocoon’s “mega-structure” stage to Dutch trance-music icon Armin van Buuren, who continued his globe-spanning celebration of the 550th episode of his “A State of Trance” radio show, streaming epic, dazzling sets of some of his larger-than-life trance-music friends. Gareth Emery, ATB, Ferry Corsten, Tritonal, and Sander van Doorn were but some of the big stars who had fans packing Cocoon right up to the stage’s back gates.

Earlier in the day, 2012 MTV Woodies closing act Steve Aoki set the Ultra Main Stage ablaze with his driving electro-metal house show, and a few of his recent Wonderland album collaborators helped him celebrate the occasion. Lil Jon launched the set into overdrive early, joining Aoki for “Turbulence” and more, and singers Polina, and Alyssa Palmer all hit the stage to perform alongside Aoki. Before ending his set with an inflatable boat ride across a sea of tens of thousands of fans, as he traditionally does, Aoki caked two lucky fans in the front row of the audience — with dexterity, we’d like to add, right in the face from more than seemingly 15 feet away.

Sunday night marked the UMF return of dance-music king , certainly the biggest crossover brand in EDM. While one might assume that after a throttling set by Knife Party followed by excellent performances by Kaskade and Fedde Le Grand, fans might have been a bit fatigued by then. If they were, they didn’t show it.

“Can I hear my party people?” Guetta asked as he took the stage. The audience roared back as he launched into Alesso’s remix of Guetta’s “Titanium.”

Notably, after the French superstar began a mix of little broski Afrojack’s “Can’t Stop Me Now,” Afrojack, Lil Jon, Aoki and Italian DJ/producer (and Madonna MDNA collaborator) Benny Benassi all joined their friend onstage, causing pandemonium. They posed for a group photo for the history books, and the set continued, only with the volume lower.

“Every time I play a track at Ultra, it brings me luck!” Guetta told the audience. “And I’m going to start a new electronic label, and this is the first track on the label.

“It’s with Nicky Romero, and it’s called ‘Metropolis,’ ” Guetta continued, before pumping the volume back up and letting the audience take in the electro-house banger that both he and Romero have been previewing in their sets recently.

Throughout his set, Guetta maintained a bouncing tide of tens of thousands of screaming fans with his typical ease. There were a couple of new stadium house tracks in addition to known crowd-pleasers like Swedish House Mafia’s “Greyhound,” with the addition of Example’s “Changed the Way You Kissed Me” vocal, and Avicii’s “Le7els,” with Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” vocal.

Before ending his set with a remix of “Turn Me On,” his single with Nicki Minaj, and finally “Without You,” his Usher hit, Guetta turned down the volume again and asked folks to take out their cell phones. As a sea of small lit-up screens formed around the UMF Main Stage, he made a remark that would underscore just how big the Ultra Music Festival and electronic dance music are in 2012.

“Wow! Thousands and thousands and thousands of people partying together feeling like one,” Guetta remarked. “Do you realize what’s going on in America? How our music is taking over?

“I never imagined that one day this would happen,” he added. “But this is only the beginning, right?”

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Steve Angello Proves ‘Size’ Matters As Miami Music Week Wraps

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MIAMI — As Miami Music Week wrapped up, MTV News went back to where it all began, heading again to the Fontainebleau on Sunday for another massive record-label showcase.

Swedish House Mafia stalwart Steve Angello, joined by the brigade of ferocious all-stars that make up his Size Records, took over the same stage that deadmau5 and his Mau5trap crew owned just a day before.

But while the Mau5trap set inspired fans through experimental sonic patterns, Size came with one mission in mind: To lay down banger after banger, many of them Beatport.com-charting hits produced by members of the Size team. The third edition of the always highly anticipated Size Records party featured proven beatsmiths — some EDM vets, some newcomers. Indeed, Angello presided over a staggering lineup that included Max Vangeli, AN21, Junior Sanchez, Third Party, Tim Mason, Qulinez and Wayne Woods.

Size newbies Wayne Woods kicked off the night. The duo were followed by Qulinez, who delivered an impressive set highlighted by their smoldering bomb “Troll.” Tim Mason pleased the crowd by covering hit singles “The Moment” and “Anima”; Third Party took over from him with a strong set that featured their 2011 smash “Duel” and their newest single, “Feel.”

Feeling a bit of hometown nostalgia, MTV News was excited to see the return of legendary New York house icon Junior Sanchez to the Size closing party. The Brobot boss kept the hands in the air for virtually his entire set, playing recent anthems like Otto Knows’ “Million Voices” and the Dirty South/ Those Usual Suspects collabo “Walking Alone.” Junior also drew smiles from the crowd with his unique blend of Jay-Z and Kanye’s “N—as in Paris” and Swedish producer Avicii’s “Levels,” a mash that was appropriately titled “N—as in Sweden.”

Coming on last (but certainly not least) on the long list of talented openers were Max Vangeli and AN21, who were greeted with the energy one might expect for two of Size’s original signees. Showing no signs of nerves, the pair put on a set fit to introduce their label’s frontman. They doled out heavy party tracks like Dada Life’s “Kick out the Epic Mother—-er”.

Sir Steve finally hit the decks, and partygoers at the Fontainebleau bum-rushed the stage, eager to rock out with the Size boss. And Angello obliged, unleashing track after track by tapping his SHM arsenal and much more. Fans danced in fits to Swedish House Mafia’s “Greyhound”; Michael Calfan’s “Resurrection” fused with Coldplay’s “Paradise”; and Nari Milani “Atom,” among other hits. Angello just smiled, seemingly well aware of the euphoric chaos he was creating.

Unfortunately, Angello was forced to cut his set short at around 11:30 p.m. Still, what fans will probably remember is that the Size guys came correct this year, laying down the perfect ending to Miami Music Week.

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Steve Aoki Brings The Heat To Miami’s Ice Palace

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MIAMI — The Steve Aoki Experience hit Ice Palace in downtown Miami a little after 3:30 a.m. in the early Saturday hours, and the Dim Mak chairman didn’t disappoint. He powered through a set loaded with new music and the madness that fans have come to love from his live shows.

In the lead-up to his Ultra Music Festival show slated for Sunday (March 25), Aoki treated the Ice Palace crowd to champagne showers and shots of Grey Goose. He also brought along some very special friends: Datsik, who’ll hit the road this summer on Dim Mak Records’ Deadmeat Tour; and Alan Strovich, who recently finished a dramatic dubstep remix of “Ladi Dadi.” (One of Aoki’s biggest tracks, his 2011 “Ladi” features singer Wynter Gordon.)

Many of the tracks Aoki played on Saturday were from Dim Mak’s Miami Winter Music Conference sampler, which dropped 10 days ago on Beatport. Those included the banging new gems “Dance” from Spencer Hill and Dirtyloud; “Turn Up the Volume” with Joachim Garraud and Autoerotique; and Aoki’s smash tag-team with Tiësto on “Tornado.”

It was a crazy show to say the least. And with his date on the Main Stage at Ultra just hours away, it proved to be an exciting prelude to what we predict will be one of the most impressive stage dives at UMF.

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Madonna Introduces ‘Amazing’ Avicii On Day Two Of Ultra Music Fest

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MIAMI — Swedish house music producer Avicii is currently one of the most popular artists working in music — yes, in music, not just his native EDM. And that star standing was only reinforced on Saturday night when he headlined a gig on day two of this year’s Ultra Music Festival.

Avicii (born Tim Bergling) packed in every hit he could into his closing set on Ultra’s Main Stage. “Fade into Darkness” had tens of thousands of Miami fans chanting back the song’s catchy hook, as did his “Silhouettes” and Mark Knight’s remix of Florence and the Machine’s “You’ve Got the Love.”

Every hand was stretched sky-high in a version of air piano when the DJ/producer’s now-familiar chord progressions on the anthemic “Levels” filled the stage; they stayed up for his collabo with rising star Nicky Romero, “NicTim.” Plus, the main-stage set looked as good as it sounded thanks to the work of visual designer Vello Virkhaus. Fireworks and sublime, smoky lighting textures added to the ambience.

But to really understand just how big of a deal Avicii’s show was we have to take you back to the top of his set. As fans pushed closer to the stage — with virtually every square foot at UMF occupied, some resorted to climbing up into trees for a view — the set went dark and a taped segment featuring will.i.am, David Guetta, Afrojack, Carl Cox and Avicii came on. Each artist remarked on how popular dance music has become as Madonna’s “Music” played in the background; the clip appeared to be an excerpt from the brand-new UMF film “Can You Feel It?”

Toward the end of the segment, Avicii praised Madonna for using EDM beats in her past work. It then cut to Madge extolling the power of live music. Just as it began to occur to the crowd that Madonna might actually be at Ultra, there she was, striding to the front of the stage.

“Hello, everybody, I’ve finally made it to Ultra Music Festival,” she said. “I’ve been here in spirit for many years, but it’s good to be here, finally. In my world, music and dance are not separate,” she continued. “Electronic music has been a part of my career since I started, and I can honestly say, ‘A DJ saved my life.’

“How many people in this crowd have seen Molly?” she then asked with a coy smile, making a reference to the drug MDMA, which not only had the crowd roaring back at the nod to rave culture, but also happens to be a thinly veiled wink at her new MDNA album title. “Are you ready to dance? Are you ready to sweat? Are you ready to make some noise, mother—-ers?! This next DJ is amazing! Get ready for Avicii!”

With that, the lights came up on Avicii at the decks. Madonna then glided into the DJ booth to rock out with Bergling to her latest single, “Girl Gone Wild.” She stayed for the duration of the song, smiling, singing along and laughing with Avicii.

Of course, Madonna has always been a friend of EDM. After success working with the likes of William Orbit, Paul Oakenfold and Stuart Price (a.k.a. Jacques Lu Cont), she paid homage again to the club culture she loves over the weekend. (She even teamed up again with Orbit on MDNA, due out on Monday.) Two things were crystal at the conclusion of Saturday night’s festivities: EDM fans are ecstatic Madonna has come full circle in her career, and considering the pop queen’s co-sign, Avicii’s star has never been brighter.

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deadmau5 Baits Miami Music Fans With Ear-Bending Set

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MIAMI — Another day, another party. A slightly sunburned MTV News crew hit the highly anticipated Mau5trap pool party at the Fontainebleau on Saturday night, where we found Mau5heads had come out in full force to support the boss himself, deadmau5, and his cohorts during a poolside set.

Don’t be fooled, however, it’s Miami Music Week and this wasn’t your parents’ pool party: Fontainebleau boasts a pool deck that would make most of your favorite Vegas hotspots look like the neighborhood YMCA. Add a DJ booth inlaid within a colossal LED wall, and you’ve set the scene for the Mau5trap Records party headlined by deadmau5, with support from labelmates Feed Me, Moguai, Steve Duda and Frederik.

Frederik and Duda started strong, warming up the crowd for Moguai. The German producer/DJ introduced himself with his remix of Fatboy Slim’s “Ya Mama” and an electro rendition of the Nena classic “99 Red Balloons.” Keeping consistent with the heavy synths of the signature Mau5trap sound, Moguai passed the torch to Feed Me, who continued to bring up the energy of the evening. The U.K. outfit mellowed out dirty riffs of songs like “Green Bottle” with the soothing vocals of Lindsay on “Embers.” In fact, one fan was so moved by Feed Me’s transition that he started a solo splash-fight in the football field-size pool … perhaps in search of deeper enlightenment?

After a proper warm-up, it seemed only fitting that deadmau5 would take the stage to end the night with a bang. But from the start, it seemed clear he had another agenda. The man born Joel Zimmerman followed a long intro of experimental drum loops with a Mau5y version of Milo’s “Dr. Pressure” and 2 Live Crew’s “Shake That Ass Bitch,” signaling he wouldn’t be mixing his typical set. Instead, for the next hour, he took the audience on a tour of the inner workings of his creative mind and treated them to a showcase of his Ableton mastery.

Those who came to rage with the mau5 may have been left staring at a half-full bottle of Grey Goose, but judging from the vibe of Zimmerman’s set (and recent style postings on his SoundCloud page), the DJ/producer is obviously in a different place than he was in his “Ghost” days (although did play the track for partygoers at the end of the night).

Were you at the Mau5trap set? Tell us what you thought in the comments below!

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