Music often finds a home in destinations and as Holland moves into limelight for cutting-edge electronic music, Amsterdam’s leading events and festival platform, VOLTT unleashes the first episode in its mix series mixed by the nation’s most admired artist, Bart Skils, on one of its most revered labels 100% Pure.

Amsterdam has fast been approaching the forefront of contemporary dance music. An ever-growing group of quality producers from the Dutch capital is dominating the international horizon with a distinctive cutting edge sound while industry event Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) and local festivals such as VOLTT Loves Summer are spearheading…

Over the last 8 years, through his no-nonsense beats, bellicose basslines and bombastic, floor-attacking synth-philosophy, Jochen Miller has become the poster boy for ground-breaking hard trance. Often spilling over onto the peripheries of techno, and the hinterlands of hard house, his wide-arc remit pushes things just as hard, and as tough as they need to get! Long a favorite production pick of many an A-list DJ (including Judge Jules, Ferry Corsten, Tiësto & Marco V), his music has been injecting audio nitrous down through the cables and out of the speakers of clubs around the globe.

Now as summer begins…

Divided By Night is the latest artist album from electronic music pioneers The Crystal Method, dropping what may be their masterpiece. Bolstered by the innovation, flexibility and craftsmanship that have made the duo of Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland club culture icons, the pair’s fourth studio effort out on Tiny e Records is easily its most inventive and accomplished to date.

Notorious over the last ten-plus years for enduring dancefloor anthems such as Now Is The Time and Keep Hope Alive, a willingness to collaborate with an array of talent including rock’s vocal elite, like Scott Weiland and Filter’s…

Simply put, 2020Soundsystem are one of the best live bands in electronic music. It’s a general feeling that, for the most part, electronic dance music is missing a really great live act. There’s been loads of great recorded music, but most concerts are set up to fail in the era of laptop presentation. 2020Soundsystem has never had this problem simply for the fact that live gigs came first, even before there were any tracks. It was an idea built around Danny ‘Dubble D’ Ward and Argentinean duo Fernando Pulichino and Julian Sanza jamming live over DJ Ralph Lawson’s dub track…

This September sees Giuseppe Ottaviani, the foremost standard-bearer of Italian dance touchdown with his first solo debut album. A move highly-anticipated throughout the world of trance since it was first announced, ‘GO!’ brings a uniquely masterful collage of music that has already delighted dancefloors, and is now equally ready to do the same for the at-home listener.

The driving force behind halcyon trance duo NU NRG, Giuseppe’s solo career has mushroomed thanks to his ever-ready supply of electrically-charged, dancefloor road-blocking tracks. Already an accomplished live act throughout his NU NRG years, he has latterly taken that ability and transported…