Announcing the Second Annual Isla Del Sol Fest!

Announcing the Second Annual Isla Del Sol Fest!

Disco Donnie Presents, Global Groove Events, and Sugar Society are excited to bring you the second annual Isla Del Sol Fest. Situated at the newly expanded Clayton’s Resort on the beautiful South Padre Island of Texas, this event is a tropical take on dance music festivals.

Join us Labor Day Weekend as Major Lazer, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Showtek, Quintino, Carnage, Jesse Marco and other regional talent provide the top-notch soundtrack on August 31st and September 1st. Clayton’s Beach Resort will serve as the backdrop of this festival, incorporating fun in the sun with an island twist! The breeze on the island and the crisp air at night make this a picturesque scene for such an exotic festival.

Tickets go on sale Saturday, July 13th at 10:00 AM online and at Hermes Music Stores in McAllen and Brownsville.

Paul van Dyk at Firestone

Paul van Dyk at Liquid

DJ Icey at Amphitheatre Event Facility

Matt Lange at Firestone

Sun City Music Festival Weekend Warriors: Tiësto, Flosstradamus, Eats Everything

The weekend has finally landed! We hope you had a great July 4th celebrating our independence with friends, family, and good ol’ fashioned Americana. This week, we’re going vintage with three sets from our Sun City Music Festival talent from the earlier years of their career. If you haven’t bought your tickets to the Labor Day weekend event, you can order online, or in select stores.

Tiësto: In Search of Sunrise Asia Volume 7

The Asia edition of In Search of Sunrise is Tiësto‘s and his seventh, most successful, and final contribution to the compilation series in 2008.

Why We Love It

Who doesn’t love an album you can play from start to finish without skipping a track? Both discs of this compilation were just that and the release climbed up Billboard’s Top 200, Internet Albums, Electronic Albums, and Independent Albums charts. Still timeless as ever, here is our favorite In Search of Sunrise.

Flosstradamus: Jubilation Mixtape

After releasing their debut EP Jubilation in 2011 on Fool’s Gold Recs, Flosstradamus gave away this mixtape, featuring a selection of some of their favorite Chicago footwork/juke tracks.

Why We Love It

We hope we have some Sun City footwork fans out there, because this Flosstradamus mix is on fire. Never heard of the genre footwork? Think trap – but in double time. Intrigued yet? This energetic bass-fueled mix is a snapshot of the boys at the brink of the meteoric rise they’re currently riding high at. Prepare to move!

Eats Everything: BBC Radio One’s Essential Mix

Making his Essential Mix debut back in 2011, Eats Everything recorded his live set from All Gone Pete Tong at Bristol In:Motion.

Why We Love It

Still buzzing from the success of his breakout single “Entrance Song,” Eats Everything was fast-tracked to lend his gifts for Pete Tong’s world-famous BBC One Essential Mix. This two-hour journey was and is a great introduction for the Bristol native. Though his name is still relatively new, Eats Everything has definitely become a staple in forward-thinking production. Here is your Intro to Everything.

Jesse Marco

Just twenty-three years old, New York native Jesse Marco has quickly solidified himself as one of America’s premiere deejays. As a teenager, Jesse, heavily influenced by his parents’ vast record collection, began to fuse rock, punk, soul, and funk with the hip-hop of his generation. “My parents musical tastes really shaped mine. My first cassette was Led Zeppelin and my second was Sam Cooke.”

Jesse’s encyclopedic knowledge of music and remarkable skill have since taken him around the globe headlining college tours, appearing at festivals, and holding residencies at premiere venues worldwide including LIV (Miami), Lure and Supperclub (Los Angeles), MIXX (Atlantic City), Finale (New York), KKC (Frankfurt), and Kaufleuten (Zurich). Jesse has become a favorite of the fashion and art worlds playing high-profile events for Alexander Wang, Giorgio Armani, Calvin Klein, Vivienne Westwood, Donna Karan, Diesel, GQ, and Kaws. Of his choice to hire Jesse to deejay his Milan Fashion Week runway show, Tom Ford said Jesse’s “musical taste reminds me of my childhood.”

Jesse’s 2013 single, “Superstar” on Glassnote Records follows a string of acclaimed official remixes for Two Door Cinema Club, Kings of Leon, Childish Gambino, Peter Bjorn & John, The Knocks, and his 2012 single “Daddy Cool” [Big Beat / Atlantic Records] which spent weeks on Beatport House chart. Jesse recently lent his expertise to Stussy and Visionaire curating exclusive mixes and compilations. Of his widely hailed Stussy Mix, one dance blog wrote, “[This mix] feels like a definitive statement regarding what Jesse’s about. You get cuts from DJ Shadow’s first album, throwback jungle cuts, and a grip of things we can’t easily define. It’s like he took a lifetime’s worth of his favorite tunes and threw them into a 90 minute opus. And it bangs. Seamlessly. You won’t find a better mix than this today, or tomorrow.” Jesse frequently collaborates with hip-hop superstar Kid Cudi with whom he has performed around the world including at Rock The Bells and on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

His 2012 was highlighted by the College Dropouts Tour, on which he and nightlife photographer Kirill Was Here crashed the ten best college parties in America, headlining the Fall ClASHic Tour alongside Asher Roth, performing with Kid Cudi at Rock The Bells, and an eleven-city Vice Magazine-sponsored tour with Pusha-T and Machine Gun Kelly to promote the blockbuster film Project X in which Jesse had a staring role.

Jesse has modeled for Marc Jacobs, Uniqlo, Converse, and Stussy. He has been featured in Vanity Fair, GQ, Vibe, Complex, Us Weekly, In Touch, The New York Post, Dancing Astronaut, Gotta Dance Dirty, This Is 50, Good Music All Day, and This Song Is Sick.

Sun City Music Festival Sound Clash: Armin Van Buuren, Flosstradamus

We’ve got some more sounds to clash before the highly-anticipated event in El Paso this Labor Day weekend. Have you bought your tickets yet? Today, we’re diving into the euphoric vibes of Armin Van Buuren and the bass-driven styles of Flosstradamus. Though they’ve been in the industry for a fair amount of years, both acts are known for their distinctive and forward-thinking sound — no matter how different those two sounds may be.

Armin Van Buuren

Dutch trance producer and #1 DJ in the world Armin van Buuren became interested in music at an early age as his father was an avid record buyer. After being introduced to dance music by a close friend, Armin investigated the roots of the new genre he had taken to, purchasing computers and turntables for the sole purpose of making music of his own. By the time 1995 rolled around, some of his demos were included on various compilations. Using the money he received from licensing, he recycled the cash into producing more records of his production. Cyber Records released his first hit, “Blue Fear,” in 1995, and by 1999 his “Communication” was popular enough to get him signed to AM:PM. His collaboration with Tiësto on “Eternity” gave him the biggest hit on his first imprint Armind. Historically, his studio albums have always made huge waves. Imagine, entered the Dutch album chart at #1, making it a first for a dance artist in Dutch music history.

Any trance fan knows, that if you want to stay current with the growing trends of the genre, you need to tune into Armin’s award-winning radio show A State of Trance – a show that he’s been hosting since 2001. With over 30 million weekly listeners in more than 40 countries, A State of Trance is one of the most listened to radio shows in the world, helping to solidify Armin’s name at the top of every DJ poll.

Recently, Armin described the genre composition of his latest album Intense as “more house-y electro stuff and of course trance, some rock influence, even a little bit of dubstep and classical music in there.” You’ll probably hear some tracks off of the album when #1 DJ in the world, Armin van Buuren comes to El Paso for Sun City Music Festival. Buy your tickets today!

Flosstradamus

This on-fire duo has been making music for nearly a decade. Needless to say, the boys of Flosstradamus are certainly no newcomers to dance music. Before J2K and Autobot were at the level of success they are now, the “Floss” project was originally just a series of DJ parties called “Get Outta the Hood” in their hometown of Chicago, Illinois. That wouldn’t last for long though. They quickly gained popularity by putting out a number of mashups and remixes and with a little help from the best type of advertising, word-of-mouth, the duo have sky-rocketed to the bass heavy phenomenon they are today.

Feed the world’s growing appetite for bass-heavy music in all of its forms, Flosstradamus knows how to bring crowds together with their unique club-ready sound,merging their varied musical tastes. With a knack to put a Floss spin on all of your favorite songs and deliver a crazy amount of energy to every set, Flosstradamus are tear up Sun City Music Festival, happening August 31st and September 1st. Buy your tickets today!

Isla Del Sol Fest 2013 Day 2 at Clayton's Beach Club

Isla Del Sol Fest 2013 Day 1 at Clayton's Beach Club

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