Zeds Dead? No actually Zeds Dead is very much alive and well thanks to Dylan Mamid, DC, and Zack Rapp-Rovan, Hooks, the duo behind the Canadian dance music outfit. Though it was only a few years ago in the summer of 2009 when the world would see the first outing as Zeds Dead, the boys have more than made up for their brief time in the industry with chart-climbing releases like their Adrenaline and Hot Sauce EP’s and more recently, hit single “Ratchet.”
Earlier this week, the duo announced their “Altered States” tour, featuring more than 35 U.S. and Canadian gigs over a period of six weeks in fall of this year. The boys say they’ll be touring the states while “altering people’s state of mind as we go.” Before their trek begins, DC and Hooks have promised to deliver a “constant stream of output,” which includes new releases, summertime mixes, artwork, videos and all sorts of new material on their aptly titled site AlteredSt8s.com.
Known for their fusion of electro house, hip-hop, glitch, and drum and bass with their dubstep platform, we can’t get enough of Zeds Dead’s bassmentality. Which is why we are excited to partner with them on the following dates:
One of the biggest names in dance music for the last decade, Gareth Emery dabbles in a little bit of everything. The Southampton native runs a night club and famed record label from Manchester, England. Adding to his impressive résumé, is his degree in Politics from the University of Warwick, not to mention he’s trained in classical piano – and we haven’t even touched the surface of his expansive musical tastes. Needless to say, Gareth Emery has become a staple to events and festivals around the globe and has occupied a spot in the top 40 of DJ Mag’s quintessential list since 2006.
Gareth first debuted in early 2002 with a white label remix of The Shrink’s “Nervous Breakdown.” Although the track brought him some attention, it was his third release “Mistral,” out that same year, that is considered to be the launching pad of his career as Paul van Dyk would later go on to debuted the track live during the Nature One Festival. His debut artist album Northern Lights hit number one on the US iTunes dance chart and featured “Sanctuary,” which became the most played record of 2011 on Sirius XM Radio station BPM. Though his production is usually described as a fusion of trance, house and progressive, Gareth will tell you that he plays good music, regardless of genre.
Throwing labels to the side, Gareth Emery is an eclectic personality and an extremely talented DJ. Which is why we are excited to partner with the him on the following dates:
American electronic music promoter Disco Donnie Presents (DDP) and the Bob Moog Foundation have announced a strategic partnership to further the Foundation’s mission to educate and inspire children through the intersection of music and science.
The Asheville-based Foundation, which carries on the legacy of electronic music icon Robert Moog, received a $10,000 donation to assist with its innovative science and music education outreach program, Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool (DBSS), as well as a donation portal on all Disco Donnie Presents tickets pages to help raise additional support. The $10,000 donation was provided from the proceeds of Houston based Halloween electronic music festival, Something Wicked, a partnership between Disco Donnie Presents and Houston promoter Nightculture Events. Additionally, Disco Donnie Presents will match fan donations received through the donation portal.
“We’re thrilled to have found a partner in The Bob Moog Foundation — a foundation that shares the same values in the importance of education and creativity in the areas of music, math, and science. The strategic partnership paves the way for online donations from our customers, but also the continued support of our company,” Disco Donnie Presents CEO Donnie Estopinal said.
The Foundation sees the partnership as a perfect fit for both organizations.
“Donnie’s prominence within the EDM community and his interests in the area of innovative education that integrates music and science make the partnership a natural fit. We look forward to cultivating our strategic partnership with DDP to work together to ignite creativity in children’s lives through Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool,” said Michelle Moog-Koussa, Executive Director of the Bob Moog Foundation. She continues, “We are especially grateful that DDP has agreed to match all donations made through the ticket donation portals. This extra show of support will provide added incentive for concert-goers to pay tribute to their musical roots while inspiring the future through supporting the Bob Moog Foundation”.
The Foundation is in at a pivotal juncture of growth with Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool. The acclaimed program is centered in western North Carolina, but the foundation hopes to grow it regionally and nationally in the next three to five years. The growth of the program costs $20 per student or $500 per classroom.
The idea for a strategic partnership first came about when a mutual friend introduced Moog-Koussa and Estopinal at the EDM Biz conference in Las Vegas earlier this year.
Estopinal’s Disco Donnie Presents, both on its own and through partnerships, produces over 1,000 live events, festivals and club shows around the US annually. Ticket buyers for every show will now have the ability to donate to the Foundation. The Foundation and DDP hope the national focus and number of events will help spread the word and raise financial support.
“One of the reasons I’m excited about the strategic partnership is that fan ticketing donations are a good way for the electronic music culture to start giving back, said Estopinal. Historically, electronic music fans haven’t really been known for philanthropy, and I’m hoping that’s a perception we can all change together. I’m pleased to offer to match all donations that are made through the ticketing portal to enhance everybody’s contributions to this important cause.”
With school music and arts program cuts all across the country and U.S. students lagging behind students in other countries in the areas of science and math, the Bob Moog Foundation seeks to make an immediate impact in the lives of children through Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool.
The Foundation operates with two main objectives, education and preservation. The goals come to life through Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool and Archive Preservation Initiative. Eventually, a Moogseum is also in the works.
Contact: Evan Bailey
Communications Director, Disco Donnie Presents
evan@discodonniepresents.com
Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool
Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool (DBSS) is a 10 week curriculum which engages 2nd grade children in the science of sound through the magic of music. The curriculum explores such basic physics of vibrations, waveforms, amplitude, and pitch. Both acoustic and electronic musical instruments are used to demonstrate concepts, as well as custom designed educational materials developed by our DBSS team of educators and technologists. The curriculum is currently in 32 schools in Western North Carolina. The Foundation’s goal is to grow the program regionally and nationally in the years ahead.
Archive Preservation Initiative
The Bob Moog Foundation Archive is a unique and vast collection of schematics, notes, breadboard prototypes, photos, articles, reel-to-reel tapes, instruments and more. The Foundation works to protect, interpret and exhibit these materials so that future generations can be inspired by Bob Moog’s legacy, and by the work of those with whom he collaborated. The manifestation of this preservation will be to share the archives through traveling exhibits and eventually through our own Moogseum.
Moogseum
The Moogseum is planned to be both a website and facility in Asheville where the outreach and preservations goals converge in a hands-on interactive environment.
For more information about the Bob Moog Foundation and ways you can help, please visit: www.moogfoundation.org. Donations of any size can also be mailed to: Bob Moog Foundation, P.O. Box 8136, Asheville, NC 28814.
About Disco Donnie Presents
Disco Donnie Presents (DDP) is an award-winning and recognized leader in electronic dance music event production, generating over 1,000 live events, arena shows and outdoor festivals annually. DDP, both on its own and through partnership, develops innovative, creative and strategic business opportunities in live entertainment. For more information, please visit www.discodonniepresents.com
About NightCulture, Inc.
NightCulture, Inc. (NGHT.OB), “Concerts that Change Your Life”, is a premier producer of live concerts and events in the following U.S. markets: Houston, Austin, San Antonio and Oklahoma City.
From their humble beginnings at underground raves in Chicago warehouses, trio Krewella first burst on the scene in 2011. It wasn’t until they self-released their critically acclaimed Play Hard EP in the summer of 2012. The EP went to #1 on Beatport’s overall chart and the single “Alive” went to #1 on Billboard’s Dance Radio Airplay. Though it hasn’t even been a year since that EP, Krewella has become one of the hottest dance acts on the planet thanks to their hard blend of electro house, dubstep, and lyrics was high, it would skyrocket after they
Having just recently been awarded the IDMA for “Best Breakthrough Artist,” we agree with Billboard who stated “Krewella will be huge this year.”
Join Disco Donnie Presents and Krewella on or partnering dates:
Featuring three levels totaling in five rooms, come party with thousands of others at Milwaukee’s The Rave on August 17th, 2013. With over 50 DJs providing the soundtrack to the event, Stellar Spark Summer Sessions is definitely not one to be missed. Details and lineup announcement to be released soon.
Disco Donnie Presents and Alive Entertainment are proud to team up once again to bring the world-renowned paint party, Life in Color back to Mexico this summer.
Ever since the “World’s Largest Paint Party” began back in 2006, it has quickly taken the country by storm with its original, one-of-a-kind experience. Thousands upon thousands have made their way to the touring event. The fusion of some of the world’s hottest dance music, art, dancing, and of course, tons of paint, creates one mind-blowing, interactive fiesta. Life In Color is truly a unique and innovative experience that you must see to believe.
Having been deeply rooted in the music industry for over 40 years, British composer, DJ, producer, songwriter Paul Oakenfold has become one of the most indispensable talents of our time. During the rise of hip-hop, Paul was the worked as head of A&R at Champion Records where he was the first to sign then unknown act, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. Through late 80s into the early 90s as Britain reinvented its dance scene, Paul played a heavy hand to the explosion of the Balearic house style across the region as well as the invention of the “Madchester” genre.
His accomplishments as a label frontman are equally as intriguing as his world-famous imprint Perfecto Records has hosted releases from artists ranging from U2 to Infected Mushroom and has also been the career catalyst for artists like BT, Timo Maas, and Hernan Cattaneo. In the studio, Paul has not only created classic anthems like “It’s Not Over,” “Southern Sun,” and “Starry Eyed Surprise,” but has also remixed and produced for some of the industry’s highest A-listers like Madonna, and Cher, to even the Rolling Stones and Snoop Dogg.
Coined “UK’s #1 DJ,” Disco Donnie Presents is excited to bring legendary pioneer, producer, and DJ, Paul Oakenfold to a city near you!
Spring may have just sprung, but we are already looking forward to what’s on the horizon for the summer of 2013. Disco Donnie Presents is excited to partner up with Mexico’s Alive Entertainment for the Alive Summer Sessions. To kick off the series this year and to show our gratitude for all of your continued support, we are throwing two FREE events in Monterrey and Guadalajara with legendary pioneer, producer, and DJ, Paul Oakenfold. See you on the dance floor soon, Mexico!
We love how Meltdown Music Festival‘s lineup is so uniquely diverse. With different genres swarming around our list of talented acts, the one common bond tying them all together is a love of music. That love will take us down the longest road this Saturday when “We Are Finally All Together” at Le Grave Field in Fort Worth. Have you bought your passes yet?
One Meltdown artist who embraces that love of music, is Morgan Page. Page’s style has always been distinct. Pairing pop lyrics over his progressive synths and pounding four-to-the-floor beats, Page’s unique sound strikes a chord in the hearts of both dance music veterans and newcomers. Coming a long way from his log cabin home in Burlington, Vermont, Page has been nominated for two Grammy Awards and five International Dance Music Awards throughout the span of his career. A career that began from humble beginnings, Page started producing electronic music from the age of 12. His early exposure to the genre was inspired by local college radio station WRUV 90.1. Page later become a DJ at that very radio station, hosting a weekly mix show that introduced him to the wide variety of electronic music that came by the box-load.
Page began a steady release schedule after taking an internship at record label, Plastic City. From 2000 through 2006, a handful of 12″ singles scattered about on labels like Bedrock, Nordic Trax, Fiji, and Saw. Nettwerk Records, his current home stay, went on to sign Page for his 2008 release, Elevate, which featured songs like “Longest Road.” Elevate definitely established Page as one of the top talents of our generation’s list of dance music producers.
Now, with three studio albums, successful podcast, and sold-out shows around the world under his belt, Morgan Page is a name that isn’t going any where anytime soon. We can’t wait to have another night out on Meltdown’s dance floor this Saturday, April 27th.
We are less than a week away from the gates opening to Dallas’s highly-anticipated dance music event, Meltdown Music Festival. And the best part about that is thousands of us are getting ready to share the same memories together. Why not share and connect with them before April 27th? There are multiple social media outlets you can follow to meet other Meltdown’ers like us, as well as stay-to-date with all of the updates for the festival. Over the next couple of days, we will be releasing set times, site maps, guides, and local information to help you navigate your way through your upcoming experience.
But we want to see you take on our “We Are All Together” motto. Show us how you get ready for Meltdown with pictures or short videos of togetherness with friends, with family, or even with the entire dance floor at your favorite local nightclub! Use the #MeltdownDallas hashtag for your Instagram, Twitter, and Vine App (iPhone only) to set yourself apart from the rest. We will retweet some of our favorites!
Still haven’t made the commitment yet? There is still time to secure your spot on the dance floor with us, buy your tickets now!
Disco Donnie Presents has always been in the business of furthering lives with the power of music, and we've recently extended that idea with the formation of our Disco U program.
A new scholarship fund has been established at the Blair School of Music in honor of Leon Jackson, the late music and event promoter who introduced a generation of Nashvillians to electronic dance music.
