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Skrillex
Sonny John Moore (born January 15, 1988), known professionally as Skrillex, is an American DJ, record producer, musician, singer. Raised in Northeast Los Angeles and Northern California, he began his career in 2004 as the lead vocalist of the post-hardcore band From First to Last. He recorded their first two studio albums with the band, ''Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Bodycount'' (2004) and ''Heroine (From First to Last album), Heroine'' (2006), before leaving to pursue a solo career in 2007. He began his first tour as a solo artist in late 2007. After recruiting a new band lineup, Moore joined the Alternative Press Tour to support bands such as All Time Low and the Rocket Summer, and appeared on the cover of ''Alternative Press (music magazine), Alternative Press''s annual "100 Bands You Need to Know" issue. After releasing the extended play ''Gypsyhook'' (2009), Moore was scheduled to record his debut studio album, ''Bells'', with producer Noah Shain. Although its release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gypsyhook
American DJ and music producer Skrillex has released four studio albums, seven extended play An extended play (EP) is a Sound recording and reproduction, musical recording that contains more tracks than a Single (music), single but fewer than an album. Contemporary EPs generally contain up to eight tracks and have a playing time of 1 ...s, 46 Single (music), singles (including 17 as a featured artist), and 54 music videos. After departing the post-hardcore band From First to Last, he released his debut extended play, ''Gypsyhook'', on April 7, 2009, through Atlantic Records as Sonny Moore. He then began producing music under the pseudonym Skrillex, released a second extended play, ''My Name Is Skrillex'', as a free Music download, download from his Myspace page. The release was succeeded by a single, "Weekends (Skrillex song), Weekends!!!", featuring Sirah (rapper), Sirah, which was released on October 25, 2010, in the United States. Skrillex rose to fame in late 2010 when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skrillex Discography
American DJ and music producer Skrillex has released four studio albums, seven extended plays, 46 singles (including 17 as a featured artist), and 54 music videos. After departing the post-hardcore band From First to Last, he released his debut extended play, ''Gypsyhook'', on April 7, 2009, through Atlantic Records as Sonny Moore. He then began producing music under the pseudonym Skrillex, released a second extended play, ''My Name Is Skrillex'', as a free download from his Myspace page. The release was succeeded by a single, " Weekends!!!", featuring Sirah, which was released on October 25, 2010, in the United States. Skrillex rose to fame in late 2010 when he released a third EP, ''Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites'' on October 22 through labels mau5trap and Big Beat Records. The release saw moderate success, peaking at number 49 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and receiving an award for Best Dance/Electronica Album at the 54th Grammy Awards. The album's title track, also released ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Ü
Jack Ü was an American electronic dance music duo consisting of electronic music producers Skrillex and Diplo, formed in 2013. They released their first official single, "Take Ü There", featuring vocals from Kiesza, on October 4, 2014. They released their first and only album, ''Skrillex and Diplo Present Jack Ü'', on February 27, 2015. Jack Ü performed at Ultra Music Festival Miami in 2014. They also performed at Ultra Music Festival in 2015 with the entire "Jack Ü crew", featuring live contributions from CL (singer), CL, Kai (Canadian singer), Kai, Sean Combs, Diddy, Kiesza and Justin Bieber. According to Skrillex, the collaboration is called 'Jack Ü' because it refers to how the music "jacks you up" with its high energy beats and bassline. The Ü (U with umlaut (diacritic), umlaut) letter appears in titles of all of its singles and is usually stylized to look like a smiley. History On September 15, 2013, Jack Ü's debut performance took place at Mad Decent Block Party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owsla
Owsla (stylized in all caps) is an American record label and creative collective. It was founded by Skrillex, Tim Smith, Kathryn Frazier, and Clayton Blaha in 2011. Skrillex announced the label on August 17, 2011. The label's first release was Porter Robinson's ''Spitfire''. The name "Owsla" is a reference to Richard Adams' fantasy novel '' Watership Down'', in which it refers to the governing caste in a society of anthropomorphic rabbits. History In 2012, Owsla launched a monthly subscription, ''The Nest'', with benefits including early access to Owsla releases. In 2013, Bromance Records partnered up with Owsla to create an American branch titled Bromance US with releases from Gesaffelstein, Illangelo, Brodinski and LOUISAHHH!!!. A year later, Owsla launched the Nestivus Charity Campaign, a series of holiday initiatives with all proceeds going to the international music nonprofit, Bridges for Music. On September 18, 2016, Owsla celebrated five years of establishment with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dog Blood
Dog Blood is a side duo of DJs and producers formed in 2012 by music producers Skrillex and Boys Noize. Their debut single, ''Next Order / Middle Finger'', was released on August 12, 2012, on Beatport and iTunes and other music streaming platforms. The song "Next Order" managed to reach #1 on Beatport's Techno chart. On 9 November, Dog Blood announced they were working on new material. Skrillex premiered a new Dog Blood track on an exclusive Owsla live stream to members of The Nest on 21 December 2012. On 16 September they released their second EP, which consists of the tracks 'Shred or Die', 'Middle Finger Pt. 2' and 'Chella Ride'. The EP is composed of a further two remixes of "Middle Finger" by The M Machine & Millions Like Us. The song "Chella Ride" peaked at #1 on the Beatport Breaks chart. On 17 March, Dog Blood performed live at Ultra Music Festival 2013 and debuted new material, including a remix of ASAP Rocky Rakim Athelaston Mayers (born October 3, 1988), kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
From First To Last
From First to Last is an American post-hardcore band formed in Tampa, Florida by Matt Good, Scott Oord, and Parker Nelms in November 1999. The current line-up consists of Matt Good (lead vocals and lead guitar), Travis Richter (rhythm guitar and unclean vocals), and Derek Bloom (drums). The band released their first EP ''Aesthetic'' in 2003, which they recorded with founding member and vocalist Phillip Reardon. Reardon left the band in 2004 due to personal and creative differences. After signing with Epitaph Records, the band recruited Sonny Moore as their new vocalist. The band's first two albums, '' Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Bodycount'' (2004) and ''Heroine'' (2006), were both underground successes, selling a combined total of 304,000 copies in the United States by 2008 even with a lack of radio airplay. The band also cultivated a large following on MySpace during this period, with the band's songs receiving over 20 million streams on the platform by March 2008. Foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electronic Dance Music
Electronic dance music (EDM), also referred to as dance music or club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and List of electronic dance music festivals, festivals. It is generally produced for gapless playback, playback by DJs who create seamless selections of tracks, called a DJ mix, by segueing from one recording to another. EDM producers also perform their music live in a concert or festival setting in what is sometimes called a live PA. Since its inception EDM has expanded to include a wide range of subgenres. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, following the emergence of Rave music, raving, pirate radio, Party crews, underground festivals, and an upsurge of interest in club culture, EDM achieved mainstream popularity in Europe. However, rave culture was not as broadly popular in the United States; it was not typically seen outside of the regional scenes in New York City, Florida, the Midwest, and California. Alt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dubstep
Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London in the early 2000s. The style emerged as a UK garage offshoot that blended 2-step rhythms and sparse dub production, as well as incorporating elements of broken beat, grime, and drum and bass.Reynolds, S.(2012),''Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture,'' Perseus Books; Reprint edition (5 January 2012), pages 511–516, (). In the United Kingdom, the origins of the genre can be traced back to the growth of the Jamaican sound system party scene in the early 1980s. Dubstep is generally characterised by the use of syncopated rhythmic patterns, with prominent basslines, and a dark tone. In 2001, this underground sound and other strains of garage music began to be showcased and promoted at London's night club Plastic People, at the "Forward" night (sometimes stylised as FWD>>), and on the pirate radio station Rinse FM, which went on to be considerably influential to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electro House
Electro house is a genre of electronic dance music and a subgenre of house music characterized by heavy bass and a tempo around 125–135 beats per minute. The term has been used to describe the music of many ''DJ Mag'' Top 100 DJs, including Benny Benassi, Skrillex, Steve Aoki, and Deadmau5. Characteristics Simon Reynolds described electro house, as a style attributed to artists like Zedd, Erol Alkan and Bloody Beetroots. Electro-house is typified by its heavy bass. This is often in the form of buzzing basslines, such as those created with sawtooth waves and distortion. It is also often in the form of large bass drum sounds in a four-on-the-floor pattern. The tempo of electro house is usually between 125 and 135 beats per minute. Electro house sometimes resembles tech house, but it can contain melodic elements and electro-influenced samples and synths. In contrast, Reynolds stated the genre had "little relationship with either house or electro". History Reynolds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brostep
Brostep is a harder form of dubstep that emerged during the late 2000s and early 2010s and pioneered by artists like Skrillex and Rusko (musician), Rusko. In 2011, dubstep gained significant traction in the US market, by way of a post-dubstep style known as Brostep, with the American producer Skrillex becoming something of a "poster boy" for the Dubstep scene. In September 2011, a ''Spin Magazine'' EDM special referred to brostep as a "lurching and aggressive" variant of dubstep that has proven commercially successful in the United States. Unlike traditional dubstep production styles, which emphasise sub-bass content, brostep accentuates the middle Register (music), register and features "robotic fluctuations and metal-esque aggression". According to Simon Reynolds, as dubstep gained larger audiences and moved from smaller club-based venues to larger outdoor events, sub-sonic content was gradually replaced by distorted bass Riff#Riff, riffs that function roughly in the same r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mau5trap
Mau5trap (stylized as mau5trap; pronounced "mousetrap") is a Canadian independent record label founded in 2007 by electronic music producer Deadmau5. The label was formerly a vanity label, hosting releases through labels such as Ultra Music, Virgin Records, and Astralwerks. History In 2007, Mau5trap was founded by Canadian electronic music producer Deadmau5 (Joel Zimmerman). The label's first release was Zimmerman's " Faxing Berlin", also released by Play Records and Cinnamon Flava. The second artist on the label was Canadian DJ Glenn Morrison, which Zimmerman later revealed to have ghost produced for. In 2008, after more artists were signed to moderate success, Mau5trap partnered with Ultra Records and released Zimmerman's third studio album, '' Random Album Title'' to commercial success. In 2010, Mau5trap signed American producer Skrillex, and released his second EP '' Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites'' in partnership with Big Beat Records. In 2012, Mau5trap signed Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has A Bodycount
''Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Bodycount'' is the debut studio album by American post-hardcore band From First to Last. It was released on June 28, 2004, through Epitaph Records. The title was taken from a monologue in the film ''Heathers'', in which Winona Ryder's character is writing in her diary. Production was handled by Lee Dyess and the band themselves. The album was remastered by Beau Burchell from Saosin, however, it is not indicated on the personnel, possibly due to a contemporary feud between the band. The album is also notable for being one of the earliest projects featuring singer and multi-instrumentalist Sonny Moore (who has since launched a successful solo career as an electronic music producer and performer, under the stage name Skrillex). The album received generally mixed reviews from music critics. It reached number 12 and 21 on the ''Billboard'' Heatseekers Albums and Independent Albums chart. It spawned two singles: "Ride the Wings of Pestilence" and "Not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
