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NoCopyrightSounds Artists
NoCopyrightSounds, or NCS, is a British record label that releases royalty-free electronic dance music. Originally starting as a music promotion YouTube channel, it reached 1 million paid downloads in 2017. History NoCopyrightSounds was started as a YouTube channel in 2011 by "avid gamer" Billy Woodford. The label was described by ''Forbes'' as "a YouTube-first label that allows indie creators to use and even monetize its music freely as long as they give due credit back to the content owners." In 2017, NoCopyrightSounds achieved a milestone of over a million sales of digital downloads, despite releasing music for free. The label manager Daniel J. Lee said "Similar to services with a freemium model, NCS provides both the option to enjoy music for free but at the same time also enables fans to support the music across paid services", asserting that the label releases music for free and also sells them. Woodford, about the milestone, stated, "I’m immensely proud to have reache ... [...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music (EDM), also referred to as dance music or club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and List of electronic dance music festivals, festivals.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] |
Cartoon (band)
Cartoon is an Estonian band formed in 2015 by Hugo Martin Maasikas, Ago Teppand, and Joosep Järvesaar. Their most successful song is " On & On" featuring Daniel Levi, which has over 450 million views on YouTube as of March 2022. They also have many other songs with millions of views, including "Biology" in collaboration with nublu and Gameboy Tetris, "Why We Lose" in collaboration with Coleman Trapp, and "I Remember U" in collaboration with Jüri Pootsmann. In early 2024, Ago Teppand (a.k.a. Jéja) left the project to pursue his solo career. History Formation and breakthrough with "On & On" (2015–2016) Ago and Joosep met in high school in Estonia in 2004, and they met Hugo at a party hosted by Ago. Cartoon was then formed in 2015 and gained attention when they released "Why We Lose" featuring Coleman Trapp on the British record label NoCopyrightSounds. On July 9, 2015, Cartoon released " On & On" featuring Estonian-Mexican-American singer Daniel Levi. The song was featu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Walker
Alan Olav Walker (born 24 August 1997) is a Norwegian DJ and record producer. His songs "Faded (Alan Walker song), Faded", "Sing Me to Sleep", "Alone (Alan Walker song), Alone", "All Falls Down (Alan Walker song), All Falls Down" (with Noah Cyrus and Digital Farm Animals) and "Darkside (Alan Walker song), Darkside" (with Au/Ra and Tomine Harket) have each been multi-platinum-certified and reached number 1 on the VG-lista chart in Norway. Walker values his anonymity and is known to wear a hoodie and mask to remain inconspicuous. Walker grew up in Fana, Bergen, Fana, Bergen, Norway, and began making music around 2012. Using feedback from fans online, he later gained recognition by posting several videos on YouTube and SoundCloud. Starting out as a bedroom producer, he was better known as DJ Walkzz before signing a record deal and releasing his debut single "Fade" on NoCopyrightSounds (NCS) at the age of 17. In December 2015, his single "Faded (Alan Walker song), Faded", released ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vikkstar123
Vikram Singh Barn (born 2 August 1995), better known as Vikkstar123 or simply Vikkstar, is an English influencer. He is a member of the YouTube group the Sidemen. Barn's YouTube career started in 2010, primarily focusing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty Let's Play, let's play videos. Over time, he diversified his content, incorporating Vlog, vlogs, Internet challenge, challenges, and collaborations with other influencers. As of June 2025, his main YouTube channel has over 7.58 million subscribers and over 2.18 billion views. Early life and education Barn is of British Indians, Indian descent and was born on 2 August 1995 in Guildford, Surrey, England, where he lived until eight years of age. He moved to Sheffield where he attended Silverdale School. Barn was offered a place to study natural sciences at University College London, but he ended up declining the offer in order to pursue his YouTube career full-time. He is the youngest of three children. Online caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spin (magazine)
''Spin'' (stylized in all caps as ''SPIN'') is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione Jr. Now owned by Next Management Partners, the magazine is an online publication since it stopped issuing a print edition in 2012. It returned as a quarterly publication in September 2024. History Early history ''Spin'' was established in 1985 by Bob Guccione, Jr. In August 1987, the publisher announced it would stop publishing ''Spin'', but Guccione Jr. retained control of the magazine and partnered with former MTV president David H. Horowitz to quickly revive the magazine. During this time, it was published by Camouflage Publishing with Guccione Jr. serving as president and chief executive and Horowitz as investor and chairman. In its early years, ''Spin'' was known for its narrow music coverage, with an emphasis on college rock, grunge, indie rock, and the ongoing emergence of hip-hop, while virtually ignoring other genres, such as country and metal. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyti
Alexey Nikitin (born. November 18, 1995), known professionally as Pyti, is a Belarusian musician, composer and producer. Biography In 2009, he became a scholarship holder of the special fund of the President of the Republic of Belarus to support talented youth. Then he graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Music in the class of accordion. He won several international and national competitions, for which he was awarded the Prize of the President of the Republic of Belarus. As a member of the L. L. Ivanov Folk Instruments Orchestra he has performed at a number of music festivals, including the State Kremlin Palace, the Moscow International House of Music, the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music and the Moscow State Conservatory. He is also a member of the Data Bank of Gifted Youth In 2020, under the pseudonym Pyti, he began his career in the genre of electronic music, releasing his first single "Fire". In 2021, he released five singles in various styles of electronic danc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olwik
Herman Olwik (born August 10, 1996), also known as Olwik (stylised in all caps), is a Swedish electronic dance musician and DJ. As a child, Olwik was immersed in music and is classically trained to play the viola, piano, drums and guitar. In an interview with music blog ''We Got This Covered'', he stated that he became interested in producing electronic music when he was first introduced to a track called “Mellow” by Swedish duo Nause. In the same interview, he also stated that he "got inspired to create my own melodies later when I discovered Swedish producer Steerner, who was just starting to grow at the time." Career Olwik's earliest productions were uploaded to the music platform Soundcloud, typically in the style of Progressive House. His very first release on record label NoCopyrightSounds, "This Life," went viral on Soundcloud and amassed nearly 2 million streams. His follow-up release "Villain" on NCS was widely covered by electronic music blogs and magazines, inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neffex
Neffex (stylized as in all caps) is an American music project by Bryce Savage (born December 30, 1993) and, until 2021, Cameron Wales. They produced remixes and original songs characterized by a mixture of Electronic music, electronic and Rap (genre), rap genres. While still a duo, Savage wrote the lyrics, produced the tracks, and sang the songs while Wales mixed and mastered them. They have released most of their songs royalty-free (under CC BY license) which have featured in media by Content creation, content creators globally. Origin Bryce Savage (born Brandon Christopher Horth) and Cameron Wales first met in high school when they were 15 years old. At that time, they were involved in a punk rock band. Thereafter, both exited the band and started making their own music. However, this was not yet the creation of NEFFEX. After high school, Wales moved to Los Angeles, but kept in touch with Savage during college. When Savage was in the last year of college, he talked to Wale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mason Musso
Mason Tyler Musso (born March 17, 1989) is an American musician, singer and songwriter, best known for being the older brother of actor Mitchel Musso and former lead vocalist of Metro Station (band), Metro Station. He is also the lead vocalist for Social Order. Early life Mason Tyler Musso was born to Katherine (née Moore) and Samuel Musso in Dallas, Texas, on March 17, 1989. Soon after, his family moved to Rockwall, Texas. He has two younger brothers, Mitchel Musso, Mitchel and Marc, who are both actors. In 2006, Mitchel landed the role of List of Hannah Montana main characters#Oliver Oken, Oliver Oken on the Disney Channel children's comedy series ''Hannah Montana'', causing the Musso family to move to Burbank, California, Burbank, California. Musso attended College of the Canyons studying music business classes in 2006. Musso took up piano lessons at a young age, before he got his first guitar on Christmas and started playing in a church band in Texas. Career Beginning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maduk (musician)
Mark van der Schoot (born 4 October 1990), known by his stage name Maduk, is a Dutch drum and bass music producer and DJ from Amsterdam. He has released music on Hospital Records, Liquicity Records, Viper Recordings as well as Monstercat and Fokuz Recordings. He released his first album ''Never Give Up'' at Hospital Records on 29 April 2016. Together with Maris Goudzwaard, he founded Liquicity. History He won the award for "Best Newcomer Producer" at the Drum and Bass Awards 2014, and the "Best Newcomer DJ" award in 2015. Discography Albums Extended plays References External links Madukat Hospital Records Hospital Records is a British independent record label based in South London. Primarily releasing drum and bass, the label was started in 1996 by Tony Colman ( London Elektricity) and Chris Goss and has grown in recent years to become one of t ... * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Maduk 1990 births Living people Dutch drum and bass musicians Hospital Records artists Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koven (group)
Koven, sometimes stylized as KOᐯEN or KOVEN., are an English electronic dance music duo made up of producer Max Rowat and vocalist Katie Boyle. They are especially known for their drum and bass and dubstep, but also make trap, future bass, house, pop and other styles. The duo are signed to Monstercat and hail from London, England. Rowat started the project in 2011 and had several vocalists prior to Katie Boyle joining in 2014. They have guested on BBC Radio 1 shows including BBC Radio 1 Dance Presents with Hybrid Minds. They released their debut album ''Butterfly Effect'' in 2020, which was nominated for Best Album at the 2020 Drum & Bass Arena awards. History Max Rowat began the Koven project in 2011, posting his debut free EP "Wake You Up" on SoundCloud, with the title track including vocals by Kate Ashton. Rowat and Ashton released two more songs together: "Take It All" with Modestep and the project's streaming debut "More Than You". The duo also supported Modestep on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
K-391
Kenneth Osberg Nilsen (born 2 November 1994), known professionally as K-391, is a Norwegian music producer and DJ. He is best known for his 2018 single " Ignite", a song featuring Alan Walker, Julie Bergan and Seungri which reached number one in Norway. Career K-391 began his career as an artist in 2009, then known as Keosni. Later he changed it to KON-391, an acronym of his full name accompanied by the figures "391" meaning "CIA" by the order of each letter of the alphabet. Then he finally shortened it to K-391. In 2013, British record label, NoCopyrightSounds promoted his song "Dream Of Something Sweet", featuring Cory Friesenhan, on 22 December 2013. His final song on the label was "Earth", released on 30 April 2016. In 2017, K-391 and Alan Walker released their collaborative single " Ignite", a reboot of his 2015 track "Godzilla" which featured vocalist Marvin Divine. Although the song was a collaboration, Nilsen was only credited as a feature on the song. The song, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
