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NoCopyrightSounds
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] |
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] |
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] |
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] |
Aero Chord
Alexandros Vlastaras (; born 8 November 1991), commonly known by his stage name Aero Chord, is a Greek electronic trap producer. He is mostly known for his songs within the trap genre, but has also delved into other hybrid music genres such as dubstep, progressive house, electro, and trance. History Vlastaras began his career in 2011. In his interview in 2013 with Your EDM, he spoke on the origins of the name Aero Chord, stating "Well, my name wasn't something easy to decide on. It took me at least 2 months of looking through name generators and combining their outputs endlessly until something good and meaningful and unique came up. When I saw Aero Chord it just clicked I guess." Speaking on the beginning of his career, he stated "I started producing at the age of 14 I think, inspired by a cousin of mine who was making Goa and psy-trance back then and who helped me through my first steps with Reason. I've never DJ'ed much in my life before Aero Chord, I just knew I have to go ... [...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] |
32Stitches
Arpit Gawri, better known by his stage name 32Stitches, is a Mumbai-based electronic musician, DJ, and record producer. His music has been released on labels such as Universal Music, Trap Nation, NoCopyrightSounds, Sony Music and Music High Court. Early life and career Born in Chandigarh, Arpit studied at ILM Academy. He obtained his second audio engineering degree from Point Blank Music School in London. Following that, he made his initial performances in London, Amsterdam and Mumbai. He made his debut with Sony Music with the release of "Last Time" in 2016, and also co-founded his own record label and live experience brand Music High Court. In 2017, he performed alongside San Holo and Droeloe at their debut show in India, and also performed at the Run the Trap showcase in Mumbai along with Fabian Mazur and LUUDE later that year, along with a debut show at Amsterdam Dance Event The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) is a five-day electronic music conference and festival held ann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syn Cole
Rene Pais (born 25 March 1988), better known by his stage name Syn Cole, is an Estonian DJ and record producer. Some of his notable songs include " Miami 82" in 2013, "Bright Lights" in 2014, and " Feel Good" in 2016. Born and raised in Pärnu, Estonia, Pais studied classical piano growing up and discovered synthesizers as a teenager, which led to his interest in dance music. He began producing his own music around 2004, eventually catching the ear of Swedish DJ Avicii, who signed him to his label Le7els Records in 2012. That same year, Pais headlined the Creamfields Dance Music Festival in the UK, further increasing his profile. His remix of Avicii's " Silhouettes" also reached number 20 on the Digital Top 100 Dance Remix chart in 2012. Early life He attended music school from an early age and aspired to become a pianist. A friend made him listen to some famous dance tracks on cassette tape, and he fell in love with electronic dance music, turning into a producer when he was ... [...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] |
Brooks (DJ)
Thijs Westbroek (; born 14 April 1995), better known by his stage name Brooks, is a Dutch disc jockey, record producer and electronic musician. He is best known for his collaborations with Martin Garrix ("Byte", " Like I Do") and David Guetta (" Better When You're Gone", "Like I Do"), as well as for his numerous high-profile remixes. Career Brooks' career as a disc jockey began when he sent his song to twenty random email addresses that could be related to Martin Garrix. To his delight, the song he sent was played by Garrix at a show. Not long after, Garrix contacted and told Brooks of his enthusiasm for his music. Garrix later invited him to his house to work on the "Byte The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable un ..." song. Brooks described the event as a "crazy story" and s ... [...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] |
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] |
Eden (Irish Musician)
Jonathon Ng (born 23 December 1995), known professionally as Eden (stylised as EDEN), is an Irish musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and occasional model. He formerly operated as The Spab Project and later The Eden Project, an alias discontinued in 2015. Ng's work as The Eden Project typically featured more conventional styles of electronic dance music, such as dubstep and drum and bass, while EDEN saw himself venturing into an indie pop style. Ng released six EPs and over 70 songs and remixes as The Eden Project. As EDEN, he launched his own record label, MCMXCV, on which his debut EP ''End Credits'' was released. His second EP, ''I Think You Think Too Much of Me'', was released in August 2016, debuting at No. 43 on the Irish Albums Chart as his first charting music. EDEN's debut studio album ''Vertigo'' was released on 19 January 2018 and was supported by a world tour. In February 2020, Ng released his sophomore studio album called ''No Future'', which was follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
