After a hugely successful US tour, including five sold-out nights at the Hollywood Palladium Los Angeles and four at New York’s Avant Gardner Hall, Canadian dance titan deadmau5 has announced he will bring his state-of-the-art CUBE v3 production to London for a highly-anticipated headline show at O2 Academy Brixton on Friday 26th June. Tickets go on sale this Friday 13th March at 10 am from MyTicket.co.uk.
The renowned artist’s most technologically advanced production to date, the boundary-pushing CUBE v3 show runs on code written by deadmau5 himself, making its debut on the UK festival scene last Summer.
Deadmau5’s upcoming O2 Academy Brixton show comes a decade on from his last appearance at the iconic venue, which took place back in April 2010. He has since headlined London’s Printworks venue and Manchester’s Warehouse Project.
Joel Zimmerman, more commonly known as deadmau5, is one of the most respected electronic music producers of modern times. In 2008, Zimmerman broke through with his critically acclaimed third studio album “Random Album Title”, as well as enjoying international chart success with platinum-certified single ‘Ghosts ‘n’ Stuff’. He has since released five critically acclaimed albums, including the Grammy-nominated “4×4=12” and “Album Title Goes Here”, which peaked in the Top 10 of the UK Album Chart. Not stopping there, Zimmerman also produced the soundtrack to Netflix’s 2019 neo-noir thriller film Polar.
Arguably one of the most in-demand live acts in the world, deadmau5 will return to London’s O2 Academy Brixton on 26th June.
Parisian trio Oracle Sisters return today (March 11th) with new single ‘Asc. Scorpio’, a swaying astral pop stomp of surrealist vignettes. Their first new music of 2020, ‘Asc. Scorpio’ is a taste of their long-awaited debut EP due for release later this Spring.
The idea of the song was born when Lewis (lead guitarist) was stung by a scorpion in Jamaica. The bite travelled back to Paris, along with the scorpion which he caught and smuggled through customs.
Sat down with Chris (lead vocals) one afternoon over a drum machine, an acoustic guitar, the newly erected scorpion shrine and a sudden astrological epiphany, they got to writing ‘Asc. Scorpio’. Initially inspired by A Tribe Called Quest, they built upon the drum machine, layering their now-signature three-part harmonies and reverb-drenched guitars over the beats.
Taelor Deitcher Felix Cartal and Sophie Simmons have just released future radio banger ‘Mine’ via Physical Presents. Felix Cartal was included on Billboard’s list of the 13 Dance Artists that Dominated 2017, he was ranked amongst established acts Odeza, Illenium, and Marshmello. His hits ‘Get What You Give’ and ‘Love Me’ have platinum status in Canada, ‘Love Me’ was also nominated for Dance Recording of the Year for the Juno’s 2020. The producer has collaborated with artists Kaskade, and R3HAB. He has also remixed the works of Selena Gomez, Zedd, Galantis, Dillon Francis, MØ, Ellie Goulding and Diplo.
Singer Sophie Simmons debut single ‘Black Mirror’ ranked Number 43 on Billboard’s Dance Club Songs charts and remained on the list for ten weeks following. The song eventually reached the impressive rank of Number 20 on that exact list. She has featured in praised publications including Vanity Fair, Billboard, YourEDM, and Cosmopolitan. The singer has had success working for labels Spinnin’ Records and Casablanca Records. Regular collaborations that Sophie does include with the DJ duo Yellow Claw. Sophie has also featured in influential Youtube channels Ultra Music, Chill Nation, and Majestic Casual. Her stream rate to date is over 30 million plays.
Speaking on the collab, Felix Cartal tells us, “In ‘Mine’ each verse is about a different kind of love. In Verse 1 we have been sixteen and your childhood, Verse 2 a post-college adult and, The Bridge is a more mature adult looking back. We wanted it to be folk-ish in melody and in production to emphasize the focus on it being a narrative, really story-driven. Finally, the drop melody is Sophie singing a clean sweet melody and it being distorted kind of like what happens when one looks back on memories. We often remember them differently as time passes”
Lausanne-based singer/songwriter has always done things by herself. She writes, records, and manages her work only following her precise feeling of what’s correct and what’s not.
In 2019, Emilie Zoé got a Swiss Music Award and was invited to play major festivals such as The Great Escape Brighton (UK), Fusion Festival (DE), Bad Bonn Kilbi (CH), Paléo Festival Nyon (CH), Winterthur Musikfestwochen (CH), and opened for Shannon Wright (Le Trianon, Paris) or Jay-Jay Johanson (La Gaité Lyrique, Paris). In 2020, Emilie Zoé played Eurosonic Noorderslaag.
See our exclusive interview with her below:
What are some of your earliest memories of music?
Listening to the same Tom Wait’s record over and over at my parent’s and imagining the music was really played live every time I pressed “play”. I remember imagining the musicians were in a small shack in the forest using weird objects to make those sounds. I couldn’t distinguish any instrument though at that time and didn’t think about the way this music could come to my ears.
Take us through your songwriting process. Are there any particular steps you take when putting music together?
I have to play on an instrument, and the instrument helps to find notes that sound good on it and good to my ears. Then come melodies and words with them, and it makes a verse or a chorus. Then I dig into the sense of it and find the story I want to tell with that song by writing other parts of the song, little by little, like an archaeologist digging up an old object.
Studio work and music creation or performing and interacting with a live audience, which do you prefer?
For me at the moment playing live is the most important, and what I’ve done most. The skeleton of a song is written at home but then I try it on stage and it evolves by being played live. And in the studio, I’ve always recorded songs playing “live” guitar and vocals. Both are highly connected.
What is the most memorable response you have had to your music?
Last year’s whole tour, playing an album called “The Very Start” (Hummus Records, 2018). We played 120 shows in Europe and it was crazy how people always came to talk to us enthusiastically after every show.
If you could put together a radio show, what kind of music would you play?
Rough and simple music that touches me directly. Sometimes lo-fi home recordings.
Name five artists and their albums who would appear on your radio show
The White Stripes – Elephant
Two Gallants – The Bloom and the Blight
Louis Jucker – Eight Orphan Songs
Great Black Waters – Songs for a Bath
Lhasa – The Living Road
What would you like to achieve with your music? What does success look like to you?
I’d like to be able to continue writing, playing and recording music as long as possible. For me it’s a kind of social activity: I make music with my friends, we release our records on a self-managed label and it would be great if it could inspire and motivate people to do their own activities together with the people they like. We will need to create resilient structures and strong social ties for the years to come.
One last thought to leave your fans with?
Let’s try to learn as much as possible, be enthusiastic and curious about the world and the universe. With this knowledge, we’ll be able to decide how to live in the best possible way.
