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Insomniac Reveals Bass-Filled 2022 Lineup for Orlando’s Forbidden Kingdom Festival
Insomniac is gathering troops and preparing for a medieval battle at this year’s Forbidden Kingdom. Promising four new stages, organizers have been ramping up the hype for the next chapter in the epic Florida music festival. Now, just over a month after tickets went on sale, the first batch of artists who will be performing has been announced. This spring, attendees will clash with dragons, ogres, and other mythical beasts set to the sounds of Excision, DJ Diesel (Shaquille O’Neal), Subtronics, Rusko, Wooli, Deathpact, VAMPA, Eptic, Level Up, FuntCase, ZíA, G Jones, and more. In addition to the long list of solo artists set to take the stage, the fest will host a number of B2B sets, such as Getter and Space Laces, Buku and G-REX, Jessica Audiffred and RATED R, Vi...
Ray Volpe Announces Collabs With Marshmello, Adventure Club, NGHTMRE, More
Ray Volpe is primed for a monster year. Taking to social media on January 6th, the young bass music production virtuoso has announced a myriad of high-profile collabs in the works. Volpe’s hard drive is apparently mouthwatering, chock full of unreleased music with the likes of Marshmello, NGHTMRE, Adventure Club and more. One of the tracks, he added, is dropping later this month. Marshmello dropped the curtain on his unreleased collab with Volpe at the 2021 edition of Lollapalooza, where he kicked off his headlining performance with the dubstep banger. Needless to say, fans of Volpe are safe to look forward to a prolific year of genre-defying electronic music. And after signing with famed dubstep imprint Disciple in 2021, it seems his leap into the upper echelon of bass music wi...
Here Are the Lost Lands 2021 Set Times and Day-to-Day Schedules
Lost Lands is back, baby. The prehistoric-themed Ohio music festival, which doubles as a utopia for fans of head-banging electronic music, is officially returning this Friday, September 24th. The biggest and baddest in bass music are primed for monumental performances, such as Getter, Virtual Riot, Rusko, Barely Alive, Space Laces, G Jones, and of course Lost Lands founder Excision. Check out the official Lost Lands 2021 set times below as well as the schedule for the Discovery Center at the campgrounds Village Marketplace, which includes workshops, dance battles, and even a speed-dating matchmaker session for head-bangers. LOST LANDS DAY 1 SCHEDULE: Lost Lands schedule for September 24th, 2021. Recommended Articles LOST LANDS DAY 2 SCHEDULE: Lost Lands schedule for September 25t...
Colorado Drive-In Rave to Feature Headlining B2B Set by Virtual Riot and Barely Alive
The lethal duo of Barely Alive and Virtual Riot are reuniting for a B2B set of epic proportions. The dubstep fan-favorites are performing at “Amplitude 500,” a socially distanced drive-in rave scheduled for this Saturday, October 3rd. Joining them for the can’t-miss show are Dion Timmer, Bandlez, Control Freak, Luc, and Concentrates, who will all be descending on the Pikes Peak International Raceway in Fountain, Colorado to drop their unique styles of trap and bass music. Bass music fans are likely aware that this is not the the first time Barely Alive and Virtual Riot have gone B2B in the live concert arena. They teamed up for a blistering joint set at Lost Lands 2017 before joining forces once again at Red Rocks in 2018, bringing fellow dubstep don PhaseOne&nb...
Nitti Gritti, Barely Alive, Drezo, More to Perform at Upcoming Nocturnal Wonderland Virtual Rave-A-Thon
Ahead of this weekend’s “Nocturnal Wonderland Virtual Rave-A-Thon,” Insomniac has unveiled a massive lineup to tide fans over until the festival’s momentous in-person return in 2021. True to Insomniac’s genre-traversing ways, the lineup represents the best in both house and bass music. Repping the dubstep and trap scenes are Nitti Gritti, Barely Alive, Modestep, and Borgore. Set to grace the digital stage for the autumn livestream from the house music realm are Chris Lorenzo, Drezo, GG Magree, Justin Martin, VNSSA, and dance music legend Benny Benassi, among others. The livestream event will kick off at 6PM PT (9PM ET) this Friday, September 18th and Saturday, September 19th on Insomniac’s YouTube and Twitch ch...
Excision Announces Stacked Lineup for Lost Lands’ Virtual Edition with Barely Alive, Virtual Riot, More
The collective jaw of the dubstep community just hit the carpet after Excision dropped a behemoth of a lineup for the upcoming virtual edition of his flagship festival, Lost Lands. The third iteration of his “Couch Lands” series, the digital fest flaunts a who’s who of some of the most fearsome names in bass music. Set to appear on the monumental livestream are Barely Alive, Virtual Riot, Sullivan King, Habstrakt, Modestep, Ray Volpe, Chime, Jantsen, HEKLER, Hi I’m Ghost, Hydraulix, Jeanie, Jinx, Kai Wachi, LEVEL UP, LICK, Samplifire, SWARM, TYNAN, and YOOKiE. The festival’s plucky hero, Excision, is also performing. The dubstep favorite recently hyped up his virtual festival on September 3rd, when he told fans to prepare for a “very special se...
SNAILS Shares Mammoth Remix Package for “World of Slime” EP
Dubstep maven SNAILS released his World of Slime EP, using his own Slugz Music imprint to raise hellfire with an eight-track song-cycle of quaking bass music. The “vomitstep” proprietor has now returned with another eight-tracker in the form of a blistering bundle of remixes for his World of Slime project, which features riotous reworks from Bossfight, Effin, MVRDA and Samplifire, Leotrix, Modestep, Blunts & Blondes, FrostTop and Control Freak. Young gun Leotrix kicks things off with his relentless remix of the Carbin and Big Ali-assisted “Tear It Up” before MVRDA and Samplire slide in with their screeching dubstep remix of “RKO (feat. Rico Act),” which we premiered back on May 6th, 2020. London bass duo Modest...
