Listening to BT‘s upcoming 14th album comes with some pretty high financial incentives. Rare, one-of-a-kind NFTs await BT’s most eagle-eyed fans as the electronic music legend readies the release of Metaversal, a multi-sensory, blockchain-based album experience unlike any other. As longtime fans have come to realize, BT has a habit of speaking in codes, and hasn’t hesitated to embed audio and visual “easter eggs” in his work for fans to find. Now, he’s betting on fans to meet a challenge unlike any he’s posed to them before. “To say I have smart and creative fans is the understatement of the century,” BT said in a statement. “One of the most thrilling things about releasing music over the years has been how long it ...
With a brutal drought of concerts, the live music industry as a whole has witnessed an unprecedented surge of livestreamed concerts and events. Enter Netherlands-based immersive music technology company Woov. To kick off the launch of their company, Woov recently hosted an interactive livestream concert experience with a star-studded lineup. The carefully curated event featured immersive livestream experiences from veteran superstar DJs and producers Carl Cox, BT and Sunery James & Ryan Marciano. Each of the three sets presented a unique immersive environment. Cox spun a killer house set from his studio and BT played a set live from the beach with stellar visuals. Sunery James & Ryan Marciano’s set showcased footage of them from a performance at world-renowned...
With a career spanning over 25 years, the mythos of electronic dance music surges through BT. The fabled trance producer’s groundbreaking sonic flair gushed through the dance music sphere in the mid-90s like a tributary, pervading it en route to the ushering in of a new electronic epoch. As BT’s pioneering developments in trance music became more ubiquitous through the years, his artistry began to mutate, evolving and expanding into a litany of electronic sub-genres such as IDM, ambient, and even trip hop. As the time passed, he started to resemble a doppelgänger of himself—a completely different person with the same face and mind. However, his latest album, The Lost Art of Longing, moonlighted as an audial time machine that transported him back to his dance roots. The rec...