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How It All Started: Dance Music’s Most Influential Labels Reflect On Their First-Ever Release
Dance music wasn’t always this popular. In fact, the sights and sounds we now associate with the genre were once considered taboo. They were the emblems of a counterculture forced to blossom not out in the open, but in the safe confines of arcane nightclubs and warehouse raves. So how did electronic music break through the glass ceiling? Before the songs of Above & Beyond, Roger Sanchez, Armin van Buuren, and other legendary producers rattled the world’s biggest festival stages, they were auditory ugly ducklings on a quest to reach their full potential. The music always had the potential to fly, but without the help of the gutsy independent record labels willing to back it, its wings would forever remain clipped. And after all these years, those indies have proven...
Half An Orange Completes the Trifecta With “Mostly We Grow Pt. 3” EP
The animated musical duo has tied a bow on their three-part EP rollout with a six-track release. Animated electronic music duo Half an Orange tore onto the scene in 2018 with their Monstercat debut release “Old Friends” (feat. Blonde Maze),” and since then, the pair has released a slew of some of the most upbeat indie and electropop records. Last year, Half an Orange released the first and second installments of an EP series called Mostly We Grow. Today, the duo completed the trifecta with the release of Mostly We Grow Pt. 3. The EP sees Half an Orange collaborate with the likes of Ephixa, WRLD, Nitro Fun, Disero, Josh Bogert, and Esports star ChillinDude. It’s their first project that enlists a full slate of collaborators and, as a result, ...
