Back in December we announced the pending launch of
Hydeout: The Prelude, an exciting new virtual music platform that boasted some stellar names on its roster. However, other than just a press release, we didn’t have much to go on. Well, now the platform is finally ready to go with a full schedule, and the folks over at Hydeout are not messing around. It is set to be a huge opening weekend with
Martin Garrix and
DJ Snake performing this Friday and Saturday respectively. There’s also been some social media posts that have been shared, and the production and virtual stages approach Tomorrowland quality. Here’s what Hydeout tells us to expect.
Flux Pavilion over 10 years ago, when he released his
Lines In Wax EP. Songs like “I Can’t Stop,” “Haunt You,” and the titular “Lines In Wax” with Foreign Beggars effortlessly made their way into my regular listening rotation. From there, I went back and discovered “Got 2 Know,” “Superbad” with Doctor P, his “Cracks” remix, and more. It wasn’t long before I saw him in person for the first time in 2011, going back-to-back with Doctor P at the original Audiotistic in Southern California.
All of this to say that I’ve been a fan of Flux Pavilion for a terribly long time, and the release of his new album
Over the past few days, dance blogs have been publishing articles with various spins on the title, “
Flux Pavilion Says Goodbye To Dubstep.” It’s a good article concept a catchy title with a genre figure that has been at the top of his game over the past decade, with plenty of hits to his name like “I Can’t Stop”; “Do or Die,” Childish Gambino’s sole foray into EDM; his remix of “Cracks” by Freestlyers; the list goes on.
I am no longer a dubstep person
But the reality of this tweet is a bit more nuanced. While the above tweet has 390 RTs and nearly 4k likes (at time of publishing), the preceding tweets which undoubtedly give it context are far less engaged with. In referring to himself as a “dubstep person,” Flux Pavilion referencing the sort of person who’s always “trying to persuade everyone that dubstep is still good […] just because someone said it was bad in 2013.”