Mdna superstar makes first Umf appearance as Swedish house producer cements status as an Edm standout with headlining gig.
By Akshay Bhansali
Avicii and Madonna perform at Umf on Saturday
Photo: Getty Images
Miami — Swedish house music producer Avicii is currently one of the most popular artists working in music — yes, in music, not just his native Edm. And that star standing was only reinforced on Saturday night when he headlined a gig on day two of this year's Ultra Music Festival.
Avicii (born Tim Bergling) packed in every hit he could into his closing set on Ultra's Main Stage. "Fade into Darkness" had tens of thousands of Miami fans chanting back the song's catchy hook, as did his "Silhouettes" and Mark Knight's remix of Florence and the Machine's "You've Got the Love."
Every hand was stretched sky-high in a version of air piano when the DJ/producer's...
By Akshay Bhansali
Avicii and Madonna perform at Umf on Saturday
Photo: Getty Images
Miami — Swedish house music producer Avicii is currently one of the most popular artists working in music — yes, in music, not just his native Edm. And that star standing was only reinforced on Saturday night when he headlined a gig on day two of this year's Ultra Music Festival.
Avicii (born Tim Bergling) packed in every hit he could into his closing set on Ultra's Main Stage. "Fade into Darkness" had tens of thousands of Miami fans chanting back the song's catchy hook, as did his "Silhouettes" and Mark Knight's remix of Florence and the Machine's "You've Got the Love."
Every hand was stretched sky-high in a version of air piano when the DJ/producer's...
- 3/25/2012
- MTV Music News
'We call it the 'Ultra Mega-Structure,' ' fest founder Russell Faibisch says of one of the arenas at this weekend's sold-out event.
By Akshay Bhansali
Armin van Buuren is one of many performers set to take the stage at Ultra Music Festival
Photo: WireImage
Miami — To say that Umf founders Adam Russakoff and Russell Faibisch and their Ultra Music Festival team have another mammoth dance music get-together on their hands is certainly stating the obvious. This weekend, Umf comes home to Bayfront Park in Miami for the first time since 2005. And the number of attendees walking through the three-day electronic dance music festival, one of America's biggest, has swelled from 150,000 last year to a sold-out 200,000 this year. The lineup is exquisite, as usual — literally an act for every taste.
MTV News learned firsthand just how Umf has tried to build on the sophisticated spectacle they have come to deliver...
By Akshay Bhansali
Armin van Buuren is one of many performers set to take the stage at Ultra Music Festival
Photo: WireImage
Miami — To say that Umf founders Adam Russakoff and Russell Faibisch and their Ultra Music Festival team have another mammoth dance music get-together on their hands is certainly stating the obvious. This weekend, Umf comes home to Bayfront Park in Miami for the first time since 2005. And the number of attendees walking through the three-day electronic dance music festival, one of America's biggest, has swelled from 150,000 last year to a sold-out 200,000 this year. The lineup is exquisite, as usual — literally an act for every taste.
MTV News learned firsthand just how Umf has tried to build on the sophisticated spectacle they have come to deliver...
- 3/22/2012
- MTV Music News
Famed designer Vello Virkhaus tells MTV News that Miami fans will be 'blown away with the experience we are bringing.'
By Akshay Bhansali, with reporting by Damian Vaca
The stage at the 2011 Ultra Music Festival
Photo: Jemal Countess/WireImage
His name is Vello Virkhaus, and his company, V Squared Labs, has had a hand in some of the most epic visual displays in live entertainment over the years. For more than a decade, Virkhaus, or VJ V2, his handle in the industry, has pioneered the evolution of the visual display, integrating visual remixing and 3-D digital animation and directing visuals for live shows for some of the biggest names in music: Korn, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beyoncé and Amon Tobin are but a few of his past clients. (Remember Tobin's visually masterful Isam tour last year?)
With an unmatched library of visual loops and effects in his arsenal and...
By Akshay Bhansali, with reporting by Damian Vaca
The stage at the 2011 Ultra Music Festival
Photo: Jemal Countess/WireImage
His name is Vello Virkhaus, and his company, V Squared Labs, has had a hand in some of the most epic visual displays in live entertainment over the years. For more than a decade, Virkhaus, or VJ V2, his handle in the industry, has pioneered the evolution of the visual display, integrating visual remixing and 3-D digital animation and directing visuals for live shows for some of the biggest names in music: Korn, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beyoncé and Amon Tobin are but a few of his past clients. (Remember Tobin's visually masterful Isam tour last year?)
With an unmatched library of visual loops and effects in his arsenal and...
- 3/20/2012
- MTV Music News
From insects to outer space, Amon Tobin’s new album "Isam" is all about the buzz.
Amon Tobin is a master of metamorphosis.
On Isam, his eighth and latest album (released today via indie British label Ninja Tune), he's evolved once again. This time he's built a virtual orchestra of out digitally rendered instruments, nearly all of them more or less synthesized from found objects. "I'm trying to make sounds that don't exist in the real world, using things in the real world," Tobin says. "On this album, the sound isn't what it seems. There's no real guitar, real drum, or real voice. They've all been built to sound like instruments--but I can get them to do impossible things."
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The 39-year-old Brazilian electronic composer began his career in the mid-'90s as a DJ/producer renowned for his drum-n-bass beats and has since evolved into a pioneer in experimental music...
Amon Tobin is a master of metamorphosis.
On Isam, his eighth and latest album (released today via indie British label Ninja Tune), he's evolved once again. This time he's built a virtual orchestra of out digitally rendered instruments, nearly all of them more or less synthesized from found objects. "I'm trying to make sounds that don't exist in the real world, using things in the real world," Tobin says. "On this album, the sound isn't what it seems. There's no real guitar, real drum, or real voice. They've all been built to sound like instruments--but I can get them to do impossible things."
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The 39-year-old Brazilian electronic composer began his career in the mid-'90s as a DJ/producer renowned for his drum-n-bass beats and has since evolved into a pioneer in experimental music...
- 5/24/2011
- by Nancy Miller
- Fast Company
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