Unlike hip-hop, rock, or other genres, the EDM scene highly favors and encourages credit to original authors even down to a single riff. Producers build and recycle the classics time and time again, thus expanding the developing “Trance Family” farther and farther. Remixes are a great way to find reinterpretations of a melody or musical concept with different flavors and a great way in which played out songs can once again be brought to life. For the most part, the taxonomy of the thousands of iterations is uniform, however, there is disagreement. This is meant as a guide and suggestion…

Deadmau5's latest album 4x4=12 was hotly anticipated for several months, but at release of the track list, my excitement dwindled. The problem I find is that it is simply a compilation album, since I have already scrobbled half the album, and some songs even more than a year earlier (The earliest of which was Deadmau5 - Everything Before first scrobbled in April of 2009).

My biggest complaint with the album, however, are the vocals. Deadmau5 has had several brilliant vocal tracks, but none of these do it for me. Sofi Needs A Ladder which almost completely ruins You Need…

Massive Attack's album Heligoland was anticipated by so many fans for years and after it's release, I could not be more pleased. There are elements of their classic style, and then spots where 3D and Daddy G go out into the wilderness for some experimentation.

I first became a fan of Massive Attack in the Mezzanine phase, and therefore I am more used to their sound post-Tricky. I know that several fans of the band in their early stages have been turned off by their transition into the modern day Massive Attack, but for me, Mezzanine will…

The big names of Armin van Buuren and Markus Schulz have their side projects Gaia and Dakota respectively. Each has a similar feel, at least in my opinion, but the remixes are pure genius. Whose side are you on?

Gaia has released the one new smash hit, Tuvan in the last couple of months and remixes like Tuvan (Andy Blueman Remix) sound amazing.

Markus Schulz, on the other hand has released several tracks under the guise of Dakota. Some of which are thoroughbred trance from the ground up and sound amazing. Chinook (Uplifting Mix) and Sin City have been in…

Pendulum's album In Silico seemed amazing at first, but as the novelty wore off, it seems like the album is unfinished, and raw. The whole aspect behind Hold your colour was that every aspect of each song was in some way related to DnB, but somehow new and interesting. In Silico does draw from the same sources of emotion, it seems, but leaves the feelings less explored and void of detail. Take for instance, the large introduction of Slam giving you the huge jolt of energy straight into the drive behind the rest of the album, whereas Showdown has…