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Technically this is an ad for something. Very Kraftwerk.

Via Campaign Brief: Western Austrialia’s most established dairy, Brownes, has teamed up with Perth-born world-renowned electronic artist Pogo to create a fun and innovative video which invites people to do some impromptu dancing on the streets of Perth. The video, promoting Brownes Shake ‘n’ Shake, is a first for Brownes because it uses a WA artist to design, film and …

This weekend Saturday Night Live mocked EDM’s superstar culture in DJ Davvincii, a character meant to be a mash-up of David Guetta and Aviici, both of whom earned tens of millions last year according to Forbes.

(Tipped by JMG reader Alan)

From the live stream site: Larry Levan elevated DJing to an artform at New York’s Paradise Garage. As part of the local initiative to rename King Street Larry Levan Way, the Red Bull Music Academy is proud to pay tribute to Levan’s legacy with the Larry Levan Street Party. Join us as we turn King Street between Varick and Hudson …

Via Billboard: Demi Lovato is about to go bi…coastal: The actress/singer will be performing at LGBT Pride events in both Los Angeles and New York during June’s Pride month festivities. Lovato will first head to the west coast to lead the L.A. Pride Parade as Grand Marshal, in addition to performing, on June 8. The songstress will head to New …

I’ll have tons of photos tomorrow. You can almost hear me singing. Except for the high parts.

Gay singer/songwriter John Grant, whose 2013 hit Pale Green Ghosts topped my year-end list of favorites, has joined up with Hercules & Love Affair, whom you may know from their huge 2008 smash Blind. Great track, lovely vocals, gorgeous dancing. UPDATE: Hercules & Love Affair’s Andy Butler speaks about the lyrics: “I asked John to dig deep with his lyrical …

Jean Michel Jarre + Giorgio Moroder + Kraftwerk?

Courtesy of the Karpel Group, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is Dconstructed, an album of Disney tracks remixed by globally famous EDM acts including Armin Van Buuren’s take on Idina Menzel’s smash hit Let It Go. Enter to win a copy of DCONSTRUCTED and a pair of Urbanears headphones! DCONSTRUCTED: A brand-new compilation of classic and current Disney music remixed by …

These guys had a huge club hit in 2010 with Barbra Streisand. And if you haven’t seen their freaky video for 2011’s Big Bad Wolf, you might not want to watch it at work. Stereogum reviews the clip below: A-Track and Armand Van Helden of Duck Sauce inject their sense of humor into their entire collaboration, and the duo’s new …

It’s so great to hear the classic Moroder sound. This clip might get yanked as it’s from a Coldplay fan channel. The remix went on sale today at iTunes.

Stereogum reviews: Noah Stitelman’s Brooklyn-based electronic pop project Neighbors recently released sophomore album Failure, but single “Last Of A Kind” is a success where melancholy mood, surprise flashes of melody, and contagious rhythmic propulsion are concerned. It’s also got an entrancing video by Nate Buchik and Jonathan Pulley about the desperate pursuit of a unicorn. Explains Buchik, “We just tried …

Knight earned a 2010 Grammy nomination for his work on the Black Eyed Peas smash album The E.N.D.  The new track is very much a mid-90s throwback.

These guys have remixed for Holy Ghost!, Ting Tings, Fischerspooner, and did that killer remix of Lisztomania for Phoenix. I’m getting a hard-to-pin-down early 90s vibe from this track. Opus III? St. Etienne? Very nice.

“Frankie Knuckles kept the disco in house before ‘disco house’ or any of the mass sub-genre-ization of house was a thing. The racist and homophobic Disco Demolition Night, held July 12, 1979, largely killed disco’s mainstream cool, but Knuckles stuck with it, riding it through the ’70s and well into the ’90s and beyond. A maligned people had their maligned …

Dance music fans poured onto social media late Monday night, hoping that reports of the death of house music legend Frankie Knuckles, 59, were an impossibly cruel April Fool’s hoax. Sadly, his passing has been confirmed by the Chicago Tribune, which thus far reports only that Knuckles “died unexpectedly at home.” Knuckles was known to all as the Godfather Of …