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Earlier this week a video featuring a terminally ill dog named Kygo went viral. The handsome pup is a seven-year old husky, malamute, poodle and collie mix who’s been diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a form of bone cancer. While Kygo the dog is currently receiving radiation treatments, in the video, his owner advises that “he doesn’t have much longer.”
The pup is of course named after the Norwegian electronic music producer, with the dog’s owner also declaring in the video, “I wish Kygo would run into him one day … The only thing I have left is for him to meet Kygo the DJ.”
“Does anyone know Kygo the DJ?” the video’s host, Elias Weiss Friedman, founder of the dog-focused social channel The Dogist, says to the camera.
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Apparently someone did, as a day after the video was posted, the producer wrote, “See you at Palm Tree Fest Hamptons… Can’t wait to meet you” on the post. The comment has gotten nearly 24,000 likes as of press time.
Representatives for Kygo the DJ and Kygo the dog did not immediately respond to Billboard’s request for comment.
This meeting of the Kygos will happen at the Palm Tree Music Festival happening in The Hamptons on June 22. Kygo will headline the event alongside Swedish House Mafia, with Purple Disco Machine, Sofi Tukker and Xandra rounding out the bill.
The next iteration of Palm Tree Festival happens in Lake Tahoe in July, with Kygo’s manager, Myles Shear, telling Billboard in 2022 that the traveling festival is a core element of the Kygo brand intended not simply to gather Kygo fans in luxe travel destinations, but to “create an ecosystem” in which they can live the boats and beaches-centric Kygo lifestyle.
This time, at least, that audience will include both human and canine music lovers.
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The long-awaited followup to Jamie xx‘s debut album is now a reality. On Tuesday (June 4), the British producer announced that his sophomore studio LP, In Waves, will be released via his own Young label on Sept. 20. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The 12-track album […]
Cercle, the Paris-based production company known for putting on livestream DJ sets in far-flung locations, will take a touring show on the road in 2025.
Called Cercle Odyssey, the show will be built as a 360-degree panorama projection designed to create an immersive experience. The set-up will features a number of massive screens meant to envelope the audience, with these screens measuring roughly 40-feet high and 180-feet long, with high definition footage synchronized with the music.
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Hitting the road in 2015, the show will feature music and artists of all genres, with artists, dates and cities to be announced in the coming months. Cercle Odyssey videos will be overseen by Paris-based director Neels Castillon, the co-founder of Motion Palace, a creative studio that produces original content for brands, culture, and the arts. Focused on humanity, nature and beauty, the videos will be based on the story of Homer’s Odyssey and focus on the theme of returning home.
Cercle Odyssey is also designed to be a sustainable operation, with all of the sound, light and projection equipment used in each performance rented locally in each respective performance city. The company notes that by using 29 state-of-the-art projectors instead of traditional LED screens to illuminate the scenography, the show doesn’t necessitate the transport of a huge number of LED screens, thereby reducing the carbon emissions of transporting the show.
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Phones will be banned inside the performances, and guests will instead be given filmed content from the performance they attend.
“Cercle’s mission is and will always be to create unique stages for unique artists,” Cercle’s creative director Derek Barbolla tells Billboard. “We have just reached one billion views on our videos, we realized that many people want to experience Cercle, but traveling to Egypt or to the top of a mountain isn’t easy or feasible for everyone. With Cercle Odyssey, we’re bringing the experience closer to people’s homes, whilst continuing with our heritage site events”
Since launching in 2016, Cercle has produced 240 events in locations around the world including a Bolivian salt flat, the Eiffel Tower, a peak in the Alps and other locales including roughly 30 UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Participating artists have included Disclosure, Peggy Gou, Above & Beyond, Carlita, Amelie Lens, Hot Since 82 and many more.
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This past Sunday (May 26), a severe thunderstorm moved through the Detroit area, forcing the city’s Movement festival to temporarily shut down during its second day. The festival issued an evacuation notice to attendees at approximately 6:45 p.m. on Sunday evening, then reopened later that night at 10:00p.m. after the storm had passed.
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The temporary closure forced organizers to move a few of the Sunday night sets, including a scheduled 7:00p.m. performance by techno mainstay Nicole Moudaber, who ultimately did not end up playing.
After the festival, Moudaber explained the situation, writing on X this past Monday (May 27) that “After the rain stopped they called me up to come play at 10pm, I rushed over there, my table was ready to be plugged in but the dj that was supposed to play after me didn’t want to move his set up to accommodate me. As a result, I didn’t play, there was complete silence for a whole hour while people were waiting for the music to start again.
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“I have dismantled set ups in the past because of rude behaviour [sic],” Moudaber continued. “I did not do it this time because I love Movement and the people behind it Absolutely shocking to say the least. I know a lot of people came to see me and I’m sorry this has happened.”
Richie Hawtin played this 10:00 p.m. Sunday night slot, debuting his new stage show DEX EFX XOX.
Now, following her initial comments, Moudaber has today (May 29) issued a statement acknowledging that “Having talked with everyone involved, I can now see that no one is to blame for what happened — if anything, we can blame it on the weather!
“Severe storms meant that the festival was evacuated for 3.5 hours before I returned to play my 10pm set,” her statement continues. “Naturally, this threw everything into chaos. The set up for the person playing after me was complicated, and I can appreciate why they needed to keep it intact for their own set.
“Additionally, while the team at Movement did everything possible to accommodate me, they were under a lot of stress following the storm and it wasn’t easy to source the additional monitors required. I have nothing but love for this festival and for the city of Detroit, where I have made so many wonderful memories over the years, and I look forward to returning to play ASAP (ideally the sun will be shining next time)! Love, Nicole”
Movement Festival continued without issue for the rest of the weekend, closing out its third day on Monday, May 27 with performances from Fatboy Slim, Honey Dijon, Indira Paganotto, Seth Troxler and a host of other electronic artists. Festival producer Paxahau also offered free Monday festival entrance for Sunday ticket holders.
One of the busiest producers in dance music just added another big moment to his calendar, with John Summit today (May 29) announcing that he’ll release his debut album on July 12. The project is titled Comfort In Chaos and will be released via Darkroom and Summit’s own Experts Only label. The album announcement follows […]
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After being announced as a headliner for Portola 2024 in San Francisco this September, Justice on Tuesday (May 28) announced a second leg of its upcoming U.S. tour. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news This run will include the French duo’s first ever headlining show at the […]
Nearly four dozen acts played on the first day of the annual Movement Music Festival in Detroit on Saturday (May 25), but one who wasn’t there was top of mind.
Tributes were paid throughout the day to Amp Fiddler, the electronic and funk luminary who passed away in December 2023 at the age of 65 from cancer.
Fiddler’s credits as a performer, producer and writer included George Clinton, Prince, Fishbone, Maxwell, Corinne Bailey Rae, and others. He was an acknowledged influence on J Dilla and A Tribe Called Quest‘s Q-Tip and was working with a number of up-and-upcoming artists at the time of his death.
Saturday’s tributes particularly took place on Movement’s Pyramid Stage, where hometown hero Carl Craig and his Planet E Communications curated a daylong lineup with Britain’s Defected Records. Amidst sets by Craig, Floorplan, Waajeed, DJ Holographic and others, Dames Brown, a Detroit vocal House music trio, offered perhaps the most moving salute — fittingly, since the group’s upcoming album, As I Am, was the last work Fiddler produced.
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“This performance was very special,” the group’s Teresa Marbury told Billboard afterwards. “We want to send love and a vibrant spirit and celebrate this wonderful person we worked with. You could just feel the energy from [the crowd] and the love for him.”
Fellow Dame member LaRae Starr added that Fiddler “was more than a producer. He gave us books to read, music to listen to. He really wanted us to be knowledgeable about the music while we were making it. It was a very special experience.”
With photos of Fiddler on the video screen, Dames Brown’s set was filled with Fiddler material, including the single “Take Me As I Am” and a cover of D Train‘s disco hit “You’re the One for Me” that Fiddler remade for the trio, as well as “Do It,” a collaboration with fellow Detroit electronic pioneer Eddie Fowlkes that Dames Brown released through Defected last year.
Dames’ As I Am album is expected out later this year.
Fiddler was also featured as part of the “Respect the Architects” exhibit displayed in Movement’s Underground area, with a special multi-panel section dedicated to his life and career.
Movement’s other headliners on Saturday included Ludacris, Solomun, Loco Dice and Speedy J. The festival runs through Monday in Detroit’s Hart Plaza, with performances by Fatboy Slim, Richie Hawtin, James Blake and Goldie, who is celebrating the 30th anniversary of his Metalheadz label. The event also features a pairing of Kevin Saunderson and Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award-winning actor Idris Elba.
This week in dance music: The hype around the supposed Calvin Harris and Miley Cyrus collab continued hype-ing, SiriusXM announced a new show by Steve Angello and AN21 along with a new channel dedicated to Avicii, we spoke with Moby about the 25 year anniversary of his era-defining album Play, we talked to Subtronics about his first ever set on the EDC mainstage, we counted five times Taylor Swift songs have been remixed by electronic producers on the occasion of the new Blond:ish “Fortnight” edit and we covered the opening of a new 104,000 square foot cultural space in Brooklyn.
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And ahead of the long holiday weekend, we’ve got the best new dance tracks of the week.
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Nelly Furtado feat. Tove Lo & SG Lewis, “Love Bites”
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Nelly Furtado launched her 2023 comeback saying she wanted to work with DJs, making good on that goal with last year’s Dom Dolla collab “Eat Your Man,” and now via her latest “Love Bites,” with SG Lewis and Tove Lo. A slinky, hypnotic club track written by the trio — produced by Lewis and sung by Furtado and Lo (whose recent works also includes playing venues like Red Rocks Amphitheater and The Shrine with L.A.-based, all-female DJ collective Ladies of Leisure) — the song comes with a quick-cut music video starring all three artists and a pretty hot car, altogether extending the dancefloor ambience of the Furtado renaissance.
“I felt called back to music from the DJ community,” Furtado says in a statement. “DJs were remixing my songs at concerts, clubs, and on social media, and I realized how much people like to dance and escape to my music. It’s the healthiest vice you can have, and I love the opportunity to write music that lets people escape more than anything.”
Skrillex with Hamdi and Taichu, “Push”
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“When I push, I feel good. When I pull, I feel good,” Argentinian vocalist Taichu declares over a distorted buzzsaw synth by Skrillex and fellow bass maestro Hamdi. The track blew up after getting teased in a RinseFM set by Jyoty last year, and with good reason, as the production gives toughness and swagger while also maintaining the same sense of laid-back chill of its lyrics. Out via OWSLA, “Push” will likely get a lot of play this weekend at California’s Lightning in a Bottle festival, where Jyoty and Skrillex are both on the bill.
LP Giobbi, “Feel”
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LP Giobbi comes through with her first track of the year with “Feel.” Laced with a recurring piano motif, the gently unfurling house track layers in strings and a vocal from Nigeria-born English singer Jacob Banks, building to a kind of serenely dancing with your eyes closed kind of place. Coming amid a summer festival run from Giobbi that includes Movement this weekend in Detroit, Electric Forest and Defected Croatia, the producer calls the song the start of a new chapter, adding that “getting to collaborate with artists outside of the dance space is always amazing, but to be able to work with Jacob Banks was a dream come true. His voice transcends genres and it allowed me to really get creative when building the track around his vocals.”
Louis The Child & Madeon, “Believe It”
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“It makes me feel like what being a teen in the ’90s must have felt like, that first wave of French house music,” Madeon (who is himself French) says about his latest “Believe,” a collab with the gentlemen of Louis The Child. Indeed, the track is all bounce, effervescence and (seemingly) marimba, with the vocals giving the song a pop lean and a singalong melody and all its parts building to a giddy jam that’s not only joyful, but – in the very quickly moving world of dance releases, memorable too.
DJ Holographic, “Gemini”
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Ahead of her hometown set at Detroit’s Movement Festival this weekend, DJ Holographic drops a track that sounds like how Memorial Day Weekends feels: celebratory, warm and — at six minutes — luxuriously long. The disco/funk/house hybrid is the third single from the producer’s debut album House In the Dark, with each song from the album designed to evoke the Zodiac sign connected to its respective drop date. Coming next year after Holographic completes the full calendar year of monthly singles, House in the Dark will be released through her own Through The Veil label.
Eli & Fur, “Golden Eyes & Tears”
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Dance, by its very definition, is a realm of body moving music — but not always. London duo Eli & Fur deliver a slow burn for the afterhours with “Golden Eyes & Tears,” which moves along like clouds across the sky and, as its “can we make it up til morning light” lyrics indicate, gives a mood like the kind of nights that extend until dawn. The song is the lead single from the pair’s Dreamscapes album, coming in September via in tandem with their Found in the Wild live show concept that will come to life at headlining sets in New York, Los Angeles and London.
Six years after the death of Avicii, the producer is getting a SiriusXM channel centered around his catalog. On Thursday (May 23), SiriusXM announced Avicii Radio, now available exclusively via the SiriusXM app. The channel features Avicii classics, remixes and never-before-heard music from past live performances. The channel will also play music by the producer’s […]