With his own tracks and remixes in set rotation by major DJs, Topher Jones appears poised to turn into a major dance music producer. A Midwest native, he saw his remix of Gareth Emery’s “The Saga” drop on March 11 as part of Garuda Music’s Miami Mixes Collection. That’s not the only recent release from Jones. As a treat for...

With his upcoming album One Hundred Ten WKO, John 00 Fleming has a forward-thinking, more experimental vision for trance. The U.K. DJ and producer has been active in the genre since the 1990s, and with this release, Fleming’s looking to push past the genre’s club boundaries. Unlike contemporaries claiming “trance is dead” or veering...

2012 was a great year for John Dahlback, and his level of success is continuing in 2013. Instrumental “Life” turned into a hit last year, named as Pete Tong’s Essential New Tune and included on Tiesto’s compilation Club Life – Vol. 2 Miami. Starting off 2013 are new tracks “Pressure” and “Life (Diamonds in the Dark),”...

Two new releases from legendary DJ and producer Paul Oakenfold were scheduled for January 2013. The first is a remix of Bruno Mars’ chart-topping hit “Locked Out of Heaven,” which came out on January 15 through Atlantic Records. Following that is “Touch the Sky,” a collaboration between him and Matt Goss, known together as The...

When it comes to recognition and record sales, 2012 was an excellent year for electronic dance music. As we have pointed out, EDM was added as a category for multiple well-known awards over the past year – the VMAs and American Music Awards – and received a more prominent spot at the Grammys. Catching this trend and running with it is...