After spending 50 out 52 weeks of 2015 and all of 2016 (until album was retired) in the Top 10 on Billboard’s Dance/Electronic chart, ODESZA’s album, In Return, was nominated for the Top Dance/Electronic Album Billboard Music Award.  

Seven Lions Creation EP debuts as the #1 Electronic/Dance Album on the USA Electronic Albums Sales Chart this week.

Earlier this month Ferry Corsten brought his beloved trance alias Gouryella back to life for a run of special performances. Starting in Australia with arena shows in Sydney and Melbourne and then jetting to California to headline the Dreamstate stage of Insomniac’s Beyond Wonderland Festival.

The new RY X single ‘Only’ was premiered by Annie Mac last Thursday on BBC Radio 1, following the play we announced his debut album ‘Dawn’  which is released on May 6th on Infectious Recordings and Loma Vista Recordings. We have also announced 14-date European tour –culminating with a headline show at London’s Union Chapel. Stream ‘Only’ here now.

Kero Kero Bonito made a triumphant return this week with ‘Lipslap’, which dropped first on Zane Lowe’s Beats1 show. Listen here. The band will begin their European tour in May, followed by further tours in Japan and the US during their second LP campaign in October. 

Bonobo has contributed a track called ‘Ghomrassen’ to the new Star Wars ‘Headspace’ compilation album released on Disney’s Hollywood Records. The album is comprised of original tracks by comtemporary producers selected by Rick Rubin, sampling sounds from the movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The digital version of the album is out now, listen on Soundcloud and YouTube.

Brillz premiers 7 new Geekin remixes via BitTorrent, featuring new takes from Halfway House, Dabow, Trollphace, JayKode, Lil Texas, Drunken Masters, and Ray Volpe. Download the Bundle to unlock the full remix collection here.

73 weeks after ODESZA released In Return, the album hit #1 again (5th time) on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Album Chart this week breaking the 100,000 albums sold threshold with 102,345 total albums SoundScanned.  The album has been in the Top 10 on Billboard’s Dance/Electronic Albums Chart for 55 of the 73 weeks. Also this week, In Return comes in at #118 on the Billboard Top 200 chart and “Say My Name” is hanging tough at #16 on the Dance/Electronic Singles chart.

Artist manager Keith LeWinter joined Red Light in the New Year, bringing his roster of Emancipator, Little People and Paper Diamond with him. He and his assistant Kathryn Griffin are based in Portland OR.

It’s been a great week for ODESZA – they kicked off the North American leg of their sold out world tour in New Orleans; Pollstar announced that ODESZA have been nominated for Best New Touring Artist in the 27th Annual Awards, and ODESZA have been featured in an All Things Considered piece on NPR!

Listen back to Brillz in the mix for Diplo & Friends on BBC Radio, 1 now on Soundcloud.

Red Light are thrilled to welcome Don Diablo to the Electronic Division roster. Don has just placed 30th in DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs poll, making him this year’s Highest Climber!

Run The Trap have premiered the new release by Brillz. His Geekin EP is on Mad Decent and features guest artists LAXX, Ghastly, Que, Gangsta Boo and Ms Williams.

Dummy Mag have premiered the new track by William Arcane. Head over to Dummy to check out Without Me, or listen direct on Soundcloud.

After seven years of solo operations, production partners Caspa & Rusko have launched a new track together! Check out the video for Blouse an Skirt.

Markus Schulz has released a new track in collaboration with Romanian production group Soundland on the Kazibo label. Check out the official video for Facedown now.