Win 2 tickets to see Quintino, Bixel Boys, Croatia Squad, Solidisco on April 22nd in Calgary!

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One of the biggest club events to happen in Calgary this year is about to happen as Flames Central will play host to a solid crop of DJs, each offering a unique vibe. Quintino has been around the big room scene for a while as arguably his track with Sandro Silva called "Epic" helped kick start the genre to the heights that we know today. 

He will be joined by few up and coming deep house artists like Bixel Boys and Croatia Squad. Combine all of these artists with the fun appealing sound of Solidisco, you get an action packed night guaranteed to keep musically engaged from start to finish. 

EDM Canada has teamed up with Hubb Music to offer 2 lucky winners 2 tickets each for this Flames Central show on Friday, April 22nd. All you need to do is log in below and choose the various ways to enter. The contest is open now and will end on Wednesday, April 20th at 4 pm. Enter now and good luck!

Calgary will become the afterparty capital of Canada next week

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Click the poster for Chasing Summer ticket information

The Chasing Summer festival is set to begin next week at Fort Calgary and with it there will be a massive amount of pre-parties and afterparties offered at various clubs. There's plenty of choice as fans get a total of 9 parties to choose from. With acts like Galantis, DVBBS, Jauz, Will Sparks, Morgan Page set to play - the choice for afterparties will be very tough. Whatever selection you make there is no doubt that the weekend of the Chasing Summer festival in Calgary will be absolutely epic. Check out the full list of afterparties below: (Click on any listing for more ticket information)

My talk with Super8 & Tab about their latest album "Unified" (Interview)

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Super8 & Tab had a busy 2014 as they spent countless hours in the studio working on and finally releasing their latest album Unified. A 14 track album of melodic trance music that will take you on a journey of discovery and wonderment. It took the Finnish duo 4 years to finish Unified and I was excited to talk to them about it in detail. Please enjoy this extensive interview with Tab as he explained all of the hard work it took to create their latest project. 

EDM Canada: Super8 & Tab had a huge 2014 with the release of your much anticipated Unified album – how did it feel to finally release that album after you put so much work in the studio?

Tab (Super 8 & Tab): It was a lot of work (laughs). We started working on it after the Empire album but then we decided to take a break to create a few club tracks. We wanted to have fun in the studio before taking on another huge project. But 18 months prior to the release of Unified, we really pushed hard in the studio. But we are super super happy with the result. It's been wonderful being able to play those tracks during our gigs see the reactions from the crowd. The hard work paid off.

It's also a good learning curve as we put ourselves outside of our comfort zone for this album to create a journey. We also collaborated so many different artists which was very exciting. Working with BT for 18 straight hours in the studio was a great experience.

What you did to push yourself outside of your comfort zone for this album?

We couldn't create Empire all over again, so we tried to create a new sound for us. That's not always easy but it's a good challenge. Finding a new sound for us was one of the reasons why we wanted to do the album, while still keeping it sounding like Super8 & Tab.

Unified strikes me as album that was very well thought out as every track flowed well into the next one. Did you design it to be that way or did it just happen that the tracks fell into the right place?

It was not designed, but it was our goal. For example, we created the track “Clairvoyant” because we felt that we needed something new at that point in the album (Track 9).

You recently had the track “Rubicon” remixed by 3 artists – can you tell a bit about that?

We wanted to have a couple of guys from Finland work on remixing “Rubicon”. The first one is Orkidea, who's more in the pure trance scene and has been around for a long time. He's a really good friend of ours and we really wanted his sound on the release. The other is Yotto, who is actually working in the same studio as us. We really like his housey/progressive sound. Just in case you didn't know, Yotto is actually part of the group “Something Good”. And of course we have Jaytech, who is like a brother to us.

Can we expect any more tracks from Unified that will receive remix treatment?

“Patience” is going to be the next track that will get a remix from the album, and that track features the vocals of Julia Thompson. Tom Fall will be remixing it, who also happens to be from Finland.

How do you view the state of the trance scene in 2015?

Big guys like Hardwell and Tiesto are saying they want to do trance. I don't know what type of trance they want to do, but I think there's definitely still a place for trance music in the scene today, even more so than last year. The pure trance and the “Who's Afraid of 138”s movements are growing all of the time, and we're seeing a good market for what we're doing as well. We're also seeing how busy guys like Ilan Bluestone, Jason Ross, and Andrew Bayer are these days. The Anjunabeats sound has been picked up from all over the world and that's great news.

Anjunabeats is on fire these days – are they leading the way for trance at the moment?

Anjunabeats is releasing a new type of sound and there's a demand for that. Above & Beyond are currently on their biggest bus tour yet and they are growing all the time. At the same time, they are ambassadors of the Anjunabeats sound. So this type of sound is more popular than ever.

What can your Canadian fans expect from your future shows?

Of course we're going to play tracks from the album, while wanting to a play some old Super8 & Tab tracks, like “L.A.”, “Black Is The New Yellow”, etc. We've already starting to create new tracks in the studio and we plan to test them on the road. We are also planning to play our brand new remix of “Yai (Here We Go Again)” by Cosmic Gate and JES.

My thanks to Tab from Super8 & Tab for this excellent interview! If you want to buy the Unified album, you can grab it on Beatport right now by clicking here. 

Chuckie talks up Calgary in this latest video

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Thump had the chance to take a 72 hour trip with Chuckie that included special coverage of a packed gig over at Flames Central in Calgary. Check out what Chuckie had to say about the Calgary electronic dance music scene in a video that also included a flight in a private jet, some beer drinking, and a little Vegas action: