Beatport

Canadian dubstep and heavy bass pioneer Datsik brought ten free days of low end fury to the party as Beatport continues to celebrate its #beatportdeca

Now celebrating a decade of existence, Beatport's finally rolling back the curtain to showcase facts and figures about top selling artists and tracks at the EDM scene's best-respected downloading portal and iconic community hub. In taking a look at the numbers, it's entirely possible to use Beatport as a tool for understanding the how and why of why certain artists have risen, and note the spike in growth of dance music overall over the decade.

Beatport's new head honcho Lloyd Starr is maintaining an offensive and proactive stance as Beatport's leader, now including a recent interview with Billboard. Aforementioned "colorful" language aside, Starr presents a fair, honest and balanced view of where EDM's leading purchasing and culture aggregation portal is headed insofar as addressing concerns regarding dance music's unbridled and perpetually adapting to digital future.

EDM's maneuvering into festival spaces outside of EDM-specific events is an important piece of the puzzle of how those controlling the genre intent to

Just as the world keeps turning, global EDM conglomerate SFX continues to structure itself for what ideally could be an attempt at long-term sustainab

Last night, we caught wind of a new Tumblr page, Beatport Banned Tracks, which does nothing but post tracks that are said to have been banned from Bea

At least, we hope it's true, as this would be pretty insane. Last month, Beatport took a stand against producers and labels trying to game their oft-d