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Electric Candy Land :: EDC After-Party w/ Hard Rock Sofa :: Stage 48 :: 5.17.13 With Electric Daisy Carnival's New York stop only days away, it is only fitting that our favorite candy kids at Electric Candy Land present NYC with a rowdy house-themed after-party to keep the beat going late into the night with house duo Hard Rock Sofa.  This Russian duo will be invading your ears, blowing your mind and hopefully dropping major hits like "Rasputin," "Starlight" and "Qu ...

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GRiZ :: "Gettin' Live" GRiZ is back with a special treat for us outlaws.  His latest track "Gettin' Live" dropped the future funk bomb that I needed tonight.  It has hip-hop laced swag making love to some 70's soul to conceive one gnarly electronic flow.  I mean this track starts off and you think its about to take off with a bang, but almost out of nowhere it smooths out to lay some serious funky groundw ...

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Lightning In a Bottle :: Lineup Revealed Lightning In a Bottle is an experience near and dear to our hearts, and speaking purely for myself but knowing I'm not alone, today's lineup announcement is an emotional time.  There are some key players returning this year like Woogie alums Lee Burrige, Idiot Savant, Pumpkin, Sammy Bliss, and Christian Martin.  I'm stoked to finally see Deser ...

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Electric Candy Land :: Arno Cost, Gary Bitetto & more :: Stage 48 NYC :: 3.29.13 Electric Candy Land's second event brought life to what seemed to be a quiet Good Friday in Hells Kitchen, New York City.  As their second production in only a matter of weeks, the NY based company added some spice to Stage 48, this time showcasing an awesomely familiar balloon chandelier, intense smoke machines and what seemed to be a more motivated laser-light show.  While their line-u ...

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Electric Candy Land Presents :: Ticket Giveaway :: 3.29.13 This Friday, 3.29.13, Electric Candy Land opens their doors to another magical EDM experience at New York's Stage 48 with Arno Cost, Gary Bitetto, Trif3kta and DKD.  Tickets for this event have been FLYING, so we are bringing you an opportunity to embark on this tasty dance adventure for FREE.  To enter the giveaway, follow this link through our Facebook page and fill out the required en ...

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Electric Candy Land Presents :: Arno Cost, Gary Bitetto, Trif3kta & DKD :: 3.29.13 Our New York rave friends are back at it, this time with French DJ/Producer Arno Cost headlining another enchanted event.  Flying high off their premiere event this past February (see our review here), Electric Candy Land is looking to make an even bigger splash with number two.  Once again, the ECL crew is taking their talents to New York City's Stage 48, as they continue with their can ...

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Global Dance Festival :: Initial Artist Line-up Announced! Global Dance Festival will be returning once again to Red Rocks this summer.  We all knew that was coming, right?  Well, of course we did, GDF kicks ass. The real question is, did YOU think you were going to see some of the names that popped up today from their first round of line-up announcements?  I don't think so.  I must say that I am impressed because this year is offering ...

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Eliot Lipp :: Greetings From Colorado Paying homage to our beautiful state of Colorado and a handful of the top artists in the business to come from the area, Eliot Lipp released this gem for our listening pleasure.  Composed of samples and tracks from over 10 different Colorado EDM and hip-hop artists, "Greetings From Colorado" is getting many of us here at UFO straight giddy about Lipp's performance tomorrow night at the Fox Th ...

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Bassnectar :: Spring Tour 2013 Your favorite long-haired bass doctor is back in action.  Announcing his very short, yet super-sweet Spring 2013 Tour, Bassnectar is gearing up for a heavy summer festival season and even hinting at another long awaited Fall 2013 run.  Any news from Lorin is usually good news, unless you happen to live too far from any of these hand-selected cities.  In that case, you may want to re ...

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SnowGlobe Day 2 :: deadmau5, Flosstradamus, GRiZ, Madeon, and more Day One was enough fun that I woke up for Day Two feeling pretty ragged.  Don’t get me wrong, the couch I slept on was way more comfortable than my bed at home, but I can’t be the only one out there who woke up with a headache and an ice-induced welt on their ass.  I got up only because coffee and laptop tunes were both ready for consumption.  Sunday (Day Two) wa ...

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Big Gigantic x Griz:: "Power" With a classic CO dub sound and huge angry bass lines, the Big Gigantic/ GRiZ collaboration “Power” holds up to the hype that the two big names generate.  With the similarities between these artists (heavy, high energy electronic with saxophone), it’s a wonder there wasn’t some sort of collaboration sooner.  But better late than never.This being a combination of work from tw ...

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Justin Martin :: Ghettos and Gardens Remixes Vol. 1 Justin Martin has already gathered the respect of many in the course of his career and is one of the brightest shining stars on Dirtybird Records with the incredible, dare I say untouchable, label debut Ghettos and Gardens.  The French Fries trap remix of "Molokini" isn't bad by any means, but I can't help feeling a little cheated out of the dark, rowdy remix he COULD ...

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Big Gigantic :: Red Rocks :: Morrison, CO :: 9.28.12 Words by HaastafariImages by DR-BG781ROWDYTOWN -- not just a name.  This is an event that has been whispered about since what seemed like forever ago, at least since I stood among a group of daydrinking Big G fans during a hometown video shoot.  Few events were hyped as effectively; few nights promised to be as rowdy.  Raw Russ got the party started around 6:00 while people fil ...

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Big Gigantic :: "Let's Go!" If it isn't already evident via social media, Big Gigantic, are chomping at the bit to unveil Rowdytown at Red Rocks as a final farewell to summer and a welcoming, "hello" to fall.  I have to admire their spirit; Big Gigantic have not only brought a massive line-up (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Dillon Francis, Raw Russ, and GRiZ), the group has enlisted the help of Ghost Pixel Visua ...

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GRiZ :: "Mr. B" (feat. Dominic Lalli) After moving to Boulder, Colorado earlier this year, GRiZ has not hit pause on his producing career and his youthful energy makes it hard for me to not admire what he's all about.  He's played numerous summer festivals around the U.S., released a new EP, and even found time to step on stage with Denis J. (better known as Gramatik) to form the super-duo GRiZmatik.  In order to fully round ...

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Summer Set Music Festival Playlist and Ticket Giveaway Announcements After a great response from our first Summer Set Music Festival ticket giveaway held on our Facebook page, we have drawn our first winner: Tanya Louise!Today also marks the beginning of our second giveaway, which will last until next week.  Be sure to first "Like" Unified Funk Option on Facebook, then comment on, "Like" and/or tag yourself in the Summer Set photo; ...

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GRiZ :: "The Future Is Now" "The Future Is Now" is one of the most Gramatik-y tracks I've seen come from GRiZ, and rather than accuse him of biting style, this just really gets me pumped up for the GRizmatic collab we all hope will happen again sometime soon.  It was one of the most surprising and captivating sets we saw at Electric Forest and too good to happen just once.  Here's to the future! ...

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Electric Forest Festival :: Rothbury, MI :: June 28 - July 1, 2012 Be sure to check out our Forest interviews with Big Freedia, WALA, and Nickodemus!We have fallen down the rabbit hole. Between 2008 and 2009, Rothbury Music Festival erupted onto the scene without mercy.  In the face of larger festivals (Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, etc.), Rothbury brought the heat with two years of stacked lineups, consisting of artists suc ...

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Sonic Bloom Day 3 :: Georgetown, CO :: 6/23/12 One hour of sleep in a hammock is like getting four on the ground.  It felt like I had just laid down before the sounds of clinking camp stoves and the Allman Brothers filled the air and it was time to wakey-wakey to some eggs and bake-y. The only way to beat the aches and pains of yesterday were to rise up again and go for a walk around the grounds.  I wanted to briefly check in with m ...

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Electric Forest 2012 Sampler We're putting together the pieces of our forest survival kit and packing up the car.  Time to share some of the road-trip music that will guide our way across the Midwest.  Some of these songs are very familiar and others are new sounds to our ears, but either way they are getting our hopes up for an incredible, blissful weekend.  Have a listen and share the joy. String Cheese In ...

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GRiZ :: "You Got To Change" Grant Kwiecinski has been on the scene for some time now and has toured around the U.S. under the stage name, GRiZ.  In the last year, the music on his Soundcloud has taken heavy dubstep, glitch, and hip-hop influences and melded them into a sound that can only be described as his own.  This summer seems like the perfect time for GRiZ to cool-off and take a dip into the "electro-soul pool" and h ...

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The Unified Field ft. Alex & Allison Grey :: GRiZ, David Starfire, Jamie Janover and more :: 4.27.12 Combining art, music, mind and soul, The Unified Field was a unique two-night event at Cervantes' unlike any other.  As these events were the official pre-party for Sonic Bloom - the festival brainchild of Bassnectar and iLL.GATES - we entered the venue without a single expectation: things were bound to get weird. We arrived a little late to catch ...

GIVEAWAY

Boulder Beats presents Lazerdisk Party Sex @ The Fox Theatre :: 5.10.2012 Hailing from Burlington, VT, the renegade storm trooper duo with a fascination for electro-house and moombahton - Lazerdisk Party Sex - are back in Boulder to celebrate the end of the semester... And of course, UFO is going to be giving away two (2) tickets to the show!!  With their past shows in Boulder all near-sell outs (and incredibly poppin', to say the least), this is guarante ...

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Bass Invader Vol.2 :: Glitch-Hop Diving deep into the cosmics of mid-tempo electro music this playlist features bangers from Glitch-Hop legends A.Skills, Koan Sound, and Boulder CO locals Crushendo (formally Slim Thugz). If nothing else, make sure you scope Kick’s & Licks “More Reasons”, a personal favorite. This tune is packed full with head turning bass-lines and precise sampling from hip-hop legend Jay-Z.  So turn t ...