Welcome to Episode 145 of Beyond the Beats: a podcast about dance music news and culture. 

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Follow us on Instagram: @btb.pod, Facebook, Twitter: @podbtb, Soundcloud.

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And make sure to check out our playlists which contain all the music we mention! You can find the music by episode on our Spotify user profile and all the Artists We're Watching on our Soundcloud.

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Choose your favorite podcast streaming platform to listen to the episode here.

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ON REPEAT

Samir: kryptogram - Olvidar

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NEW MUSIC

Note: New to this year, we will be rating each of the songs in the new music section!

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Calvin Harris, Tinashe, Normani, Offset - New To You

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Wade - Pan Jabi

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Swedish House Mafia, Fred again, Future - Turn On The Lights Again

• Fred again boiler room:

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Mefjus, Camo & Krooked - Break Away

• Their track: Overture

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NEWS & CULTURE

 

Tomorrowland (3 weekends) and Hard Summer just happened. Big whaddup to everyone who went

• Episode 144

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A TikTok Music App is on the Horizon

• On Episode 129 we covered SoundOn, the TikTok music distribution service for artists.

• TikTok will allow artists to pre-release music on their platform first before other streaming platforms through SoundOn

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Rotating Topic of the week: Samir's Blind Question for Alec

• Would you rather be a worldwide touring DJ and producer, CEO of the largest dance music festival in the world, or CEO of the next-gen EDM news media outlet?​

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Note: The rotating topic segment is new to this season of the show! Every week there will be a different topic. Topics rotate between a history lesson, live event or culture stories, a blind question for Alec or Samir, or Anti-Plur.

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ARTISTS WE'RE WATCHING 

Samir: Kreech // Soundcloud // Instagram // Whatever (track)

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Alec: Sinner & James // Soundcloud // Instagram // Twitter // What You Waiting For (track)

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SPECIAL THANKS

Shoutout to our main man Tyler Lawrence for creating our intro song! Alec no longer hates our theme song!

• ​Check out his Beyond the Beats Profile Page // Instagram // Spotify.

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And a very special thank you to all of YOU - the EDM Champion community.

 

Your support week-in-week-out means the absolute world to us. It inspires us to continue growing the global community and, most importantly, connect as many people as possible with the very essence of dance music.