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Trent Cantrelle & Magdalena

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Trent Cantrelle

Diversity is the name of Trent Cantrelle’s game.

Few artists can count both Swedish House Mafioso Steve Angello and Dutch house minimalist Koen Groeneveld as contemporaries, and even fewer feel just as comfortable rocking Electric Daisy Carnival’s main stage as they do curating the soundtrack to subterranean warehouse parties. But this delicate dichotomy of popular recognition and underground credibility has long defined the Los Angeles-based artist, who has stuck to his groove-driven guns while traversing the intersections of tech and big-room house, to critical and commercial acclaim.

“I didn’t once play a record that didn’t sound like me,” Cantrelle said of his opening slot for Angello at New York’s Central Park in 2013. It’s a statement that could just as easily sum up his career.

Cantrelle has emerged as a tastemaker for a new generation of dance music fans who have tired of cookie-cutter tracks and predictable breaks and builds. With a deep catalog of standout releases on such divergent labels as Ministry of Sound, Spinnin’, Toolroom, and Size X, Cantrelle’s stylistic versatility and consummate ear for quality have enabled him to expand horizons on marquee stages across the globe. “You could tell in the kids’ faces that they were discovering this music for the first time,” Trent said about a recent gig. “I feel like I’m rediscovering it too. Living through them, it’s like a renaissance.”

Growing up in New Orleans, Trent found his footing in music from an early age. He began DJ-ing at 13, drawing his initial influences from the hip-hop and freestyle played on weekend radio shows. He quickly graduated to the clubs, where he became known for taking listeners on marathon musical odysseys that showcased his eclectic blend of styles, picking up cues from “journey” DJs like Danny Tenaglia. A move to Los Angeles and renewed focus on production paid off with the success of “Runway,” which Pete Tong named WMC’s Essential New Tune in 2005. The transnational hit catapulted Cantrelle into the global touring spotlight, where he drew upon his decades of dance floor experience to become one of house music’s hottest commodities.

Despite his demanding tour schedule, Cantrelle has remained a prolific producer. Trent made recent waves as the debut signee for Angello’s Size X imprint, releasing his Nice & Close EP in 2013 to critical success: Dancing Astronaut called it “a breathtaking journey towards a nostalgic yet wholeheartedly relevant movement in modern dance music.” Trent struck sonic gold with 2011’s anthemic house hit “I Want a Freak,” which became one of the top 10 selling house songs that year. Having remixed the likes of Seal, Maroon 5, and the Pussycat Dolls, Trent has also racked up hits with chart-climbing reworks of Turbofunk’s “Gotta Move,” Pete Heller’s “Big Love,” and Deep Flexion’s “Emotions of the Night.”

In 2013, Cantrelle rebooted his Sounds Like label in order to champion the smorgasbord of sounds that populate his sprawling DJ sets, as well as provide musical output in support of his popular party series by the same name. His flagship homegrown release, “What I Need,” is a perfect representation of his label-free approach to floor filling house music. Eschewing his trademark tech for sultry brooding bass and deep chord progressions, Cantrelle emphatically refuses to be pigeonholed within a single sound.

“In a ten-hour set, I play a lot of genres and this label will touch on that,” Trent says. “It will be a lot of genres, not one specific style. I see a lot of labels fall into that trap. Anything coming from this label is made to dance to.”

In keeping with this ethos, Trent envisions Sounds Like as a definitively “underground label” that will represent his stylistic diversity while expediting the too-often long-winded release process on his own terms. “People are just onto new things so quickly and it takes labels too long to release records,” Trent says. “I want to keep music coming out on the label as soon as it’s made. I want to be able to have that freedom.”

Sounds Like yielded a weekly Sunday party of the same name in Los Angeles, where revelers gathered in the setting sun to dance, as Trent and an impressive array of guest DJs – from Sander Kleinenberg to Eddie Amador – played whatever felt right in the moment, whether it be house, techno, electro, old, new, instrumental or vocal. To Trent, that Sounds Like utopia.

Magdalena

Hamburg based superwoman Magdalena is the latest addition to the Diynamic artist roster. Not only did she run the renowned EGO Club in Hamburg; she also had her monthly residency there, releases her own radio show each month and plays gigs regularly in clubs like Weekend or Watergate in Berlin or Pacha and Cova Santa on Ibiza and she is a regular part of all Diynamic Showcases worldwide. And if all that wasn’t enough, she is also hosting the very popular EGO AIR every summer, a daytime open air party series in Hamburg.

opening set by Matt Hubert

For table reservations email [email protected]
Trent Cantrelle

Diversity is the name of Trent Cantrelle’s game.

Few artists can count both Swedish House Mafioso Steve Angello and Dutch house minimalist Koen Groeneveld as contemporaries, and even fewer feel just as comfortable rocking Electric Daisy Carnival’s main stage as they do curating the soundtrack to subterranean warehouse parties. But this delicate dichotomy of popular recognition and underground credibility has long defined the Los Angeles-based artist, who has stuck to his groove-driven guns while traversing the intersections of tech and big-room house, to critical and commercial acclaim.

“I didn’t once play a record that didn’t sound like me,” Cantrelle said of his opening slot for Angello at New York’s Central Park in 2013. It’s a statement that could just as easily sum up his career.

Cantrelle has emerged as a tastemaker for a new generation of dance music fans who have tired of cookie-cutter tracks and predictable breaks and builds. With a deep catalog of standout releases on such divergent labels as Ministry of Sound, Spinnin’, Toolroom, and Size X, Cantrelle’s stylistic versatility and consummate ear for quality have enabled him to expand horizons on marquee stages across the globe. “You could tell in the kids’ faces that they were discovering this music for the first time,” Trent said about a recent gig. “I feel like I’m rediscovering it too. Living through them, it’s like a renaissance.”

Growing up in New Orleans, Trent found his footing in music from an early age. He began DJ-ing at 13, drawing his initial influences from the hip-hop and freestyle played on weekend radio shows. He quickly graduated to the clubs, where he became known for taking listeners on marathon musical odysseys that showcased his eclectic blend of styles, picking up cues from “journey” DJs like Danny Tenaglia. A move to Los Angeles and renewed focus on production paid off with the success of “Runway,” which Pete Tong named WMC’s Essential New Tune in 2005. The transnational hit catapulted Cantrelle into the global touring spotlight, where he drew upon his decades of dance floor experience to become one of house music’s hottest commodities.

Despite his demanding tour schedule, Cantrelle has remained a prolific producer. Trent made recent waves as the debut signee for Angello’s Size X imprint, releasing his Nice & Close EP in 2013 to critical success: Dancing Astronaut called it “a breathtaking journey towards a nostalgic yet wholeheartedly relevant movement in modern dance music.” Trent struck sonic gold with 2011’s anthemic house hit “I Want a Freak,” which became one of the top 10 selling house songs that year. Having remixed the likes of Seal, Maroon 5, and the Pussycat Dolls, Trent has also racked up hits with chart-climbing reworks of Turbofunk’s “Gotta Move,” Pete Heller’s “Big Love,” and Deep Flexion’s “Emotions of the Night.”

In 2013, Cantrelle rebooted his Sounds Like label in order to champion the smorgasbord of sounds that populate his sprawling DJ sets, as well as provide musical output in support of his popular party series by the same name. His flagship homegrown release, “What I Need,” is a perfect representation of his label-free approach to floor filling house music. Eschewing his trademark tech for sultry brooding bass and deep chord progressions, Cantrelle emphatically refuses to be pigeonholed within a single sound.

“In a ten-hour set, I play a lot of genres and this label will touch on that,” Trent says. “It will be a lot of genres, not one specific style. I see a lot of labels fall into that trap. Anything coming from this label is made to dance to.”

In keeping with this ethos, Trent envisions Sounds Like as a definitively “underground label” that will represent his stylistic diversity while expediting the too-often long-winded release process on his own terms. “People are just onto new things so quickly and it takes labels too long to release records,” Trent says. “I want to keep music coming out on the label as soon as it’s made. I want to be able to have that freedom.”

Sounds Like yielded a weekly Sunday party of the same name in Los Angeles, where revelers gathered in the setting sun to dance, as Trent and an impressive array of guest DJs – from Sander Kleinenberg to Eddie Amador – played whatever felt right in the moment, whether it be house, techno, electro, old, new, instrumental or vocal. To Trent, that Sounds Like utopia.

Magdalena

Hamburg based superwoman Magdalena is the latest addition to the Diynamic artist roster. Not only did she run the renowned EGO Club in Hamburg; she also had her monthly residency there, releases her own radio show each month and plays gigs regularly in clubs like Weekend or Watergate in Berlin or Pacha and Cova Santa on Ibiza and she is a regular part of all Diynamic Showcases worldwide. And if all that wasn’t enough, she is also hosting the very popular EGO AIR every summer, a daytime open air party series in Hamburg.

opening set by Matt Hubert

For table reservations email [email protected]
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