Monday Choon - Ultra Countdown: Zedd - Papercut ft. Troye Sivan

In just about 3 weeks, South Africa will be taken over by some of the worlds biggest names in electronic music. We continue our Ultra South Africa Countdown this week with another superstar DJ that will be headlining the countries premier dance music festival, Zedd. The Russian-German DJ is one of two Grammy award winning DJ's that will be playing at Ultra SA 2016 and it will be his first time in the country. 

I am a big fan of Zedd's previous stuff, his collaborations with artists like Matthew Koma, Hayley Williams, Salena Gomez and Foxes did phenomenally well and which ultimately led to his Grammy Award nomination and win. In his most recent work he still finds himself working with artists from around the spectrum, this week's featured track has the vocals of South Africa's very own Troye Sivan. Troye popular for his starring role in the SA movies Spud, based on the popular noval has been concentrating a lot on his singing of late and it's great to see him team up with Zedd on the track papercut. 

                    

Monday Choon: Audien & Matthew Koma - Serotonin

Audien, not the most popular name in the EDM world but the American DJ has been doing his thing and wowing crowds with his mellow and uplifting beats for a good few years now. Signed onto Armin van Buuren's Amarda label, his played at the ASOT events and has worked with many other DJ's on the label, most notably Arty where he remixed his track "together we are", and his remix of Ummet Ozcan's and Nervo's track was featured a few weeks back. Today he's joined by the guy who's vocals could be found on most electronic dance songs today, Matthew Koma. 

Monday Choon: Tiesto ft. Matthew Koma - Wasted (TST Remix)

Tiesto's latest single hit has taken over where Red Lights left off, "asted feat "Wasted" featuring the vocal talents of Matthew Koma who seems to be on everything dance related in the past few months is currently topping the charts and getting tons of airplay on the radio. Good to see the Dutch legend DJ getting this much commercial exposure but while we addicts might find the original a bit tame for our liking, Tiesto did have something up his sleeve. TST who are signed on his Musical Freedom Label provided the oomph that was needed in their remix of the song. Not much is known about "TST" but Tiesto has claimed it is not him, whoever it is, its a blody good remix!

Monday Choon: Zedd ft. Matthew Koma & Miriam Bryant - Find You (Dash Berlin Remix)

Boy oh boy, what a weekend it was in Miami! If you managed to catch some of the live streams you would have seen why UMF Miami is probably the best Music Festival to attend. Every DJ killed it with their sets and I managed to catch a few even though it was in the wee hours of the morning. Zedd was the first DJ I manage to watch, his set on the Mainstage as usual was brilliant, loads of energy and he played a lot of his new stuff. After the set he said he loved the way the crowds sang along to all his songs. Today's choon is a new one from him featuring Matthew Koma & Miriam Bryant, the song itself is a great track and sure to get to the top of many charts but I decided to feature Dash Berlins Remix of it. One of the better ones out there.