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R3hab at Fuze Club in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Photo source: Fuze Club)

DJcity’s Spotify playlist update for the week of July 18:

AlunaGeorge – Turn Up The Love
One Republic & Seeb – Rich Love
R3hab – Hold Me
Ricky Remedy ft. Diplo & Tunji Ige – Chosen
Selena Gomez ft. Gucci Mane – Fetish
Steve Aoki & Yellow Claw ft. Gucci Mane & T-Pain – Lit

Stream the entire playlist below or from within Spotify.

DJcity Essentials is a Spotify playlist that’s designed to fuel your house parties, workout sessions, road trips, and more. It’s curated by DJcity’s worldwide team.

Related: Kennedy Jones Selects Tracks for DJcity’s Spotify Playlist

Miami’s Chizzle has dropped a workout mix for DJcity’s Fit Radio channel. His 45-minute set contains over three dozen tracks, many of which are of the Caribbean and house variety.

Listen to his mix on DJcity’s Fit Radio channel.

Tracklist:

1. Calvin Harris ft. Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry, & Big Sean – Feels
2. DJ Khaled & Calvin Harris ft. Travis Scott & Jeremih – Don’t Quit
3. DJ Khaled ft. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance The Rapper, & Lil Wayne – I’m The One – Mister Gray Remix
4. Major Lazer ft. Anitta & Pabllo Vittar – Sua Cara
5. RDX – Shake Your Bam Bam
6. Santana ft. The Product G&B – Maria Maria – DJcity Throwback Edit
7. DJ Khaled ft. Rihanna & Bryson Tiller – Wild Thoughts – Tall Boys Guitar First Edit
8. Bryson Tiller – Run Me Dry – Mozes Remix
9. Bro Safari, Dillon Francis, & Salvatore Ganacci – XL
10. Ed Sheeran – Shape Of You – Joe Maz Remix
11. French Montana ft. Swae Lee – Unforgettable – Joe Maz Remix
12. Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee – Despacito – Major Lazer & Moska Remix
13. Danny Ocean – Me Rehuso
14. Major Lazer ft. J Balvin & Sean Paul – Buscando Huellas
15. Kanye West ft Ty Dolla Sign & Post Malone – Fade – PeteDown Remix
16. Drake – Signs
17. Wizkid ft. Chris Brown – African Bad Gyal
18. Major Lazer ft. Travis Scott, Camila Cabello, & Quavo – Know No Better – DJ Smerk 100-119 Transition
19. Jax Jones ft. Demi Lovato & Stefflon Don – Instruction
20. Katy Perry ft. Nicki Minaj – Swish Swish
21. Cheat Codes ft. Demi Lovato – No Promises – Hook N Sling Remix
22. Flume ft. Kai – Never Be Like You – Divide 2017 Remix
23. Chris Lake – I Want You
24. Drake – Passionfruit – Tom Budin Remix
25. Major Lazer – Pon De Floor – Noise Frenzy Remix
26. R. Kelly – Ignition – Delirious & Alex K Puro Pari Remix
27. Sergio Mendes – Magalenha – LatinBlends Blowfish Bootleg
28. Enur – Calabria – Fizboh 2017 Remix
29. Angie Martinez – Live At Jimmy’s – Thombs Puro Pari Remix
30. Kanye West & Martin Solveig & RYLS – The New Work Out Plan – Kaos Intoxicated Yeezy Bootleg
31. Valentino Khan – Pump – NOVA Technotronic Bootleg
32. Skrillex & Habstrakt – Chicken Soup
33. Diplo & Autoerotique – Waist Time
34. Tiesto & Sevenn – Boom – Kidd Spin Club Edit
35. Jamis & MAD M.A.C. – Renegade Master – Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike Edit
36. Darude – Sandstorm – Michael Wayne Remix
37. House of Pain – Jump Around – Chizzle Jump Edit
38. Bon Jovi – It’s My Life – The Pengwing & DJ EU 2016 Bootleg
39. Cascada – Everytime We Touch – Winning Team Remix

Follow Chizzle on Facebook, Instagram, SoundCloud, and Twitter.

Related: Listen to DJ ZEA’s Mix for Fit Radio

Oliver Heldens (Photo source: Instagram)

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DJcity’s weekly picks are selected by Kidd Spin. To receive them via email, click here.

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Power 106’s Vin Rican has celebrated the life of Mobb Deep‘s Prodigy with a new episode of Wax Only. The video looks at the samples behind Mobb Deep classics, along with solo tracks and songs that he was featured on.

Born Albert Johnson in Long Island, New York, Prodigy rose to fame in the ’90s as one-half of Mobb Deep. He also had a prolific career outside of the group, releasing 13 solo projects and five collaborative projects between 2000 and 2017. He passed way on June 20, 2017 from complications caused by sickle cell anemia.

Watch Wax Only above.

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DJcity Trends has received two big improvements! First, we’ve added an afrobeats and dancehall chart, and second, we’ve brought on our very own KidCutUp as an additional contributor. Check out the July edition of Trends here.

July’s contributors:

Chris Styles, mixer at SiriusXM’s The Heat and D.C.’s WPGC 95.5 and 94.7 Fresh FM
Eddie Boy, music director and resident DJ at Elevate Lounge
Jay Dabhi, mixer at New York City’s 92.3 AMP Radio and SiriusXM’s Globalization
KidCutUp, music producer at DJcity
Klutch, member of Electric Bodega
Mind Motion, member of Pirate DJs crew
Play, director of DJcity UK
Sammy Needlz, dancehall director at DJcity; mixer at SiriusXM’s Globalization
Santarosa, Latin director at DJcity; mixer at SiriusXM’s Globalization
Scene, Fool’s Gold recording artist

DJcity Trends is a monthly collection of charts intended to help DJs discover new and buzzing club tracks. The songs are hand-picked by influential DJs from around the world.

Related: DJcity Trends Charts for June 2017

Deadmau5 recently invited Linus Sebastian, who runs a popular technology channel on YouTube, to take a tour of his home studio in Canada.

The video provides an extensive look at mau5’s state-of-the-art space, which has been under construction for three years.

The studio, which is located in the house’s master bedroom, is suspended from what used to be a vaulted ceiling. It was done to improve the room’s acoustics and preserve its aesthetics (many of the cables are hidden under the floor).

In terms of equipment, the room is one of the only Dolby Atmos mix studios outside of Dolby itself. It contains nine custom-made ATC speakers that are positioned to produce 3D audio, a $500,000 Neve analog console, two walls of analog modular synthesizers, and over a dozen rare keyboard synths.

And if that wasn’t enough, “The mau5 House” also includes a server room in the basement, which powers his home network and graphics studio.

Watch the video above.

Related: Watch Deadmau5 Give a Tour of His New Studio

Yellow Claw (Photo source: Instagram)

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Featured on DJcity earlier this week:

– James Hype ft. Kelli Leigh – More Than Friends

DJcity’s weekly picks are selected by Kidd Spin. To receive them via email, click here.

Related: Must-Play Tracks for the Weekend: June 30

Jay Hardway (Photo source: Facebook)

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DJcity’s weekly picks are selected by Kidd Spin. To receive them via email, click here.

Related: Must-Play Tracks for the Weekend: June 23

Legendary music producer and executive Jimmy Iovine was a guest on The Howard Stern Show on Monday. The mogul recounted his five-decade career, from his early days as an engineer and producer to launching Interscope Records and Beats Electronics with Dr. Dre.

The interview follows the premiere of the trailer for HBO’s documentary, The Defiant Ones. The four-part series, which debuts July 9, chronicles Iovine’s partnership with Dre.

“I did three albums with John [Lennon]. That’s a lot of time. We hit it off, and that’s kind of why he let me in the studio.”

Iovine said he believes their bond was why Lennon asked him to be in the studio when he recorded vocals on David Bowie’s hit, “Fame.” The song appeared on his Young Americans album.

“That album set the tone of … a big part of my music career.”

In 1975, Iovine helped engineer Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run album, an experience that shaped his work ethic.

“Sony was gonna drop him. It’s not a secret. Bruce is not for sale. He’s not even for rent. There is nothing you have that he wants. … I learned my work ethic from this guy. This guy’s got the greatest work ethic, the most discipline, of anyone I’ve ever met in my life.”

Born to Run peaked at No. 3 on Billboard’s Hot 200 chart and eventually sold over 6 million copies in the US. It also earned Iovine a reputation as one of the best in the business.

After a string of successes with U2, Tom Petty, and Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks, Iovine launched Interscope Records with the help of David Geffen.

“Business to [Geffen] is an art form. He just shows you how to move. … He has never gotten anything from me except friendship, and he’s given me so much wisdom over the years.”

Eventually, Iovine connected with Dr. Dre and signed a deal to distribute Suge Knight’s Death Row Records. Stern asked him about the feud between West Coast and East Coast rappers and he how dealt with it.

“In a lot of ways, it was terrifying. Going backwards is not an option.”

Iovine also recalled the day he ran into Dre on a beach and heard about a sneaker deal he was considering.

“I said, ‘Dre, f#ck sneakers, man. Let’s do speakers!’ … How could we miss? We make records.”

Watch two clips from the interview below.

Rapper, producer, and DJ MAD SKILLZ has dropped a 20-minute open-format mix for the DJcity Podcast.

The Virginia native gained notoriety in the mid-’90s as a rapper with his album, From Where??? The project featured production from legends like J Dilla and Large Professor, and included the Billboard-charting single, “The Nod Factor.” Its B-side, “Skillz in ’95,” became an underground favorite.

In 1998, MAD SKILLZ was featured on two tracks on Timbaland‘s album, Tim’s Bio: “To My” with Nas and “Wit’ Yo’ Bad Self.” He has since released six solo albums, including an LP on the legendary hip-hop label, Rawkus Records.

Stream or download his mix below.

Tracklist:

1. DJ Khaled ft. Rihanna & Bryson Tiller – Wild Thoughts
2. Calvin Harris ft. Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry, & Big Sean – Feels
3. Zedd & Alessia Cara – Stay
4. Calvin Harris ft. Frank Ocean & Migos – Slide – Mighty Mi Juicy Bootleg
5. Wale ft. G-Eazy – Fashion Week
6. Lauryn Hill – Doo Wop (That Thing) – Mikos Remix
7. Spencer Ludwig – Diggy
8. Drake – Passionfruit
9. Madalen Duke – Gucci Store

Follow MAD SKILLZ on Facebook, Instagram, SoundCloud, and Twitter.

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