Recognizing the blurred lines between producers and DJs, Serato has just released a beta version of an upcoming plugin, Serato Sample. The plugin allows users to sample tracks directly from their Serato libraries and into their DAW of choice.

One of the our most anticipated festivals of the year, Ultra Singapore revealed the first wave of DJs confirmed for its sophomore installment.

Ultra Singapore is happening on June 10-11 at Ultra Park, 1 Bayfront Avenue and will bring back last year’s three stages: the Main Stage, the Live Stage and the Resistance Stage.

Of course, the Main Stage houses some of the biggest household names imaginable, this year including Hardwell, Steve Aoki, Dash Berlin, Tiësto and Nicky Romero.

Here is the collection of the best mixes of April, which were published on djanemag.com! We do not limit this list with a certain genre of music. We understand, that usually a person prefers particular genre, but our aim here is to broaden outlook and make musical horizons wider throught listening absolutely different mixes from EDM and House to Techo and Hardcore.

Tell us a bit about LOOPTOPIA. What’s the story behind the name?

LOOPTOPIA is a portmanteau of the words “loop”, our brand, and “utopia”. Reason Xie, our in-house wordsmith for the past 15 years, came up with it. He is also our bookings director at theLOOP and resident DJ.

Back in 2013, inthemix.junkee.com named Ukraine’s hard-partying Kazantip the #1 festival in the world to discover before you die. 

Unfortunately, the freewheeling festival’s reign didn’t last much longer than that – civil unrest forced it to move from its longtime home on the Crimean Peninsula in 2014, with Kazantip resettling in Cambodia a year later – only to have that event cancelled at the eleventh hour by disgruntled authorities.