Diplo - Enter the Beat Portal Mix (Moombahton)

Diplo (Thomas Pentz) is a man in the electronic dance music industry I really respect. He has the brazen tenacity to pump out track after track after track working with people I've never heard of, producing tracks that always have something new, and just generally making his listeners want to get naked. He started his own record label called Mad Decent and has worked with a lot of celebrities with production or mixtape projects, and I'm sure we'll be seeing much more good stuff from him in years to come.

About two weeks ago he released a Beatport exclusive mix, which I will simply link and hope that you check him out - he lists a lot of tracks, and it would be arduous for me to plug them all here, so just shuffle your little butt on over there. He describes his intentions writing, "[For] The first half of this mix I wanted to highlight the lasted and greatest in moombahton while showcasing some of the classics. The second half is all bangers featuring tracks I've been playing to crowds all over the world."

Check out Diplo here: http://mixes.beatport.com/mix/1018

Krewella - Play Hard EP (Dubstep/House/Electro)

Krewella is a relatively new (at least to me) EDM trio from Chicago. Their music has kind of blown up in the past year since releasing Killin It, and they've just released another EP entitled Play Hard on which is a re-release of Killin It. They provide a very wide spectrum of electronic dance music genres, which I always respect in an artist, and they do each one fairly well - from house/trance anthems to more traditional pop-dubstep to moombahton - probably due to they're so-called virtuoso producer Kristopher or "Rain Man." Normally I don't like the overly harmonic "screamy" basses, but Krewella offers some great new material to the mix and are worth checking out.

Krewella - Play Hard

Krewella - Killin It

Krewella - Can't Control Myself

Krewella - Alive

Krewella - One Minute

Krewella - Feel Me