Max Vangeli – Crazed EP
The latest release on Rising Trax is this cheeky little EP from Max Vangeli ‘ Crazed EP.
Max Vangeli is a San Francisco-based house music producer and DJ. Originally from Eastern European Moldova, he moved to the United States in the 1990′s. A virtually unknown producer at the beginning of the year, Max quickly gained prominence after Pete Tong featured Crazed on his Fast Trax show, which lead to Chris Lake signing the track to Rising.
Out today on vinyl and digitally as a Beatport exclusive.
Mr. Joel Zimmerman, Torontonian better known as Deadmau5, has his first full-length coming out at long last. The album, which is due to include all of the Deadmau5 dancefloor monsters that made him famous, also delves into the more chilled out side of the infamous artist. In fact, in a recent Beatportal interview he went so far as to say that he was interested in producing a kind of ‘half and half’ album, with one disc as an electronic, danceable mix, and the other his own musical preferences which are not necessarily ‘danceable’, pulling influences from Squarepusher, Boards of Canada, Radiohead and the like… 
James Holden was just 19-years old when he released his first single ‘Horizons’ in 2000. At the time he was studying maths at Oxford University, but all he cared about was making music in his bedroom (that, and wearing goth T-shirts). ‘Horizons’ was an epic, progressive trance record that came at the tipping point when trance became too mainstream and progressive house emerged as its darker, more evil brother. James Holden became an overnight sensation thanks to ‘Horizon’, with a little helpful support from German DJ Timo Maas (who was still riding high thanks to his ‘Dooms Night’ remix). But in a recent interview it’s clear that Holden has no respect for the legions of Ableton producers out there trying to make it big through bedroom tunes… 
Egg heads in the UK and Germany have discovered that listening to just 50 minutes of uplifting dance music increases your levels of antibodies. The scientists from Sussex University and the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany also found that stress hormone levels, which can weaken the immune system, decreased after a dose of dance music. And the boffins reckon that their research shows music could be used to help aid patients’ recovery while in hospital. Dr. Ronny Enk, who led the research, said: ‘We think: 
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