2014

2014 (MMXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (dominical letter E) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2014th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 14th year of the 3rd millennium, the 14th year of the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2010s decade.

2014 was designated as:

Events

January

February

Vocal trance

Vocal trance is a subgenre of trance music that focuses on vocals and melodies. The subgenre came into existence in the early 1990s, when trance was still developing. Although many early trance records used vocal samples mixed in with the beats, the earliest examples of the style appeared in 1992–93.

Characteristics

A typical track consists of three elements, though later tracks labeled vocal trance may not include all of them. A track begins with an intro of progressive beats. The melodic part starts incrementally, combining vocals, usually female, a melodic sound (for the most part high pitched and fast), and a bass pattern. Towards the end of the track, the melody fades out and the intro rhythm returns, usually with some minor changes.

Vocal trance producers frequently make use of session musicians, particularly females, for vocals on their tracks. Session vocalists have been featured on tracks that span different genres and subgenres, while some vocalists have chosen to work only within the electronic club and dance music genres.

Brennan Heart

Fabian Bohn known by his stage name Brennan Heart (born 2 March 1982 in Netherlands) is a Dutch DJ and producer of Hardstyle.

Career

In 2002, Fabian Bohn started to make hardstyle as member of the duo Brennan & Heart, together with DJ Thera (Pieter Heijnen). He experimented with several styles of music like techno, hard trance and tech trance, before focussing on hardstyle.

In 2005 the duo split and went their own ways, Bohn took the name Brennan Heart with him and Pieter Heijnen started as DJ Thera.

In 2006, he joined the Dutch label Scantraxx Records (created by The Prophet) and created his own sublabel called M!D!FY in May 2006.

In 2009, he released his first album Musical Impressions.

In 2012, he left Scantraxx Records and established his own music label Brennan Heart Music. He rebranded his own label to WE R Music and Code Black, Toneshifterz and Outbreak decided to join forces instantly in 2013.

Every Thursday, SLAM!HARDER, a radio show at the Dutch radio station SLAM!FM, is broadcast and every second Thursday presented by Fabian Bohn. (MC Villain (first Thursday), D-Block & S-te-Fan (third Thursday) and Digital Punk (fourth Thursday))

Greatest hits album

A greatest hits album, sometimes called a "best of" album or a catalog album, is a compilation of songs by a particular artist or band. Most often the track list contains previously released recordings with a high degree of notability. However, to increase the appeal, especially to people who already own the original release, it is common to include remixes and/or alternate takes of popular songs; even new material (previously unreleased). At times a greatest hits compilation is the original release for songs that have themselves been released as a single and charted successfully.

Notable compilations

Madonna's The Immaculate Collection is the best selling greatest hits compilation by a solo artist; all of the songs on it are presented in different versions than the original hit versions. The Eagles' Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) is the best selling greatest hits compilation by a group and also one of the ten best selling albums in history. Greatest hits albums are typically produced after an artist has had enough successful songs to fill out an album release. Some artists, such as Mariah Carey, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Britney Spears, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Kenny Rogers, Aerosmith, Kiss, U2, Dolly Parton, Journey, Los Tigres del Norte, Queen, Kylie Minogue and Billy Joel, have released multiple greatest hits albums through their long careers. Some greatest hits albums are released only at the end of the artist or group's career. For example, My Chemical Romance released a greatest hits album after they disbanded. Other artists, like Eminem have released hits albums in the center of their success. He released Curtain Call: The Hits in 2005 and then Shady XV as a compilation album in 2014.

Royal College of Art

The Royal College of Art or RCA is a public research university in London, in the United Kingdom. It offers postgraduate degrees in art and design to students from over 60 countries; it is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the world. In the QS World University Rankings in 2015, the RCA was placed first in the art and design subject area.

History

The RCA was founded in Somerset House in 1837 as the Government School of Design or Metropolitan School of Design.Richard Burchett became head of the school in 1852. In 1853 it was expanded and moved to Marlborough House, and then, in 1853 or 1857, to South Kensington, on the same site as the South Kensington Museum. It was renamed the Normal Training School of Art in 1857 and the National Art Training School in 1863. During the later 19th century it was primarily a teacher training college; pupils during this period included George Clausen, Christopher Dresser, Luke Fildes, Kate Greenaway and Gertrude Jekyll.