Alejandro Sab

Ten Best Music-Related Things to Do Under $10 This Weekend

So you want to go out, enjoy great music, down a couple of cold ones, and have some fun. But you're wallet's as empty as a political promise. No worries! There are plenty of rowdy options for cash-strapped party people. Just take a date to one of Crossfade's ten best music-related things to do und ... More >>

Miami's Ten Under $10 Party Guide, May 30 to June 5

Five Best Concerts in Miami This Week

If you can make it through Memorial Day weekend in Miami, you can make it through practically anything, including the dreaded work week ahead of us. But if you're still stuck in party mode and are in need of a little motivation, good music will do the trick. Here are the five best concerts to chec ... More >>

Ten Best Music-Related Things Under $10 to Do in Miami This Weekend

Why hello there, Friday! We've been waiting for you all week. And now that you're finally here, we're throwing a two-day bash especially for you, one that consists of music, concerts, and booze. The best part? It won't cost us more than 10 bucks. In your honor, Friday, here are the ten best musi ... More >>

Ten Best Music-Related Things Under $10 to Do in Miami This Weekend

April Fool's Day may have past, but it's no joke that you're still broke. Now that the weekend is here, you wish you would have spared all that cash you spent on trying to fool your significant other into thinking you had a sex change - it was a horrible prank idea from the start, but hey, that's wh ... More >>

Ten Best Music-Related Things Under $10 to Do in Miami This Weekend

Ten days of nonstop uhntz-uhntz madness that is Ultra Music Festival, Winter Music Conference, and Miami Music Week may have left a huge hole in your pocket. But just because you may have blown all your money on a slew of beat-freaking parties, that doesn't mean you can't party like an EDM superst ... More >>

Mano Le Tough: Five Reasons He Might Be EDM's Savior

The international electronic dance music scene in 2013 is deeply divided. On one hand, you have the fans of "EDM" or generic, commercial dance-pop designed for festivals and stadium arenas. And on the other hand, you have the underground electronic dance music snobs, bitching and moaning because th ... More >>

Ryan Crosson Talks Visionquest and New Album With Cesar Merveille

The commercial success enjoyed by Visionquest since the label's 2011 inception might be a testament to how much the mainstream EDM industry underestimates people's taste in music. The notion that the masses want to be spoon-fed the sonic equivalent of junk food via the likes of David Guetta and LMF ... More >>

Miami's Five Best Electronic Dance Music DJ Crews of 2010

​Although Miami's hosted WMC for decades and booked commercial DJ heavyweights at megaclubs like Space for years, it's only recently that there's been a steady influx of quality underground EDM bookings. And if 2010 was any indication, you could almost say the MIA is starting to become an electron ... More >>

Listen to DJ Mix by Kate Simko, Playing Ecco Lounge November 13

​Since launching in 2009, the Miami Dance Party website has emerged as one of Miami's premier sources for local underground EDM. The weekly podcast showcases guest mixes by a bevy of local DJs and producers, from Miami staples like DJ SpinnZinn of 90.5 WVUM to resident favorites at hotspots like t ... More >>

Sascha Dive Talks Funk, Soul, and Vinyl Purism

​To understand the German techno scene's fascination with African-American funk and soul, you need look no further than the work of Frankfurt-based DJ-producer Sascha Dive. As chief ambassador of the so-called "Rhein-Main sound" (though he shrugs off the label himself), Dive boasts that quintessen ... More >>

Dinky Drops a DJ Mix, Playing Electric Pickle This Friday

​Chileans have certainly made their mark on the international EDM scene -- Ricardo Villalobos, Luciano, Alexi Delano and Nicolas Jaar were all born and/or raised in Chile, just to name a few. So was Alejandra Iglesias, AKA Dinky, a Berlin-based DJ and producer who's been in the game for a good dec ... More >>

Seth Troxler Plays Electric Pickle on Friday

​Few DJs in the international EDM underground have enjoyed as much hype in the last couple years as Seth Troxler. As part of a growing contingent of Detroit-raised expatriate artists living and working in Berlin -- including Ryan Crosson and Shaun Reeves -- Troxler has straddled the two techno ... More >>

Sascha Funke Plays Electric Pickle on Friday

​With the countless expatriate artists that have flocked to the EDM capital of Berlin in the last decade, it's actually rare to find a real Berliner among them. But acclaimed DJ/producer Sascha Funke was indeed born and raised in East Berlin when electronic music was a just a faint rumor on th ... More >>

Dyed Soundorom Plays Electric Pickle on Friday

​French DJ/producer Dyed Soundorom is one of the hottest properties of hip Parisian tech-house label Freak n'Chic, home to a slew of international favorites like Jamie Jones, Shonky, and Chris Carrier. Originally a club kid and promoter in the late-90s and early-'00s Parisian house music scen ... More >>

Nightlife Review: Lee Foss and Ryan Elliott at Electric Pickle, May 21

Photo by Nicole CussellClick here to view all the photos from this event.Lee Foss and Ryan ElliottElectric Pickle, MiamiFriday, May 21, 2010Better Than: The increasingly boring-ass state of dance music at the rest of downtown's venues on Friday nights. The Review: While the buzz surrounding Lee Foss ... More >>

Ryan Elliott, Lee Foss and Soul Clap Play Electric Pickle this Weekend

​The PL0T crew has nothing short of a musical extravaganza in store for us this weekend with a triple showcase at the Electric Pickle featuring Ryan Elliott and Lee Foss on Friday night and Soul Clap during a special Sunday afternoon session. DJ Ryan Eliott, whose new compilation record we reviewe ... More >>

Valentine's Day Nightlife Ideas For Laughter and Forgetting

​If you're single on V-Day, don't feel weird -- South Florida is full of the similarly unattached and possibly disillusioned! Join them and be alone, together, at these V-Day alternative parties.... Or if you're in one of those couples that eschews commercial "holiday" traditions, pass go, collect ... More >>

Ambivalent Plays Electric Pickle Tonight

​Ambivalent is the moniker of NYC-based DJ/producer Kevin McHugh, of Richie Hawtin's prestigious Minus label. McHugh's early production credits include a music series he developed for the multidisciplinary artistic platform Creative Time in the mid '90s. By the mid 2000s he became associated with ... More >>

New Deep House Mix by DJ Joaquin, Playing ON/OFF at La Folie Tonight

​DJ Joaquin Estevez was born in the Dominican Republic and relocated to Miami in 1992, where he's been a mainstay of the local underground EDM scene since his long-standing residency for Sobebeats and their infamous warehouse parties in 2006-2008. He has since played regularly in support of the PL ... More >>

Q&A with Cassy, Playing at the Electric Pickle on Saturday

​Despite the hordes of electronic dance music artists living and working out of Berlin -- natives and foreign transplants alike -- few embody the spirit and sound of Berlin's contemporary EDM scene as fully as DJ/producer Cassy. Born Catherine Britton in England to a Caribbean father and Austrian ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: "New Dust" by Gaiser, Playing the Electric Pickle November 20

​Like some buff God-looking dude, Jon Gaiser (a.k.a. Gaiser, a.k.a. Fraktion) emerged from his bedroom studio in a blaze of blue light. The genius was naked, except for a sweaty sheet wrapped about his waist, and he stroked his beard while muttering this rote quote: "My bedroom has always been a r ... More >>

New EP by Alexi Delano and Alejandro Sab Out Today

​Crossfade has been following Miami-based DJ/producer Alejandro Sab for a while now, considering his PL0T parties and international artist bookings have been a veritable cornerstone of our local underground EDM scene for the last couple years. At least once a month since 2007 PL0T has made us priv ... More >>

Dance for a Cause with DJ Bill Patrick this Friday at Electric Pickle

​Musical Missionary's last Dance for a Cause party in August managed to raise a whopping $950 in one night, which were donated to SoBe Institute of the Arts.The lucky recipient of these scholarship funds is a little 10-year-old named Aurora, whose hard-working single mother couldn't afford paying ... More >>

Matt Tolfrey and Crazy Larry Play Electric Pickle Tonight

​The PL0T kids are at it again! Tonight brings a last minute double serving of deep techy goodness at the Electric Pickle with transatlantic favorites Matt Tolfrey and Crazy Larry in tow. Young British DJ/producer Matt Tolfrey has made his steady upward move from local pub DJ to internationally-re ... More >>

Download This New Deep House Mix by DJ Alejandro Sab

​PL0T resident DJ Alejandro Sab has been quite active in the last couple years, playing along some of the finest underground EDM talent we've had in Miami, such as Konrad Black, Ryan Elliot, Alexi Delano, and Camea. Besides his DJ accolades, Sab has also delved head-on into collaborative productio ... More >>

Shaun Reeves at the Electric Pickle Friday

​DJ/producer Shaun Reeves is a young Detroit native who made the ubiquitous transition to Berlin ahead of many of his peers, and has since been making waves in the European dance scene. As a producer, he shares the transatlantic sensibilities of Detroit buddies Seth Troxler and Less Curtiss, boast ... More >>

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Robert Dietz Plays White Room this Friday

PL0T presents another installment in their continuing series of brilliant German minimal bookings, with a Miami debut performance by Frankfurt-based DJ/producer Robert Dietz at White Room this Friday night. A relative newcomer to the scene with a few releases on the Cécille and Deep Vibes lab ... More >>

Konrad Black

Konrad Black at Glass on Valentine's Night

Miami is in for a special techno lovers' treat this Valentine's -- esteemed Berlin-based producer, DJ, and Wagon Repair label owner Konrad Black, will be throwing down at Glass at The Forge on the night of February 14. This exclusive performance comes on the first leg of Black's debut 2009 US tour, ... More >>