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Jimmy Edgar Talks Magick, Studio Wizardry, and Hypnotic Power of EDM

As you read this, a lot of would-be Jimmy Edgar imitators are sitting in their bedroom studios scratching their heads and wondering why they can't sound like him. That's because nobody sounds like Jimmy Edgar except Jimmy Edgar himself. From the start, his sound was so freethinking that the Detroit ... More >>

Miami's Jonny Cruz Talks Drum 'n' Bass, My Favorite Robot, His New Label, and Basel Week

Puerto Rico is not necessarily known as an electronic dance music hotbed, but the island did spawn one Jonny Cruz, a DJ-producer who has started making waves on the international tech-house scene these last couple years. It helps that Cruz is a card-carrying member of the artist collective behind h ... More >>

Top Songs for F#$%ing, According to 2,000 Horny Music Nerds

Hey, honey, would you like to have sex? No, not tonight. I'd rather listen to Meatloaf. Yeah, we've never said that either, but turns out a lot of Spotify listeners think "Bat Out of Hell" is more enjoyable than actually orgasming. And that's not all the streaming platform uncovered with its recen ... More >>

Heidi on Bass: "I'm a Sucker For All Things That Hit Me Below the Belt"

House music is supposed to jack your body. It's supposed to make you lose your mind on the floor. In a word, it's supposed to be fun. Cerebral EDM nerds tend to forget that fact, but Heidi Van Den Amstel is here to remind them. The UK -- light years ahead of the U.S. when it comes to championing un ... More >>

Thieves Like Us Talk Jet-Setting, Cumbia, and New Bleed Bleed Bleed Album

American-Swedish threesome Thieves Like Us borrowed its name from a 1984 song by New Order, quite fitting because the outfit offers up the same sensitive type of electronic indie pop as the iconic '80s band. Add to the members' mixed nationalities that Thieves Like Us first formed in Berlin, then w ... More >>

I Am My Own Wife, at the Arsht, Explores Surviving Nazis and Commies as a Transgender Woman

Giles Smith on Secretsundaze: "We've Never Been About Fads, Just Quality Timeless Music"

London has been a major electronic dance music hub since the rave boom of the late '80s. And when it comes to London house and techno parties with an authentic underground ethos, the name Secretsundaze reigns supreme. Launched by DJ-producers Giles Smith and James Priestly, the party has been going ... More >>

Stacey Pullen: Today's DJs All Try To Sound Like One Another and Don't Take Risks

See also Stacey Pullen in "Six Best Club Parties on South Beach This Weekend." Last month, we here at Crossfade had a chat with second-wave Detroit techno legend Rick Wade about "disposable tracks" vs. "substance." One of Wade's homeboys from that second wave is celebrated DJ-producer Stacey Pull ... More >>

Six Best Club Parties on South Beach This Weekend

What a week it's been, eh? The Miami Heat paraded down Biscayne Boulevard, celebrating their 2012 NBA championship with hometown fans in the streets of Downtown Miami. A few days later, Spain won an Iberian showdown, beating Portugal in penalty kicks and advancing to the Euro Cup finals for the se ... More >>

Oh, Brother!

Get Physical Nacht at Treehouse March 24

Ultra Music Festival 2012 Announces Phase 2 Lineup With 144 New Beat-Freaking Acts

​Check out Ultra Music Festival 2012's Phase 1 lineup. There are only five weeks left till epic levels of uhntz-uhntz turn Downtown Miami into a 150,000-person public orgy! Back in December, Ultra Music Festival announced its initial 92-act roster. And just 14 days later, the fest "completely s ... More >>

Madonna Announces 2012 World Tour With Miami Concert

​For every fat, drunk American football fan who couldn't even sit (or, uh, dance) through Madonna's 12-minute Super Bowl XLVI halftime bonanza, there are millions of giddy pop music fans in party towns like Istanbul, Zagreb, Warsaw, Kansas City, and St. Paul who'd be totally willing to blow their ... More >>

Paul Van Dyk Announces EVOLUTION Album Launch Party During Winter Music Conference

​Known to fanatics and followers as the High Duke of Dance or simply PVD, professional party starter Paul Van Dyk (born Matthias Paul) is a total beat-freaking legend. Over the last two decades, he's uhntz-uhtnz-ed all across the globe, unleashing five stellar slabs of electronic tuneage, Rock-in ... More >>

Sauvage in Berlin: Fast Forward to the Ancient Past

What did our ancestors eat? Not three or four thousand years ago. What did they eat 90,000 years ago? How did they survive in the wilderness? They weren't at the top of the food chain. In, fact, humans were probably delicious hors d'oeuvres for an assortment of four-legged predators.In the endless q ... More >>

tINI on DJ Gender Divide: "The House Scene Is Not Defined by Gender, Everyone Is Welcome"

​Miami, meet tINI. Who is she? Only one of the transtlantic tech-house scene's most accomplished female DJ-producers. It helps that she's a card-carrying member of Loco Dice's beloved Desolat family, which means regular headlining slots at EDM hostpots from her native Berlin to Ibiza. Then there ... More >>

Bunny Behind the Lens

Atari Teenage Riot at Culture Room, September 13

Clink Label's Tim Xavier Brings Transatlantic Techno to Grand Central This Friday

​It kind of sucks that techno isn't bigger in the States, considering it came from the archetypal American city of Detroit. Today, the genre is largely a European phenomenon with much of the action revolving around the international EDM capital of Berlin. So it follows that many homegrown Americ ... More >>

M.A.N.D.Y.'s Philipp Jung Talks Getting Physical at Treehouse This Sunday

Photo by Lars BorgesM.A.N.D.Y.'s Patrick Bodmer and Philipp Jung.​In the last decade, M.A.N.D.Y.'s Patrick Bodmer and Philipp Jung have seen monstrous success with their productions and performances -- not to mention the inception of their record label, Get Physical. Even the newbies to the elec ... More >>

Climb Over to Treehouse for This Week's Summer Sunday Sessions With Bloody Mary

​There's nothing in the world like a good treehouse. We used to buy weed from a guy named Rasta who had a badass one somewhere in South Dade. It was tricked out with air conditioning, a fish tank, and a 60-inch plasma screen TV. The only Treehouse we know that's cooler is the party place on S ... More >>

Death On The Balcony's Paul Hargreaves Talks Disco, Success, and the Magicbag Label

Death On The Balcony​We here at Crossfade pride ourselves on breaking new international talent ahead of their debut Miami performances. And UK disco-house sensations Death On The Balcony are one act we've been following closely all year in anticipation of its first apperance this side of the pond. ... More >>

Atari Teenage Riot at Culture Room in Fort Lauderdale September 13

Atari Teenage Riot​You know the current crop of noisy electronic acts like Crystal Castles and Sleigh Bells? Well, they owe a lot to a certain Berlin hardcore outfit spearheaded by Alec Empire, Hanin Elias, Carl Crack, and Nic Endo. They were better known as Atari Teenage Riot and throughout the ' ... More >>

Scuba Talks Eclectic Projects and Hotflush Showcase at Electric Pickle This Saturday

Scuba​Recent years have marked the resurgence of the broken beat in electronic dance music. (Not that breaks ever went away, but they did stay on the fringe for a good decade.) Now, with the rise of dubstep and '90s UK garage/two-step nostalgia, producers across the international scene are breakin ... More >>

Visionquest Talk Spirtual Enlightenment and the Shelborne Showcase

​Earlier this week, we previewed the upcoming Visionquest label showcase at the Shelborne this Friday. The label/production quartet of illustrious Detroit DJ-masterminds Ryan Crosson, Lee Curtiss, Shaun Reeves, and Seth Troxler owns the international hot tip right now, having put out Benoit & ... More >>

Zombie Disco Squad Brings Baile Funk and Baltimore Club to the Electric Pickle

​It's not easy cooking up a melting pot of exotic world sounds while still nailing a savvy dancefloor-ready formula. But that's exactly how Zombie Disco Squad operates. The forward-thinking UK production duo of Lucas Hunter and Nat Self is breaking the house music mold by crossbreeding styles as ... More >>

Soul Clap Talks Crate-Digging, Baby-Making, and E-Funk

Soul Clap: hungry for the vinyl​It seems like only a few years ago that the international EDM scene was in some sort of minimal techno dark age. The sounds were cool and slick and oh-so-Berlinesque, but they just weren't very fun. Fast-forward to 2011 and Boston's Soul Clap have helped kick-star ... More >>

Boys Noize at Mansion November 3

Anja Schneider Talks Success of Mobilee Label, Women in EDM, and Gig at Electric Pickle on Friday

​Anja Schneider is a veritable renaissance woman of electronic dance music. The DJ, producer, radio show host and record label magnate is a long-standing veteran of the Berlin scene whose renowned weekly show on Berlin's Radio Fritz has been going strong for a decade. But it's the success and bran ... 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 >>

Q&A with Doc Martin, Playing Electric Pickle on Friday

​"In the beginning there was Jack, and Jack had a groove. And from this groove came the groove of all grooves. And Jack boldly declared, 'Let there be house,' and house music was born." So goes the Genesis-like mythos of house music, as expounded by the legendary Chuck Roberts.Esteemed DJ/producer ... More >>

Q&A with Matt Tolfrey, Playing Electric Pickle on Friday

​On Monday we previewed the upcoming Friday night performance by Matt Tolfrey at Electric Pickle and with the date nearing, it's already clear that this is one booking highly anticipated by the local EDM cognoscenti. The talented British DJ/producer and Leftroom label owner has taken the London un ... More >>

Funkagenda and Magda

Tribal Electro

Get Physical

Go Buy Art Porn and More at the Taschen Store Opening Tomorrow

​Every decadent, cultured city needs a Taschen store. Otherwise, where's a connoisseur of highbrow pornography to go when he needs a $1500 signed copy of Vanessa del Rio: Fifty Years of Slightly Slutty Behavior? They just don't sell that shit at the Pleasure Emporium.Anyway, Miami's finally got on ... More >>

WMC 2010: Mixed Doubles Party Changes Venue

​A few weeks ago, we posted about Mixed Doubles, presented by the Berlin-based booking agencies Wilde and Playkula, along with London-based labels Leftroom and murmur. It's a daytime, tennis-themed party that goes from noon to 10 p.m. on Thursday, March 25, and features some top techno from people ... More >>

Ryan Crosson Plays Space on Saturday

​Like homies and Visionquest partners Seth Troxler and Lee Curtiss, DJ/producer Ryan Crosson is part of a new breed of Detroit-bred artists who have staked their place in Berlin's underground EDM scene since the late 2000s. Born and raised in Metro Detroit, Crosson absorbed the native sounds of se ... More >>

Your (Abridged) Guide to Art Basel

Q&A: A Game of Either/Or With Peaches, Who Plays Revolution This Friday

Peaches has, among other things, a (relatively) new LP (I Feel Cream), a new clip (for the song "Take You On"), a new band (the Berlin-based Sweet Machines), and a new tour. That last one brings her to Revolution this Friday, November 6. It also gave New Times a chance to play a quick game of "Eith ... More >>

Heidi

Don't Touch My Techno

Swedish Producer the Field Returns with More Open Techno Expanses

Kruder and Dorfmeister

Diplo's World Beat

Thank this DJ/producer for the growing global funk at WMC.

Paul Van Dyk Takes Over Club Space's Main Room

Dance giant Paul van Dyk gets down to his music's nuts and bolts.

The Metropolis

Cabaret shows Berlin on the brink.

Flapjack Flip-Off VI

A quintet of unwitting participants grapple for the Holy Grail of griddlecakes: the Mrs. Beeton Flapjack Flip-Off Trophy

Spies Like Us

Nejla Y. Yatkin finds her exotic rhythm