Carl Craig

Recloose On His DJ Career: "Expect To See Me in the Club Well Into My 60s"

Virtuoso is one phrase that comes to mind to describe Recloose, AKA Matthew Chicoine. Also, master turntablist (not a credential you hear much in this era of laptop "DJs"), multi-instrumentalist producer, band leader, and even music academician molding the minds of electronic dance music's next ge ... More >>

Hard Miami Announces Pool Party Lineup: Felix Da Housecat, Baauer, 13 Others

Y'all ready to get your HARD on? It's beginning to look a lot like springtime. And as such, electro bangers will soon drown out every other noise Miami generates in a 24-hour period -- construction, traffic, chusmeria -- as part of the March tradition known as Winter Music Conference and Miami Mu ... More >>

Shelborne's WMC 2013 Pool Parties: Murk, Erick Morillo, Victor Calderone, and Others

Beware the Ides of March. No, not because someone's planning to stab you in the back a la Brutus. But rather because this year's Winter Music Conference kicks off on March 15, meaning you only have about three weeks of fake tanning sessions, CrossFit classes, and detoxing left until you're rolling ... More >>

Flying Circus Announces WMC 2013 Lineup: Lee Curtiss, Azari & III, Tiefschwarz, 19 Others

Now going on its sixth year, Flying Circus has emerged as one of the foremost mid-week Winter Music Conference parties. Back in 2011, Luca Saporito of UK DJ-production duo Audiofly reminisced with Crossfade about the fateful day in 2008 when he teamed up with SAFE Miami to launch the party last-mi ... More >>

Robbie Rivera's Juicy Beach 2013 Phase Two Lineup: Mord Fustang, Hot Mouth, 16 Others

Two weeks ago, Robbie Rivera kicked off the beat-freaking season by revealing the nine-act Phase One lineup for Juicy Beach 2013. The roster was already loaded with Mr. Rivera, Bob Sinclar, Cosmic Gate ... But the Juicy crew still promised more "all star talent to be announced in the coming weeks." ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2013 Phase 3 Lineup: Tommie Sunshine, Dieselboy, Kleinenberg

With just 29 days till Downtown Miami's Bayfront Park becomes totally flooded with LED-wielding beat freaks ... Ultra Music Festival 2013 has announced its Phase 3 lineup. Among this final round of 40-plus acts: Intrepid Ultra defender Tommie Sunshine, along with Marco Bailey, Christian Smith, DJ M ... More >>

Last Resort Announces WMC 2013 Lineup: Maceo Plex, Tale of Us, Soul Clap, 17 Others

With Made Event's longstanding Sunday School party going kaput before Winter Music Conference 2012, revelers were deprived of a properly epic closing party. But then SAFE Miami, Embrace Miami, and Liaison Artists came to the rescue with their first annual installment of Last Resort at Villa 221, th ... More >>

Crosstown Rebels' Get Lost Announces WMC 2013 Lineup: Cassy, Carl Craig, 30 Others

Last year, we here at Crossfade had a chat with Crosstown Rebels kingpin Damian Lazarus about the underground musical ethos behind his label and global party brand. "As our artists grow from strength to strength on a global scale, our sound becomes more popular," he told us. "But this was always th ... More >>

Six Best Parties on South Beach This Weekend

We really are incredibly lucky here in Miami. Most people across the country save up their money and their energy for that one big show that comes around every three months or so. Here in our cradle of bass, we have tons of awesome artists coming in every couple of days! Sometimes one after another! ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2013 Phase 2 Lineup: Alesso, Eric Prydz, Snoop Dogg, Tons More

Just when you thought the party couldn't get any better, Ultra Music Festival has announced its Phase 2 lineup. So let's not bother with the formalities. Here's who's been added: Alesso, Benny Benassi, Dirty South, Dog Blood (Boys Noize & Skrillex), Eric Prydz, Fedde Le Grand, Hardwell, Loco D ... More >>

LINK Miami's Third Anniversary at Treehouse: Magda, Marc Houle, and Bruno Pronsato

Over the last few years, Miami nightlife has seen a definite paradigm shift. And it coincides with the emergence of DJ-promotions collective LINK. The tyranny of commercial dance music and VIP culture on South Beach is being battled each week by parties like LINK's, which cater strictly to undergro ... More >>

Fifteen Best Parties at Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2012

​Maybe you're planning to spend the entire weekend performing glowstick tricks at Ultra Music Festival. Or enjoying the lavish amenities at Swedish House Mafia's Masquerade Hotel. Or bleep-bloop-ing around Biscayne Bay aboard the Biscayne Lady. But if not, you need a beat-freaking plan. In total ... More >>

Top Winter Music Conference 2012 Parties For Sunday, March 18

​After spending the past three days getting wasted and shaking ass all over SoBe, uhntz-uhntz-ing around Biscayne Bay aboard the Tikki Beach, and getting pruney in the Shelborne's pool, you're fucking pooped on partying. And like EDM quirkmeister Riva Starr's mustachioed clubber baby, you're whin ... More >>

Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week's 15 best parties March 22 to 25

Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week Pool Party Guide

​Ostensibly, Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week provide thousands of very serious electronic dance music fans with an annual opportunity to meet, mingle, and discuss the current state of EDM.But c'mon, that's bullshit. The truth: Both WMC and MMW are just excuses for totally out-of-contr ... More >>

No Sugar Added 2012 Announces Two-Day Lineup for Miami Music Week: Paul Oakenfold, Carl Craig, and 71 Others

Carl Craig says, "Get off the white stuff, beat freaks."​The United States of America is totally addicted to the white stuff. Strung out, fat, unfocused, cranky, fiending -- we are a nation of shrubby slaves to the cane, cube, and spoonful whose bodies (and minds) could never be called beach-read ... More >>

Detroit's Jeremy Ellis in Miami: "2012's My Year! But Don't Wait! Come See Me Now!"

​Laptop DJing and mixing MP3s with the help of a sync button have become the norm in live electronic music. And it's tragic, given the next-level sonic possibilities offered by instrumentalist virtuosos like Detroit's Jeremy Ellis. His live performances are the one-man electronic equivalent to se ... More >>

Tim Sweeney at the Electric Pickle August 27

Tim Sweeney Brings Beats in Space to the Electric Pickle August

​After twelve years of live mixing the weekly WNYU radio program Beats in Space, never once missing a night, Tim Sweeney has hosted pretty much every big name in electronic music. Sweeney started the Tuesday night affair as an 18-year-old college freshman. With ambition, smarts, and commitme ... More >>

Three Men Charged in Brutal Gang Rape at Fontainebleau

​Three men in town for Spring Break and the festivities surrounding Miami Music Week were arrested after allegedly brutally gang raping a college student in their room at the Fontainebleau. The young woman met the men at a pool party at the Shelborne Hotel.

Glimpse Talks Analog Fetishes and Recording at the Zoo

​There's a fascinating duality at the core of UK producer Glimpse's work. It's the duality of control vs. loss of control. On one hand, he favors analog studio production over digital, reckoning that today's automated digital tools eschew the elements of human spontaneity and imperfection -- he gr ... More >>

Carl Craig at Electric Pickle February 11

Carl Craig on Detroit Techno, Jazz, and the Collapse of the Auto Industry

via Carl Craig's Facebook​"Techno is a music that uses imagination to develop the fantasy of what the future can be," says Carl Craig, waxing poetic. But his sound is just as informed by the past as it is by the future. Part of Craig's unique contribution to Detroit techno are his forays into el ... More >>

Detroit Techno Legend Carl Craig Plays Electric Pickle February 11

Carl Craig​2010 marked not only the quartercentennial anniversary of Miami's Winter Music Conference but also 25 years of Detroit techno, the seminal EDM movement that spawned the worldwide techno phenomenon. And this year is also a significant one for Detroit techno, as it marks the 20th annivers ... More >>

DJ Harvey Talks Turntablism, Disco Breaks, and Black Cock

DJ Harvey: He aims to please​DJ Harvey Bassett's resume reads like the very history of vanguard music since the '70s. Born and bred in Cambridge, UK, he was an original '77 punk rocker whose band The Ersatz saw rotation on John Peel's legendary radio show. But soon enough, he traded his drums ... More >>

Seattle Deep House Sensation Pezzner Recounts His Breakthrough Year

​It's been a sensational year for Seattle-based DJ-producer Dave Pezzner, who despite almost two decades of experience under his belt was virtually unknown by the international EDM community until very recently. For over fifteen years, he banged out quirky glitch-house and breaks as production d ... More >>

Soul Clap vs. PLOT Showcase

Album Review: Runner by Glimpse, Playing Electric Pickle on April 23

​GlimpseRunner(Crosstown Rebels)2009 was a big year for EDM's new dark horse, UK-based producer Glimpse, AKA Christopher Spero. Despite a deeply-rooted underground sensibility and uncompromising experimental flair, he has garnered plenty of mainstream accolades, including a nomination for Producer ... More >>

New DJ Mix by Andres Amadeus, Opening for DJ T at Electric Pickle on Wednesday

​DJ Andres Amadeus has been a staple of Miami's electronic dance music scene for several years now, holding court at various hotspots around town including Badrutts's Place, Segafredo, Delano, and Skybar, where he presided over the weekly Soultech sessions and its slew of cutting-edge internationa ... More >>

Shit Robot

DFA's Shit Robot at the Vagabond October 16

​That little "influences" box on a musician's MySpace page is usually a repository for not-funny irony or complete bullshit. Shit Robot's, however, is as sincere and accurate as this single-man-act's name is not -- name-checked here are early electronic heavyweights like Carl Craig, Andrew Weather ... More >>

Top Dance Albums of 2008

Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dr ... More >>

Syclops

I've Got My Eye on You (DFA)

Various Artists

Life Beyond Mars: Bowie Covered (Rapster/!K7)

Free Vinyl Giveaway: Verve Remixed Vol. 4

Album Reviews: Booka Shade, Henrik Schwartz, Ricardo Villalobos

Ta'Raach and the Lovelution

The Fevers (Sound in Color)

Roll Over, Oakenfold, and Tell Tiësto the News

Top 10 DJ mixes of 2006

Laurent Garnier and Carl Craig

The Kings of Techno (BBE)

Carl Craig

Fabric 25 (Fabric)

Various Artists

Spectral Sound, Vol. 1 (Ghostly International)

Home Listening

Various Artists

Verve Remixed 3 Verve

Various Artists

Appleseed original soundtrack Tofu Records

Original Flavor

DHM wants to introduce you to real house

Electronica's Kingdom Comes

Miami's annual Winter Music Conference

Carl Craig's Sci-Fi Jazz

Techno, but not as we know it

Kulchur

Kulchur

Electric Avenues