Danny Daze

Danny Daze at Ultra Music Festival 2013

Maceo Plex Talks Jupiter Jazz Debut EP, Ultra Music Festival, and WMC/MMW 2013

Maceo Plex is pretty much the biggest thing in underground dance music right now. He's definitely one of the most highly anticipated acts playing next week for Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2013. You'll get to catch him at several parties, not the least of which are his Ellum label s ... More >>

Maceo Plex on Ultra Music Festival Debut: "I'm Going to Bring Everything I've Got"

Among the legion of global superstars alighting in Miami for Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2013, one name carries some pretty serious weight at the moment: Maceo Plex. DJ/producer and Ellum label boss Eric Estornel's rise to international stardom over the last couple of years has be ... More >>

Who Wants Free Tickets for Danny Daze's Homecoming Show at Story Nightclub?

Growing up in the 305, Danny Daze started out as a 13-year-old DJ inspired by the ass-quaking bass of DJ Laz, Crazy Legs, and Dynamix II. "I really got influenced by the b-boy scene in Miami -- Hot Wheels, Thunder Wheels," he told Crossfade last year. "Then little by little got into the rave scene ... 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 >>

Danny Daze's Top Five Miami Jams of All Time

DJ-producer Danny Daze is an international player now, zigzagging around the global party circuit and throwing down at all the hotspots from Los Angeles to Ibiza to Melbourne. But for Danny, it all started in Miami -- the place he still calls home. Back in March, he reminisced with Crossfade about ... More >>

Six Best Club Parties on South Beach This Weekend

​A week's worth of panic attacks, insomnia, depression, and paranoid delusions, no we're not having showing signs of ecstasy withdrawal. We're on team Deadmau5 and we're showing signs of EDM withdrawal. It's been four days since WMC wrapped, pulling the digital needle off the MP3 record player a ... 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 >>

Danny Daze on Miami Clubs: "Telling DJs What to Play Because of a Douchebag Spending Three Grand on a Table"

Miami homeboy Danny Daze (AKA Daniel Gomez) blew up big time in 2011 thanks to a bass-heavy dancefloor bomb called "Your Everything" signed to Jamie Jones and Lee Foss's Hot Creations label. Needless to say, the record made our cut for Miami's Best Albums of 2011. And it put Danny's name on the lips ... More >>

Crosstown Rebels' Get Lost 2012 Lineup: Maceo Plex, Art Department, Droog and Others

​What started out as a fairly modest afterhours party at the former Studio A space in Downtown Miami in 2006 has since evolved into the WMC event par excellence. Of course, we're talking about Crosstown Rebels' Get Lost. And now in its seventh installment, this party has pretty much come to epit ... More >>

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

​If you get paid every other week or so, we're gambling seven days' worth of blog salary that there's a $10 bill burning a hole in your pocket. And boy do we have ways for you to spend it. On each and every Friday, Crossfade hits you with a ballin'-on-a-budget guide to Miami, a list of cheap, mu ... More >>

Nine Best Club Parties on South Beach This Weekend

​Holy time-lapse! Where'd January go? February seemingly came out nowhere and that silly little groundhog's predicting another six weeks of winter. This has been a really crazy week. Oh, and happy Black History Month. Plenty of gnarly shit's going down this weekend en la playa. And per usual, ... More >>

Miami's best albums, EPs, and mixtapes of 2011

Miami's Best Albums of 2011: Danny Daze's Your Everything/Fall Away From Love EP

​To close out the year, Crossfade is picking its favorite albums by 305 artists. Check out the full list of Miami's Best Albums of 2011. Danny Daze Your Everything/Fall Away From Love EP (Hot Creations) Despite the 305 being a transatlantic house and techno mecca during WMC, we hadn't really sp ... More >>

Miami's Five Best Electronic Dance Music Parties This Week

Seth Troxler ​We've said it before and we'll say it again: Miami's underground EDM scene is on fire! This week alone, there are five world-class bookings. And there's a little something for everyone, from the dark minimal techno heads to the leftfield live electronica connoisseurs. We've got the ... More >>

Art Basel Miami Beach 2011 Music Guide: All the Acts Announced So Far

​Right now, Miami is being swarmed by art fairs, galleries, and artists from across the globe. Of course, we're talking about Art Basel Miami Beach. A side benefit to all this arty international activity is the influx of awesome music to entertain all the jetsetters. And naturally, Crossfade is k ... More >>

Hot Natured at the Electric Pickle August 26

Danny Daze's "Your Everything" Is Seducing Soundsystems Everywhere (Video)

Danny has got us in a daze.​Danny Daze started out like every Miami DJ: spinning at South Beach clubs and downtown joints, trying to earn a buck. But deep down, there was an electronic music artist waiting to come out. And now, whether it's under his own name, DiscoTech, or Señor Stereo, Daze s ... More >>

DJ Craze Gets Grilled by Wannabe DJs and Tech Nerds at SAE Institute

​The Nicaraguan-born, Miami-bred super DJ who runs Slow Roast Records with Kill the Noise, DJ Craze, lives right here in the 305. During the week, at least. On the weekends, he's traveling from Vegas to Manila, doing what it takes to keep massive crowds of party people dancing. Recently, administ ... More >>

Catch Steve Bug, Matt Tolfrey, and Danny Daze at TreeHouse This Sunday

Steve Bug​The LINK crew has been busy all year booking some of the biggest stars on the international techno scene at venues like Space and the Electric Pickle. And earlier this month, LINK auspiciously kicked off its new Summer Sessions with world-renowned DJs Heidi and Bill Patrick at TreeHous ... More >>

Score DJ Mix by Miami's Danny Daze, Newest Star of The Hot Creations Label

​If you've partied in Miami in the last decade, you've heard DJ-producer Danny Daze (AKA Daniel Gomez) throwing down at venues like Rokbar, LIV, and former downtown hangout White Room. And if you haven't clubbed with Mr. Daze, then you will soon, because homeboy is about to blow up in a major ... More >>

Bikini Take a Drugged-Out Midnight Trip to Bardot February 24

See deep waters with Bikini.​Unlike most bands named after seaside apparel and/or accessories (i.e. Swimshorts, Sunglasses, Sandals), bicoastal digi-pop duo Bikini doesn't spin hazy, wavy sounds designed specifically for sunny, sandy days at the beach. Dark, distorted, and dance-y, this stuff is m ... More >>

Party With Afrobeta and Get Drunk for Free at Scope Miami's Night Event

Photo by Karla GarciaAfrobeta's Cuci Amador is good for the party.​Alcohol intoxication is fun. However, getting drunk is literally equivalent to drowning your brain in booze. The lesson: What's bad for your body is good for the party. A little less detrimental to your amygdala's good health, but ... More >>

Señor Stereo at Grand Central

Green Velvet, Hollywood Holt, Treasure Fingers This Weekend at Grand Central

Hollywood Holt​We promise we'll stop writing about Grand Central when their bookings start to suck -- which doesn't seem to be happening any time soon. This weekend the downtown venue is packing another wallop of dance music.Friday, Green Velvet, AKA Cajmere, will be returning to Miami hopefully b ... More >>

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Felix Da Housecat at Grand Central Friday

Felix Da Housecat: The DJ with nine lives.​Seems like Grand Central's opening weekend is going to be a busy one. We already talked about Thursday night's grand opening as well as Saturday's massive event with Major Lazer. Well, you might as well camp out at venue the entire weekend because it was ... More >>

DiscoTech Releases Devastating EP

​If you aren't aware of DiscoTech, the production trio is compromised of Midwesterns Joe Maz (who relocated here recently) and Gigamesh, along with local boy Danny Daze. Together they've produced remixed from Classixx, Kanye West, Britney Spears, Lykke Li, and more.Well now the group is also relea ... More >>

Pyramid Club Takes Over Mokai Wednesday

​It seems like it was only yesterday that Alexis Mincolla and Sam Baum spoke to us about this concept they had called Overthrow, in which every now and then they would take over a venue and put on one badass party. That was then, but now they've arguably turned into a legitimate party crew with es ... More >>

Video: Scion Radio 17 Danny Daze Interview

We've already said plenty about Danny Daze, so we'll keep this short. Above is a video interview with the Miami DJ/producer did for Scion Radio 17. In it he talks about his side projects DiscoTech and Señor Stereo. He also talks about how he got his start DJing and how he manages to keep sane desp ... More >>

This Sounds Like Fun

MP3 of the Day: Danny Daze "White Light Mix, Vol. 9"

​What to say about local DJ Danny Daze that hasn't been said before? Daze has been one of the most in demand DJs around the country for the last few years and he keeps busy with side projects like DiscoTech and Señor Stereo. Is it any surprise we picked him as this year's Best Club DJ?Well if you ... More >>

Get Funk'd Up at Soho Studios this Saturday Night with Pirate Stereo, Danny Daze, and More

​In the ongoing spirit of philanthropy that seems to have taken over Miami's dance music scene (with recent charitable events like "The Vagabond for a Cause" with John Digweed and "Dance for a Cause" featuring Chris Fortier at Electric Pickle) Technique Miami presents "Get Funk'd Up" at Soho Studi ... More >>

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Flyer of the Week: Local Motion 3 Fights Cancer at Nocturnal August 7

Flyer design by Kent Hernandez Sometimes a party isn't just a party. Sometimes it's Local Motion, the annual charity electro concert benefiting the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life, organized by Loscar Rodriguez, a.k.a. HenceSoLo, and presented by Lexyn Intelligence and Nocturnal. First l ... More >>

Local Motion

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Best of 2009 Preview: Best Club DJ

Best Club DJDanny Dazemyspace.com/djdannydaze Danny Daze has been doing the DJ/producer thing for a while now, but he has definitely been getting plenty of attention recently. He spends as much time on the decks at clubs around the nation as in Miami, and when he's here, you can catch him at Sou ... More >>

Scion House Party with Dopplereffekt and Discobelle DJs at White Room

Who are you Dopplereffekt?Miami rarely ever gets the honor of hosting rare, once-in-a-lifetime events. But next week, if you're smart, you'll be at White Room, Wednesday, May 13, to catch illusive Detroit techno outfit Dopplereffekt, who will be performing live as part of the Scion House Party event ... More >>

WMC 2009 Day One Re-cap: Calvin Harris Cancels, Major Hipster Party at Electric Pickle

Justin NamonMiss you Benny Benassi. Click here to view the full slide show.First night didn't go so well for me. After a few too many glass of champagne early in the day at the Gansevoort's rooftop pool, I had to go home to sleep off the buzz. Yes, I broke my rule of not drinking early in the week. ... More >>

DJ Riz of Crooklyn Clan

On the List - Frankie Chan, Prince Terrence, Dita Von Teese and Guns 'n' Bombs

Er, so last night we were suppose to go see Diplo at LIV, but our disco nap turned into a deep slumber. Oh well, no worries, Diplo will be back for WMC, and we are excited about Mad Decent's party at O.H.W.O.W. during the week.Anyway, we suppose we've got some catching up to do, so here's what you a ... More >>

Things Get Hairy Wednesdays at LIV

Image via MySpaceThings will get hairy with Kid Sister Febrauary 25 at LIV.Call us nightlife anthropologists, because our assessment of downtown's nightlife set being courted by glitzy South Beach continues to be reinforced. We wonder if we can present this as a thesis for our doctoral research?The ... More >>

On The List - New Trend Alert Edition

With the economy going way south, it seems like the nightlife industry is starting to implement new business tactics. Bottle service is surely going the way of the dinosaur, and the industry knows if it's going to survive its got to find untapped market.Enter in the downtown hipster promoters.Often ... More >>

Tonight: Spam All-Stars at Mansion, Common at Louis

'Tis the season, ya'll! And the Opium Group wants you to open your wallets, er, for charity of course! It goes without saying, we are all hurting a bit financially this season, but there still are a lot people worse off than you. So if aren't aware already of all the toy drives going on this weekend ... More >>

Danny Daze Mixes Things Up For Scion Radio

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, ya'll! Well, in case you are in need of a rump-shakin' soundtrack for Black Friday, Danny Daze is here to provide the goods. In his newest mix, created specifically for Scion Radio's Turntable Lab channel, Daze drops electro beats over thumpin' Miami bass gro ... More >>

Head Spins: DJ Joe Dert

This mashup king runs the genre gamut.

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Flyer than the Rest

Over the Weekend - Scarface, Biz Markie and Dirty Bird

Head Spins: Danny Daze

A Miami native turned roadmaster.