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Electronic Music

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2012

    Smog Vs. Basshead at Mekka, March 22

    ​Last night's heaving, multi-room party thrown jointly by L.A.-based Smog and Miami-based Basshead was intense in every aspect. The volume was at 11, the revelers' energy was at 11, the level of confusion trying to get around the sprawling downtown club Mekka was at 11. (Seriously, the place is li ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2012

    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 >>

  • Music

    March 15, 2012
  • Music

    March 15, 2012

    Ten best acts at Ultra Music Fest 2012

    From legendary Germans to French superstars, we're stoked about this year's fest.

  • Music

    March 15, 2012

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

    From legendary Germans to French superstars, we're stoked about this year's fest.

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2012

    Richie Hawtin Added to Ultra Music Festival 2012 Lineup

    ​ Do you hear that uhntz-uhntz in the distance? It's been 53 days since Ultra Music Festival 2012 announced its Phase 1 lineup, "a sprawling 92-act roster that ranges from massive dance superstars Avicii, Tiësto, David Guetta, Kaskade, and Fedde Le Grand to electronic music legends Kraftwerk, Ne ... More >>

  • Music

    December 22, 2011

    Steve Lawler at Wall Lounge December 28

    ​ Do you hear that uhntz-uhntz in the distance? It's been 53 days since Ultra Music Festival 2012 announced its Phase 1 lineup, "a sprawling 92-act roster that ranges from massive dance superstars Avicii, Tiësto, David Guetta, Kaskade, and Fedde Le Grand to electronic music legends Kraftwerk, Ne ... More >>

  • Music

    December 22, 2011

    Candyland 2011 at Revolution Live December 23

    ​ Do you hear that uhntz-uhntz in the distance? It's been 53 days since Ultra Music Festival 2012 announced its Phase 1 lineup, "a sprawling 92-act roster that ranges from massive dance superstars Avicii, Tiësto, David Guetta, Kaskade, and Fedde Le Grand to electronic music legends Kraftwerk, Ne ... More >>

  • Music

    December 15, 2011

    Skrillex, 12th Planet, Two Fresh, and Nadastrom at the Fillmore Miami Beach December 17

    ​ Do you hear that uhntz-uhntz in the distance? It's been 53 days since Ultra Music Festival 2012 announced its Phase 1 lineup, "a sprawling 92-act roster that ranges from massive dance superstars Avicii, Tiësto, David Guetta, Kaskade, and Fedde Le Grand to electronic music legends Kraftwerk, Ne ... More >>

  • Music

    November 3, 2011

    Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs at Bardot November 3

    ​ Do you hear that uhntz-uhntz in the distance? It's been 53 days since Ultra Music Festival 2012 announced its Phase 1 lineup, "a sprawling 92-act roster that ranges from massive dance superstars Avicii, Tiësto, David Guetta, Kaskade, and Fedde Le Grand to electronic music legends Kraftwerk, Ne ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 8, 2011

    Good Old-Fashioned House Party

    ​ Do you hear that uhntz-uhntz in the distance? It's been 53 days since Ultra Music Festival 2012 announced its Phase 1 lineup, "a sprawling 92-act roster that ranges from massive dance superstars Avicii, Tiësto, David Guetta, Kaskade, and Fedde Le Grand to electronic music legends Kraftwerk, Ne ... More >>

  • Music

    August 25, 2011

    Identity Festival signals dance music's true arrival on the American scene

    ​ Do you hear that uhntz-uhntz in the distance? It's been 53 days since Ultra Music Festival 2012 announced its Phase 1 lineup, "a sprawling 92-act roster that ranges from massive dance superstars Avicii, Tiësto, David Guetta, Kaskade, and Fedde Le Grand to electronic music legends Kraftwerk, Ne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2011

    Identity Festival 2011: A Guide for Bros, Girls, Hip-Hoppers, Snobs, and Hipsters

    ​Dance music's gonna blow up! That's the kind of ecstatic chatter that's been endlessly parroted by pop commentators in 2011. However, this perception that electronic tuneage has been waiting idly on the sidelines just isn't true. Dance music crossed over a long time ago. In case you hadn't not ... More >>

  • Music

    April 21, 2011

    Ramadanman and Zed Bias at Eve April 23

    ​Dance music's gonna blow up! That's the kind of ecstatic chatter that's been endlessly parroted by pop commentators in 2011. However, this perception that electronic tuneage has been waiting idly on the sidelines just isn't true. Dance music crossed over a long time ago. In case you hadn't not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2011

    Ten Electronic Dance Music Legends We Wish Had Come to Miami in March

    Aphex Twin, if you're reading this, please come to Miami!​WMC and Ultra Week have come and gone. There were mind-blowingly awesome DJ lineups and there were majorly overrated ones. Sure, March has never disappointed. But there's no denying how bloated and commercial certain chunks of the EDM in ... More >>

  • Music

    March 17, 2011

    Richie Hawtin at Sunday School: The Lost Weekend March 25

    Aphex Twin, if you're reading this, please come to Miami!​WMC and Ultra Week have come and gone. There were mind-blowingly awesome DJ lineups and there were majorly overrated ones. Sure, March has never disappointed. But there's no denying how bloated and commercial certain chunks of the EDM in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    Richie Hawtin on Sunday School, the Subtropics, and Ultra Week

    ​It's 2011 and after working his way up from Detroit's techno underground, Richie Hawtin is a world-class dance music institution. Of course, there are his seminal labels Plus 8 and Minus, his acclaimed Plastikman alter ego, and his hard-earned rep as a game-changing innovator in the arenas of pro ... More >>

  • Music

    February 10, 2011

    Carl Craig at Electric Pickle February 11

    ​It's 2011 and after working his way up from Detroit's techno underground, Richie Hawtin is a world-class dance music institution. Of course, there are his seminal labels Plus 8 and Minus, his acclaimed Plastikman alter ego, and his hard-earned rep as a game-changing innovator in the arenas of pro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2011

    IDMA 2011 Nominees Announced and Crossfade Picks the Winners

    James Murphy deserves an IDMA or two.​Every year, coinciding with Winter Music Conference, the International Dance Music Awards (IDMAs) recognizes those who make electronic music great. Sure, it's not exactly the Grammys or MTV's Video Music Awards. But dammit, it's a homegrown awards show and tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2011

    Junior Sanchez Talks New Albums and Pop Projects

    ​World-renowned DJ-producer Junior Sanchez hardly needs an introduction. Like his homies Erick Morillo and Harry "Choo Choo" Romero, Sanchez was bred in New Jersey's seminal '90s Latin house scene. He would cut his teeth spinning at legendary NYC hotspots like Limelight and the Shelter. As a me ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2010

    Richie Hawtin Talks Darkness, the Detroit Underground, and the Future of Plastikman

    Photo by Riva Sayegh Photography​Recording under his persona Plastikman, minimal mastermid Richie Hawtin first established himself as a standard-bearer for material as much about breath as breadth. Now, seven years since the last Plastikman album and 18 years since debuting the brand, Hawtin is pr ... More >>

  • Music

    November 25, 2010

    Richie Hawtin at Mansion November 27

    Photo by Riva Sayegh Photography​Recording under his persona Plastikman, minimal mastermid Richie Hawtin first established himself as a standard-bearer for material as much about breath as breadth. Now, seven years since the last Plastikman album and 18 years since debuting the brand, Hawtin is pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2010

    Five Influential Tracks by Dieselboy, Spinning at Electric Pickle This Saturday

    via twitter.com/djdieselboy​Unlike with punk rock, at the height of drum 'n' bass' near-mainstream crossover, there was never much of a debate over its country of origin. The skittering, ragga-inflected, bass-heavy electronic music was, at least at its inception, purely a product of the U.K. Singl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2010

    UK House Legend Charles Webster Talks Three Decades of EDM and His Latest Projects

    ​Charles Webster's story reads like the history of transatlantic dance music itself. He was born and bred in the early-'80s electronic music boomtown of Sheffield, England, cradle to such seminal acts as the Human League and Cabaret Voltaire. He shared time in the studio with Detroit techno pio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2010

    John Selway Talks Musical Experimentation and His Eclectic Side Projects

    ​NYC-based DJ, producer, label owner, and all-around renaissance man John Selway is easily the hardest-working dude in electronic dance music. Ground-breaking and career-making accolades like having co-produced the 1992 debut release by house superstars Deep Dish hardly begin to define Selway's ta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2010

    Electric Zoo Festival: Full Final Lineup Announced

    ​The Electric Zoo festival, which launched just last year, is New York City's somewhat latecoming answer to Detroit's Movement Electronic Music Festival and Miami's own Ultra -- better late than never, right? 2009's successful inaugural event at Randall's Island Park in Manhattan summoned over 26, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 6, 2010

    Give ’Em Space

    ​The Electric Zoo festival, which launched just last year, is New York City's somewhat latecoming answer to Detroit's Movement Electronic Music Festival and Miami's own Ultra -- better late than never, right? 2009's successful inaugural event at Randall's Island Park in Manhattan summoned over 26, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    Q&A with Barem, Playing at Electric Pickle Tonight

    ​DJ/producer Mauricio Barembuem a.k.a. Barem has been Argentina's number one techno export since alighting on the international scene in the mid 2000s. Having caught the ear of minimal techno magnate Richie Hawtin in 2006, Barem signed to his prestigious Minus label and remains one of its most cel ... More >>

  • Music

    March 18, 2010

    Juan Atkins reflects on 25 years of Detroit techno

    ​DJ/producer Mauricio Barembuem a.k.a. Barem has been Argentina's number one techno export since alighting on the international scene in the mid 2000s. Having caught the ear of minimal techno magnate Richie Hawtin in 2006, Barem signed to his prestigious Minus label and remains one of its most cel ... More >>

  • Music

    March 18, 2010

    The 25 worst moments in dance music history

    ​DJ/producer Mauricio Barembuem a.k.a. Barem has been Argentina's number one techno export since alighting on the international scene in the mid 2000s. Having caught the ear of minimal techno magnate Richie Hawtin in 2006, Barem signed to his prestigious Minus label and remains one of its most cel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2010

    Q&A with Marc Romboy, Playing the One Year Anniversary Block Party at Electric Pickle on Friday

    ​For going on two decades, German DJ/producer Marc Romboy has established himself as one of the preeminent figures of electronic dance music through a rare combination of innovative vision and heartfelt reverence for the classic forms. A childhood fascination with synthesized sounds, via the likes ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 28, 2010

    When You're 21, You're No Fun

    ​For going on two decades, German DJ/producer Marc Romboy has established himself as one of the preeminent figures of electronic dance music through a rare combination of innovative vision and heartfelt reverence for the classic forms. A childhood fascination with synthesized sounds, via the likes ... More >>

  • Music

    January 21, 2010

    Mushroom Jazz originator Mark Farina does Nocturnal

    ​For going on two decades, German DJ/producer Marc Romboy has established himself as one of the preeminent figures of electronic dance music through a rare combination of innovative vision and heartfelt reverence for the classic forms. A childhood fascination with synthesized sounds, via the likes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2010

    Mark Farina Plays Nocturnal on Saturday, January 23

    ​Few artists in the world of electronic dance music can take credit for the sort of self-styled signature sound that has made Mark Farina one of the most original and idiosyncratic DJ/producers of the last twenty years. As a house music veteran with old ties to the Chicago, Detroit and San Francis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2010

    Passion Pit, Caspa Added to Ultra Music Festival 2010 Lineup UPDATE

    Photo by Chrissy PiperPassion Pit​Here comes the Ultra Music Festival shuffle! You have to remember nothing is concrete even on the day of the festival (Bloc Party canceled last year at the last minute). According to an official press release from Ultra's organizers, indie-rock band Passion Pit ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2010

    Julius the Mad Thinker Music Video Premiere & DJ Set at Vagabond Saturday

    ​House music reigned supreme at Vagabond Saturdays throughout 2009, with weekly performances by such classic house luminaries as Frankie Knuckles, Little Louie Vega, Jellybean Benitez, and Jesse Saunders. So far the soulful house vibes promise to live on at the downtown hotpot in 2010, and Saturda ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 7, 2010

    Get Mad!

    ​House music reigned supreme at Vagabond Saturdays throughout 2009, with weekly performances by such classic house luminaries as Frankie Knuckles, Little Louie Vega, Jellybean Benitez, and Jesse Saunders. So far the soulful house vibes promise to live on at the downtown hotpot in 2010, and Saturda ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2010

    Ultra Music Festival 2010 Phase 1 Lineup Announced UPDATE

    ​I rarely ever take flier handouts while walking at night around South Beach, but for some reason as I was leaving Klutch I took an Ultra flier from a guy. Honestly, the first thing I felt was exhaustion because I don't know if I can handle the fact that Winter Music Conference is already creeping ... More >>

  • Music

    December 24, 2009

    A look at 2009 in dance music

    ​I rarely ever take flier handouts while walking at night around South Beach, but for some reason as I was leaving Klutch I took an Ultra flier from a guy. Honestly, the first thing I felt was exhaustion because I don't know if I can handle the fact that Winter Music Conference is already creeping ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2009

    Concert Review: Wolfgang Gartner at Mansion, December 12

    Photo by Sarah TylerClick here to view more photos from this event.I went to Mansion on Saturday night in order to find out what's happened to electro house. This energetic style, blended with equal parts electro and indie dance rock, exploded on the international scene in 2006 but lost most of its ... More >>

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    November 5, 2009

    Not that Sacha

    Photo by Sarah TylerClick here to view more photos from this event.I went to Mansion on Saturday night in order to find out what's happened to electro house. This energetic style, blended with equal parts electro and indie dance rock, exploded on the international scene in 2006 but lost most of its ... More >>

  • Music

    June 18, 2009

    The Cosmic Twins Land

    Derrick May and François K team up for one night only at Nocturnal.

  • Music

    March 26, 2009

    Winter Music Conference Event Listings

    Find all the best parties taking place March 25-29.

  • Music

    March 19, 2009

    Winter Music Conference Event Listings

    Find all the best parties taking place March 24-29.

  • Music

    March 19, 2009

    Catch Matthew Dear and His Spectral Sound Around Town

    Find all the best parties taking place March 24-29.

  • Music

    January 29, 2009

    Dave Seaman

    Find all the best parties taking place March 24-29.

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2009

    Dave Seaman Returns to Shine at the Shelborne on Friday

    www.windishagency.comThe Leeds-born house DJ Dave Seaman, is by now, is a worldwide household name in electronic music, with countless mix albums and original releases, a record label (Audio Therapy), and a constant international touring schedule calibrated with military precision. But in the mid- t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2009

    Ultra Music Festival Announces Phase Two of Its Lineup

    Ultra Music Festival released the second phase of its lineup, and while the biggest names in the list offer no big surprises, a number of other, smaller acts added to the bill demonstrate more of the festival's forward-thinking approach this year. So here are the titans who will play (again): Paul ... More >>

  • Music

    August 14, 2008

    Matthew Dear: Spectral Shapeshifter

    He touches down in Miami as two versions of himself.

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