John Digweed

Ultra Music Festival releases first phase of lineup...

Bliss at Groove Jet Reunion, Part Two

I'm a WMC Survivor

The highlights of this year's Winter Music Conference.

The Desyn Diet

The highlights of this year's Winter Music Conference.

Dance, Dance Evolution

Conference flexes its gene pool

Set List: Danny Howells

Conference flexes its gene pool

Featured Acts

(Un)expected highlights from Ultra

John Digweed

(Un)expected highlights from Ultra

Paolo Mojo

(Un)expected highlights from Ultra

World Party

A heavy bookend tests festival's endurance

Ear to the Ground

Be aurally adventuresome

Home Listening

Be aurally adventuresome

Rock of Ages

A conversation with DJ, producer, and label owner John Digweed

Desyn Masiello

A conversation with DJ, producer, and label owner John Digweed

Don't Speak

A man of few words, dance music hero Sasha talks with his hands

Rave, Inc.

A look at what sells and what sells out at Thee Sixth Annual Zen Muzik Festival

In Clubland

Sasha and Digweed; Mem Shannon

Get Desyn

Sasha and Digweed; Mem Shannon

Nic Fanciulli

Sasha and Digweed; Mem Shannon

John Digweed

Sasha and Digweed; Mem Shannon

Q&A With John Digweed, Playing Charity Event For the Homeless Tonight at the Vagabond

John Digweed is not only one of the biggest superstar DJs ever, but he's got a heart just as extra-large. The man has spun to thousands at the biggest venues and festivals in the world, but tonight he touches down at the Vagabond for a more intimate, down-to-earth event. He and Vagabond co-owner Car ... More >>

Techno Sensation Tim Green at Nocturnal this Friday

​DJ/producer Tim Green is on fire right now. The young London prodigy has enjoyed a meteoric ascension from bedroom producer to internationally-acclaimed artist since 2006, when his funked-up banging techno productions began to garner the attention and praise of top industry players like Pete Tong ... More >>

Tim, Not Tom

​DJ/producer Tim Green is on fire right now. The young London prodigy has enjoyed a meteoric ascension from bedroom producer to internationally-acclaimed artist since 2006, when his funked-up banging techno productions began to garner the attention and praise of top industry players like Pete Tong ... 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 >>

Mark Knight, Alexi Delano and Paul Ritch at Space Saturday

​Miami's techno heads can't complain about having nothing to do this Saturday night, with club Space featuring an all-night groove extravaganza that includes DJ sets by international sensations Mark Knight, Alexi Delano and Paul Ritch. Bestselling DJ/producer Mark Knight has gained substantial com ... More >>

Steve Lawler Plays Gryphon Thursday

​Legendary British DJ/producer Stave Lawler will be playing at Gryphon Nightclub at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino this Thursday night. A child of the '90s UK rave scene, Lawler got his start organizing some of the infamous M42 Motorway illegal parties as a teenager, before getting his bi ... More >>

Rock With Lawler

​Legendary British DJ/producer Stave Lawler will be playing at Gryphon Nightclub at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino this Thursday night. A child of the '90s UK rave scene, Lawler got his start organizing some of the infamous M42 Motorway illegal parties as a teenager, before getting his bi ... More >>

Sasha Plays SET on Sunday

​Welsh DJ/producer Sasha (born Alexander Paul Coe) is that rare breed of artist that has managed to balance massive commercial success and notoriety with artistic integrity throughout his long-standing career. I won't go into too many details about his myriad accolades through the years, which inc ... More >>

Not that Sacha

​Welsh DJ/producer Sasha (born Alexander Paul Coe) is that rare breed of artist that has managed to balance massive commercial success and notoriety with artistic integrity throughout his long-standing career. I won't go into too many details about his myriad accolades through the years, which inc ... More >>

WMC 2010: Opium Group Lineup With Sasha & Digweed, Pryda, Erol Alkan and More

​Finally the moment all of you South Beach club rats have been waiting for: The Opium Group has released its official 2010 WMC lineup. With its vast real estate of glitzy big-room venues, including clubs Mansion, Louis, SET, and Cameo, the Beach's ubiquitous nightlife conglomerate is responsible f ... More >>

WMC 2010 Thursday Day Recap: Kaskade Listening Party and Digweed Cruise

​Electronic music and its surrounding industry generally exists in a separate plane from the rest of the world's troubles. The music is, after all, most often about dancing and going out -- a form of escapism. And even if things are generally going to the shitter, people are still going to want to ... More >>

WMC 2010: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

We are sort of stretching this since Winter Music Conference wrapped up Sunday, but it just took a while to finally sit down and process everything we did over the course of last week. But here it is, our final call on all the great and not-so-great things that we experienced last week.Photo by Sant ... More >>

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 >>

Listen to John Digweed Structures Minimix; Gig at Gryphon Club with DJ Chris Fortier on Saturday

​UK progressive house titan John Digweed hardly needs an introduction anywhere people get down to electronic music beats, lazers and glowsticks. Since his '90s decade-defining forays alongside Sasha and their famed Northern Exposure compilation series, Digweed has become one of the most ubiquitous ... 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 >>

Carmel Ophir Seen Eating... Fried Chicken at Magnum Lounge

Courtesy Carmel Ophir​Carmel Ophir is well known as a nightlife veteran in Miami, DJ, co-owner of The Vagabond (with DJ John Digweed), and owner of Creations production company. Ophir's life is all about music, but it's also all about food. Like a musician who's riffing, once Ophir gets started ta ... More >>

Nic Fanciulli Brings the Transatlantic Zeitgeist to SET December 12

​British DJ, producer and label magnate Nic Fanciulli has steadily climbed the international ranks over the course of the past decade, positioning himself as one of the biggest stars in electronic dance music. His career had an auspicious start in the early '00s when his fledgling production wor ... More >>

Nic Fanciulli Talks Success, Ibiza, and His New Deleted Label

​Earlier this week, we previewed Nic Fanciulli's upcoming December 12 show at SET. The last twelve months have seen the acclaimed British DJ-producer positioned as one of the top EDM stars in the world, while his esteemed Saved imprint continues to enlist some of the most talented producers in the ... More >>

Nic Fanciulli at SET December 12

​Earlier this week, we previewed Nic Fanciulli's upcoming December 12 show at SET. The last twelve months have seen the acclaimed British DJ-producer positioned as one of the top EDM stars in the world, while his esteemed Saved imprint continues to enlist some of the most talented producers in the ... More >>

Opium Group's Ultra Week Lineup: David Guetta, Bob Sinclar, Calvin Harris, and Others

David Guetta does Opium.​When we polled you, the reader, about what to call the week of events happening around Ultra, 67 percent of you decided Ultra Week would be the best moniker. For Google's sake, we sort of agree with you, even if the name carries connotations of Ultra's dominance.The Opium ... More >>

John Digweed's Miami Music Week Getdown at the Vagabond, March 26

Photo by Alex BroadwellDigweed behind the decks at the Vagabond.​You tweetcasted from the port-a-potty. You got goofy and sunburned with Simian Mobile Disco, Boys Noize, and a middle-aged, glowstick-wielding paramedic at Day Two of Ultra Music Festival. And then (so long as you didn't overdo it ... More >>

Beatport Music Awards 2011 Winners

Photo by Drew Ressler/Rukes.comWe put money on the Mau5 and the cheese-eater paid off.​Yes, we here at Crossfade are degenerate gamblers. And 12 days ago, we proved it by laying down a few bets on the outcome of the Beatport Music Awards. Well, the winners have been announced and we totally f ... More >>

Dig the Digweed

Photo by Drew Ressler/Rukes.comWe put money on the Mau5 and the cheese-eater paid off.​Yes, we here at Crossfade are degenerate gamblers. And 12 days ago, we proved it by laying down a few bets on the outcome of the Beatport Music Awards. Well, the winners have been announced and we totally f ... More >>

Listen to DJ Mix By UK Legend Danny Howells, Playing Andalus's Mandala Terrace This Friday

​Few old-school DJs have stood the test of time and garnered the sort of enduring fanatical following that UK veteran Danny Howells enjoys today. Schooled during the house boom of the late '80s, Howells would land his first major residency with John Digweed's legendary Bedrock club night in 1991. ... More >>

Download DJ Three's Mix and Go Underground at Eve This Sunday

​These days, the term underground gets thrown around a little too easily in the electronic dance music scene. Certainly not all DJs can boast the same sort of authentic subterranean cred as Christopher Milo, AKA DJ Three. It's a relentless comittment to the musical cutting-edge at the expense of ... More >>

Israeli EDM Sensation Guy Gerber Talks Working With Diddy, Lil Wayne, and Drake

​Guy Gerber is that rare breed of electronic dance music producer who's always done his own thing. And "Stoppage Time," his 2004 breakthrough hit on John Digweed's Bedrock label, was a slice of epic big-room techno that became a global club anthem and continues to sell by the truckload.Today, Gerb ... More >>

Download Teaser Mix By James Zabiela, Playing Vagabond on Friday

​Remember progressive house? With its trippy hippie whimsy, these days it's considered the punchline to a joke by many an EDM snob. But prog reigned supreme during the '90s, when artists like Sasha, John Digweed and Way Out West ruled the international scene. Maybe folks were less utilitarian abou ... More >>

John Digweed Talks Bladerunner, SoundCloud and the Future Sound of Bedrock

​John Digweed: the man, the myth, the legend. You'll get to see all three when the UK electronic dance music titan alights at Gryphon nightclub this Sunday.And this is no ordinary club date. It's a stop on Digweed's current North American tour in support of Structures Two, a whopping 3-CD compilat ... More >>

Gerber, No Baby Food

​John Digweed: the man, the myth, the legend. You'll get to see all three when the UK electronic dance music titan alights at Gryphon nightclub this Sunday.And this is no ordinary club date. It's a stop on Digweed's current North American tour in support of Structures Two, a whopping 3-CD compilat ... More >>

Danny Howells Talks Two Decades in the Game and the Possibility of Semi-Retirement

​There's not a hell of a lot of electronic dance music DJs from the old school who remain hip with today's young underground cognoscenti. But the UK's Danny Howells is definitely one of them. Maybe it's his boundless charisma behind the decks. Or his self-dubbed "deepsexyfuturistictechfunkhouse" ... More >>