Like fellow Frenchman Laurent Garnier, house DJ Joachim Garraud cut his teeth at Paris nightclub Boy, ground zero for the country's techno scene. Unlike most DJs, however, he came in with a fully rounded musical background, having spent seven years training at the French Academy of Music Percussion and Piano. Recently his understandable music snobbishness led to a bit of fan-fueled controversy when, during an interview with Belgian webzine Ready2Move, Garraud casually noted that he was the arra
Dutch DJ Joris Voorn has gotta be one of the headiest head-spinners working the decks these days. In fact, his double-disc Balance 014 mix CD seems to spring straight from an ether all its own. So New Times decided to give the celebrated dance man a chance to bring it all down to the ground where we mere mortals live. Here's how he fielded things. -- John HoodNew Times: If you had to peg your sound to one genre, would you say it's techno, minimal, house or trance? It's a bit of everything I thin
Adultnapper is the
shadowy alter ego of Brooklyn-based DJ/producer Francis Harris, a
philosophy PhD drop‐out, former political activist/hardcore punk
rocker, and one of the darker iconoclastic figures of contemporary
techno. For a man who once admitted to having originally hated dance
music, Harris has emerged in the late 2000s as one of the most daring
and compelling producers of the international dance scene.
Adultnapper's sound defies the conventions of
EDM through challenging and sophistic
Having booked EDM giants the likes of Laurent Garnier, Darren Emerson, and Dave Seaman in the recent past, the folks at Shine certainly seem keen on presenting Miami clubgoers with the crème de la crème of international dance music. This Friday they continue the trend with a night of sounds by veteran San Francisco-based DJ Behrouz and the legendary Josh Wink, for the launch of Behrouz's Ecco Beach series -- "a showcase of dance industry maestros and cutting edge phenoms." A DJ's DJ and indust
