Matthew Dear

Album Review: Matthew Dear

Matthew Dear at Boutique August 16

WMC Week Two

Audion

Suckfish (Spectral)

David Squillace to Play the S.A.F.E. Party at Circa 28 on Saturday

Suckfish (Spectral)

M.A.N.D.Y. vs. Booka Shade at Get Physical at Charcoal Studios

If there is one party you must never, and I mean never miss, it's Berlin-label Get Physical's Winter Music Conference party. For the last two years, Studio A has served as its venue, so we were a bit worried about where the party would move to this year. We finally got our answer: Charcoal Studios i ... More >>

Sunday School for Degenerates Returns for Another Debauched Techno Marathon

If there is one party you must never, and I mean never miss, it's Berlin-label Get Physical's Winter Music Conference party. For the last two years, Studio A has served as its venue, so we were a bit worried about where the party would move to this year. We finally got our answer: Charcoal Studios i ... More >>

Catch Matthew Dear and His Spectral Sound Around Town

If there is one party you must never, and I mean never miss, it's Berlin-label Get Physical's Winter Music Conference party. For the last two years, Studio A has served as its venue, so we were a bit worried about where the party would move to this year. We finally got our answer: Charcoal Studios i ... More >>

Matthew Dear: Spectral Shapeshifter

He touches down in Miami as two versions of himself.

Various Artists

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

Bill Patrick and Dennis Rodgers

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

Roll Over, Oakenfold, and Tell Tiësto the News

Top 10 DJ mixes of 2006

[a]pendics.shuffle and Altiply

"Lonely Payback" (Adjunct)

Matthew Dear

"Lonely Payback" (Adjunct)

Rethroned

Juan Atkins is techno's living legend

Off the Beach!

The party's at Poplife

Kill Memory Crash

The party's at Poplife

Various Artists

Spectral Sound, Vol. 1 (Ghostly International)

Dance, Dance Revolution

This was the year electronic dance music got its head -- and its ass -- out of the past.

WMC Events

Listings, listings, listings

Soft and Wet

Soft Pink Truth breaks the grip of shame

Matthew Dear

Leave Luck to Heaven (Ghostly International)

Midwest Product

World Series of Love (Ghostly International)

Ghostly International DJ Ryan Elliott Hits the White Room Tomorrow Night

Ghostly International DJ Ryan Elliott is a busy head-spinner -- in Berlin one weekend; Miami the next; all the world between. And on the odd occasion when the cat's not on the road, he's back in Dearborn, Michigan remixing and serving as co-A&R (with Matthew Dear) of Ghostly's sister imprint, Sp ... More >>

Matthew Dear

Ghostly International DJ Ryan Elliott is a busy head-spinner -- in Berlin one weekend; Miami the next; all the world between. And on the odd occasion when the cat's not on the road, he's back in Dearborn, Michigan remixing and serving as co-A&R (with Matthew Dear) of Ghostly's sister imprint, Sp ... More >>

Dance for a Cause with DJ Bill Patrick this Friday at Electric Pickle

​Musical Missionary's last Dance for a Cause party in August managed to raise a whopping $950 in one night, which were donated to SoBe Institute of the Arts.The lucky recipient of these scholarship funds is a little 10-year-old named Aurora, whose hard-working single mother couldn't afford paying ... More >>

Ghostly International 10 Year Anniversary Party at White Room on Art Basel Weekend

AudionA heads up to Miami's downtown cognoscenti: Michigan's esteemed Ghostly International label will be celebrating 10 years of forward-thinking music and subculture at White Room on Saturday, December 5. Founded in 1999 by DJ Sam Valenti, Ghostly has become one of the most highly-acclaimed intern ... More >>

Ambivalent Plays Electric Pickle Tonight

​Ambivalent is the moniker of NYC-based DJ/producer Kevin McHugh, of Richie Hawtin's prestigious Minus label. McHugh's early production credits include a music series he developed for the multidisciplinary artistic platform Creative Time in the mid '90s. By the mid 2000s he became associated with ... More >>

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 >>

WMC 2010: Tiefschwarz, Damian Lazarus, Matthew Dear Added to Get Physical Night Party Lineup, Ticket Giveaway

Tiefschwarz​Local promoter Diego Martinelli called us Monday to tell us he felt the Get Physical party lineup needed some extra oomph. So what's a promoter to do? Add more mega-wattage to an already awesome DJ lineup, of course.Added is the brother DJ duo out of Berlin Tiefschwarz who are already ... More >>

WMC 2010: Win Free Tickets to Get Physical's Beach Party, March 25 at the Gansevoort South

​Yes we're already giving away tickets to the annual Get Physical night party, which, with the lineup addition of Tiefschwarz and Matthew Dear, is shaping up to be even better than last year's. In Crossfade's eyes, anything Get Physical touches is golden, so we're excited about not just the label' ... More >>

Get Physical

​Yes we're already giving away tickets to the annual Get Physical night party, which, with the lineup addition of Tiefschwarz and Matthew Dear, is shaping up to be even better than last year's. In Crossfade's eyes, anything Get Physical touches is golden, so we're excited about not just the label' ... More >>

WMC 2010: Q&A with Seth Troxler, Playing Electric Pickle, Ice Palace and More

​DJ/producer Seth Troxler has to be one of the most archetypal characters in contemporary EDM. Born and bred in the Detroit techno scene, schooled by the scene veterans and absorbing all the sounds he could get his hands on at the record shop/DJ hub where he worked as a teen, then cutting his teet ... More >>

WMC 2010 Better Late Than Never Friday Recap: Circoloco, Ghostly X 10, Annie Mac Presents

​Yes, WMC ended on Sunday, but considering I ended my experience some time technically on Sunday, I've just now gotten my head screwed back on straight. Blame the amazing Get Physical WMC party on Saturday night/Sunday morning, the best edition of that party yet. But I'll get to that shortly. From ... More >>

WMC 2010 Better Late Than Never Saturday Recap: Get Physical's Varsity Workout at Charcoal Studios (With Photos and Video)

photo by Nicole CussellThe evening's headliners had interesting choices in headgear.​To view a full slideshow from this event, click here. Saturday, I took a day of rest and hibernated rather than try to hit up any day parties. I knew I was going to get sweaty as hell at Get Physical's annual ... More >>

Album Review: Document by Ryan Elliott, Playing Electric Pickle on May 21

​Like many of you, I had the immense pleasure of hearing Ryan Elliott spin at White Room last May, and witnessed a DJ at the peak of his powers. The Spectral Sound label man crafts truly spellbinding live sets that are dually physical and mental -- "body music for the mind," as his Ghostly Interna ... More >>

Spectral Sound

​Like many of you, I had the immense pleasure of hearing Ryan Elliott spin at White Room last May, and witnessed a DJ at the peak of his powers. The Spectral Sound label man crafts truly spellbinding live sets that are dually physical and mental -- "body music for the mind," as his Ghostly Interna ... More >>

Get Physical Label Releases Eighth Anniversary Compilation

​Since first launching in 2002, the Berlin-based Get Physical imprint has emerged as a global touchpoint for some of the most critically-acclaimed electronic dance music of the new millennium. Forged by the creative alliance of famed producers Booka Shade, M.A.N.D.Y. and DJ T as a launching pad fo ... More >>

Q&A With Dirtybird Label's Claude VonStroke, Playing Electric Pickle with Dixon on Friday

​For any electronic dance music lover in the know,  DJ/producer Claude VonStroke and his esteemed Dirtybird and Mothership labels have become synonymous with some of the most forward-thinking and fun-loving sounds coming out of the American EDM scene in the new millennium. A Detroit native wi ... More >>

Ryan Crosson Talks His Out-of-the-Ordinary Musical Influences and Playing Electric Pickle on Saturday

​Like homeboys 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 '00s. Born and raised in Metro Detroit, Crosson absorbed the native sounds of s ... More >>

Jimmy Edgar Headlines the Debut of LSD/DSL at Eve February 20

​The key to making a sexy album about sex? Stop doing it. Celibacy was Jimmy Edgar's formula for success when creating XXX, his last full-length release on !K7. It includes raunchy tracks like "Hot Raw Sex" and "Vibration." Edgar's formative years in Detroit, the electronic heart of America, gav ... More >>

Jimmy Edgar at EVE February 20

​The key to making a sexy album about sex? Stop doing it. Celibacy was Jimmy Edgar's formula for success when creating XXX, his last full-length release on !K7. It includes raunchy tracks like "Hot Raw Sex" and "Vibration." Edgar's formative years in Detroit, the electronic heart of America, gav ... More >>

Listed and SAFE Bring Radio Slave, Matt Tolfrey, and Others to Hotel Victor March 25

DJ-producer Dan Ghenacia headlines Listed Plays It Safe​If you're a regular of Miami's EDM scene, then you've surely attended a SAFE party. They've been responsible for many of the top international house and techno bookings of the last several years, hosting memorable recurrent performances b ... More >>

MANIK Talks Influences, Breakthrough Years, and Debut Albums

​Having released his debut EP to immediate acclaim on Josh Wink's Ovum label in January 2010, NYC wunderkind Chris Manik made the leap from virtual unknown to internationally celebrated "It" producer in little more than year. MANIK has since joined the artist rosters of chic labels like Poker Flat ... More >>

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 >>

Tim Sweeney at the Electric Pickle August 27

​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 >>

Matthew Dear Talks Ghostly International, Spectral Sound, and Urban Psyches

​You either get Matthew Dear or you don't. Whether he's fronting his eponymous avant-pop band or spinning techno records as Audion, Dear is challenging listeners with his taste for the edgy and experimental. But even if he doesn't hit your personal pleasure zone, there's no denying the indelible ... More >>

Com Truise Brings His Retro-Futurist Synth-Funk to Bardot This Saturday

​You may have noticed a recent wave of electronic music producers with "spoonerisms" for monikers -- silly twists on famous musicians' names, like Joy Orbison, Jichael Mackson and Wevie Stonder. Well, New Jersey-based producer Seth Haley didn't choose to toy with the name of an influential pop st ... More >>