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Matthew Dear

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    MANIK Names His Six Most Influential Classic Jams

    Electronic dance music wunderkind MANIK (AKA Chris Manik) takes music very seriously. For one thing, he's a prolific producer with over a dozen records released on top labels like Ovum, Poker Flat, Hot Creations, and Culprit in just a few years. But Manik is also a scholar of music. Literally. ... More >>

  • Music

    March 22, 2012

    Get Physical Nacht at Treehouse March 24

    Electronic dance music wunderkind MANIK (AKA Chris Manik) takes music very seriously. For one thing, he's a prolific producer with over a dozen records released on top labels like Ovum, Poker Flat, Hot Creations, and Culprit in just a few years. But Manik is also a scholar of music. Literally. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    WMC 2012: M.A.N.D.E.A.R., DJ T, and Audiofly Headline Get Physical 10-Year Anniversary

    ​Originally the brainchild of Berlin tech-house veterans M.A.N.D.Y., Booka Shade, and DJ T, Get Physical Music has been going strong for a full decade ago now. In fact, Winter Music Conference 2012 marks the label's ten-year anniversary, as well as its return to Miami for yet another highly anti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2011

    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 >>

  • Music

    August 25, 2011

    Tim Sweeney at the Electric Pickle August 27

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2011

    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 >>

  • Music

    February 17, 2011

    Jimmy Edgar at EVE February 20

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    May 13, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2010

    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 >>

  • Music

    March 25, 2010

    Get Physical

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    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 >>

  • 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

    December 18, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2009

    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 >>

  • Music

    July 23, 2009

    Matthew Dear

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2009

    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 >>

  • Music

    March 19, 2009

    Sunday School for Degenerates Returns for Another Debauched Techno Marathon

    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 >>

  • Music

    March 19, 2009

    Catch Matthew Dear and His Spectral Sound Around Town

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Music

    August 14, 2008

    Matthew Dear: Spectral Shapeshifter

    He touches down in Miami as two versions of himself.

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2008

    Matthew Dear at Boutique August 16

    He touches down in Miami as two versions of himself.

  • Music

    August 7, 2008

    Various Artists

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

  • Music

    November 22, 2007

    Bill Patrick and Dennis Rodgers

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

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2007

    Album Review: Matthew Dear

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

  • Music

    December 21, 2006
  • Music

    October 19, 2006

    [a]pendics.shuffle and Altiply

    "Lonely Payback" (Adjunct)

  • Music

    August 10, 2006

    Matthew Dear

    "Lonely Payback" (Adjunct)

  • Music

    July 27, 2006

    Rethroned

    Juan Atkins is techno's living legend

  • Music

    March 16, 2006

    Off the Beach!

    The party's at Poplife

  • Music

    October 6, 2005

    Audion

    Suckfish (Spectral)

  • Music

    June 30, 2005

    Kill Memory Crash

    Suckfish (Spectral)

  • Music

    June 30, 2005

    Various Artists

    Spectral Sound, Vol. 1 (Ghostly International)

  • Music

    March 24, 2005

    WMC Week Two

    Spectral Sound, Vol. 1 (Ghostly International)

  • Year End

    December 23, 2004

    Dance, Dance Revolution

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

  • Music

    March 4, 2004

    WMC Events

    Listings, listings, listings

  • Music

    March 4, 2004

    Soft and Wet

    Soft Pink Truth breaks the grip of shame

  • Music

    November 13, 2003

    Matthew Dear

    Leave Luck to Heaven (Ghostly International)

  • Music

    October 9, 2003

    Midwest Product

    World Series of Love (Ghostly International)

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