Richie Hawtin

Ultra Music Festival releases first phase of lineup...

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

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 >>

Saturday: Guti Afterhours at Eden Terrace Garden

Techno Box and the usual suspects of Miami's techno afterhours scene present Guti live at Eden Terrace Garden on Sunday dawn. This young Argentinian prodigy boasts one of the most imaginative and genre-bending sounds in contemporary house and minimal techno. A virtuosic jazz pianist with a penchant ... More >>

WMC Preview: Q & A with Richie Hawtin

My music is (as you know) stripped down to the bone (perhaps why you were nearly naked)...I hope that the music I create is both appealing to the body and mind allowing you to dance full force on the dance floor, hide in the corner of a club with your eyes closed, or while relaxing at home.

Modeselektor

My music is (as you know) stripped down to the bone (perhaps why you were nearly naked)...I hope that the music I create is both appealing to the body and mind allowing you to dance full force on the dance floor, hide in the corner of a club with your eyes closed, or while relaxing at home.

The Power of Plastik

Richie Hawtin makes the transition from Detroit to Berlin

I'm a WMC Survivor

The highlights of this year's Winter Music Conference.

Sound Advice

How to indulge your musical ADD at Ultra.

John Acquaviva

How to indulge your musical ADD at Ultra.

Richie Hawtin

How to indulge your musical ADD at Ultra.

Set List: Magda

How to indulge your musical ADD at Ultra.

Award Tour

WMC honors wed like to see

Featured Acts

(Un)expected highlights from Ultra

Paolo Mojo

(Un)expected highlights from Ultra

Ear to the Ground

Be aurally adventuresome

Pigeon Funk

Pigeon Funk! (Proptronix)

Pookied Out

WMC induces insomnia, shirtless ravers, and good music

Hard Headed

Techno linchpin John Acquaviva keeps it pure

Plastikman

Closer (Mute/M-nus)

Searching for Richie

A newly coifed Richie Hawtin saves WMC from an avalanche of crapola

Blow Out

Notes on 27 parties in six nights at WMC

Hangover Records

Records worth hanging on to, for Auld Lang Syne

Kulchur

Records worth hanging on to, for Auld Lang Syne

Richie Hawtin Ushers in the Twee-J Revolution, a DJ's Twitter Application

It seems like the world can't shut up about Twitter lately. The micro-blogging network has exploded to over 25 million users already, what with celebrities like Oprah joining along with their mindless minion hordes. But beyond providing us with the irritating mundanities of our friends' day to day l ... More >>

L.A.'s Droog Play Electric Pickle on Friday

​When Andrei Osyka, Brett Griffin, and Justin Sloe first met in the Los Angeles dance music scene at the turn of the millennium, little could they have known that their newly forged creative partnership would comprise one of the West Coast's hippest EDM collectives by the end of the decade. As DJ ... 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 >>

Miami's DJ Craze To Play Coachella

​...Speaking of DJ Craze (check the previous post on this blog for an un-missable nugget of joy he passed along), Miami's finest DJ champ will head to the desert this summer to play Coachella for the first time. On the mega-festival's second day, Saturday, April 17, he'll take the stage with frequ ... More >>

Rising techno star Troy Pierce plays Club Space's loft Saturday

​...Speaking of DJ Craze (check the previous post on this blog for an un-missable nugget of joy he passed along), Miami's finest DJ champ will head to the desert this summer to play Coachella for the first time. On the mega-festival's second day, Saturday, April 17, he'll take the stage with frequ ... More >>

Alexi Delano and Camea

​...Speaking of DJ Craze (check the previous post on this blog for an un-missable nugget of joy he passed along), Miami's finest DJ champ will head to the desert this summer to play Coachella for the first time. On the mega-festival's second day, Saturday, April 17, he'll take the stage with frequ ... More >>

The 25 worst moments in dance music history

​...Speaking of DJ Craze (check the previous post on this blog for an un-missable nugget of joy he passed along), Miami's finest DJ champ will head to the desert this summer to play Coachella for the first time. On the mega-festival's second day, Saturday, April 17, he'll take the stage with frequ ... More >>

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 >>

Funkagenda and Magda

​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 >>

Funkagenda and Magda Both Spin at Space This Saturday

Photo via m-nus.comMagda make the tea​After a blowout weekend celebrating its 10-year anniversary, this Saturday Club Space presents a serious bill of out-of-town stars that should keep the lines at the door as long as ever. In the main room is London-based favorite Funkagenda, which hits Miami in ... More >>

Tribal Electro

Photo via m-nus.comMagda make the tea​After a blowout weekend celebrating its 10-year anniversary, this Saturday Club Space presents a serious bill of out-of-town stars that should keep the lines at the door as long as ever. In the main room is London-based favorite Funkagenda, which hits Miami in ... 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 >>

Richie Hawtin Unleashes a Resurrected Plastikman at Mansion November 27

​Wow ... Buying a Richie Hawtin release needs an instruction manual. Let's say you want Arkives, his new retrospective boxset of Plastikman material from those acid-soaked and sleekly minimal years between 1993 and 2010. Well, you can be sure that there will be no less than four different versio ... More >>

Troy Pierce Talks Soundtracks for Substance Use and His Square One Side Project

​Indiana-born, Berlin-based DJ/producer Troy Pierce is one of the great dark horses of contemporary techno. "Dark horse" meaning his rise through the international ranks in the last decade has been surreptitious, but also "dark" in the sense that he boasts one of the gloomiest and murkiest sou ... More >>

Richie Hawtin's Miami Tickets and Arkives Boxset Now Available Online

​Exactly 40 days ago, Crossfade broke the news about the Plastikman's scheduled invasion of Miami. We also talked some shit about the fact that "buying a Richie Hawtin release needs an instruction manual." Today, the internet is bringing you both tickets to the November 27 show at Mansion and onl ... More >>

Richie Hawtin at Mansion November 27

​Exactly 40 days ago, Crossfade broke the news about the Plastikman's scheduled invasion of Miami. We also talked some shit about the fact that "buying a Richie Hawtin release needs an instruction manual." Today, the internet is bringing you both tickets to the November 27 show at Mansion and onl ... More >>

Richie Hawtin Talks Plastikman, Psychoacoustics, and His New Arkives Boxset

Photo by Riva Sayegh Photography​Performing under his own name, Canadian-born, Berlin-based Richie Hawtin has navigated the space between DJ and recording artist for two decades, constructing epic swaths of spatial microedits and spartan percussion, bringing it to fields, forests, black box art sp ... More >>

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 >>

Armin Van Buuren Confirmed for Ultra 2011 (UPDATE)

Armin Van Buuren​Even with the first phase of Ultra Music Festival 2011 acts announced, there are still a few more DJs and bands being added here and there while we all wait for the full second phase of acts to be revealed.Dutch DJ Armin Van Buuren is the latest to be confirmed for Ultra, taking p ... More >>

Sunday School for Degenerates 2011 Lineup: Richie Hawtin, Tiga, Adultnapper, and 27 Others

Photo by Angela MazurRichie Hawtin headlines Sunday School's 2011 lineup.​Four weeks and a few days ago, we here at Crossfade notified all party perverts that Made Event's Sunday School for Degenerates would be expanding its deviant dance marathon from 24 to 36 hours. At the time, there was no of ... More >>

Sunday School for Degenerates 2011 Adds Guy Gerber, Heidi, and 23 Others UPDATE

Troy Pierce just enrolled in Sunday School.​As if Sunday School for Degenerates wasn't already a crazy-ass concept, Made Event's decided to dial up the wonk to an an almost unsafe level. Step One: Expand the deviant dance marathon from 24 to 36 hours. Step Two: Book Richie Hawtin, Tiga, Adultnapp ... More >>

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 >>

Richie Hawtin at Sunday School: The Lost Weekend March 25

​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 >>

Pete Tong Talks Two Decades in the Game and the Future of Dance Music

​Few individuals have had as lasting an impact on electronic dance music as legendary British DJ Pete Tong. An early proponent of house, he has been one of the most highly regarded tastemakers in the world for a quarter-century now. This March, Tong comes to town for his annual Surfcomber po ... More >>

Pete Tong's Pool Party: Not a Lotta Pool, Whole Lotta Dance

Pete Tong's Pool Party With Sam Zarif, Sleepy & Boo, Nervo, Joris Voorn, Sharam, Kaskade, James Zabiela, Pete Tong, Luciano, Richie Hawtin, and Riva Starr Surfcomber Hotel Friday, March 25 Better Than: Being at Ultra. After navigating one smoky cloud of weed after another at SXSW, it was surpr ... More >>

Boys Noize Records at Sunday School 2011, March 26

Miami Noize! courtesy of Boy Noize Records.​We are waiting until after the full 36-hour rager known as Sunday School: The Lost Weekend to give our verdict. But after stopping by last night (this morning, really), Sunday's climax seems promising. We arrived early in the night to find it a little ... More >>