Richie Hawtin

Ultra 2013: Richie Hawtin Delivers Sensory Overload, No Bottle Anthems With Two-Hour UMF Set

This year's main stage at Ultra Music Festival has seemed particularly heavy on so-called "confetti house," the lineup rife with marquee names from VIP-heavy megaclubs. But the (relatively) more underground sounds of dance music -- or at least those not so concerned with encouraging bottle sales - ... More >>

Ten Most Exciting Acts at Ultra Music Festival 2013

Ultra Music Festival 2013 Phase 3 Lineup: Tommie Sunshine, Dieselboy, Kleinenberg

With just 29 days till Downtown Miami's Bayfront Park becomes totally flooded with LED-wielding beat freaks ... Ultra Music Festival 2013 has announced its Phase 3 lineup. Among this final round of 40-plus acts: Intrepid Ultra defender Tommie Sunshine, along with Marco Bailey, Christian Smith, DJ M ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2013: Ten Acts We're Excited to See

In almost month, Ultra Music Festival will kick off its six-day marathon of EDM madness in Bayfront Park and with it bring a slew of electronic acts to Miami, some of which you can catch pretty often at Miami-area nightclubs and others that rarely (if ever) make Magic City cameos.We were really hopi ... More >>

Association for Electronic Music Founded "to Advocate on Behalf of EDM as a Musical Genre"

It's bigger than hip hop. No, really, EDM might just be. According to Dancing Astronaut, EDM is making so much money, an estimated $4 billion worldwide last year, that some heavyweights have banded together to create the Association for Electronic Music, an advocacy and lobbying body that, like, PL ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2013 Phase 2 Lineup: Alesso, Eric Prydz, Snoop Dogg, Tons More

Just when you thought the party couldn't get any better, Ultra Music Festival has announced its Phase 2 lineup. So let's not bother with the formalities. Here's who's been added: Alesso, Benny Benassi, Dirty South, Dog Blood (Boys Noize & Skrillex), Eric Prydz, Fedde Le Grand, Hardwell, Loco D ... More >>

Last Resort at Villa 221 March 25

WMC 2012: Visionquest, Maceo Plex, Joris Voorn Headline Last Resort at Villa 221

​For a few years there, Made Event's Sunday School made up a big slice of the underground house and techno pie during WMC week, especially with heavyweights like Richie Hawtin, Luciano and Seth Troxler aboard their whopping 36-hour marathon lineup. But alas, Sunday School is no more. The party we ... More >>

Richie Hawtin Added to Ultra Music Festival 2012 Lineup

​ Do you hear that uhntz-uhntz in the distance? It's been 53 days since Ultra Music Festival 2012 announced its Phase 1 lineup, "a sprawling 92-act roster that ranges from massive dance superstars Avicii, Tiësto, David Guetta, Kaskade, and Fedde Le Grand to electronic music legends Kraftwerk, Ne ... 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 >>

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 >>

Richie Hawtin at Sunday School: The Lost Weekend March 25

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Richie Hawtin at Mansion November 27

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'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 >>

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 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 >>

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 >>

Funkagenda and Magda

Tribal Electro

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 >>

The 25 worst moments in dance music history

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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.

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 >>

Modeselektor

I'm a WMC Survivor

The highlights of this year's Winter Music Conference.

John Acquaviva

Ultra Music Festival releases first phase of lineup...

Richie Hawtin

Set List: Magda

Featured Acts

(Un)expected highlights from Ultra

The Power of Plastik

Richie Hawtin makes the transition from Detroit to Berlin

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