South Beach nightlife has long been ruled by commercial dance music and VIP club culture. And some locals have fought back with parties catering to underground house and techno. (See LINK Miami’s nights at Treehouse and Kontrol Thursdays at Mansion.) But few locals know the trials and tribulations of keeping…

PillowTalk at Villa 221 September 22

“You and I are like cocaine and ketamine — I just wanna make you high,” sings Cari Golden on “You and I,” the insidiously catchy 2012 breakout hit from Venezuelan DJ-production duo Fur Coat. And with such provocative party favor references in its lyrics, what hedonistic club rat could resist…

NOTE Matt Tolfrey and a number of other shows have been moved from the Electric Pickle to Villa 221, because of a temporary club closure. In an Internet-era dance music market oversaturated with labels and releases, London’s Leftroom Records has emerged as a veritable touchstone for quality tech-house. With international…

NOTE PillowTalk and a number of other shows have been moved from the Electric Pickle to Villa 221, because of a temporary club closure. Electronic dance music nerds love to label their uhntz-uhntz ad nauseam: tech-house, deep house, electro-house, disco-house, micro-house, and on and on. But San Francisco production threesome…

Old-time samba and bossa nova might come to mind when thinking of Brazil. But it’s also the country that spawned one of electronic music’s most forward-thinking artists. Since the late ’90s, Rio de Janeiro-born composer, producer, and sonic mad scientist Amon Tobin has honed his own ever-evolving brand of electronica…

Crazy P Soundsystem at Electric Pickle September 8

Turns out the Canadian city of Montreal is a real hotbed of forward-thinking electronic dance music. A few natives we’ve chatted with just this past year are Akufen, Footprintz and Blond:ish. And another luminary of that Northern city is producer and multi-intrumentalist Guillaume Coutu Dumont. In an age of bedroom…

UPDATE Eats Everything has canceled his debut U.S. tour because of a slipped disc in his back. Its recent commercial explosion notwithstanding, electronic dance music culture in the U.S. has been mostly marginal. But in the UK, EDM has been a continuously growing massive mainstream movement since the late ’80s…

There wasn’t much of an underground techno scene in Miami until certain forward-thinking collectives started sprouting up at the tail end of the 2000s. One of them was Un_Mute Miami, a party brand that’s become synonymous with cutting-edge electronic dance music over the last three years. “I’ve always believed that…

See also “Crazy P’s Danielle Moore on Blowing Up This Year: ‘We Have a Fresh Energy!'” “Whatcha gonna do when I fall out of love?” ‘Cause “I ain’t giving my love to you tonight.” So, “pack up your troubles and walk away.” These are just a few of the lyrics…

There are far too many electronic dance music artists blowing up because of sheer hype these days. Too many bedroom producers stitching tired old samples and DJ tools and saturating the market with unremarkable dancefloor fodder. But every once on a while, we’re treated to flashes of genius, like those…

Shaun Reeves and Russ Yallop at Mansion August 23

Dumb blonde bimbo DJs? The EDM industry already has one Paris Hilton. Montreal’s Blond:ish, on the other hand, isn’t messing around. With a reputation for driving, body-jacking DJ sets, the duo exploded onto the international scene this past year with some auspicious tech-house releases on Kompakt and Get Physical. Crossfade…

See also “Dennis Ferrer’s Final Word on Getting Kicked Off Mansion Miami’s Stage for Not Being ‘Commercial Enough.'” From Deadmau5 pissing off pretty much everyone with his hateful and decidedly hypocritical rants, to a clueless Paris Hilton jumping on the DJ bandwagon and crowning herself the new queen of house…

See also “Dennis Ferrer on Commercial EDM: ‘They See an Easy Customer Who Wants It Fast & Cheap.'” When renowned DJ-producer Dennis Ferrer got kicked off the decks mid-set at Mansion nightclub for not being “commercial enough” back in February, he found himself in the middle of a growing debate…

It might not be such a stretch to describe Ewan Pearson as the Brian Eno of electronic dance music. Like Eno, Pearson is an out-of-the-box musical visionary capable of taking artists to new levels. And his studio wizardry has made him one of the UK’s most in-demand remixers and producers,…