Electronic dance music is currently in the midst of a major crisis in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Six drug-related deaths during this year’s Time Warp festival resulted in an indefinite city-wide ban of “all commercial activity involving dancing with live and recorded music,” effectively bringing the party to a grinding halt…

The South Bronx was a war zone in the late ’70s, as ESG’s Renee Scroggins will tell you. But it was among its gang-ridden, dilapidated tenement blocks that hip-hop was born. Punk, no wave, electro, and disco were all being spawned in the surrounding boroughs as well, so it was…

DJ, producer, blogger, party promoter, label and A&R manager — Andrew “Lovefingers” Hogge has worn practically every hat there is to wear in the underground dance music industry over the past decade. But if one thing has driven his myriad professional endeavors since the beginning, it’s the love of sharing…

If Sanctified People Of Righteousness Truth and Soul sounds like the name of a ’60s Aquarian cult, that’s because the collective behind this budding Miami record label tends to wax mystical when it comes to music. “As musicians, it is our sanctified duty to share our souls in a manner…

Techno, by definition, is futurist music — a forward-pushing technological soundtrack for the fast pace of life in today’s postindustrial globalized society, ever advancing toward its sci-fi vision of the future. But in Latin America, a new vanguard of artists uses electronic music to instead look back at the pre-industrial…

For the past 16 years, Hyperdub has evolved from a simple webzine to one of electronic music’s most cutting-edge record labels — on par with the iconic Warp and Ninja Tune for its experimental and stylistically wide-ranging offerings which at times defy genre altogether. At the label’s helm is Kode9,…

With almost 30 years under their turntable belts, Optimo’s JG Wilkes and JD Twitch make one of the most enduring partnerships in global dance music. It’s a partnership that has seen the esteemed Scotsmen evolve from hosts of a small local underground club night at the turn of the millennium…

Thanks to the wonders of YouTube, anyone born after 1983 can relive the historic moment when Greg Wilson introduced the concept of DJ mixing to U.K. television viewers for the very first time during a broadcast of The Tube on Channel 4. “It would be a major moment in my…

Today’s young millennials weaned on a lifetime of electronic music can hardly imagine how futuristic and positively alien acid house first sounded to listeners in the ’80s. In contrast to the mostly pop and disco-based dance music of the time, the hypnotic, hard-hitting machine beats and trippy synthetic bass squelches…

With his blue-tinted, beatifically moody sound, it’s taken Fred P a mere decade to become synonymous with quality deep house among discerning international listeners. It helps that the NYC DJ/producer takes himself more seriously than most as an artist, having established the esteemed Soul People imprint as a launching pad…

In Miami’s fickle and competitive nightlife scene, it’s something of a miracle if a nightclub keeps its doors open longer than a single year. But Wynwood’s Electric Pickle has been going strong for all of seven. And this in spite of numerous hurdles and strenuous challenges threatening the humble little…