Maya Jane Coles at the Electric Pickle April 14

Mount Kimbie at Electric Pickle April 9

There are musical prodigies and there are musical prodigies. And then there’s Maya Jane Coles. In 2010, it was virtually impossible to hear a DJ set anywhere on the planet without hearing the luscious, seductive strains of “What They Say.” Breakout hit is a massive understatement — the track was…

Brooklyn producer Francis Harris is a philosophy PhD drop-out and former political activist/hardcore punk rocker who confessed to having originally hated dance music. At one point or another, he had a major change of heart and his shadowy electronic alter ego Adultnapper has emerged as one of the most acclaimed…

With a veritable tsunami of unclassifiable dubby breakbeat flooding the international scene right now, it’s easy for music critics to lump the entire mishmash under the dubstep genre. But don’t even think about calling Mount Kimbie dubstep. Their sound has more in common with the musique concrète of early 20th…

When people speak of that classic ’90s house sound, whether they know it or not, they’re pretty much refering to the sound of seminal producer Marc Kinchen. His legendary dubs are the blueprint for today’s transatlantic house: soulful yet brooding bass-heavy four-on-the-floor funk.MK’s highly-coveted studio skills would see him take…

Recent years have marked the resurgence of the broken beat in electronic dance music. (Not that breaks ever went away, but they did stay on the fringe for a good decade.) Now, with the rise of dubstep and ’90s UK garage/two-step nostalgia, producers across the international scene are breaking the…

Earlier this week, we previewed the upcoming Visionquest label showcase at the Shelborne this Friday. The label/production quartet of illustrious Detroit DJ-masterminds Ryan Crosson, Lee Curtiss, Shaun Reeves, and Seth Troxler owns the international hot tip right now, having put out Benoit & Sergio’s chart-topping Where The Freaks Have No…

Benoit & Sergio’s rep on the international EDM scene rised slowly and surreptitiously, thanks in part to word-of-mouth praise from inner-circle luminaries like Seth Troxler and Bruno Pronsato. The release in question was a two-track gem of an EP called Full Grown Man which Pronsato put out on his small…

The WMC-Ultra electronic music season has reached its 26th year and British DJ-producer Carl Cox is one of the few scene veterans who can boast having been there for the long ride. A child of the late-’80s acid house boom and Second Summer of Love, Cox cut his teeth spinning…

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…

In certain Native American tribes, the vision quest is a rite of passage by which the young undertake a personal journey alone through the wilderness and commune with the natural world, eventually discovering their destiny in dreams and shadows. For electronic music crew Visionquest — Ryan Crosson, Lee Curtiss, Shaun…

There’s a fascinating duality at the core of UK producer Glimpse’s work. It’s the duality of control vs. loss of control. On one hand, he favors analog studio production over digital, reckoning that today’s automated digital tools eschew the elements of human spontaneity and imperfection — he grapples the dominance…

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 production and…