If you think that innovation in house music has already hit the roof, then you need to lend an ear to Brooklyn’s No Regular Play for some of the freshest, most forward-thinking sounds to rock a machine drum beat. Since joining the Wolf + Lamb label-collective in 2009, Nick DeBruyn…
It’s been a sensational year for DJ-producer Ashique Subhan, or Subb-an, as the international EDM community knows him. Over the last twelve months, the young UK native exploded onto the scene out of nowhere and already boasts an auspicious list of credits. Highly-charted releases on top labels like 2020 Vision,…
Few artists out there embody the spirit of the EDM underground as much as British DJ-producer Clive Henry. As one half of seminal production duo Peace Division, he helped define ’90s tech house. And as a long-standing resident of the infamous Circo Loco afterhours party at DC10 club in Ibiza,…
The best thing about electronic music is its limitlessness. Having thrown aside the sonic limitations of rock’s overdone guitar-bass-drums combo, synthesizer music can sound like virtually anything. And it does. Electronic music has spawned a gazillion genres and sub-genres to the point of exhaustion. And like dandelion seeds, each sub-genre…
If one good thing has come from globalization — and no, it’s not having McDonald’s in every corner of the planet — it’s the cross-pollination of world sounds and electronica. From Gotan Project’s fusion of tango and breakbeats and Kruder & Dorfmeister’s dub bossa nova, to the Hindustiani IDM of…
Since launching in 2009, the Miami Dance Party website has emerged as one of Miami’s premier sources for local underground EDM. The weekly podcast showcases guest mixes by a bevy of local DJs and producers, from Miami staples like DJ SpinnZinn of 90.5 WVUM to resident favorites at hotspots like…
To understand the German techno scene’s fascination with African-American funk and soul, you need look no further than the work of Frankfurt-based DJ-producer Sascha Dive. As chief ambassador of the so-called “Rhein-Main sound” (though he shrugs off the label himself), Dive boasts that quintessentially Teutonic interpretation of soulful house via…
Dance remakes of pop hits are the bane of civilization. It’s bad enough that we have to put up with an endless supply of shitty Top 40 originals, mashups, and remixed remixes by the likes of David Guetta and the Black Eyed Peas. But do we also have to endure…
Miami’s big-room house heads have been raving for months about Swedish House Mafia’s upcoming Halloween Masquerade Motel ball at the Scope Art Fair tent tonight.Earlier this week, we caught up with the dynamic trio’s Sebastian Ingrosso for an, er, engrossing interview. (And a second part.) But we couldn’t pass up an…
British DJ Greg Wilson is an authentic original. His career spans over three decades, preceding the birth of house music. On the late-’70s and early-’80s UK dance music scene, the mixing pioneer introduced that era’s generation to the new post-disco sounds coming out of New York City. Watching him live…
Carl Cox at Mansion October 31
British DJ-producer Carl Cox hardly needs an introduction anywhere that people get down to electronic beats, lazers, and glowsticks. A child of the late-’80s acid house boom and “Second Summer of Love,” Cox cut his teeth spinning for the rave generation at seminal UK hotpots like the Haçienda, Fantazia, and…
“Less is more,” proclaimed German-American modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, describing the aesthetics of minimalism. A post-WWII movement rooted in the European avant-garde, minimalism reduces form down to its bare elements, fusing aesthetics and functionality with elegant simplicity. You can see it in the stark formalism of Bauhaus…
Since lighting up the international scene as one-half of production duo and eponymous label Wolf + Lamb, DJ-producer Gadi Mizrahi has emerged as one of the most influential tastemakers in EDM today. From their Brooklyn homebase to European dancefloors in London, Ibiza, and beyond, Wolf + Lamb have enjoyed major…
Earlier this week, we previewed Simon Baker’s upcoming Saturday performance at newly renovated and reopened Space. The world-renowned British DJ-producer has been making waves in the international EDM scene since the early ’00s with releases on the esteemed 2020 Vision label and his own Infant Records. We caught up with Baker…
It’s been a sensational year for Seattle-based DJ-producer Dave Pezzner, who despite almost two decades of experience under his belt was virtually unknown by the international EDM community until very recently. For over fifteen years, he banged out quirky glitch-house and breaks as production duo Jacob London with Bob Hansen…
British DJ-producer Carl Cox hardly needs an introduction anywhere that people get down to electronic beats, lazers and glowsticks. A child of the late-’80s acid house boom and “Second Summer of Love,” Cox cut his teeth spinning for the rave generation at seminal UK hotpots like the Haçienda, Fantazia, and…
Charles Webster’s story reads like the history of transatlantic dance music itself. He was born and bred in the early-’80s electronic music boomtown of Sheffield, England, cradle to such seminal acts as the Human League and Cabaret Voltaire. He shared time in the studio with Detroit techno pioneers Juan Atkins,…
Cuban-born DJ and producer Lazaro Casanova hardly needs an introduction among Miami’s EDM cognoscenti. Many of you will remember him from his days as resident DJ of Revolver, the infamous, long-standing party that put downtown Miami hipster nightlife on the map. These days, Casanova is best known as a busy…
NYC-based DJ, producer, label owner, and all-around renaissance man John Selway is easily the hardest-working dude in electronic dance music. Ground-breaking and career-making accolades like having co-produced the 1992 debut release by house superstars Deep Dish hardly begin to define Selway’s talent and innovative vision. He’s as likely to collaborate…
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 sounds in EDM. Louderbach,…
Chileans have certainly made their mark on the international EDM scene — Ricardo Villalobos, Luciano, Alexi Delano and Nicolas Jaar were all born and/or raised in Chile, just to name a few. So was Alejandra Iglesias, AKA Dinky, a Berlin-based DJ and producer who’s been in the game for a…
