If you still haven’t heard of Parisian-born, Miami-based studio producer Uriel “Frenchie” Kadouch, it’s only a matter of time. His A-list accolades speak for themselves. By his early 20s he was already making beats for the likes of R&B stars Robin Thicke, Ashanti, and Cassie while also collaborating with hip-hop…
Earlier this week we previewed Annie Mac’s upcoming Thursday gig at the Electric Pickle and there is definitely no shortage of buzz and anticipation for this show building up among Miami’s dance music cognoscenti. The Irish-born BBC Radio 1 host specializes in a wildly energetic blend of styles and sounds,…
Deep house has made a remarkable comeback in the last few years. A great deal of EDM producers have shifted their sound from the more percussive minimal techno style prevalent in the latter half of the ’00s and towards the deeper, melodic end of things. The deep house genre owes…
San Francisco-based DJ/producer Max Vangeli is one of the fastest-rising stars of the international house scene, with a 2010 breakthrough boosted in no small part by his status as a sort of honorary American member of the Swedish House Mafia. The last year alone has seen chart-topping Vangeli remixes for…
As its name would indicate, Germany’s Love Parade was established as a yearly demonstration for love, peace, and solidarity between all peoples preceding the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. It was also a hell of an electronic dance music festival, with the world’s most famous DJs performing atop…
The golden era of house music came and went with the early-’80s-to-early-’90s heyday of pioneering legends such as Frankie Knuckles, Steve Hurley, and Larry Heard. But with his grasp on the soulful essence and rhythms of classic house, there’s no denying that DJ-producer Dennis Ferrer is carrying the torch into…
Anja Schneider is a veritable renaissance woman of electronic dance music. The DJ, producer, radio show host and record label magnate is a long-standing veteran of the Berlin scene whose renowned weekly show on Berlin’s Radio Fritz has been going strong for a decade. But it’s the success and brand…
Like homeboys and Visionquest partners Seth Troxler and Lee Curtiss, DJ/producer Ryan Crosson is part of a new breed of Detroit-bred artists who have staked their place in Berlin’s underground EDM scene since the late ’00s. Born and raised in Metro Detroit, Crosson absorbed the native sounds of second-wave Detroit…
Ask a DJ, and it would appear that a lot of club patrons seem to confuse them for human jukeboxes which they think they can crowd around, prop their drinks on, lean back on, and prompt for every crappy song that tickles their drunken fancy. Granted, some contexts and scenarios…
UK progressive house titan John Digweed hardly needs an introduction anywhere people get down to electronic music beats, lazers and glowsticks. Since his ’90s decade-defining forays alongside Sasha and their famed Northern Exposure compilation series, Digweed has become one of the most ubiquitous and recognizable names in the industry. The…
For any electronic dance music lover in the know, DJ/producer Claude VonStroke and his esteemed Dirtybird and Mothership labels have become synonymous with some of the most forward-thinking and fun-loving sounds coming out of the American EDM scene in the new millennium. A Detroit native with roots in drum ‘n’…
For nearly two decades, German DJ, producer, and label magnate Steve Bug (born Stefan Brügesch) has stood as one of electronic dance music’s prime movers and most influential tastemakers. A veteran of the early-’90s Berlin techno scene, Bug’s first label, Raw Elements, would prove instrumental in defining the sound of…
British DJ/producer and Crosstown Rebels label owner Damian Lazarus has earned a solid reputation for heralding some of the most wildly irreverent and forward-thinking new sounds of the electronic dance music underground. Early high-profile DJ stints included appearances at legendary nightclub Space in Ibiza and Barcelona’s Sonar music festival in…
For nearly two decades, German DJ, producer, and label magnate Steve Bug (born Stefan Brügesch) has stood as one of electronic dance music’s prime movers and most influential tastemakers. A veteran of the early-’90s Berlin techno scene, Bug’s first label, Raw Elements, would prove instrumental in defining the sound of…
Like world-renowned contemporaries Dirty South, Bag Raiders and TV Rock among others, Sydney-based DJ/producer Bass Kleph (born Stu Tyson) has been riding the crest of the wave of an Australian electronic dance music renaissance since the late ’00s. But Tyson has in fact been honing his craft for well over…
Masomenos Balloons (Welcome to Masomenos)”Masomenos” is Spanish for “more or less,” of course. The acclaimed French production pair Masomenos chose an appropriate moniker. Their sound inhabits that blurry “more or less” area where genre-bending hybridized electronica is more or less techno, more or less IDM, more or less glitch, and more or less…
Marjorie Migliaccio, a.k.a. Bloody Mary, is one of Berlin techno’s most darkly seductive new artists. The French-born DJ/producer first signed to Sender Records in 2006, and after three years of hard work, staking her place in Europe’s underground EDM scene, she released 2009’s critically-acclaimed debut album Black Pearl on Berlin’s…
Since first launching in 2002, the Berlin-based Get Physical imprint has emerged as a global touchpoint for some of the most critically-acclaimed electronic dance music of the new millennium. Forged by the creative alliance of famed producers Booka Shade, M.A.N.D.Y. and DJ T as a launching pad for their own…
Few DJs in the international EDM underground have enjoyed as much hype in the last couple years as Seth Troxler. As part of a growing contingent of Detroit-raised expatriate artists living and working in Berlin — including Ryan Crosson and Shaun Reeves — Troxler has straddled the two techno capitals…
If you were around in the early to mid-’90s, there is no way you missed out on the guilty pleasure of dance-pop music sensation Crystal Waters’ sultry vocals all over the airwaves. In 1991 the then-unknown New Jersey-based singer/songwriter took a demo tape of a little ditty called “Gypsy Woman…
Last time Justin Martin played upstairs at the Electric Pickle, the man literally made the floor shake and wobble like we were dancing inside one of those amusement park trampoline tents. With his ginoromously fat gut-rattling basslines and chunky jackin’ breakbeats, hardly anyone has given the Pickle’s Dynacord stacks as…
Louis David, Juan Rojas, and Dsan Powell Revolutionary EP (petFood)The petFood label was formed in 2008 by native Miamian DJ/producers Lazaro Casanova and Jay-You as a launching pad for their own tropical-flavored brand of late-night club beats. They’ve since continued to expand their artist roster and sonic gamut, thanks to…
