Pulling off the whole big-room commercial house music thing without falling into the lowest common denominator is no easy feat (I’m looking at you, David Guetta,) but The Shapeshifters have managed to find that difficult balance between mainstream appeal and true musical quality fairly successfully. The West London DJ/production duo…
Miami loves Victor Calderone, his big-room tribal house beats and energetic pop diva remixes for the likes of Madonna, Beyonce, and Whitney Houston are exactly the sort of thing that gets Miami’s mainstream nightlife set off at the club. The Brooklyn-based DJ/producer had an auspicious career start back in the…
The Electric Pickle has something for everyone this Friday night with a stellar triple booking hosted by top local EDM contingents PL0T and Poplife that should provide for a delectable melange of sounds ranging from indie to techno. To kick things off, Mr. Andy Rourke of The Smiths fame will…
GlimpseRunner(Crosstown Rebels)2009 was a big year for EDM’s new dark horse, UK-based producer Glimpse, AKA Christopher Spero. Despite a deeply-rooted underground sensibility and uncompromising experimental flair, he has garnered plenty of mainstream accolades, including a nomination for Producer of the Year by DJ Magazine. Every once in a while there…
Dubstep has taken Miami by storm in the last year — hardly surprising in a city that has always loved its bass. The emergence of this once marginal sound rooted in the UK underground is due in no small part to record label/promoters Basshead Music fostering Miami’s local bass culture…
The Pickle’s got one hell of a double booking lined up for Friday night with special guests Âme and Alexkid in the house. Âme (French for “soul”) is the German production duo of Kristian Beyer and Frank Wiedemann, and as their name suggests, they specialize in the soulful side of…
Various Artists The Disco EPpetFoodpetFood was formed in 2008 by native Miamian DJ/producers Lazaro Casanova and Jay-You as a launching pad for their Afro-Cuban-infused brand of EDM, and their latest release is especially redolent of that unabashed tropical flavor. The Disco EP features a cheery quartet of sample-heavy Latin disco-house…
Wolf + LambLove Someone (Wolf + Lamb)Few artists have generated as much buzz in the EDM underground this last year as Brooklyn-based DJ/production duo and eponymous label Wolf + Lamb. Along with like-minded label consorts Lee Foss, Nicolas Jaar, and No Regular Play, Zev Eisenberg and Gadi Mizrahi’s past releases…
Brooklyn-based DJ/producer Francis Harris a.k.a. Adultnapper has emerged in recent years as one of the most idiosyncratic and compelling producers of the international techno scene, a curious thing considering the man is a former punk-rocker who once admitted to hating dance music. His iconoclastic approach to EDM is more than…
For going on two decades now DJ/producer Vincenzo Ragone has been a staple of the international underground EDM community and one of its most endearing artists. With roots in Hamburg’s early hip hop scene, he got taken by the acid house explosion of the late ’80s and released his first…
For those of you tragically not in attendance that night, legendary UK DJ Greg Wilson made his highly anticipated WMC debut (in fact his Miami debut altogether) at Electric Pickle on Wednesday, March 24, schooling us all on the authentic disc jockey artform. Beyond simply reinstating the definition of what…
Aquabooty is Miami’s longest-standing and most esteemed house music party and since 2000 they’ve remained a bastion of uncompromising musical quality and unpretentious good vibes running against the prevailing current of commercial nightlife in this city. Having hosted some of the most memorable and intimate WMC house music parties in…
DJ/producer Seth Troxler has to be one of the most archetypal characters in contemporary EDM. Born and bred in the Detroit techno scene, schooled by the scene veterans and absorbing all the sounds he could get his hands on at the record shop/DJ hub where he worked as a teen,…
Few figures in the international dance music scene can wear the title of legend as aptly as Greg Wilson. The British DJ boasts a career spanning three decades, going back to the birth of house and his early days as a DJ at Manchester’s seminal club The Hacienda, and he…
DJ/producer Mauricio Barembuem a.k.a. Barem has been Argentina’s number one techno export since alighting on the international scene in the mid 2000s. Having caught the ear of minimal techno magnate Richie Hawtin in 2006, Barem signed to his prestigious Minus label and remains one of its most celebrated artists in…
With so much buzz surrounding Conference and all the stellar international artists passing through next week it’s easy to lose sight of our local talent. But this Saturday night marks the return of DJ Inbal and Baby Sean’s beloved Retox (formerly of Wednesday nights at Blue) after a couple months’…
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Juan Atkins reflects on 25 years of Detroit techno
With every imaginable type of iPhone app out there these days, from drunk texting apps, to X-rated vibrator apps (no joke) it’s hardly surprising that even our beloved annual Winter Music Conference would get its own app. The folks at Nightlyfe.com have announced the launch of their WMC Mobile Guide…
Greek-Swedish DJ/producer Steve Angello has become one of the most recognizable names in commercial EDM since the mid 2000s, with big international hits like his jacked-up rendition of the über-soulful “Show Me Love” by Robin S, a track exemplifying his glitzy disco diva-vocalized big-room house productions. His massive international notoriety…
Like homies 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 2000s. Born and raised in Metro Detroit, Crosson absorbed the native sounds of second-wave Detroit…
