Marco Resmann & Tony Rohr Play Electric Pickle on Friday

The LINK crew is back for another round of techno madness at the Electric Pickle on Friday night, where they’ll be serving up a double booking featuring Marco Resmann and Tony Rohr. A veteran of the ’90s Berlin scene and prolific producer, Marco Resmann has released under the monikers Audiogain,…

Benny Benassi Plays Mansion on Saturday, January 30

There’s hardly anyone who was around in 2003 and didn’t get caught up in the pure unadulterated pleasure — guilty, or otherwise — of Benny Benassi’s mega-hit “Satisfaction”. Praised by the likes of Carl Cox, Roger Sanchez and Darren Emerson and played ad nauseum by big-room DJs and radio stations…

Q&A with Nicolas Jaar, Playing Electric Pickle Tonight

Young prodigy Nicolas Jaar has enjoyed unprecedented international acclaim in the last couple years through his association with the Wolf + Lamb collective and a growing body of work widely praised for its distinctive and genre-defying sound. Born in NYC and raised in Chile, Jaar found equal parts inspiration in…

Q&A with Gadi Mizrahi (Wolf + Lamb) Playing Electric Pickle on Friday

Since alighting on Brooklyn’s underground dance music scene with partner Zev Eisenberg in 2001, DJ/producer Gadi Mizrahi has emerged as one of the most influential tastemakers in the wider international network of EDM labels and collectives. As a DJ and co-owner of the Wolf + Lamb imprint, he has garnered…

PL0T Presents The Wolf + Lamb Experience at Electric Pickle on Friday

2009 was a big year for Wolf + Lamb, the NYC-based DJ/production duo and eponymous label responsible for some of the most exciting and imaginative new sounds in electronic dance music. From their growing cult following, centered around the infamous “Marcy Hotel” parties in Brooklyn, to their recent leap from…

Mark Farina Plays Nocturnal on Saturday, January 23

Few artists in the world of electronic dance music can take credit for the sort of self-styled signature sound that has made Mark Farina one of the most original and idiosyncratic DJ/producers of the last twenty years. As a house music veteran with old ties to the Chicago, Detroit and…

Oliver Koletzki Plays Space on Saturday

The LINK crew is back at the Space Techno Loft this Saturday night with special guest Oliver Koletzki, a Berlin-based DJ/producer with releases on the esteemed Cocoon and Stil Vor Talent labels. Koletzki is a veteran of the ’90s German breakdance and hip-hop scene who delved into tech-house production in…

Get Mad!

House music reigned supreme at Vagabond Saturdays throughout 2009, with weekly performances by such classic house luminaries as Frankie Knuckles, Little Louie Vega, Jellybean Benitez, and Jesse Saunders. So far the soulful house vibes promise to live on at the downtown hotpot in 2010, and Saturday night brings a special…

H.O.S.H. Plays Electric Pickle on Friday

I first heard of Hamburg-based producer H.O.S.H. (a.k.a. Holger Behn) through a mind-blowing 2008 release called “Radar” — a collaboration with esteemed producer and Diynamic labelmate Stimming. This insidious little banger blends delectably nuanced and understated tribal rhythms with weird distended pitch crescendos and a smiting climatic jazz organ breakdown…

The New Year’s Eve EDM Lowdown

Miami’s big-room nightclubs usually go all out for New Year’s Eve celebrations by booking some of the biggest names in international dance music, and this year is no exception. Here’s the lowdown on some of the top NYE parties going down on Thursday night: Cocoon Label Party at Nocturnal’s Eden…

Carlos Fauvrelle Plays Mansion on Saturday

While still relatively unknown in the States, Portuguese DJ/producer Carlos Fauvrelle is renowned through the Iberian peninsula, a region increasingly associated with the tribal house genre (see Chus & Ceballos, Mastiksoul, etc.) Fauvrelle has been crafting his own percussive-driven brand of tech house since the early 2000s, releases of which…

petFood & Friends Throw Down at Electric Pickle on Wednesday

It’s gonna be a fairly quiet holiday week on the local EDM front, but you can get your fill of tasty house and techno beats on Wednesday night when the Miami/LA-based record label-cum-production duo petFood throw down at Electric Pickle. petFood was formed in late 2008 by Miami natives Lazaro…

Ambivalent Plays Electric Pickle Tonight

Ambivalent is the moniker of NYC-based DJ/producer Kevin McHugh, of Richie Hawtin’s prestigious Minus label. McHugh’s early production credits include a music series he developed for the multidisciplinary artistic platform Creative Time in the mid ’90s. By the mid 2000s he became associated with the Minus family after sharing the…

Bring Yo Friends

​It’s gonna be a fairly quiet holiday week on the local EDM front, but you can get your fill of tasty house and techno beats on Wednesday night when the Miami/LA-based record label-cum-production duo petFood throw down at Electric Pickle. petFood was formed in late 2009 by Miami natives Lazaro…

Loco Dice and Anja Schneider

The Techno Loft at Space has consistently delivered the goods since launching earlier this year. It has showcased some of the top techno talent from around the globe, with a special emphasis on the Berlin sound dominating the scene today. This Saturday continues the trend with a stellar double booking…

Fedde Le Grand

Fedde Le Grand has been a staple of the Netherlands’ electronic dance music scene since the early ’00s, when he cofounded the renowned Sneakerz club night in Amsterdam and the Hague. But in the past few years, the Dutch DJ/producer has enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame, beginning with the…

New Deep House Mix by DJ Joaquin, Playing ON/OFF at La Folie Tonight

DJ Joaquin Estevez was born in the Dominican Republic and relocated to Miami in 1992, where he’s been a mainstay of the local underground EDM scene since his long-standing residency for Sobebeats and their infamous warehouse parties in 2006-2008. He has since played regularly in support of the PL0T, Link,…

Fedde Le Grand Returns to Mansion this Saturday

Fedde Le Grand has been a staple of the Netherlands’ electronic dance music scene since the early 2000s, when he co-founded the renowned Sneakerz club night in Amsterdam and the Hague. But in the past few years, the Dutch DJ/producer has has enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame, starting with…

Loco Dice and Anja Schneider Play Space on Saturday

The Techno Loft at Space has consistently delivered the goods since launching earlier this year, showcasing some of the top techno talent from around the globe with a special emphasis on the Berlin sound. Saturday, December 19 continues the trend with a stellar double booking featuring Berlin techno legends Loco…

Concert Review: Wolfgang Gartner at Mansion, December 12

Click here to view more photos from this event.I went to Mansion on Saturday night in order to find out what’s happened to electro house. This energetic style, blended with equal parts electro and indie dance rock, exploded on the international scene in 2006 but lost most of its edge…

Techno Takes Over the Design District Tonight

Miami’s techno heads are hardly out of options tonight with internationally renowned DJ/producers Simon Baker and Todd Bodine in tow at Grass and the Electric Pickle, respectively. SAFE’s Art Basel special at Grass last weekend, featuring Radio Slave and Argy, seemed to mark the resurgence of the Design District lounge…