Half of internationally renowned Spanish twosome Chus and Ceballos, DJ/producer Chus Esteban has garnered worldwide recognition through the duo’s Stereo Productions label, in addition to chart-topping releases on the esteemed Yoshitoshi, Shinichi, and Defected imprints. High-profile remixes for the likes of Madonna, Danny Tenaglia, and Deep Dish have garnered Chus…
In the past couple of years, DJ/producer Simon Baker has enjoyed a steady ascent to international fame through a slew of infectious releases on high-profile labels, countless global tour dates, and a firm grasp on what makes people get down on a dance floor. As a DJ on the ’90s…
The PL0T and LINK crews have been busy this year hosting some of the top international techno talent at downtown venues like White Room, Electric Pickle and Space. Now they’ve embarked on an entirely new collaborative effort that aims to showcase Miami’s own local talent in the intimate patio setting…
Ghostly International 10 Year Anniversary PartyWhite Room, MiamiSaturday, December 5, 2009Better than: Any record label party this side of WMC.Despite the unfavorable weather most of Saturday, things cleared up enough for Miami to enjoy partying al fresco at what was surely the greatest White Room turnout all year. Ghostly International apparently…
In the world of short-lived electronic dance music fads, electro house is pretty much dead, extinguished by the very intensity with which it alighted on the international dance music scene in 2006-2008. The same brash and abrasive over-the-top sound that made electro house exciting a couple years ago — when…
As if SAFE hadn’t won over enough hearts this weekend by serving up the Ghostly International 10 Year Anniversary Party at White Room on Saturday night, they have a veritable techno extravaganza in store for Miami tonight at Grass Lounge in the Design District, featuring Radio Slave and Argy, along…
Brooklyn-based DJ/producer Adrian Michna a.k.a. Egg Foo Young started his musical career DJing parties and gigging in bands on the NYC bar circuit before migrating to Miami in the mid-’90s. It was in our neck of the woods that he co-founded the pioneering hip hop/electronic outfit Secret Frequency Crew, which…
A guide to the major music events during Art Basel Miami Beach
Now in its seventh installment, Aquabooty’s infamous Art Basel special, “Fuck Art Let’s Dance”, is going down at the Electric Pickle on Friday night and headlined this time by the legendary DJ/producer and self-anointed “high priest of spiritual house music” Osunlade. The religious title isn’t merely symbolic, as Osunlade is…
Who is Paul van Dyk, really? Obviously he’s one of the most famous figures in electronic dance music worldwide — and arguably the best-dressed. But why? Well his industry accolades speak for themselves. Paul van Dyk (born Matthias Paul in East Germany, 1971) is a Grammy Award-nominated artist, named “World’s…
Ali Shirazinia, AKA Dubfire, is half of the renowned duo Deep Dish, and is its decidedly more musically forward-thinking member. As a solo producer, though, he has garnered equally significant recognition. In 2007, he launched his own label and tastemaking music platform, Science + Technology Digital Audio, and has since…
After eluding the annals of popular dance music for practically forever, France finally got with the program in the late ’90s thanks to a quirky little duo named Daft Punk. It didn’t take long after that for France to grow its own crop of DJ superstars, whose prime example is…
Few Hispanics have had electronic dance music careers as fruitful and influential as that of DJ/producer Erick Morillo. Born in Colombia and raised in Union City, New Jersey, the house music veteran began DJing in his teens. By the early ’90s, he was experimenting with provocative genre-bending fusions of house,…
When Andrei Osyka, Brett Griffin, and Justin Sloe first met in the Los Angeles dance music scene at the turn of the millennium, little could they have known that their newly forged creative partnership would comprise one of the West Coast’s hippest EDM collectives by the end of the decade…
Few Latins have had as fruitful and influential a career in electronic dance music as DJ/producer Erick Morillo. Born in Colombia and later raised in Union City, New Jersey, the house music veteran began DJing in his teens. By the early ’90s he was experimenting with provocative genre-bending fusions of…
After eluding the annals of popular dance music for practically ever, France finally got with the program in the late ’90s thanks to a quirky little duo by the name of Daft Punk. It didn’t take long after that for France to grow its own crop of DJ superstars, the…
DJ Andres Amadeus has been a staple of Miami’s electronic dance music scene for several years now, holding court at various hotspots around town including Segafredo, the Delano, and Skybar, where he presided over the weekly Soultech sessions and its slew of cutting-edge international techno bookings. In 2008 Andres joined…
Despite the hordes of electronic dance music artists living and working out of Berlin — natives and foreign transplants alike — few embody the spirit and sound of Berlin’s contemporary EDM scene as fully as DJ/producer Cassy. Born Catherine Britton in England to a Caribbean father and Austrian mother, Cassy…
thenextgeneration is the DJ/production duo of locals Mikkel Dankner and Aaron Feld, a partnership formed in 2004. Mikkel started out cutting and mixing tapes at age 12, and has since gone on to play at some of the most renowned nightclubs around the US, including Limelight, Tunnel, and Palladium in…
A heads up to Miami’s downtown cognoscenti: Michigan’s esteemed Ghostly International label will be celebrating 10 years of forward-thinking music and subculture at White Room on Saturday, December 5. Founded in 1999 by DJ Sam Valenti, Ghostly has become one of the most highly-acclaimed international platforms for cutting-edge and genre-defying…
Benjamin Acero and the Un_Mute crew have another all-night techno extravaganza in store for Miami tonight when internationally-renowned DJ/producers Marco Carola and Ilario Alicante stop by Eden Terrace Garden at Nocturnal. Marco Carola is a veteran of the early ’90s international techno scene and Italy’s foremost authority on the genre,…
Electronic dance music has found a wide Latin audience in recent years. Of course that includes the Latin American melting pot of Miami, thanks to the popularization of percussion-driven tribal house offshoots and the so-called “Iberican Sound” pioneered in part by Madrid-based producers Chus & Ceballos. One half of this…
