Formed in 2005 by DJ/producers Anja Schneider and Ralf Kollmann, Mobilee Records is one of the most forward-thinking and internationally-acclaimed boutique imprints to emerge out of Berlin in recent years. With a roster that includes some of the most exciting and cutting-edge artists of the contemporary European minimal scene, like…

Tim SweeneySaturday, September 26Electric PickleMiamiBetter than: your garden variety house music set.It was business as usual for the Poplifers on Saturday night with DFA’s Tim Sweeney throwing down at the Electric Pickle, the only exception being the turnout, which was somewhat lacking. Where were the hordes of colorful t-shirt-clad hipsters…

In the techno-centric dance capital of Berlin, DJ/producer/label owner Steffen Berkhahn a.k.a. Dixon has played no small part in bringing about a broader stylistic eclecticism to electronic dance music, while paving the way for the current deep house revival. A veteran of Berlin’s early ’90s scene with roots in drum…

DJ/producer Michael Christopher is a Boston transplant who moved to Miami in 2004 to pursue a college baseball career, and soon became a mainstay of the local underground dance scene, playing various weekly residencies and parties throughout the years at local venues like Blue, Laundry Bar, White Room, and PS14.He…

Poplife’s new Saturday night at Electric Pickle kicked off with a real bang in September and has already hosted some fine artists from the indie dance contingency, like VHS or Beta (DJ set) and Alexander Robotnick. This Saturday night brings NYC-based DJ/producer Tim Sweeney, one of the youngest new talents…

​To view a full slideshow of photos from the event, click here. Way Out West Saturday, September 19 Shine at the Shelborne South Beach Better Than: Watching their live footage on YouTube. The Review:For better or worse, this is less of a proper concert review than my own reflections on the cultural/commercial legacy of Way…

The PL0T kids are at it again! Tonight brings a last minute double serving of deep techy goodness at the Electric Pickle with transatlantic favorites Matt Tolfrey and Crazy Larry in tow. Young British DJ/producer Matt Tolfrey has made his steady upward move from local pub DJ to internationally-recognized artist…

Like his brother Justin (by now a Miami favorite) DJ/producer Christian Martin boasts a highly energetic take on tripped-out melodic tech house which epitomizes everything that is fresh, imaginative and fun about contemporary electronic dance music. Schooled in Southern California’s legendary Moontribe desert parties and late ’90s club life in…

Glass CandyFriday, September 11, 2009Vagabond, MiamiBetter than: Most live performers I’ve seen, when it comes to sheer energy, personality, and grit onstage.Hot damn, did all the hipsters come out of the woodwork for the Glass Candy show on Friday night! I’ve never seen such a massive turnout for what is…

Swedish electronic dance music has, for the most part, become synonymous with the hopelessly über-commercial and stale sound of big room players like Steve Angello, Axwell, and Sebastian Ingrosso. Stockholm’s John Dahlbäck, however, may very well be an exception, not just in his own work as an internationally-acclaimed DJ/producer, but…

Steven Ford, alias Bruno Pronsato, is one of those rare but increasingly ubiquitous contemporary techno producers with a background in some disparate instrumentalist music genre (see Adultnapper, who started out as a hardcore punk rocker, or No Regular Play, whose Greg Paulus hails from indie folk outfit Beirut, or [a]pendics.shuffle,…

Paco Osuna’s musical journey began like that of most aspiring young producers, making tracks and cutting his teeth on the decks as a teen in the ’90s, before his international career got jump-started when he earned a residency at the legendary club Amnesia in Ibiza, and subsequently joined the roster…

San Francisco’s Sunshine Jones is something of a 21st-century house music troubadour. Originally half of ’90s pioneering live electronica duo Dubtribe Sound System (which disbanded in 2005), Jones now produces and performs under his own name, using his DJ/MC persona as a forum for transgressive yet inspirational political and spiritual…

Mathew JonsonFriday, August 28, 2009Electric Pickle, MiamiBetter than: Any mere DJ set (as in records being spun) or any other “live PA”, for that matter, in recent memory. I really can’t sing enough praise for the Electric Pickle’s consistent quality of electronic dance bookings since the venue opened in March,…

PL0T resident DJ Alejandro Sab has been quite active in the last couple years, playing along some of the finest underground EDM talent we’ve had in Miami, such as Konrad Black, Ryan Elliot, Alexi Delano, and Camea. Besides his DJ accolades, Sab has also delved head-on into collaborative production work…

The Techno Loft at Space has very quickly become Miami’s premier venue for the slickest big-room international techno. This summer alone has seen stellar performances by the likes of Steve Bug, Camea, and Adultnapper. This Saturday brings Minus label legends Magda and Troy Pierce, two of the top emissaries of…