That Caribou (AKA Daniel Snaith) is such a singular, idiosyncratic artist with a sound all his own has much to do with his being a self-confessed studio production nerd. It’s hard not to agree that the bespectacled 30-something mathematics PhD from Canada perfectly embodies the stereotype of the sonic mad…

Midnight Magic is their name, and that funky disco groove is their game. Founded by production veterans Morgan Wiley and W. Andrew Raposo, fronted by soulful chanteuse Tiffany Roth, and backed by a stellar ensemble cast of musicians, the group has been making major waves on the NYC underground dance…

One of Germany’s leading electronic dance music trailblazers for two decades, Roman Flügel remains very much capable of reinventing himself and surprising listeners with each new release. For one thing, he swaps artist monikers as often as he does musical styles: Roman IV, Eight Miles High, Soylent Green, and Ro…

If you had the misfortunate of missing Bonobo’s Miami performance last year, the UK electronica wizard is back at Grand Central on Saturday. Now while this gig comes as part of his current North America DJ tour — meaning no awesome full-ensemble live show — the show packs a very…

An accomplished vocalist, producer, and DJ, Joyce Muniz is as consummate an artist as you’ll find on today’s global electronic dance music scene. Born in Brazil, she spent her formative years in ’90s Vienna, soaking up the European underground house, techno and bass music which she would later put her…

Before joining creative forces as Gorgon City, Kye Gibbon and Matt Robson-Scott were already celebrated DJ-producers in their own right. Going by Foamo and RackNRuin, respectively, the two came up as part of London’s beloved Black Butter artist collective and label, which also spawned the likes of Rudimental and international…

Party people old enough to remember Miami’s roller disco days should be stoked to know that the 305 has a new party on wheels. Roller Disco at Grand Central may be just a monthly party, but with some of disco music’s most legendary DJs headlining, it might be the single…

Forty years after its heyday, disco has become one of music’s most mythologized subcultures — especially among dance lovers who weren’t old enough to experience its ’70s golden era, when New York City’s monolithic temples of nightlife worship, like The Loft and Paradise Garage, were home to Olympian DJ gods…

The last time we here at Crossfade spoke with Nick Monaco, the San Francisco DJ-producer was still a relative newcomer to the international dance music scene. He had just released his first panty-dropper of an EP on Soul Clap Records, and the buzz was definitely beginning to grow around his…

Miami’s electronic music scene has grown by leaps and bounds in the past decade. But some of its local movers and shakers feel our city has yet to embrace the music’s artistic potential outside the context of nightlife. “It’s important for the music to be separated from the club,” SAFE’s…

It’s not often that music critics fall into unanimous agreement about the quality of a record. But from Mixmag and Pitchfork to Resident Advisor, the acclaim for Lone’s Reality Testing has been virtually universal since the new album dropped this summer. Granted, the prolific UK producer (born Matt Cutler) has…

As an electronic dance music artist, you can either draw your influences from the relatively limited palette of styles within the genre itself, or reach beyond it. If you’re Quantic (AKA Will Holland), the quest for inspiration could even take you as far as crossing the Atlantic, from England to…

Miami’s underground dance music scene owes many hard-working local promotions visionaries, many of which have come and gone. But one crew that has stood the test of time, while standing out for its bold, forward-thinking musical programming, is SAFE. Since launching in 2006, these trailblazing tastemakers have introduced Miami to…

Miami was once such a soul music mecca that it could rival Motown. This was thanks to classic local labels like Henry Stone’s Deep City Records and legendary recording artists like Clarence “Blowfly” Reid, Betty Wright, and the Moovers. Of course, our local melting pot of both Caribbean and American…

Dance music culture as we know it today owes much to the seminal New York City scene of the ’70s and ’80s, and pioneering DJs like John “Jellybean” Benitez. While he would go on to an illustrious career as a producer, putting his Midas touch on chart-topping hits by the…

Pitch down dance music’s tempo from the manic 140 beats per minute favored by candy ravers — pitch it way down — and you begin to approximate the languid, sensual, baby-making rhythms of Slow Hands, AKA Ryan Cavanagh. Of course these days, tempo is less a concern for Slow Hands…

Most of the seminal acts from the ’90s rave era are now but relics of the past. Few remain active on the scene today, and even fewer have continued to cultivate their sound to parallel electronic music’s evolution in the new millennium. Nightmares on Wax, the pioneering project from UK…

The massive outpouring of grief from the international dance music community when Scott Hardkiss passed away in March 2013 was a testament to the beloved legacy of Hardkiss. The legendary San Francisco DJ-production threesome, including “brothers” Gavin and Robbie Hardkiss, was instrumental in kick-starting the U.S. rave scene in the…

Aloe Blacc hardly needs an introduction after 2013’s “Wake Me Up” — produced with Avicii and first introduced live at Miami’s Ultra Music Festival — peaked at number one in over 20 countries. Though that hasn’t been Blacc’s only commercial hit, he’s hardly a manufactured pop act. In a way,…