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…
AudionA 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,…
Miami’s true house music aficionados need not be reminded that South Beach is, for the most part, the last place one goes to find quality underground dance music. With the exception of a few sporadic misplaced bookings here and there, venturing east over the causeway means entering a wasteland of…
Few contemporary dance music labels, even by underground vanguardist standards, can take credit for the sort of daringly forward-thinking and wildly imaginative flavors that have come to distinguish Wolf + Lamb Music in recent years. Founded by the eponymous DJ duo of Zev Eisenberg and Gadi Mizrahi in 2005, Wolf…
In this age of laptop-toting faux live electronic dance music acts, an actual band employing actual live instrumentation and vocals is a rare thing, especially when said band is delivering funked-out dancefloor bangers like 2020Soundsystem. The musical brainchild of Leeds-based DJ and esteemed 2020Vision label owner Ralph Lawson, the Soundsystem…
Welsh DJ/producer Sasha (born Alexander Paul Coe) is that rare breed of artist that has managed to balance massive commercial success and notoriety with artistic integrity throughout his long-standing career. I won’t go into too many details about his myriad accolades through the years, which include over a decade of…
Crossfade has been following Miami-based DJ/producer Alejandro Sab for a while now, considering his PL0T parties and international artist bookings have been a veritable cornerstone of our local underground EDM scene for the last couple years. At least once a month since 2007 PL0T has made us privy to some…
Techno heads looking to work their feet on Halloween night need look no further than Space, where internationally-acclaimed Israeli producer Guy Gerber will be performing along with Berlin-based DJ/producer Tom Clark. Boasting a distinctive and futuristic brand of proggy melodic tech house, with releases on the Cocoon, Bedrock, and SAW…
If Halloween is for treats, then Devil’s Night is for tricks! A little known tradition that originated in 1930s Detroit, Devil’s Night (or “Mischief Night”) involved the Motor City’s youth engaging in pseudo-criminal behavior on the night of October 30 each year — mostly acts of petty vandalism, like egging,…
Legendary British DJ/producer Stave Lawler will be playing at Gryphon Nightclub at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino this Thursday night. A child of the ’90s UK rave scene, Lawler got his start organizing some of the infamous M42 Motorway illegal parties as a teenager, before getting his big…
Pete Tong is hardly a man who needs introduction. The hardworking and ubiquitous British DJ, radio personality, label head and perennial host of legendary BBC Radio 1’s Essential Mix is one of the most highly-regarded tastemakers in the world of electronic dance music. An early proponent of house, when the…
After a scintillating summer of top bookings that included headliners Steve Bug, Magda, and Troy Pierce, the Techno Loft at Space shows no sign of relenting in its dominance over downtown Miami’s big-room techno scene. Saturday night continues the Teutonic trend, with a highly-anticipated performance by German DJ/Producer Nick Curly,…
Miami’s winter self-denial quickly evaporated this weekend when we all got hit by a vengeful cold front, and with hot sunny days by the pool or beach now increasingly out of the question, there’s nothing left to do but dance to keep the blood flowing. The Electric Pickle’s cozy upstairs…
Miami’s Latin house crowd has found a new Friday night to call their own (as if they needed another one) at Karu & Y nightclub in downtown Miami. This new night hosted by Benjamin Acero — the ubiquitous young promoter responsible for so many of the big-room EDM parties downtown…
Musical Missionary’s last Dance for a Cause party in August managed to raise a whopping $950 in one night, which were donated to SoBe Institute of the Arts.The lucky recipient of these scholarship funds is a little 10-year-old named Aurora, whose hard-working single mother couldn’t afford paying for the flute…
Miami’s techno heads can’t complain about having nothing to do this Saturday night, with club Space featuring an all-night groove extravaganza that includes DJ sets by international sensations Mark Knight, Alexi Delano and Paul Ritch. Bestselling DJ/producer Mark Knight has gained substantial commercial success in the late 2000s through residencies…
At her tender young age, Inbal Lankry is already something of a scene veteran. At age 15, the Brooklyn native was promoting for legendary NYC clubs Limelight, Tunnel and Paladium, while helping out older brother DJ Baby Sean with his residencies at various hot spots all over the city. In…
By all accounts the Aquabooty 10th Anniversary party at Electric Pickle on Friday night was an epic good time. For those of you who missed out or didn’t get enough of those sultry deep house sounds and are still aching for more, Aqua-booty NY’s DJ Greg Cuoco (part of Friday’s…
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…
Miami’s house music cognoscenti will be rejoicing at the Electric Pickle this Friday night when Aquabooty, the city’s longest-standing and most esteemed house music party, celebrates a whopping 10 years of loving soulful groove. Formed in 2000 by scene veterans Joe Budious and Tomas Ceddia, the ‘Booty has remained a…
