What do bass and barbecue sauce have in common? Well, they’re the main ingredients of Dirtybird’s infamous Golden Gate BBQ parties. Of course, Dirtybird is the beloved label of San Francisco DJ-producers Claude Von Stroke and Justin Martin. And it’s home to some of the most sleazetastic, fun-loving sounds in…
See also “Dennis Ferrer’s Final Word on Getting Kicked Off Mansion Miami’s Stage for Not Being ‘Commercial Enough.'” Earlier this week, we told you about South Beach’s Mansion kicking its headliner Dennis Ferrer off the decks mid-set for not playing “commercial enough.” And then we followed up with Mr. Ferrer’s…
We probably don’t need to tell you that the Brits rule electronic dance music. London, specifically, has been an EDM capital for decades, and the scene doesn’t ever seem to stop flourishing there. Artist collective and label Air London, for example, has become synonymous with top-notch underground tech-house. And its…
See also “Dennis Ferrer’s Final Word on Getting Kicked Off Mansion Miami’s Stage for Not Being ‘Commercial Enough.'” Yesterday, we told you about South Beach’s Mansion kicking its headliner Dennis Ferrer off the decks mid-set for not playing “commercial enough.” Well, the Opium Group is still unavailable for comment. But…
See also “Dennis Ferrer’s Final Word on Getting Kicked Off Mansion Miami’s Stage for Not Being ‘Commercial Enough.'” Mansion has always catered to a very mainstream crowd with very commercial taste in music. That’s no secret. When the club isn’t booking Top 40 hip-hop stars, it’s only going after the…
For a few years there, Made Event’s Sunday School made up a big slice of the underground house and techno pie during WMC week, especially with heavyweights like Richie Hawtin, Luciano and Seth Troxler aboard their whopping 36-hour marathon lineup. But alas, Sunday School is no more. The party went…
Back in the summer of 2011, we here at Crossfade gave you a heads up about this pretty cool little weekly show on WDNA 88.9 FM radio and five major reasons you should tune in for it. Well, we sure hope you took our advice then, because the Sunday Coolout has…
When speaking of French electronic dance music, the first name that comes to mind is David Guetta, right? Yeah, that’s if you get your EDM spoonfed by Top 40 radio, you square. Because the underground house and techno cognoscenti of the world have been moving to the beats from a…
When legendary Nigerian bandleader Fela Kuti toured the US in the ’70s, he was blown away by the funk, soul, disco and other African-American music forms he heard here. So he took them with him back to Nigeria, threw them in the blender with some African dance highlife and traditional…
If there’s one party during WMC week that truly encapsulates the transatlantic tech-house zeitgeist, it’s Leftroom vs. Culprit at Treehouse Miami Beach on March 21. And that’s because the party showcases two of the scene’s most hotly tipped labels from (literally) both sides of the pond — the UK’s Leftroom…
This Friday, Wynwood electronic dance music emporium the Electric Pickle will be celebrating three years of nonstop boogie. And they’ll be doing it in style and in typical fashion by booking two stars of the international house and techno scene, UK DJ-producer and One Records boss Adam Shelton and the…
John Dahlback at Amnesia February 18
Miami isn’t just some metaphorical cheap beach motel where the electronic dance music industry from overseas gathers to mingle and party during WMC. No, it’s also the place where some of the world’s top EDM brands are actually born. Case in point: Flying Circus, the long-standing WMC party conceived by…
Jamie Jones and Lee Foss’s Hot Creations label has spawned a major stylistic trend across the transatlantic tech-house scene, with many an imitator wielding their darkly sexed-up bass-heavy sound. And among Hot Creations’ growing collective of elite producers is Milan-based duo Clockwork.If the hype afforded by Hot Creations wasn’t enough for Clockwork’s…
What started out as a fairly modest afterhours party at the former Studio A space in Downtown Miami in 2006 has since evolved into the WMC event par excellence. Of course, we’re talking about Crosstown Rebels’ Get Lost. And now in its seventh installment, this party has pretty much come…
You may have noticed a recent wave of electronic music producers with “spoonerisms” for monikers — silly twists on famous musicians’ names, like Joy Orbison, Jichael Mackson and Wevie Stonder. Well, New Jersey-based producer Seth Haley didn’t choose to toy with the name of an influential pop star. Instead, he’s…
Yes, disco follows a formula. But Belgian-Italian producer Aeroplane (AKA Vito De Luca) isn’t thinking small when it comes to the genre. He’s not even concerned with floor fillers. In fact, he’s aiming for nothing short of cosmic disco rapture, taking his cues from the ’70s prog rock giants like…
We don’t know what the hell Sweden’s putting in its drinking water. But the quiet Scandinavian country appears to be spawning a superior race of DJ megastars intent on world domination! The Swedish House Mafia dudes have already positioned themselves as the prime EDM ambassadors to this decade’s mainstream masses…
There’s something almost mythical about DJ Lee Burridge. He’s like the Johnny Appleseed of electronic dance music — a wide-eyed nomad roaming the Earth and planting the seeds of quality sound wherever he goes. Over the years, it’s a journey that’s taken him from the grassy fields of UK raves…
Miami’s not exactly behind the curve when it comes to bass music. After all, we invented booty bass. But we’re no strangers to the UK’s bass exports either. Local crews like BassHead were playing dubstep in Miami when Skrillex was still squeezing his pimples. And now that dubstep has become…
Miami’s So Sound Recordings was among Crossfade’s Five Best Electronic Music Labels in 2011. But what we didn’t point out about DJ-producer Jazzy Eyewear’s beloved imprint was the eclecticism of its catalog. Sure, the label focuses on house and electronica. But there’s also plenty of traditional dance songcraft, from disco…
Laptop DJing and mixing MP3s with the help of a sync button have become the norm in live electronic music. And it’s tragic, given the next-level sonic possibilities offered by instrumentalist virtuosos like Detroit’s Jeremy Ellis. His live performances are the one-man electronic equivalent to seeing a bebop jazz ensemble…
