photo by Jipsy / Nefariousgirl.comTim 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…
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…
photo by Logan FazioTo 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…
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…
Hot damn, did all the hipsters come out of the woodwork for the Glass Candy show last Friday night at the Vagabond! I’ve never seen such a massive turnout for what is still a considerably obscure band, and at a venue that normally caters to a smaller indie cognoscenti crowd…
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…
Photo by Michael MaryanoffGlass 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…
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…
Canadian-born producer Mathew Jonson is one of the more virtuosic and boldly innovative figures of contemporary techno. Boasting a masterful and nuanced command of electronic studio production, early breakthrough tracks like “Decompression”, released on Richie Hawtin’s Minus label, earned Jonson worldwide acclaim as a producer in the early 2000s, when…
In the ongoing spirit of philanthropy that seems to have taken over Miami’s dance music scene (with recent charitable events like “The Vagabond for a Cause” with John Digweed and “Dance for a Cause” featuring Chris Fortier at Electric Pickle) Technique Miami presents “Get Funk’d Up” at Soho Studios on…
Marjorie Migliaccio, a.k.a. Bloody Mary, is Berlin techno’s newest femme fatale. The French-born DJ/producer first signed to Sender Records in 2006, and after three years of hard work, staking her place in the European underground dance scene, she is now touring the globe in support of her 2009 release of…
DJ/producer Tim Green is on fire right now. The young London prodigy has enjoyed a meteoric ascension from bedroom producer to internationally-acclaimed artist since 2006, when his funked-up banging techno productions began to garner the attention and praise of top industry players like Pete Tong, Ritchie Hawtin, John Digweed, and…
The Techno Loft at Space has very quickly become Miami’s premier venue for the slickest big room international techno, and this summer alone has seen stellar performances by the likes of Steve Bug, Camea, and Adultnapper. Saturday, August 29 brings Minus label legends Magda and Troy Pierce, two of the…
By all accounts the last soirée at The Bunker on August 1st was an exceptionally groovy affair, due in no small part to a killer lineup featuring No Regular Play, Old Wives’ Tale and Melting Mandarin, along with the sleek minimal sounds of PL0T residents Basti and Mansur. The Bunker…
A last minute heads up to the house music fiends: Jazzy Eyewear, Miami’s best kept secret and pretty much our most talented local proponent of classic Chicago-style funky house will be spinning at the Electric Pickle tonight. Fabian Giannattasio a.k.a. Jazzy Eyewear is an Argentinian transplant who migrated to the…
