Belgian producer Jona debuted in 2006 with his release of “The Learnings” EP on the prestigious Get Physical imprint and is one of the most promising young talents of the European techno scene. Originally a virtuosic guitarist with jazz/blues inclinations and a big fan of Brian Eno, he combines technical…
Adultnapper is the shadowy alter ego of Brooklyn-based DJ/producer Francis Harris, a philosophy PhD drop‐out, former political activist/hardcore punk rocker, and one of the darker iconoclastic figures of contemporary techno. For a man who once admitted to having originally hated dance music, Harris has emerged in the late 2000s as…
Are you sick of the old tried-and-true musical formula for your Friday night carousing? If you usually go out clubbing in South Beach and you still have any semblance of distinction and personal taste left after sustained Top 40 self-abuse, you’ve gotta be eager for a change of pace. Or…
DJ Nova, a.k.a. Nelson Fernandez, is a Venezuelan transplant and pivotal figure of Miami’s underground EDM scene since the early ’90s. With a lifelong commitment to his craft, Nova’s DJ career has taken him from Miami’s myriad local clubs and venues to bookings all over the U.S. and Latin America,…
The PL0T folks are doing it again this Friday night with a double booking of DJ sets by Seth Troxler and Lee Curtiss at the Electric Pickle. Troxler and Curtiss are part of a new generation of young Detroit-bred DJ/producers who took their underground dance music sensibilities across the Atlantic…
I can pretty much blame Steve Bug for how I first acquired a taste for minimal. I didn’t always get minimal –I used to have a hard time grasping its tedious repetitiveness, the absence of real melody and conventional song structure. Then a couple years ago I heard a compilation…
Have you ever had one of those nights when you just wanna stay home and chill on the couch, but you don’t wanna miss out on all the action at the club? Well now there is a way you can have your cake and eat it too! Web TV channel’s…
For those of you still aching for some ich bin Berliner tech grooves after Phonique’s stellar set last week, Format: B will be in town and throwing down an exclusive live PA at the Electric Pickle on Friday night. This dynamic production duo from (where else?) Berlin have been making…
DJ Desyn Masiello is a true child of the British house movement. Born and raised in London, he experienced the acid house explosion first-hand as a teenager and was schooled in the UK’s diverse subcultural sounds, hopping from Balearic parties to the outdoor traveler raves of the early 1990s, and…
Deep house is making a comeback in the world of electronic dance music. Much of the deep revival is happening in Germany, and especially in Berlin, a city that epitomizes the world’s most cutting-edge dance music and where producers like Phonique are keeping it real soulful.With roots in the ’90s…
We live in a world of technologically enabled hyperreality, where video games like Guitar Hero and Wii Fit can make simulated rock stars and Olympians out of the talentless unskilled sad sacks of the planet. So it should come as no surprise that the DJ experience is also now available…
The Electric Pickle is poised to delight downtown’s techno cognoscenti again this Friday night with a special DJ set by acclaimed DJ/Producer Alexi Delano. Chilean-born Delano spent his formative years in Sweden where he was part of the first wave of notable Swedish EDM producers in the mid-’90s. He has…
A heads up to Miami’s techno lovers: Pornograph Events has one hell of a double booking lined up for June, with legends Derrick May and François K scheduled to play Nocturnal’s Eden Terrace Garden on Saturday, June 20. For those of you born yesterday, Derrick May is one of Detroit’s…
It seems like the world can’t shut up about Twitter lately. The micro-blogging network has exploded to over 25 million users already, what with celebrities like Oprah joining along with their mindless minion hordes. But beyond providing us with the irritating mundanities of our friends’ day to day lives, it…
Retox Wednesdays at Feelgood’s (formerly Blue) is hosted every week by DJs Inbal and Baby Sean, and showcases house music talent from Miami and beyond. Tonight they present a special guest set by NYC producer Scott Wozniak, a veteran session player and prolific industry figure who has worked in the…
The Soultech folks will be celebrating their one – year anniversary this Wednesday night at Skybar with a special performance by Argy. Greek-born Argyris Theofilis was born only in 1985, if you can believe it — pretty much around the same time that his precursors were pioneering the first sounds…
A coalition of Miami’s local techno talent can be found this Saturday night playing under one roof at the grand opening of the new weekly Techno Loft party at Space. This opening will double as a CD release party for local producer Simon Wish’s new “Road To Berlin” record on…
Local DJ Jason Baez has been a fixture of Miami’s underground techno scene since he first began spinning on SoBe’s The Womb internet radio in 2005. He has since played in support of numerous techno parties around town, including a set at this year’s Saw Recordings & Oslo Records 9th…
NYC DJ/producer Harry “Choo Choo” Romero has gained renown since the mid-1990s with releases on various house labels -including Erick Morillo’s Subliminal Records- and a reputation for funky uplifting club sets that blend soulful house, US garage, and Latin rhythms. Among various side projects and collaborations, his original production work…
DJ Lopera, part of Miami’s expat Colombian techno mafia, first got exposed to electronic dance music as a student in Germany, which makes it no surprise that he’s a great proponent of the minimal sound. Having gained massive popularity in the early 2000’s as a resident DJ in some of…
Ft. Lauderdale-based record label Teggno has announced the release of its first artist compilation this month. Teggno was founded in 2007 by Lance Blaise a.k.a. Tattoo Detectives with the goal of putting out “quality techno music for the 21st century” and has so far gained support from some of the…
Frankie Knuckles is hardly a man who needs introduction. The legendary DJ/producer is a pivotal figure in the history of house music, having begun his stellar career alongside Larry Levan in NYC and as resident DJ at the Warehouse in ’70s Chicago, back when house music was still an experimental…
