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Dirtybird NYE at Grand Central Miami: Claude VonStroke, Justin Martin, J. Phlip, Kill Frenzy
December 28, 2012 in Crossfade
Dirtybird's Justin Martin. Bass, bass and more fucking bass. If your main erogenous zone is that spot in your solar plexus that gets pummeled by low-end sonic frequencies, inciting your gluteus maximus...
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King Britt: "I Just Do What I Love, I Don't Care About Trends"
December 27, 2012 in Crossfade
By now, there's not much King Britt hasn't done musically in a career spanning almost three decades. As one of Philadelphia's electronic dance music pioneers, Britt enjoyed massive commercial success...
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Danny Daze's Top Five Miami Jams of All Time
December 21, 2012 in Crossfade
DJ-producer Danny Daze is an international player now, zigzagging around the global party circuit and throwing down at all the hotspots from Los Angeles to Ibiza to Melbourne. But for Danny,...
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Acid Pauli on His Top Five Jams and New Crosstown Rebels Get Lost V Compilation
December 20, 2012 in Crossfade
Damian Lazarus' Crosstown Rebels is a world-class dance music institution by now -- a regular shoo-in for best international label on yearly polls like Resident Advisor's, and a permanent presence...
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Till Von Sein Talks Deep House, Globetrotting, and New Album on Suol Label
December 19, 2012 in Crossfade
There's a veritable tsunami of electronic dance music coming out of Berlin. After all, it's the techno capital of the world. But amid this overwhelming wave of white noise, one of...
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Ryan Crosson Talks Visionquest and New Album With Cesar Merveille
December 14, 2012 in Crossfade
Ryan Crosson.The commercial success enjoyed by Visionquest since the label's 2011 inception might be a testament to how much the mainstream EDM industry underestimates people's taste in music. The notion that...
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Jimpster Talks Breakdancing, UK Rave, and Freerange Records
December 13, 2012 in Crossfade
The deep house genre label gets stamped on releases a little too liberally these days by producers and imprints jumping aboard the bandwagon of its current commercial popularity. But so many...
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Punisher: "People Telling Me I Couldn't Be a DJ Gave Me the Motivation I Needed"
December 12, 2012 in Crossfade
A dark juggernaut of destruction is about to be unleashed upon the city of Miami. And we don't mean the Mayan apocalypse. No, we're referring to the unforgiving hard-hitting beats...
Dubfire Talks Deep Dish Retrospective, SCI+TEC Label, and Future of EDM
December 07, 2012 in Crossfade
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Ben UFO on Dubstep: "Now It's a Huge Global Movement, I No Longer Feel a Part of It"
December 05, 2012 in Crossfade
Circa 2007, an obscure underground UK sound called dubstep erupted like a volcano. And it left behind a crater flooded with the molten elements of bass music that have since...
Miami's Jonny Cruz Talks Drum 'n' Bass, My Favorite Robot, His New Label, and Basel Week
December 05, 2012 in Crossfade
DJ Tennis Talks Dark Pop and Basel Life and Death Label Showcase
December 04, 2012 in Crossfade
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Soul Clap on New Label, Basel Launch Party: "Soul Clap Records Is the Next Logical Step"
December 03, 2012 in Crossfade
Soul Clap loves Miami. And we can't lie -- we love them right back. These past couple years, the Bostonian boogie specialists have made the 305 their home, and they...
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Nicolas Jaar on Art Basel Miami Beach Show: "I Might Just Play 'Mi Mujer' for Three Hours"
November 27, 2012 in Crossfade
If Nicolas Jaar has been pigeonholed as a dance music producer, it's primarily because his auspicious first releases were put out by NYC deep house label Wolf + Lamb. Admittedly,...
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Cajmere Talks Drug-Induced Religious Conversion: "Somebody Spiked My Drink, I Prayed to God to Spare My Life"
November 24, 2012 in Crossfade
If house and techno are the roots of EDM, then few artists have been more enduring exponents than Chicago DJ-producer Curtis Jones, AKA Cajmere, AKA Green Velvet. That's because Curtis...
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Murk's Oscar G and Ralph Falcon on Their Top Five Miami House Bombs
November 23, 2012 in Crossfade
Earlier this summer, we here at Crossfade included Murk in our list of the 50 Best Miami Bands of All Time. And with good reason. The production power duo of...
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Dan Ghenacia on French EDM and American Scene: "Miami's in Top Three Cities in U.S.A."
November 22, 2012 in Crossfade
Parisian DJ-production threesome Apollonia borrowed its name from Prince's '80s backup group Apollonia 6. It's a nod to that raunchy Minneapolis funk sound, which the trio has infused with European...
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Ten Best EDM Parties During Art Basel Miami Beach 2012
November 20, 2012 in Crossfade
Seth TroxlerArt Basel Miami Beach ... For wealthy locals and jetsetters, it's a chance to shop for additions to their already extravagant art collections and attend velvet-rope receptions in chic...
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Martinez Brothers: "We Hope EDM Gets More Popular and More Kids Get Into It"
November 16, 2012 in Crossfade
Disc jockeys are the new rock stars. Hence, many a teen dreams of being a superstar DJ. Well, that dream happened to come true for brothers Chris and Steve Martinez...
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Azari & III: "They Say We Brought House Back, But It Never Went Anywhere"
November 13, 2012 in Crossfade
Toronto electronic dance music outfit Azari & III reek so much of style that it's disgusting. Pure unadulterated chic wafts off flamboyant vocalist-frontmen Fritz Helder and Starving Yet Full. And it...
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Morgan Geist on the Retro House Revival:"90 Percent of It Is Completely Boring"
November 06, 2012 in Crossfade
DJ-producer Morgan Geist has no special qualms about you calling his sound retro. After all, his work as Metro Area with Darshan Jesrani boasts unmistakable strains of vintage disco, P-Funk,...
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Paul Woolford: "The Problem With So Much Dance Music, It's a 'Product' to Drive Someone's Social Networking Thing"
November 02, 2012 in Crossfade
Bobby Peru. Special Request. Hip Therapist. Wooly. Those are just a few of the guises that UK DJ-producer Paul Woolfoord has assumed over the years. And his sound is just...
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Steve Bug on EDM: "I Don't Care About Trends, They're Over in a Minute Anyway"
November 01, 2012 in Crossfade
You'd be hard-pressed to find a greater authority on house and techno -- and the area where these two EDM genres overlap -- than Steve Bug. As head honcho of...
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James Teej Talks My Favorite Robot, the Toronto Scene, and His New Solo Album
October 26, 2012 in Crossfade
It's been a hell of a year for James Teej. The Toronto-based producer has been busy burning up international dance floors as one-third of My Favorite Robot, while curating some...
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Poolside on EDM, the Los Angeles Scene, Pacific Standard Time, and Fine Wine
October 25, 2012 in Crossfade
Photo by Dustin A. BeattyPerhaps not since the Beach Boys has a musical act been as evocative of Southern California as Los Angeles production duo Poolside. The title of the pair's...
