Photo by Tony Inacio

​The air was thick with love (or at least lust) at Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week's pool parties.

Apparently, scantily-clad people deep into intoxicating substances tend to attract each other like horny human magnets.

Nowhere else on Earth is there such a shit-ton of popular music, spectacular pools, and babes of both sexes as Miami during WMC and MMW.

From megaparties at the Surfcomber Hotel to private get-togethers at Star Island homes, people all over the city were hooking up.
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​There's house concerts. Then there's Deadmau5.

As one of the closing events to the week-long spectacle known as Winter Music Confererence and Miami Music Week, tickets at the door for Deadmau5's gig ran $150.

But that didn't stop thousands of house music junkies from packing Amnesia Miami's dancefloor and VIP areas to the brim as the King Rat took the stage around 1:40 a.m.

If, however, you were expecting to hear pop hits like Rihanna's "We Found Love" and David Guetta's "Titanium," which played all over the place all week long, you'd have been sadly disappointed.

And if you wanted to hear Mr. Mau5 call Madonna "a fucking idiot," you were gonna have to wait till Monday morning.
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Swedish House Mafia's Sebastian Ingrosso, Axwell, and Steve Angello.

​Check out Crossfade's 76-photo recap from day one of Swedish House Mafia's Masquerade Motel Miami 2012.

Relocating from last year's tent on the beach, Swedish House Mafia's Masquerade Motel enjoyed two very successful nights at Dowtown Miami's recently completed Grand Central Park.

Opening for SHM on both nights were Calvn Harris, No_ID, and Alesso. On Friday, special guests Thomas Gold and Otto Knows graced the stage while Saturday it was AN21 and Third Party.
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​​All week, Grand Central's been home to some kickass Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week parties.

On Wednesday, there was Hard Miami and Mad Decent's Moombahton Massive. The next night, you had Hard's Main Event with Busy P and Boys Noize. And Saturday night featuring the Fool's Gold family wasn't any less intense.

Label master A-Trak definitely knows how to throw a banger and it was an evening full of surprise guests, free giveaways, and killer tracks.
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Buy the cheese and meet the Mau5 at Amnesia tonight.

​Check out Crossfade's daily WMC and MMW party guide -- plus the fifteen best parties.

The King Rat says, "This is The End."

In less than 24 hours, Winter Music Conference, Miami Music Week, and Ultra Music Festival will be over.

The clubs will close. The uhntz-uhntz will fade. The sticks will cease to glow. And 150,000 ravers, ragers, beat freaks, pro DJs, and professional party people will flee South Florida like EDM-addled rats, scrambling aboard planes, trains, automobiles, and even Skrillex's spaceship to seek out their next, awesomely ecstatic taste of that electronic cheese in places like L.A., Ibiza, and Vegas.

But until The End actually arrives, it's still fucking party time. So see the cut for today's top WMC and MMW throwdowns.
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Get grabbed like Bob Sinclar at WMC and MMW.

​Check out today's top WMC and MMW parties -- plus Crossfade's fifteen best parties.

Honestly, if you're gonna survive 96 hours of Winter Music Conference, Miami Music Week, and Ultra Music Festival, then your emergency EDM supply kit will need to include a gas mask, goggles, a bikini and/or banana hammock, nighttime shades, and enough pep pills to keep your beat-freaking ass from falling asleep for the next seven days.

But you'll also need a party plan. Without a close, comprehensive accounting of all your raging and raving options, WMC/MMW/Ultra week could leave you emotionally crippled and physically crushed.

So see the cut for a daily club party guide to Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week.
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All photos by Jacob Katel

There was even a free peep show.

​Masquerade Motel Miami
Grand Central Park
Friday, March 23, 2012

Better Than: Rollin' balls inside a Vicks vapor room with a stolen subwoofer.

Swedish House Mafia's Masquerade Motel sent so much bass rumbling through Grand Central Park that you could feel it from your toes to your fingers and nose.

It was heavy. It was loud. And it banged harder than an orgy.
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Suck an ice cream cone by the pool with Norman Doray and Pacha Ibiza.

​Check out Crossfade's daily party guide -- plus WMC and MMW's fifteen best parties.

Good morning, beat freak.

Over the last seven days, you've gotten down with a genderqueer rapper in Overtown, raged at each and every free fucking party on the sked (not to mention WMC and MMW's fifteen best club bashes), and hit the Skrillex mosh pit at Ultra Music Festival.

You've moombahed with Mad Decent. You've traded bottle service for beer at Pyramid Club. You've gobbled BBQ with Dirtybird. And you've even met a Man-Machine named Kraftwerk.

Still, there's 36 hours left till this week-long rave is officially over. So drag yourself outta that gutter, choked down some Special K (not the breakfast cereal), and check out today's top Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week parties.
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Busy P goin' Hard at Grand Central.

​Check out Crossfade's full 45-photo slideshow of Hard Miami Day Two at Grand Central -- plus the review of Hard Miami and Mad Decent's Moombahton Massive.

Hard Miami 2012
With Boys Noize, Busy P, Brodinski and others
Grand Central, Miami
Thursday, March 22, 2012

Better Than: Admitting the hard electro era of 2007 ever ended.

What's the only thing that can top a night full of the best moombahton DJs the world has to offer? A night full of motherfucking Ed Banger DJs. Duh.
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​When you're Tiësto, a 43-year-old superproducer who's accomplished, like, everything ... How do you even drag your ass outta bed in the beat-freaking morning and then uhntz-uhntz off to work?

Honestly, if we here at Crossfade had won DJ Mag's Top 100 Popularity Poll three times and then gotten named the Greatest DJ of All Time before finally scoring much-deserved, career-affirming recognition as the Led Zepplin of EDM, we'd probably just retire to a life of sleeping in our kazillion-dollar SoBe condo and partying with Swedish House Mafia aboard the Tiësto jet.

But just try to ask this legendary Dutch disc jockey about quitting the EDM game. And all he'll say is "I love performing at Ultra and all those big parties. So why would I quit?"
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