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Festival Window: Global Locals
Gallons of ink have been spilled by music writers trying to capture a fraction of the massive natural…
Festival Window: Global Dance
Joe Biden despises Ecstasy. In the wake of New Orleans promoter Disco Donnie’s 2000 indictment under the “crack…
Dance Floorgasm: Wicked Reunion Tour @ Beauty Bar & Cluster Studios
Disco never actually died. It just evolved into house music. Which is why house hero Garth’s debut drop…
Festival Window: Communikey
Vinyl may still be the music format of choice for audiophiles and collectors, but the turntables that play…
Road Trippin’: Beyond Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland is one of the most colorful tales ever conjured. California-based Insomniac, America’s single largest dance…
Beat Diet: Eskmo
Beatmakers with competent pipes are tough to come by. Bjork, Jamie Lidell and Denver’s Joman are a few…
Holidaze: 303 Housewarming @ Cluster Studios
Orange peel will never be white collar. Yes, I refer to my alter-ego in the third person sometimes.…
Oral vs. Aural: Flosstradamus
Dance music has long been a scapegoat for drug use. After all, why would anyone in their right…
Festival Window: Savoy
Aurally, Boulder-based Savoy could pass for an adept electro DJ deftly blending others' cuts together. The truth? Savoy is erecting all their bangers from scratch—barring a few borrowed samples—and discharging them live via three-piece PA. It's a savvy formula that's caught on like the brush fire that destroyed a portion of my southeast plains hometown. Destruction is definitely an ingredient in Savoy's live recipe, where decimating decibels keep attendees in a perpetually perspiring frenzy.
DJ IQ: Denver’s Kostas boasts Global Dance anthem
Kostas Kouremenous has been searching The Mile High City high and low for the perfect set of pipes. Kostas isn't a plumber, though, he's a producer—a DJ and dance music producer, to be exact. Although he's had his fingers in many different Denver pots over the years—a shoe store, a modeling agency and a number of nightclubs now (Amsterdam, Pure, Lotus, DC10, Zen)--partnering with Triad Dragons' Ha Hau on Global Dance Festival at Red Rocks was his single most in-the-black business decision to date.
Festival Window: Winter Music Conference
Winter Music Conference may seem like a misnomer to many, due to its Sunshine State stomping grounds, but Colorado Conference goers were nearly cock blocked by Old Man Winter for the second year in a row. Denver was blanketed in a solid foot of snow when I left; Miami's umpteenth annual mixologist mixer was on fire when I arrived. Beat dieters from around the world rendezvoused en masse for seven days in heaven. Superstar DJs were in abundant supply. Supermodels came out of the woodwork. And dancefloors were demolished left and right.