NocturnOwl: Old School Salute @ The Jet Hotel
Greg Bloom's not the boss of me now. But he used to be. For the better part of a decade, Bloom published a pocket-sized Denver entertainment guide called Imag...
DJ Hero
Knob Twiddlin’: Denver’s Joman remixes deadmau5
If you want to be wildly successful with dance music, you've got to pick a helmet. After all, it worked for Daft Punk. It worked for deadmau5. It could work f...
Hindsight: deadmau5 @ The Fillmore
A light show like no other (img: Britain Anne)
Joel Zimmerman went from zero to DJ Hero in record time. Live Nation doesn't even know how to spell his alias...
NocturnOwl: deadmau5
DJ Hero Deadmau5 Oct 6-7 @ The Fillmore
Deadmau5's career is alive and well. D.C.-area heads must've wondered if his alias was a self-fulfilling p...
Movin’ Units: Velcro City Records
Jason Schlosky has long had a thing for hooks and loops. Velcro City Records, the dance music label he founded with DJ Hero (no relation to the video game of the same name), benefits from nostalgia value associated with the patented “zipperless zipper†system invented by Swiss engineer George de Mestral. Hooks and loops, an idea de Mestral ganked from Mother Nature (burdock burrs, specifically), are the functional foundation for the popular textile technology. They play a similarly essential role in the creation of electronic music. Where would techno and its related electronica genres be without hooks and loops?...