A seasoned DJ, producer and live performer, Berlin-by-way-of-Vancouver’s Todd Shillington — aka Konrad Black — has roots in drum-and-bass and hip-hop, but he’s best known today as one of the founders (with Mathew Jonson, Graham Boothby and Jesse Fisk) of the international techno and house label Wagon Repair. Early in…
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Opa! One of Denver’s oldest summer celebrations, the Denver Greek Festival allows people from all walks of life to eat, drink and dance like Greeks at least once a year. “This is our 47th year doing the Greek Fest. We’re one of the original ethnic festivals around,” says festival chairman…
Perc (due at NORAD Dance Bar tomorrow night) emerged over the last several years as one of the key figures in the global techno scene by championing an aggressive, atonal and industrial-tinged brand of dance-music via his own production work and through his label, Perc Trax. We recently caught up…
Techno has always been influenced to varying degrees by the aggressive percussion and atonal noise of industrial, a connection readily apparent in the forward-thinking output of London’s Perc (aka Ali Wells). One of the leading producers in techno today, Perc released Wicker & Steel, his debut, last year on his…
It wouldn’t be a stretch to call DVS1 (aka Zak Khutoretsky) the biggest new thing in techno, except for the fact that he’s been deejaying for nearly two decades and promoting underground events in his native Minneapolis for just as long. He made his Denver debut in February of last…
A fixture in Minneapolis’s tightly knit dance-music community, Zak Khutoretsky, who goes by DVS1, has promoted and deejayed at underground events around the Midwest since the mid-’90s. Often forgoing opportunities to tour abroad to promote music he believes in at home, Khutoretsky only recently started to garner national and international…
One of Detroit’s most knowledgeable and respected producers and DJs, Mike Huckaby has been an integral part of that city’s underground dance-music scene for nearly thirty years. Despite being a huge gearhead — his recording studio boasts a mind-boggling array of top-flight digital and analog equipment — Huckaby offers up…
At only 31 years old, filmmaker Ti West has quickly made a name for himself by challenging audience expectations and assumptions about the horror film genre with movies like 2009’s the House of the Devil. His latest film, The Innkeepers (read The Innkeepers movie review), opens Friday at the Denver…
Arguably the biggest DJ ever to come out of Denver, Eric Galaviz aka Hipp-E made his bones promoting and deejaying at some of the earliest raves in Colorado. After leaving his indelible mark on our city, he moved to San Diego in the ’90s, where he became an influential part…
A rite of passage in some Native American cultures, Visionquest is also the name of the breakout record label and DJ collective that became one of the biggest acts in underground dance music last year by combining house and techno with catchy, pop-influenced vocals. The band comprises four Detroit-area natives…
Two key figures in the evolution of Denver’s constantly changing dance-music scene, Little Mike and Crazy Larry are coming home for the holidays — and for the party “Homecoming Queenz,” which they co-headline Saturday at 2200. Little Mike (known to his mother and perhaps a few others as Mike Chapman)…
At Panorama Bar in Berlin, sunrise forms the perfect backdrop for Cassy’s warm, soulful DJ sets. Those early-morning workouts run the gamut from deep and tech-house to straight techno and minimal, and they’ve made Cassy famous within international dance-music circles. She relocated to Berlin after meeting Cadenza Records boss Luciano…
Lee Foss seemingly came out of nowhere to become one of the hottest DJs of the last couple of years. In truth, he came out of Chicago, where a lifelong love of house music — as well as a passion for Detroit techno, ’80s electro and ’90s hip-hop — shaped…
Martin Landsky’s deejaying career stretches back to the early days of rave and Hamburg’s storied Front Club. Landsky (due on Wednesday, November 23, at 2200) frequented Front in the late ’80s and early ’90s, when the legendary Klaus Stockhausen was one of the first German DJs to mix continuously and…
After months of secrecy, Afterhours Anonymous and Mahesh Presents have announced that international megastar Cassy will perform Friday, December 9 at Beta — and at a special, somewhat exclusive after-party. Cassy, listed among the top twenty DJs in the world by Resident Advisor, often holds down at Berlin’s chichi Panorama…
Although Civic Center Eats has ended for the season, some food trucks are still rolling. And from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., they’ll stop at the Morey Middle School basketball court, on 13th Avenue between Emerson and Clarkson streets, for Snack Attack, a benefit for Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods. “We…
With rock-star looks and name recognition to match, Matthew Dear has come a long way since his humble origins in Kingsville, Texas. Taking a liking to Detroit techno after moving to Michigan as a teenager, Dear co-founded the electronic-music label Ghostly International (and its dance-floor-oriented offshoot, Spectral Sound) while enrolled…
Best known for its abundant cornfields and rich basketball tradition, Indiana might not seem the likeliest place for the emergence of a major dance-music talent until you consider the state’s proximity to Chicago and Detroit, the respective birthplaces of house and techno. Troy Pierce grew up in those Indiana cornfields,…
John Templeton is one of a growing number of Colorado-based musicians bringing national and international attention to Denver’s burgeoning electronic music scene. A prolific producer, remixer, DJ and live performer, he’s also the man behind the first annual Great American Techno Festival (GATF), which will coincide with the Great American…
After a brief love affair with house-music icons Derrick Carter and Mark Farina, Berlin-via-Brooklyn’s Camea turned to classic techno labels such as Perlon, Playhouse and Minus, and those sounds quickly became a big part of her deejaying repertoire. Her distinct techno-house hybrid — not tech-house in the strictest sense, though…
The “final girl” — one of horror film’s best-known genre conventions — is the virginal and ostensibly pure heroine who either kills the monster, or at least lives to see the end of the movie. Some scholars, including Carol J. Clover (in her book, Men, Women and Chainsaws: Gender in…
