CRSSD Festival has announced its return to Waterfront Park in San Diego, March 5-6, 2022. At what will be the first spring edition of CRSSD since 2020, the beloved festival has once again delivered a diverse lineup highlighting the best in electronic music with a focus on house, techno, and eclectic live acts.
Movement Festival returns for the first time since 2019. Music fans will once again be able to make the pilgrimage to Detroit, the mecca of Techno music, for three days of diverse curation on Memorial Day Weekend (May 28-30, 2022) inside Hart Plaza at downtown Detroitâs riverfront. Todayâs lineup teaser offers an early taste of the breadth of the festivalâs programming, featuring an inspired selection of dance musicâs most in-demand artists, underground mainstays, and notable first-time performers; a potent cross section of seasoned vets and future generations of electronic music.
Two Detroit natives, Jeff Mills and Rafael Leafar team up to create a new album entitled: The Override Switch. The album gives control back to the musicians. Unrestrained and unshackled by the semiotics placed by conventional dance music, it looks to a frontier beyond what is conditioned by genre. By infusing the mercurial elements of jazz, it gives electronic instruments the avenue that it always had the potential to travel down; as an unrestrictive genre, exploring the boundless possibilities in which it is capable. It looks to innovation and transcends what has come before; it is a switch in a practical sense, overlooking its past before switching to the future.
Fresh off his album release on Jeff Millsâ Axis Records, Ocktawian brings three thumping tracks on this latest EP Unpatterns. Spinning vinyl for the better part of two decades the Spanish DJ and producer is known for dropping serious hard-techno, electro to minimal, all over the world. âError Systemsâ starts off with a slamming assault of 909s before delving into a tripped-out sci-fi sound that almost overwhelms the senses.
Let’s take a trip (no, not that kind of trip), but a trip back in time. To a time where raving and partying were a little more magical and a little more illegal (maybe that added to the magic). Go back to a time where whistles and glow sticks reigned supreme not fan clacking. Back to a time where people weren’t taking selfies for the ‘gram. It’s fascinating to see how much has changed throughout the years, but also how much remains the same in rave culture. So here we go, let’s begin the trip back to the past.
It is hard to imagine some of our favorite DJs before they were headlining the main stages at festivals around the world. But they, like all of us, had to work hard and get to where they are. So what did some of these DJs look like before they made the big jump to touring the world? Let’s take a look.
DJ and producer ECILO blends techno, jazz, soul and blues in his latest album unCovert. The 10-track LP joins Jeff Mill’s label Axis Records. ECILO’s influences range from expressive African-American Music (Jazz, Soul, Blues) and the atmospheric resonances of Sci-Fi soundtracks. Read more
Today Jeff Mills releases The Clairvoyant on Axis Records, a 16-track journey in true Wizard fashion. The Clairvoyant represents this time and era, with Mills exploring the metaphysical through the deepest, most emotional Techno in many years.
From a global pandemic to racial strife, 2020 is giving the world major growing pains. The time in isolation has augmented social injustices that in a non-COVID-19 era would probably go unnoticed. Overlooked not because people didn’t care, but because their every day consumes all of their attention. For good or for bad, that’s just how it’s been; however, it’s time things change, right? People, especially younger generations, are mobilizing to help each other and make a difference. So when it comes to DJs and producers, should artists keep silent when it comes to activism?
New York artist Matt Altman has launched ALT Records, his own imprint, with four brooding and introspective tracks. His travels in Peru inspired the debut EP that captures his experiences while visiting the South American country. The Philly-born artist talks about his first encounter with techno and some of his musical influences. Altman also weighs-in on COVID-19’s impact within the newer-artist community and why patience is the biggest challenge yet virtue.
