Best of BPM: Our favorite live sets from the marathon Mexican festival
If you're anything like us, you probably spent much of the last ten days avoiding social media for fear of mention of BPM, an event quickly becoming dance music's greatest amalgamation of (largely deep house and techno) talent at once.
Watch BPM Festival live stream through January 13th
Thanks to our friends over at Be-At.TV, you can spend an entire masochistic week watching and listening along to the live streams from all times of day at the BPM Festival going on right now through January 13th in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. You can explore the site directly, or check out schedules on BPM's Facebook page. Dubfire's Sci + Tec, Toolroom, Loco Dice and Martin Buttrich's Desolat, Sasha's Never Say Never, and Guy Gerber's This Is The End are just a few of the parties you'll have to drool over in coming days.
Richie Hawtin, Loco Dice, tINI bring Cntrl EDM tour to New York’s Webster Hall
Richie Hawtin and Loco Dice are considered to be some of the most prolific and forward-thinking DJs of our time. This fall, they embarked on a North American tour stopping at college campuses to lecture by day, and music venues to DJ by night. Read on to see how electronic music's veterans and newcomers shared the same dance floor at New York’s Webster Hall.
Where My Head’s At: Marco Carola makes minds bend with unforgettable, indescribable Electric Zoo 2012 set
You'll come across a lot of different experiences in your career as an electronic music enthusiast, but anyone dying to break away from the main stage acts and try something different should definitely see a DJ set by Marco Carola. It wasn't about fitting in as many of the current hits into one set, whether they be remixed or bootlegged or reworked or whatever it is that DJs do these days. It was about offering an unparalleled dance experience, one that you had no control over and could get completely and unconditionally lost in.