elektro presents Nima Yamini, Mess Kid & Ille Sat January 26th at The Aksel Loft
On Saturday, January 26th, Elektro will be sponsoring an event presented by Avenue A Soundcheck at The Aksel Loft (3rd floor at 52 Walker Street in TriBeca, New York City). The event runs from 10PM to 4AM, and will feature live mixes from some very talented DJs. Included in the lineup for this event is [...]
Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival Reviewed
Two weeks ago, Hurricane Sandy caused the city that never sleeps to almost completely shut down. All subways closed, power was gone: the city was in crisis. The power came back on Saturday, but the city was slow to recover. Partway through the week, with subways still in partial service, many wondered how this would [...]
Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival November 9th & 10th Schedule
This weekend marks the fifth annual Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival, a two night celebration of dance music. Taking place this weekend, November 9th and 10th, this multi-night, multi-venue event in the heart of WIlliamsburgh will present two nights filled with music, culture, and fun. This year’s installment should make for its best one yet, as [...]
Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival November 9th & 10th
In case Electric Zoo wasn’t enough to give EDM junkies their musical fix, Mean Red Productions is here to bring us the 5th Annual Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival. Known as BEMF for short, the festival will take place November 9 and 10 (great news for locals who can’t make the trip to EDC in Orlando) [...]
HARD Summer Recap
Ultimately, it was all about the dancing, and perhaps LA dub DJ favorite Gaslamp Killer put it best during his standout Saturday night set when he advised the crowd that, “If you aren’t moving right now, you’re f*cking dead.” They were moving. It was essentially impossible not to for the 35 hours that was HARD [...]
Elektro Exclusive Q&A: Brooklyn zip ‘codes’ inspire edm
Who is Codes? I’m a DJ/Producer from New York. I enjoy making music and turning parties out. Where did the name Codes come from? My real name is Cody so Codes was just a nickname that I have always had. Tell us about the Brooklyn music scene? The Brooklyn music scene is very diverse. I’ve [...]
Brooklyn’s Got The Beat: Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival 2011 Recap
GQ just declared Brooklyn the “coolest city on the planet”. Since electronic dance music is the coolest music on the planet, the claim rings true. One of the hippest places be in New York last weekend was not behind some velvet rope in Manhattan. Many of the most respected names in the dance music biz [...]
It Happened This Weekend: National Edition
We went. We saw. We danced, and we resurfaced on Sunday morning with our ears still ringing. Chicago, IL: Skrillex @ The Congress Nadastrom, 12th Planet and Two Fresh warmed up the Midwestern crowd before dubstep’s boy wonder went next level on the power of his ridiculously impressive Skrillex Cell visual show. Chicago’s Congress Theatre [...]
Preview: Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival
elektro will be hopping on the L train to go on location this weekend at The Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival, now in its fourth year. The multi-venue event in the heart of Williamsburg features over 40 artists, a curated food truck lot, street art, installations and much more. Some of the artists elektro is looking [...]
Here Come The Zombies: Eclectic Method Scares Us Silly
Electronic Dance Music has officially turned into a full-on fright fest. The dubstep-ish original tune by Eclectic Method is now on sale for download, and the classic EM-style video remix features just about every Zombie flick imaginable. Two upcoming shows from EM below! Tue Nov 8th – LOS ANGELES @ Dim Mak Studios , w / Lazy [...]
