Beyond her success as a DJ and producer for esteemed house label Crosstown Rebels (which includes artists like Glimpse, Damian Lazarus, Art Department and Jamie Jones), Deniz Kurtel is an audio-visual artist of considerable breadth. An accomplished interactive sculptor, Deniz has made a name for herself in the experimental art scene combining the use of […]

Kenneth James Gibson is one of Los Angeles’ most prolific house producers. Guy has more production aliases than you can shake a stick at, including Premature Wig, dubLoner, Reverse Commuter, Eight Frozen Modules and [a]ppendics.shuffle, and his work has graced some of the top labels in dance music today. Hallucination, Adjunct, Leftroom, Superfreq, Trapez and […]

If you’ve been to any house club in the past couple years worth a damn then chances are you’ve boogied down to Soul Clap. Elyte (Eli Goldstein) and Cnyce (Charles Levine) first came together under the tutelage of seminal Boston Jedi DJ Caril Mitro of the late Vinyl Connection records (RIP), who taught his young […]

We’re not the biggest fans of super clubs here at LIAS, preferring to get our drink on at cheaper more intimate spots, but there’s still something to be said about seeing a DJ tear up a dancefloor packed full with thousands of bodies via bad ass soundsystem. One such night that’s been holding it down […]

Get Physical, one of our favorite Berlin labels (there are, admittedly, several), is celebrating its seventh year of existence this past summer. The guys have perfected a tech-house sound that, as their label name, suggests, is aimed squarely at the dancefloor. Acts like Booka Shade and M.A.N.D.Y. have become headliners at festivals across the world, […]

words by Boojie Baker // photos by Chris Soltis It’s hard to convey the impact that listening to techno music at Detroit’s Movement Festival can have. This year I witnessed 10,000 plus people going totally bananas to Luciano and Loco Dice — crowd surfing, rock concert hyena antics. Night had fallen in Downtown Detroit, GM’s […]