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Joshua Glazer

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Joshua Glazer is a writer, editor and DJ living la vida loca in Los Angeles. A life-long music fan who started writing about dance music in the late-'90s, Josh worked his way up from flier boy to nightclub promoter at Detroit's legendary techno spot, Motor. He began writing about is late night adventures and eventually relocated to Los Angeles to be an editor of URB Magazine, one of America's premier music and lifestyle publications.

After years spent on the dance floor, Josh finally took to the DJ booth himself, starting his professional DJ career with a residency at Hollywood's infamous Loose Tooth parties with Steve Aoki and Franki Chan. He still DJs today, on his own and as part of DJ duo Mid City West. at some of the city's favorite spots, including The Standard Hotel and Temporary Spaces, and has performed across the country—including New York, Miami, Austin, San Francisco and Chicago.

Josh wakes up early and stays out late, acting as Editor-In-Chief of URB's website and specialty publications while also contributing to LA Weekly, Shockhound.com, iTunes and Travel Wire. He'll sometimes tweet a good party at www.twitter.com/joshuaglazer

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Dec20

Deadmau5, Guetta, Tiesto To Headline Ultra Music Fest

Ultra Music Festival has announced the initial batch of performers for their annual dance music bachannal in Miami, including easily the three biggest names in dance music—Deadmau5, David Guetta, Tiësto—to headline the event’s first three-day party. Also on the bill are global dance faves The Chemical Brothers, Benny Benassi and Sander Kleinenberg (performing an unusual live set). But beyond these mainstream mainstays, the bill is packed with popular American electro icons (MSTRKRFT, Steve Aoki, Wolfgang Gartner), crossover indie dance stars (Chromeo, !!!, Empire of the Sun, Cut Copy, Klaxons, CSS, Crystal Castles), European techno legends (Laurent Garnier, Carl Cox, Gui Boratto) and dozens of other top acts from Afrojack to, er, Afrobeta. …MORE

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Dec19

Chicago House Legend Paul Johnson Serious Injured

We’re sorry to report that Chicago house legend Paul Johnson has suffered a severe accident. According to Johnson’s Facebook status, the producer responsible for over 100 classic tracks and remixes, including his hit single “Get Get Down” faces major surgery:

Due to a tragic accident Paul Johnson is in the hospital with a broken hip and spine and is now awaiting surgery Tuesday to have his right leg also amputated. Hopefully after a few months of rehab Paul will want to return to the music industry, truthfully from his mouth to mine “Fuck the World” is how he feels. …MORE

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Dec17

Dirtbombs Cover Detroit Techno Classic “Sharevari” (Video)

Here’s a little more Detroit techno getting a new makeover for the holidays. A number of Name’s “Sharevari” has been called the first Detroit techno record, pre-dating Cybotron’s “Clear” by a good two years. The tune was custom made for the local Detroit dance party scene, which fancied itself as an urban version of the mainly imaginary European club scene—all Morodoer-inspired glitz and glamour.

Detroit garage rockers The Dirtbombs cover this synthesizer classic in their own expectedly scuzzy way. And the video even pays tribute to Detroit cult classic TV broadcast “The Scene,” which clued in a whole generation of Motown’s ’80s babies to what was happening in the city after dark.

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Dec17

Moby Remixes Plastikman – “Krakpot” (MP3)

For the first taste of something off the upcoming Arkives boxset, Richie Hawtin tapped fellow ’90s hairless techno traveller Moby to remix the classic Plastikman tune, “Krakpot.” The still-bald one takes the 1993 rave burner and gives it a lighter proto-techno touch, with analog synth tones like something out of the Moog Cookbook. If this is what the Replicants segement of Arkives has in store, we just came a step closer to laying down the scrilla.

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Dec16

Matthew Herbert Sings! “Dublin” (Video)

There comes a time in seemingly every electronic musicproducers life when the crossover appeal of song-based “pop” comes calling, and all those years behind the turntables and laptop suddenly make stepping up to the mic a reasonable proposition. Some make this transition successfully (Matthew Dear, Jamie Lidell) while others soon retreat back to the safety of samplers and drum machines.

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