Best One-Off
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| Body & Soul, Pacha, New York, January 14 | |
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On an unseasonably warm winter night, DJs Joe Clausell, Danny Krivit and Francois K brought their treasured party - which ended its weekly Sunday run at Vinyl New York in March 2004, and has since toured the world as a one-off - to Pacha for the kind of bone-deep dance celebration that could only happen in New York. Every level of the club was full, not only with eager patrons…but with eager patrons dancing. When Krivit dropped Solu Music's delicately beautiful "Fade" and cut the volume at the chorus, thousands sang along - from the dancefloor to the mezzanine to the Funky Room - like it was a pop radio anthem. -KLM |
| F*ck Me I'm Famous, Cameo Miami, March 24 | |
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David Guetta's massive '07 started on this WMC night, which was Studio 54-ian both outside - with a throng blocking the sidewalk and record label presidents pleading with unyielding doormen - and in, with model-quality dancers walking amongst the crowd and magnums of Moet getting delivered to tables with lit sparklers stuffed in their corks. Taking over the decks from Bob Sinclar in Cameo's halved-disco-ball DJ booth, the magnetic Guetta dropped aggressive remixes of his own "Love Don't Let Me Go," Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Otherside" and Fleetwood Mac's "Big Love," with a Junior Vasquez-ian flair. Upstairs, Fatboy Slim and Armand Van Helden threw a worthy bash all their own. -KLM |
| Juicy Beach at Nikki Beach & Pearl Miami, March 22 | |
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This 17-hour outdoor bash headed by Juicy label owner Robbie Rivera drew some 6,000 Winter Music Conference attendees, some of whom had just landed and were still fresh for the line-up, which included Benny Benassi, Gabriel & Dresden, DJ Skribble and Judge Jules. The party peaked around one a.m. when Paul van Dyk popped in. "Richard Vission had just taken the decks. He threw down his own Foo Fighters concoction which made everyone scream for more and then spun into a Salsa track that had every Latino in the house sound off," said one partier. "PVD was no exception: I saw him salsa with all the fans around him." -CM |
| Made Event, P.S. 102 Sunday School for Degenerates at Pawn Shop Miami, March 25 | |
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The second annual minimal meltdown closed off Winter Music Conference week with a…Barbie? The 14-hour marathon started at five a.m., and featured every top-tier tech-like DJ in the world - from Adultnapper to Richie Hawtin to Ellen Allien - either at the decks, or on the floor. "Our focus is to introduce the newest, most cutting-edge artists on the techno scene, just when the buzz is about to happen on them," says Made's Laura De Palma. "It's also important to slot in a few 'heavyweights' who we know will rock it!" Upstarts and legends alike did impromptu shoots in a pink Barbie-branded photo booth, the results of which could end up in a Degenerates calendar some day. |
| Timbaland and DJ AM at Pure, October 26 | |
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He came, he conquered-and then he tucked himself into the loving arms of his entourage, and posted up in VIP. For Best Superclub nominee Pure, the aftermath of Timbaland's performance on its main room stage was almost as important as the performance itself; the buzz it generated pulsed through Vegas' circuitry and beyond for weeks. Still, experiencing the uber-producer rock his uranium-enriched hits like "Sexy Back" live while the crowd raged, er, sang along instead of in a buffed-and-polished music video had its rewards, too. And to think: that was before resident DJ AM manned the decks. -KC |
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