Though there’s no clear moment that marks precisely when electronic music exploded, Sunrise electronic festival co-promoter Robert Mine really started to see things shake up in 2010, right around the time he and his partner, Santi Torrecilla, started booking large electronic events in San Jose.
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Mike Park, owner of Asian Man Records, has done his fair of touring over the last 25 years, whether it was with local ska-punk legends Skankin’ Pickle, the Chinkees, the B. Lee Band or with his solo material. He takes and interesting detour with his latest project: touring with popular children’s act…
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Maureen Coulter on February 5, 2013
Jeff Abel has jumped into dubstep like a masked bandit, brandishing heavy-metal weapons and leaving chaos and broken speakers in his wake. While the genre is known for rumbling basslines and lots of head tossing among its fans, the DJ and producer known as Excision lets the listener tap into their inner…
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While masses of shoppers were pillaging local shopping malls, gangs of drug-crazed kids stripped down to candy bracelets and funny masks—at least that’s what mainstream media would like you to think—for an EDM Massive at San Jose Civic Auditorium. The party was, in fact, pretty typical for big DJ events these days,…
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It’s official: Electronic Dance Music is mainstream. From the Grammy-nabbing, high-grossing wobble fests of Skrillex to the schizophrenic hip-hop hooks of Diplo to the surging house beats of David Guetta, EDM has expanded far beyond teenagers gnawing flashing binkys in a crumbling warehouse in an old shipyard.
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