DJ Profiles
Nightlife
Hometown Hit Makers
The genesis of Billboard chart-topper ‘Oh Mama Hey’ by Chris Cox, DJ Frankie and Crystal Waters
February 28th, 2013
Step one: Get a New York-house groove. Step two: Add a dance-music diva. Step three: Top the Billboard charts! Sure, it’s not that simple, but Grammy-nominated DJ/producer Chris Cox has been making the tracks that keep dance floors moving since the days we thought Milli Vanilli were still “really good singers.” Read more »
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Meow’s the Time
DJ/producer Dillon Francis on bottle rats and kitty cats
February 21st, 2013
Sometimes taking music seriously is good. But making an impact on music while having a great sense of humor about the industry is even better. Take Dillon Francis for example. Vegas Seven had a hilarious chat with the Los Angeles DJ/producer, cited as one of the pioneers of the moombahton movement, before his March 1 gig at Surrender. Read more »
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Masterson’s Plan
Actor and entrepreneur Chris Masterson also explores life as DJ Chris Kennedy
February 21st, 2013
Best recognized for his role as Francis on Malcolm in the Middle, Chris Kennedy Masterson wears a lot more hats than you’d think. The nightclub owner, actor, DJ and talent manager with a cast of brothers equally as elbow-deep in multiple entertainment endeavors in Las Vegas and beyond might just be building a life that’s as storied as his middle name. Read more »
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Fan-tastic Journey
Kristina Sky takes a wild ride from fliering festivals to fan favorite
February 14th, 2013
Newbie. Up and comer. Rising star. SoCal skater-chick-turned-trance-addict Kristina Sky has been called them all. And this is after she had already worked her way up the ranks from handing out fliers at the Electric Daisy Carnival to being selected by Armin van Buuren more than a decade later to play the festival’s A State of Trance stage. Read more »
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The Executioner
Pack the earplugs—Canada’s Excision brings the bass to melt your face
February 7th, 2013
You may want to invest in those big ol’ earmuff headphones folks who work around airplanes wear, because 100,000 watts of sound is coming to rattle your soul. Bass-music master Excision is bringing his new Execution Tour to Las Vegas’ House of Blues for his first solo headlining show. He’s also got a grip of subwoofers and an insane true-3-D video-mapping stage experience that will blow your minds as much as your eardrums. Vegas Seven geeked out on all the tech specs with Excision before the February 15 show. Read more »
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Dance Hall Monitor
Major Lazer declares musical liberation with 1 Oak residency
January 31st, 2013
Laaaasers. You can’t have a Las Vegas nightclub without a grip of ’em. Subsequently, 1 Oak has added the most major one to its roster with Wes Pentz (also familiar to electronic fans as Diplo), Walshy Fire and Jillionaire. Collectively they’re known by their single cartoon avatar, Major Lazer, a fictitious Jamaican renegade who was outfitted with prosthetic lasers after losing his arm in the Zombie War of the ’80s. Read more »
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‘Joyenergizer’
Netherlander Sander van Doorn returns to his club-record roots
January 31st, 2013
Between the coast-to-coast festivals and the numerous club sets, keeping track of the number of times we’ve seen Sander van Doorn is futile at this point. One indelible image is the pure happiness van Doorn seems to exude while playing for any crowd, his smile beaming all the way to the partiers in the back. Read more »
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‘Lift Off!’
Dutch duo W&W makes an 'Impact' on the trance world
January 17th, 2013
These days, trance music isn’t just about banging it out at 138 beats-per-minute (not that we mind), nor does it make American clubbers wrinkle their noses and go running off looking for commercial house anymore, either. Dutch import W&W, a.k.a. 24-year-olds Ward van der Harst and Willem van Hanegem, are producers helping the cause, with massive support from the trance messiah himself, Armin van Buuren. Read more »
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Imagine That
Mark Farina doles out some proper house at Body English
January 17th, 2013
If 2012 was the year electronic dance music exploded in the U.S., 2013 is quickly shaping up to be the year that newer clubgoers will dig deeper and veterans will come out of the woodwork now that more of the underground DJs are gigging in town. One notable spinner willing to give Las Vegas another chance is Mark Farina, who’ll finally get to do his proper house thing when he commands the dance floor at Body English on January 26. Read more »
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He’s Bringing Records Back
Digging into scenester Sancho Van Ryan’s autographed vinyl collection
January 10th, 2013
Everyone in the Las Vegas nightlife industry loves electronic dance music. Or at least they pretend to, now that it’s seemingly everywhere. Still, it isn’t often that you see one of those movers and shakers carrying around a vinyl electronic-dance-music record in hopes that the superstar DJ will add an autograph to the label. But scene staple Sancho Van Ryan, who just launched VivaVegas.tv in November, has a love of EDM going back more than 15 years—and a vinyl collection to prove it. Read more »
