CNTRL: BEYOND EDM

Preceding Miami Music Week and the second weekend of Ultra Music Festival, the annual SXSW music festival will take Austin, Texas by storm with performances by Deadmau5, Richie Hawtin, Loco Dice, and more. As part of the CNTRL: Beyond the EDM tour created by Richie Hawtin himself, Austin will get special performances by Loco Tiga, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, and Canadian duo Azari & I

It is no secret that electronic music is reaching higher plateaus each day, with EDM even making its way on to the mainstream airwaves where lead ups and drops are a norm for most pop songs. The fan base continues to grow every day, but very few people don’t know about the hard work, dedication, and soul that the electronic scene harbors...

The one of a kind CNTRL: Beyond EDM tour has been going on for a few weeks now and we have to say, from the live streams and all the photos, it looks like an incredible experience. Not only do you get a chance to be schooled by the legends during the day, but you get to party with them at night whether you are in the city they are in or not...

There have been many back-and-forths on the purported banality in dance music, specifically in the US. Impatience. This is probably the perfect word I would use to describe the ‘new’ generation of EDM fans (myself included). It goes hand in hand with the need for instant gratification in a modern society driven by technology...

Richie Hawtin and Loco Dice want you to know: there’s more to EDM than “Levels.” The two veterans of the electronic and techno music scene have teamed up to create the CNTRL: Beyond EDM tour − the first-ever electronic music tour to combine educational daytime lectures with subsequent nighttime shows featuring some of the most respected names in their genre...

As a “basshead,” CNTRL: BEYOND EDM was one of the most eye-opening experiences for me, and there was no better way for me to experience a tech show from none other than the world-leading techno pioneers themselves. I am your typical avid music fan who pregames before a show, attends a show, then goes home afterwards...

. For those of you that don't know Richie Hawtin and Loco Dice have launched CNTRL: Beyond EDM – Discovering & Showcasing Electronic & Techno(logy) based Music, a North American college lecture and club tour today in Buffalo, NY with a lecture at SUNY Buffalo (The club date at Town Hall has been canceled to the pending Hurricane Sandy)...