With a discography miles long and tours that have taken him to Ibiza, London, and New York, it's no wonder how Seattle's Pezzner has become one of the ambassadors in our city's long-running dance music scene. His sets have been known to traverse with ease between disco, house and techno, offering up serious, abstract music for the brain as well as the body.
The Miracles Club is a performance art and house music group from Portland. Employing elements from classic Chicago acid house, experimental pop, and contemporary dance, members Rafael Fauria, Honey Owens, and Ryan Boyle are creatively committed to exploring the relationships between sound, movement, audience and artist.
Looking to the future while digging in the past, enigmatic and willfully anonymous duo Tiger & Woods use both recognizable and exotic sources supplemented with original production to take you to undiscovered terrains that somehow feel like home.
L.A.-based indie-pop auteur AM and London-based groovemaster/experimentalist Shawn Lee pool their talents to create a unique brand of electro-soul that achieves seamless pop perfection while mining a startling broad array of stylistic influences including Brazilian tropicalia, Turkish psychedelia, and soundtrack music from the '60s, '70s, and '80s.
A 20-year veteran of the Seattle club scene, GUY is an electric live performer with an experienced performance style, honed from years of packing dance floors in Seattle's best clubs. Playing a fusion of contemporary hits, classics and energetic underground dance music, GUY has the ability to keep both rookies’ and seasoned clubbers’ hands in the air. GUY has been the resident DJ on Saturday night at Seattle's Trinity Nightclub since 2005, playing to weekly capacity crowds, with guests including: The Black Eyed Peas, Diplo and DJ Homicide of Sugar Ray.
Filipina artist and DJ Mia Guzman seductively combines her dance skills, eclectic taste, and natural beauty into a persona that captivates crowds. After appearing in videos for Eminem, Nelly, and Black Eyed Peas, she landed globetrotting gigs holding down the decks with her signature “future-pop” style at parties for everyone from actor-comedian Jamie Foxx to boxer-politician Manny Pacquiao. She is currently the resident DJ for the hit MTV show America's Best Dance Crew.
After starting the legendary, long-running Yo Son! night, Seattle native and current San Franciscan DJ Scene went on to become one of the most in-demand traveling DJs in the world. His distinct style of scratching, live remixing and blending classic party anthems spans every genre from AC/DC to Jay-Z and has put him on live stages with a glittering array of names, including 50 Cent, Ludacris, Nas, Busta Rhymes, The Roots, De La Soul, and Public Enemy.
Voted one of the Top 10 DJs in America the past 3 years by DJ Times Magazine and “Best House DJ” in Las Vegas 2010 & 2011, Scotty Boy has been rocking dance floors across the country for over 20 years. His distinct style of “Electro Mash” (or as he calls it, “Las Vegas Mash Up”) has earned him residencies in most major cities including his hometown of Las Vegas where he is the resident DJ at the hottest club in the country,Marquee.
M83 is the guitar-driven brainchild of France's Anthony Gonzalez. This year's Hurry Up, We're Dreaming is a double-album journey that pushes into new vocal territory, with Gonzalez testing out everything from a spectral breathy whisper to a howling scream, while still retaining M83's signature, celestial-sounding clamor.
Brighton-based trio Fujiya & Miyagi craft neo-Krautrock, informed by artists like Neu! and Can, shot through the prism of modern electronica and pop. Ventriloquizzing, their fourth release, is a vibrant, unsettling affair with seductively sinister vocals mingling with icy synth sounds and winding bass lines.
Though producer, songwriter, and DJ Sonny John Moore has been making artful, escapist electronica under the Skrillex moniker only since 2009, he's already taken home three Grammy Awards and amassed a devoted following eager to see where his hyper-creative mind moves next. The imagination of Skrillex now shimmers with LED walls, 3D light shows, pyrotechnics, and Moore's relentless thirst to create live experience of ever-increasing drama and spectacle.
