The dance music gathering has drawn to a close, leaving with it hangovers and the records set to dominate the summer, from Major Lazer to Sasha
Miami’s Winter Music Conference, the premier annual electronic and dance-music powwow in North America, just wrapped on Saturday. “Conference” is too prosaic a word for what goes down at WMC in the last week of March each year, as hundreds of international DJs, producers and performers – and thousands of often scantily-clad fans – descend on Miami Beach for an endless array of showcase gigs, VIP-only gatherings and steamy pool parties. To top it off the event coincides with the massive Ultra music festival on Saturday and Sunday, the whole thing forming an immense party megalopolis known as Miami Music Week. In recent years competing conferences around the world, like Amsterdam’s ADE, have challenged WMC’s supremacy; but most would have a hard time matching Miami for sheer sun-soaked glamour and spring-break debauchery.
Aside from collecting digits, suntans and epic hangovers, the order of the day for DJs at WMC is breaking new tracks – especially their own. Each March an abundant crop of new tracks is released by labels worldwide in time to ride the wave of the conference. Many of them aren’t even close to available, existing only by word of mouth or in tantalizing snippets caught on recorded DJ sets. (For example, the upcoming Nile Rodgers/Carl Cox collaboration that Coxy reportedly previewed during his Ultra set on Saturday.)
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by Jim Poe via Electronic music | The Guardian
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