With every ounce of sound that pours through the speakers at gigs around the world, Afrojack represents the now generation of electronic dance music. The #7 ranking in this year’s DJ Mag’s Top 100 should further prove that the Dutch Grammy-winning producer phenom doesn’t take the recognition nor the responsibility lightly.
The upper echelon of world dance music producers frequent the island more than people realize, or care to realize, making Hawaii both ahead and behind the times depending on perception. Italian DJ producer Luca Bachetti is on his way.
Outspoken, out of the box and bluntly honest. Living life without a filter helps Christian the Lion, aka Glitchdick, rage like no other.
DJ Bozu would be the first to admit that his grasp of the English language needs a little work. After coming out victorious at the Dave and Buster’s DJ Battle last week, it’s apparent that his DJ skills are also on the come-up.
Electro house crunk. Does the sound even exist?
After debuting his exclusive recordings with Shinehead at Indigo’s this past First Friday, Vince of Positive Regime has proved once again that music from the heart always wins. Ever since his days rocking KTUH airwaves in 1993, the anti Top 40 activist has stood by his beliefs and kept his creativity and soul for dope riddims intact.
A dynamic duo of dance-thumping proportions is about to take the island hostage. For one night only, Chinatown will give way to Faust and Shortee, collectively known as Urban Assault.
For DJ Russoul, scene before self has been applauded by his peers and has been the formula for many of his DJ successes. As he continues to groove forward and mix in the steady streams of support, the Hawaii Kai native has proved time and time again that music does in fact fuel his soul.
Aim for your brain to trigger your on-beat (hopefully) body rev mechanism because everyday we shuffling, Headhunterz style, Thursday night at Soho. Prepare for an overdose in hardstyle juice as the #1 hard dance DJ on the planet (#36 in DJ Mag’s Top 100 of 2010) and the hordes of representatives of Oahu’s shuffle (Trend) nation celebrate one of the surefire highlights of Hawaii EDM 2011.
This weekend’s signature Island music massive will experience an eclectic electronic music twist courtesy of DJ Tide. Tide’s remarkable house and breakbeat devotion has run deep ever since he was inspired by the legendary Kakaako Carl Cox New Year’s Eve bash of 2000.
Once upon a time, DJ Babu was raising funds working at a gas station to fly his way out to the DMC Finals in New York City. Friday night, the Jedi master of head-nodding beats, won’t have to trip about a plane ticket and will be headlining a celebration event with King DMC of legendary RUN DMC.
To resurrect and legitimize the rock missing from 808 “party rock” is the singular purpose of DJ Lava’s music mission. With the addition of his video mixing addiction that was developed in the Islands and refined in Las Vegas, Lava’s full-throttle, throw-down, turntable tactics has proved to be a special commodity in Hawaii nightlife circles.
New Jersey, New York, Las Vegas, Colorado and Hawaii, this is just this week’s itinerary and a small sample size of the life and times of being a DJ on top of the world. Introduced to the club scene by the late DJ AM, DJ Vice has become synonymous with Vegas A-list nightlife.
DJs / Wild styles and party beats galore is what should be in store as Japan’s DJ Masterkey intends to crack the Z-bar dance code and test the threshold of Waikiki clubheads by taking them all to the brink. Credit the icon for spreading the boom-bap flavor of nightlife all over Shibuya.
Fact: Just about every superstar “shejay” is one part hottie and one part deckwrecker. Lisa Lashes is that, times 100.
Just about everyday, whether we care to admit it or not, our minds are contaminated with crapola disguised as music. A long overdue aural detox is in order courtesy of international phenom John Tejada.
Matt Ratt brings the crowdplay disguised as foreplay simply because it’s the only way. “With an empty dance floor all the time, you might as well be a bedroom DJ,” says one of the 808’s best-kept secrets.
The Love Festival, Hawaii’s premiere music festival, got an extremely huge boost back in February when Diplo was announced as this year’s headliner. His def-defying work with Hollertronix (DJ Low Budget) brought underground relevance; 2008’s pop hit “Paper Planes” let the world know of his production swagger, his Mad Decent label and Major Lazer’s offerings further solidified his place among the who’s who of talented music minds of this generation.
DJ White Chocolate / By Hawaii standards, DJ White Chocolate could murk a lot of today’s DJs by knowledge alone. From Afghanistan and Nevada, meet a big time advocate of establishments and club crowds who let the DJ wild out, and who encourages creativeness above all else.
DJ Rayne / Hawaii’s electronic music family has benefited from the passion that pours out of DJ Rayne. His 15 plus years of owning his craft and impacting the scene makes his take on Hawaii-style electronica spot-on accurate and inspiring.
Worthy / It’s true, dirty birds of an electronic music feather flock together and in the case of Worthy, yes he destroyed Oahu in May, but he missed Hawaii’s underground faithful so much that he just had to fly back for an encore. His tech house sav meets Bay Area swag will surely incite dance utopias as Indigo and the party people behind Revive opens their doors to the 18 and over set for the very first time.
DJ Edit / Not many DJs are capable of talking about music and perpetuating the perception of Hawaii DJs non-stop, all-day long without caffeine enhancement. But if he wanted to, nightlife mainstay DJ Edit could.
DJ Raf / From body bumping displays of dance floor bliss to the fostering of positive change, DJ Raf is all about the movement. Since moving to the island from Cincinnati in 2006, he’s been hell bent on raising the hard dance, hard trance and hardcore bar as high as possible.
DJ Vegas Mike / Summer party monsters get ready. The nightlife decibels will reach a new octave of sonic brilliance thanks to DJ Vegas Mike.
After soaking up the sun poolside at the Waikiki Beach Marriott, tanned thrill seekers that need to be further indulged have a place to call their own and a DJ that knows a little something about extending a good thing. Get ready for San Fran’s DJ Hawthorne to get as beat nasty as he wants to be at the Official Bacardi Pool Party after party.
Given the city’s crumbling infrastructure and rail controversy, it’s hard to believe anyone would want to be the next mayor of Honolulu. But a few do want the job, including the incumbent, Mayor Peter Carlisle, the former Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney who won a 2010 special election to fill the remainder of Mufi Hannemann’s term.
I’d never been to a Honolulu City Council meeting until a few weeks ago. Features, not politics, was my beat.
Victoria Holt Takamine is a kumu hula, a cultural activist and a teacher and has an impeccable pedigree to back up all these titles. Born of an alii family whose kuleana was in Moanalua, she graduated as a hula teacher under the legendary Auntie Maiki Aiu Lake and taught hundreds of students in her own halau (Pua Alii ‘Ilima) and at the University of Hawaii.
On April 25, a state judge dismissed trespassing charges against a Kauai man after finding that he had been exercising traditional native Hawaiian rights hunting wild pigs on private land. Kui Palama, 28, was arrested on Jan.
The city plans to dish out $3.5 million from its Affordable Housing Fund and either purchase or renovate a structure to provide transitional housing for Honolulu’s special needs homeless population. “Our community has invested considerable effort and resources in addressing homelessness,” Mayor Peter Carlisle said in a statement, “but there remains a population whose disabilities or chronic conditions make it difficult for them to participate in traditional shelter programs.” Carlisle is referring to those homeless with mental illnesses, addictions and physical disabilities.
Makaweli Poi faces an uncertain future after its owner, a corporate subsidiary of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) ordered the West Kauai mill to suspend operations May 23. Mona Bernardino, chief operating officer of the corporation, Hiipoi LLC, says the move to shut down Makaweli Poi was prompted mainly by financial concerns.
A resolution adopted by the City Council will solidify an agreement between the City and County of Honolulu and the University of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center (UH-WRRC) to conduct an analysis of impacts from ocean sewer outfalls on the marine environments off of Oahu. The city will pay UH-WRRC as much as $2.5 million for biological and sediment studies in portions between now and June 30, 2017 .
Along with the deep, verdant growth of spring sprouts an unyielding desire to spend more time in the open air. That’s why it should come as no surprise that National Bike Month falls in the sun-drenched time of May.
Of the many letters you publish against rail, how many offer an alternative that won’t send us into further economic demise? Billions of gallons of oil are imported for us from every oil-producing nation on this planet so that we can buy billions of gallons of gasoline.
TheBus is taking a back seat to rail. At the May 3 Downtown Neighborhood Board meeting, an audience member asked city Transportation Director Wayne Yoshioka when we could expect the bus route cancellations and changes to be reversed.
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