Two critically injured during installation of Ultra Music Festival stage

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Found on Youtube:​

From The Miami Herald: ​

"Two workers helping to set up the main stage for the Ultra Music Festival, which begins Friday afternoon in downtown Miami, were critically injured Thursday night when a giant LED screen fell, trapping the men underneath it.

Two of the men suffered what fire rescue officials said were life-threatening injuries, including one with two possibly broken legs.

Two other workers were also struck by the falling equipment; one was in stable condition, and the other was treated at the scene. The seriously injured workers were taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital."

Horrible news. I hope that all of the injured crew will ultimately be alright.

According to The Miami Herald, Miami Fire Rescue, the investigators, and OSHA will return to the site first thing this morning to determine the root cause of the accident.

The Ultra Music Festival is set to open as scheduled at 3 pm today.

Watch this: HxdB mini-documentary + mix

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Vancouver based DJ/Producer HxdB ​(pronounced Hexadecibel) has a mini-documentary out on Youtube courtesy of GroundedTV/Slowdjs. It's an interesting look into HxdB and the underground Vancouver scene - check it out:

To coincide with the mini-doc release, HxdB also created a mix with a bunch of unreleased material: ​

HxdB will be in Montreal tomorrow night at Le Belmont with Construct, Def Child, Habit, Geoffbukk, Living Stone, The Orator, and Wally as supporting acts. For full event information click here.

(Source: HIGHONBEATS VIA @iloveneon)​

Two techno mixes that you should not miss

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Hans Bouffmyhre is a Glasgow DJ/producer that has been consistently invading my personal playlists thanks to his consistent banging techno productions over the past year. Hans takes over Slam Radio to deliver a memorable 1 hour mix:

Drumcode Radio, led by Drumcode head Adam Beyer has been one of those shows that I simply cannot miss. Drumcode radio is a weekly show that offers a lot of variety as guest DJs are regularly invited to mix. For this week's episode Adam Beyer has invited German duo Pan-Pot to the show:

Former owner of Club Space in Miami speaks out

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Louis Puig is the former club owner of Club Space in Miami and has written a provocative letter on topics such as Ultra's restrictive DJ exclusivity contracts to the current state of EDM. Here's a snippet:

​"FUTURE OF EDM. I am hoping that the future of Electronic Dance Music will be the complete opposite of the commercial Mash Up sound you hear at VIP clubs today. This sound is monotonous, tiring and not even the DJs that play it like it. In fact, they actually hate it but they sold out to it and are now stuck playing it. The sound reminds me of the Walt Disney Electric Parade. Some people call it Swedish House Music but I call it VIP Confetti Music but no matter what you call it, it is complete rubbish and what is worse is that it generates the complete opposite energy and effect of what dance music was designed to do, which is for people to dance. Believe it or not, the plan was never for you to show up, stand on a dance floor ignoring your date our friends and look at some clown jumping up and down waving his finger in the air while playing prerecorded laptop sets. Fortunately EDM fans are very intelligent and educated and they are finally catching on to these theatrics. These DJ finger waving performing clowns have numbered days. Techno, Tech, Deep House and other underground EDM genres will prevail. In case you do not understand what I mean by VIP Confetti Music, just visit the top 100 in the "progressive" category on my fav music dance music website and Robert Sillerman's latest acquisition, Beatport.com."

(VIA Miami New Times)​