More than fifty acts have been confirmed for Nuits Sonores, the annual Spring festival in Lyon, France.

As in previous years, the lineup presents a diverse mix of big name DJs, experimental indie bands and just about everything in between. On the house and techno front, headliners include Laurent Garnier, Joris Voorn, Paul Kalkbrenner, Dixon, Seth Troxler and Claude VonStroke. New York house producer Dennis Ferrer will also get behind the decks, along with Clara Moto, Dominik Eulberg and Matias Aguayo. Marcel Dettmann and Ben Klock will bring the murky Ostgut vibe, while Prins Thomas, Todd Terje, Lindstrom & Christabelle offer up the soaring disco sounds of Norway. Experimental house pioneer Matthew Herbert will also make an appearance, along with French jocks like Chloé and Agoria.
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Promoters of the Mannheim’s Time Warp festival have confirmed that this year’s event will include a live performance by Plastikman, Richie Hawtin’s early production alias.

It was under this moniker that Hawtin released much of his seminal work, including singles like “Krakpot,” “Spastik,” and albums like Artifakts and Musik. In addition to performing live as Plastikman, Hawtin will also DJ alongside the usual who’s who of techno and minimal superstars, including Ricardo Villalobos, Sven Vath, Laurent Garnier, Loco Dice and more. Plastikman has also been confirmed for the Coachella Festival in California on April 18th.

Mar 27 Time Warp 2010, Mainmarkthalle, Mannheim

RA concludes its week-long look back with our round-up of the best tracks of the past decade.

In his recent book, Berlin, Techno and the Easy Jetset, Tobias Rapp claims that techno in the ’00s was in many ways a reaction to techno from a decade earlier. “The nineties were about rave and everything that went with it,” he writes, “and then, after all the great successes and excesses, the whole thing collapsed as the end of the decade approached. Around the turn of the century, the music went back underground in order to revitalize itself.”
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RA begins its week-long look back at the past decade with our list of the finest long players.

There was a lot of hand-wringing in the ’00s about whether the album still mattered in the rock world. In our sphere, though, it’s hard to say that appeal has ever waned. Ask any artist that has spent their career releasing a crush of 12-inch singles and digital EPs, and they’ll tell you that it’s the only place to stretch out, the format in which they can truly showcase everything they have to say. The best albums, though, transcend context. And that’s largely what our top 100 records of the decade reflect. Whether it be house, techno, disco, drum & bass, jazz, trip-hop, ambient or all of it at once, these were the many sounds that made up the past decade for us.
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The question is back… this time asked by high-energetic Trance head Sergi ad Dharma and adressed to some artists who performed at Universo Paralello festival in Brazil only few days ago as well as some party fraggels on the site.
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The “phase one” lineup of the 12th edition of Miami’s annual Ultra Music Festival has been announced.

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“The label started off as a hobby for myself and Alex Jones and it developed into a labour of love,” says Jamie Russell aka Cedric Maison, about his UK house and techno imprint Hypercolour.

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Vote for Yahel Chabs at Letsmix.com

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Each year ResidentAdvisor asks the world’s dance music community to vote for their favourite DJs, and the results of their 2009 poll have just been announced.

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