Dennis Ferrer Hardwell
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trademark Dirty Dutch beats. The party continues inside at Delano’s lounge club FDR, with DUSKY returning and a set from Made to Play man JESSE ROSE, and we collapse in a heap afterwards, happy to have been a part of another history-making beast of a party.
Thursday Getting up proves difficult today. We decide to reload on carbs and a couple of hair-of-the-dog beers at — where else? — Jerry’s Famous Deli, Collins’ infamous diner/ cavern of delicious but mostly unhealthy delights. Later, we head over to a secluded, beautiful villa tucked away on the backstreets of Miami beach for our June cover shoot. Discovering our quarries to be in a similar state to us, we shoot the breeze and get the photos done in the tranquil garden, a brief respite from the avalanche of beats to come. The late afternoon is spent dancing by the pool as LUCIANO’s Cadenza roadblock rolls into DJ Mag Delano, and catching up with the crew from ZOUK club in Singapore — doing their research in Miami! As we arrive, MICHEL CLEIS is decimating the decks with a sublime mix of tribal, Latin-infused tech house. He makes way for the formidable pairing of KENNY LARKIN and TECHNASIA (back2back) who, following a few technical difficulties get the beats rolling hard and strong. As we nip out at 7pm, the place is bursting at the seams. Magic stuff! It’s no coincidence that HOT CREATION’s logo is a palm
tree, plenty of which fill the downtown garden of Ice Palace East when we hit their party in the early am of Friday morning. It was in Miami, a year before Hot Creations’ inaugural event, that the idea for a WMC closing palette cleanser was born, the product of a post-club villa session at which JAMIE JONES, LEE FOSS and assorted friends — many of them now label regulars — played each other disco, r&b and boogie tunes as an antidote to the previous week’s 4/4 ear- bashing. Once the underdogs, these days they’re on the verge of international stardom, or at least as close as house music in its latest guise as soundtrack-du-jour comes. Jamie and Lee’s HOT NATURED project has added LUCA C at the controls and ALI LOVE on the mic to become a band proper, with PETE TONG metaphorically (and literally at their party) behind them, while their new PARADISE series proved as successful in practice as on paper during last year’s Ibiza season. They’ve also left behind the intimate, salubrious surrounding of the ill-fated Electric Pickle — sadly closed down this year by the authorities — to stake their claim on one of the city’s Ice Palace venues, the other host to their Crosstown Rebels allies. Outside around 5am, Jamie is in full-flow, dropping a succession of deep, anonymous grooves, eschewing Hot Creations’s catalogue of increasingly well-known hits to rely instead on the ear that’s forged his reputation as a standout DJ.
Jamie Jones
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