Bryan Gonzalez DJs under the moniker B3. B3 is part of a small number of musicians in the area who play in bands in addition to DJing. He plays in the Dallas-based and Dallas Observer Music Awards-nominated band Mayta. Gonzalez’s DJ game is a whole other ball of wax. His…

Cymatic has been a regular face among the The Guild DJ crew over the past year or so, utilizing his deep knowledge of the more experimental side of dance music and integrating it with something more digestible for the dance floor without losing the edge. Despite his youth he has…

Maxwell Carritt is part of a new wave of techno and tech house talent popping up in the shadows of Dallas club music. Most often associated with the burner DJ crew know as The Guild, he consistently sets a high bar for floor-thumping techno. Hypnotic patterns of persistent repetition, but…

John Baugh is a staple in the Dallas house and techno community, best known for his affiliation with the Soundslike crew and as one half of the DJ duo Dragonlazer.  Baugh dives into some deep but floor-friendly territory for this week’s Mixtape, complete with a nod to Dallas’ own Brett…

Kleptik is a recent transplant from Puerto Rico to Dallas who brings a different perspective to techno and tech house musings on the dance floor. He style features an extra emphasis on layered polyrhythms that are informed by original stomping grounds without being derivative. After hooking up with the Motif…

Best known for his epic run hosting the ’80s night at Hailey’s Club in Denton, Jonathan Graham has been a staple DJing as DJG in North Texas for the past few decades. Due to an older brother that was involved with the DJ scene in his younger years, he was…

Dallas has a long and somewhat hidden history of electronic dance music producers that have made their marks far beyond the Texas borders. House, techno and drum and bass all have deep roots here that tie directly to the larger international scene. Producers from here have caught the ear of…

Michael Roos is not only a veteran of the DJ scene, but also the definition of a working DJ. Straddling that barrier between commercial DJ, working wedding and private parties, and club DJ, he makes a living and manages to push his craft by integrating the latest technology into his…

Allen McDonald is a staple in the Dallas house and techno community mostly know for his affiliation with the Soundslike crew and one half of the DJ duo Dragonlazer. Dragonlazer was the first mixtape in this run of the Observer mixtape series almost a year ago. Allen is overdue for…

For almost a decade and a half, Chris Rodriguez — better known as C Rod — has been a staple in the local music scene as a musician, producer and DJ. C Rod is most often aligned with Dallas house music, but his depth of knowledge casts a wider net…

Lars Warn brings a wealth of deep track knowledge that is well beyond his ears to the production and DJ table. Warn’s versatility comes from an exploratory nature that has found him spinning in a variety of niche genres. From the earliest days of proper dubstep to the deepest reaches of…

Quad Fifty is the techno/bass alias for Ernesto Izard. As a member of the DJ crew The Guild, Izard has been holding down sets informed by a deep knowledge of electronic and experimental music. His two decades exploring the outer edges of the electronic trenches gives him a distinct advantage in…

As a member of the Our House Crew, Johnny Leake is at the forefront of the house music scene in Dallas. DJing sets around town on fairly regular basis, Leake and his cohorts have thrown some of the better underground parties in Dallas. Driven by a deep love of house music, Leake plays…

Aleah Axiom’s passion for techno is intoxicating. As a music blogger, college radio DJ and club DJ she has spread the word of the technology laced genre to any and all that will listen. Outside of performing, that passion has manifested itself through her writing and interviews on the Robotic…

Splitting his time between Lubbock, Houston and Dallas, Michael Duncan has seen his share of DJ decks. Coming from a largely alt-rock background, he discovered house music in the ’90s and never looked back. Stylistically Duncan is not limited to house music and can be found DJing everything from new…

Hulon Pate has been an active DJ since the 90s. Locally pate has held down a residency at Absinthe for the past 5 years, but has built a more substantial audience through his Grind2Shine Podcast. Although he is admittedly a Techno fan as reflected in his mixtape this week, he…

Chris Parkinson DJs as the Experiment, a holdout from the better days of dubstep. Believe it or not, there were better days before the obnoxious drops and insidious wobbles took over the genre and it completely jumped the shark. Before cringeworthy pop vocals and money grabs, dubstep was as underground…

As far as gigs a Dallas electronic musician go, it simply does not get bigger than this. On Tuesday, influential “Intelligent Dance Music” duo Autechre announced their first North American tour in a decade, in support of their 2013 album Exai. Support for the tour comes from Rob Hall and,…

Samma Lone is a bona fide veteran in the Dallas DJ scene, with over three decades behind the decks. Primarily operating in house and house-related territory, Malone has had a front row seat as both producer and DJ for the development of club culture in Dallas since its earliest days…