Buster Takes You Onboard The Groove Cruise For Deco Drive!!!

Now going into it’s 5th year, over 2,500 chic, young professionals have experienced The Groove Cruise; the only cruise in the world geared for those who love dance music and live by the mantra to 'Work Hard and Play Harder' - Here Buster takes you onboard to show you what the Groove Cruise is all about on Miami's premiere entertainment news and lifestyle program, Deco Drive.

The International Dance Party (In A Box)

Who needs DJ's, sound systems and doormen with a god complex when you have this nifty new device.

International Dance Party! The full length video of this crazy and funny party machine! from Niklas Roy on Vimeo.

The Techno Granny

Gotta to admit, grandma can move!

Has Science Found A Way To Make DJing Obsolete?

A group of researchers from UCLA have devised a software system that polls Wifi enabled digital music devices of attandees at a party (who actually bring theirs) and creates a playlist based on the most popular tracks and genres.

Read the full story by Clicking HERE

Could these "SMART PARTIES" spell the end of massive superclubs paying exhorbitant amounts of money to globetrotting DJ's?

Um....no, definetly not.

Tiesto Gets Nominated For A Grammy!

Photo By Seth @ Red Eye Productions

Our good friend Tiesto has been nominated for a Grammy award in one of the relatively new "Dance" music categories for Best Electronic/Dance Album for his release "Elements Of Life."

Take a look for yourself.

Best Electronic/Dance Album
(For vocal or instrumental albums. Albums only.)

* We Are The Night
The Chemical Brothers
[Astralwerks]

* †
Justice
[Downtown/Vice/Ed Banger]

* Sound Of Silver
LCD Soundsystem
[Capitol Records/DFA]

* We Are Pilots
Shiny Toy Guns
[Universal Motown]

* Elements Of Life
Tiësto
[Ultra Records]

Also big ups to The Chemical Brother's for thier nominations in this category and Best Dance Recording.

Best Dance Recording
(For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances. Vocal or Instrumental. Singles or tracks only.)

* Do It Again
The Chemical Brothers
Tom Rowlands & Ed Simons, producers
Track from: We Are The Night
[Astralwerks]

* D.A.N.C.E.
Justice
Gaspard Auge & Xavier de Rosnay, producers; Gaspard Auge & Xavier de Rosnay,
mixers
Track from: †
[Downtown/Vice/Ed Banger]

* Love Today
Mika
Jodi Marr, John Merchant, Mika & Greg Wells, producers; Greg Wells, mixer
Track from: Life In Cartoon Motion
[Casablanca/Universal Republic Records]

* Don't Stop The Music
Rihanna
StarGate, producer; Phil Tan, mixer
Track from: Good Girl Gone Bad
[Def Jam]

* LoveStoned/I Think She Knows
Justin Timberlake
Nate (Danja) Hills, Timbaland & Justin Timberlake, producers; Jimmy Douglass &
Timbaland, mixers
Track from: FutureSex/LoveSounds
[Jive/Zomba]



But a few notes: I have to admit, I have not yet heard some of the other nominees yet, especially as most have not yet played Miami, but often times from previous years we have seen the DJ/Producer get shafted for the normal POP REMIX flair because of name recognition. Lets hope things happen diferrently this year.

Good Luck Tijs (Tiesto's real name)! that statue will look great in your new Miami apartment!

The Miami Nightlife Website Wars Have Begun

When it comes to nightlife websites in Miami, two main sites come to mind...COOLJUNKIE.COM and CLUBPLANET.COM.

Cooljunkie.com, created by a charming English chap named Nick was purchased by Track Entertainment, which owns Clubplanet.com and brought in Nick and his team to run it.

For a few years the two lived in harmony. Cooljunkie.com mainly being used as a forum for club geeks to post events, see pictures, get on guests list or generally bitch about the state of nightlife in Miami.

Clubplanet.com, based out of it's Madison Ave office in NYC is a larger beast and far more nationally used as a resource for nightlife listings, pictures and info in markets throughout the US.

But a few months ago Nick has left his original creation of Cooljunkie.com and will be returning to Miami with a new site called talknightlife.com.

With Miami beeing one of the nightlife capitols of the US and the Winter Music Conference right around the corner, for scene watchers like us.....the show is about to begin!

Check out A3's other Blog Channels!

Over the years we have created sooooo much video content for the biggest names in nightlife that we barely know what to do with it all!

So we have begun organizing them into relevant categories that you can see to your right.

Presently you can see channels that include content we have created for Tiesto, Paul Oakenfold, Dj Rap and the Winter Music Conference, but we have a long way to go yet including Armin Van Buuren, Erick Morillo, Paul Van Dyk, Ferry Corsten, The Ultra Music Festival and so much more......

Check back regurally and leave LOTS of comments....!

PHOTO BY SETH @ RED EYE PRODUCTIONS

Tiesto Interview @ Winter Music Conference 2007

There are few dj/producers in the world who evoke the kind of passion that Tiesto does when brough up in conversation. Unless you are a die-hard "house head" most will immediatly bring up stories of where they were when they had their Tiesto "Moment." Originally from Holland, Tiesto's name is synonymous with massive walls of sound and music that takes you on a journey through peaks and valleys of energy culminating in massive explosions of energy. Spinning a mix of trance and "progressive house" Tiesto has always been a sucker for haunting vocals and etherial melodies. His tastes in venues have changed during the Winter Music Conference, and he has settled on a new tradition of playing one large venue (MANSION) and one smaller VIP style venue (The Setai Hotel) where he adjusts his music selections accordingly and plays with a little more of a "housey" feel as reflected in his famous summer series "In Search Of Sunrise."

He's come under fire in the last few years for what some consider "outrageous" fee's to spin, but in a world of consumerism, the market sets the prices and Tiesto fills up clubs from Miami to Tokyo to Cartegena.

Here we sit down with Tiesto, whose real name is Tijs Verwest just before the release of his "ELEMENTS OF LIFE" CD which has now been nominated for a Grammy Award.

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Here you will learn some of the stories behind our shoots, check out some of our favorite stuff and learn about the people, places and things that make A3 " The Night, Life & Style Network" the first programming concept of it's kind in the US.

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