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Contest Featured Music Win Tickets To See John Digweed at the Mayan in LA

July 28, 2011 - 1:36 pm

THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED. CONGRATULATIONS TO MICHAEL S. WOLFF WHO WON THE 2 TICKETS!

If you’re a Los Angeles dance music aficionado, you know that John Digweed at the Mayan is about as close as you can get to an institutional event. Since the good folks at Liquified brought the iconic DJ into the equally iconic downtown venue over a decade ago, Digweed’s midweek all-nighter has consistently brought out LA’s best dance crowds, and the music is always top notch.

So let’s get you in, shall we?

Diggers was nice enough to kick us down with an interview (read it after the jump) and two tickets to his show at the Mayan on Wednesday, August 3rd. All you have to do is find ChinaShop on Facebook, Like us, then comment underneath the Digweed post about why you and your friend should be the ones going into work late on Thursday with a fuzzy head. Have your comment up by Monday, August 1 at midnight PST because we’ll be choosing the winner on Tuesday. It’s that easy.

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Featured Gallery Miami Sasha and John Digweed Sunset Cruise 2010

by Roemer

April 13, 2010 - 12:19 pm

For the past eight years during Miami’s Winter Music Conference, dance music masters known as Sasha and John Digweed throw what is arguably the party of the year. And by “party of the year” I am not just referring to the thousands of options available during this very full week of every conceivable form of electronic music. I am referring to all parties, everywhere, all year round. Going all out, Sasha and John rent a mega yacht and invite 400 close friends and fans to join them for this special event, the Sunset Cruise. This will prove to be a peak experience in the lives of many of these party goers – not just of the year, but of their party-going careers.

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Miami Sasha and John Digweed – Act 2

by Neil Feineman

April 21, 2009 - 9:56 pm

The Sasha and John Digweed boat party may have upheld an annual tradition but tweaked another. In the past, the party was on a Friday, the night after they played at the Mansion. This year, you had about two hours to get from the boat to the South Beach super club, and the process was jarring.

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Event Sasha and John Digweed Sunset Cruise

by Neil Feineman and Jipsy

April 13, 2009 - 3:43 pm

Writing about the Sasha and John Digweed boat party is a thankless task because the truth is no words, no pictures and no video can adequately approximate the magic of being there.

Not that the details can hurt. Imagine a yacht, the kind where polite people welcome you to the party as if they were happy to see you. Then glance around the deck and see people like Dj Dan, Hernan Cattaneo, John Graham, Nick Warren hanging out, catching up on things. Eating a prime rib dinner, making as many trips to the open bar as you wanted. Oh, and sailing across Miami with a bunch of your favorite people, who you haven’t seen since the last party, while Sasha and John play the perfect, sexy “backyard” set of the year. Throw a circle of good energy around the enterprise and it’s suddenly like maybe there really is a reason to believe in Santa Claus. Because this party, if you are lucky enough to be there, is the ultimate gift.

Even more to the point, it is probably the last of the Miami traditions left standing. The Masters at Work Party, Danny at Space, all are barely memories now. But the boat party, which began back in the days before the dot com boom had burst, is alive and well. And, for me, it’s still the real reason to make the trek to Miami.

Words by Neil Feineman, Photos by Jipsy

Photos by Jipsy for Nefariousgirl.com