New Year’s Eve: the one night every year when even the biggest homebodies crush a few beers, conceal a flask in their jacket, hop on the skytrain and head downtown. With Vancouver NYE parties surging, your only answer is to plan ahead: buy tickets, show up early, and throw any thoughts of nasty hangovers to […]
The history of Cristiano Giusberti, better known as Technoboy, is nearly as important to the hardsytle scene as Ferry Corsten is to global trance community. Simply put, without Giusberti, hardstyle wouldn’t be the scene we know and love today. Back in 1992, Giusberti was mixing vinyl and cultivating his now legendary charisma – Technoboy’s veteran […]
It has been a year since FIVESIXTY opened its doors to our inaugural SoundLab Saturdays, which featured the undeniable talent of the Stanton Warriors: because as you know, no one does breaks quite like Twisted. In just one year SoundLab has hosted a slew of top tier DJs, including Markus Schulz, Paul Oakenfold, and Headhunterz. […]
#WeDoBreaks. To prove this once and for all, we’re bringing the legendary Stanton Warriors back to Vancouver. For the first time in three years, both members of the breaks duo will play a very special edition of FIVESIXTY’s SoundLab on Saturday, November 2nd. For the Stanton Warriors, the elusive creative spark was ignited from a […]
In a local scene riff with all ages events, we’re offering the nineteen plus crowd two Halloween sanctuaries—masked dens of gleeful debauchery nestled tight by some of the best beats Vancouver has to offer. Under the merry gothic glow of orange and green, Twisted is set to host Vancouver’s longest running licensed (19+) Halloween massive: […]
Before the term “EDM” effectively packaged DJ’s of all styles into one tidy, misrepresented mass, Z-trip was there – pioneering the art of mash-ups, scratching live, and representing a Disc Jockey in the truest sense of the term. Today, combining genres isn’t all that surprising; it’s easy to envision Kanye rapping over the Black Keys, […]
