Top Five Must-See Shows This Weekend in Phoenix

By Phoenix New Times Staff Fri., Feb. 1 2013 at 4:00 AM

Categories: This Weekend

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Friday, February 1: Paul Oakenfold @ Wild Knight

DJ Paul Oakenfold holds the distinction of being one of the first electronic superstars. He's been performing and mixing since 1980, and he's not planning on spending his 33rd year in the business chilling out: In addition to his recent work with Madonna and Bruno Mars, he's scheduled to perform at Coachella 2013, and drop his long-awaited vocal collaborations album, Pop Killer.

This weekend, he finds himself in the Southwest, venturing to Scottsdale's Wild Knight. We discussed EDM's future with Oakenfold, and the Brit says that the next big wave of EDM stars will come from the U.S.

"There's going to be a whole new [wave], and the next wave will be American," Oakenfold says. "We've got a whole lot of Europeans. It's all European dominated now. I reckon the next wave will [feature] a lot of great American DJs producers and acts. There will be a moment similar to what we had in the UK. All of it, similar to what we had in the UK, with Daft Punk, Prodigy, Underworld. You'll have that moment, and you haven't had it yet. You really haven't had a moment when you've got the big American DJ and great American young producers. That's yet to come, [but] you've got people who are popping up, [like] Porter Robinson. At the moment it's dominated by Europe, and that will hopefully change." -- Taylor Moon

Read the entire Paul Oakenfold Q&A.