Here’s a blip from the interview with Lawler and the link to the whole thing below…

Do you think the spirit of rave culture as opposed to club culture is dead? Or could it come back?
It’s just changed. And I have to be brutally honest here … And this is something that I have wanted to say for a while now. Maybe it’s not a direct answer to your question, but I don’t believe “EDM”  is even what we do. Dance music is not the same as house music. Yes, it makes you dance — we all know that! But what I have seen happen in America in the last two years is the explosion of commercial pop-electro-dance music and so many people think it’s the same culture, the same scene as what we do with house and techno, and it isn’t! It so isn’t. Just because they’re both electronic produced tracks does not mean they should exist in the same scene. If I wanted to listen to pop music, I would choose a ballad or a rock song or something that just means something. This electro-pop-dance that all the R&B artists are jumping on is the worst music I have ever heard in my whole life — cheap, no soul, no meaning. [It's] only made to make money. I don’t even like calling what we do dance music, because some people think it’s a part of that. What we do is house and techno, and it does have a meaning and a feeling. Just as it’s always been, and just how it will always be for us that love house music.

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/crossfade/2011/10/steve_lawler_interview_raving_ibiza_viva_music.php

BPM is a 10 day festival in “it’s almost not Mexico” Playa del Carmen. A less known Caribbean resort town about as far East as one can go and still be in Mexico (or on land). The untouched or “underground” Cancun if you will that is actually closer to the Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Cuba and even the Florida Keys than it is to Juarez, Guadalajara, or Mexico City.

www.thebpmfestival.com

This is our favorite Wintertime getaway, starting on December 30th,  kicking it off with a HUGE Circo Loco New Years Eve party headlined by living legend DJ Danny Tenaglia with support from some amazing talent in Luca Bachetti and (rumored) Nicole Moudauber. The parties don’t stop until January 8th with top dance artists like Steve Lawler to Dubfire throwing parties in Playa and other top acts such as Art Department, Carlo Lio, Cederic Gervias, Danny Howells, Lee Burridge, Loco Dice, Marco Carola, Nic Fanciulli, Nick Curly, Richie Hawtin, & Stacey Pullen, just to name a few!

“I’ve been fortunate enough to have been a part of the BPM Festival since the beginning and have seen it grow to such an important, communal and positive gathering of fans and talent over the past 5 years. I look forward to doing my best to help take it to the next 5 and beyond!” – Dubfire

“BPM is very important for me because it’s such a great way to start the year, with so many great parties happening that week.” – Marco Carola

“…It’s grey and shitty in most parts of the world in January and the Playa is calling! I’ve had great experiences there in recent years so looking forward to returning.” – Richie Hawtin

“First off Playa del Carmen is where my wife and I got married, and with the who’s who in our music scene playing down there during the cold winter months is even better, perfect get-away after the holidays.” – Stacey Pullen

“We have been hosting VIVa MUSiC Events there since it started back in 2008, and what always makes this special is the locations you can throw the party’s in and the people who attend BPM, We have always done our VIVa MUSiC Party’s at the Blue Parrot as we will this coming BPM Festival in 2012 and the atmosphere has been incredible.” – Steve Lawler

(wallylopez.com / tremenda music to take away)

Thursday, November 3 @ D30 Sacramento

Undeniably Sacramento’s Finest Audio System. You won’t believe your ears…

One of Spain’s top deejays, Wally Lopez, comes to Sacramento for the first time. This Thursday District 30 does us all a favor bringing something SPECIAL to Sacramento. Come see one of Europe’s favorite deejay’s and producer. If there’s just one night you go out in Sacramento this month this I Love House with Wally Lopez is the only one Revival Nitelife recommends!!!

But that is about to change and San Francisco is about to get it’s first live taste of Marco at BASE’s Halloween party on 10.27.11. Marco Carola in SF, finally!!!

And now for some boilerplate promo from the promoter:
DJ Marco Carola Marco Carola is the recognized global ambassador of Italian techno. It’s a position he treats with the utmost care and respect—and one that stands him among the hallowed company of contemporary techno’s leading practitioners. Hailing from Napoli in the south of the country, Marco was among a small group of DJs and promoters who quite literally built the city’s scene from scratch back in the early-’90s. In 1995′s First Planet EP he became the first Neopolitan artist to commit techno to vinyl, paving the way for an entire generation of producers. These days Marco is a mainstay of Richie Hawtin’s Minus and Plus 8 labels, who, much like Marco himself, are one of the driving forces behind techno’s permeation of the worldwide dance scene.