through the wire: alex gold

Thursday notes:

-My Groundswell column in this week's LA CityBeat catches up with Deep Dish's Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia, who has a new mix, GU31 - Tapei, coming early next month. In my piece, Shirazinia talks about the Diddy dance music album that never was. Felix Da Housecat, Erick Morillo, Harry Romero, DJ Hell, Darren Emerson, and Nellee Hooper had worked on it, about three years ago.

"I have the album," Shirazinia says. "We're all sort of scratching our heads, wondering what he's going to do with it. He could definitely target a different audience. At the time, he was spending a lot of time in Ibiza and at clubs around the world. Maybe that's not where his head's at, at the moment."

-Alex Gold (above) stars in my weekly dance club recommendations for the Los Angeles area.