Las Vegas' glitzy clubs have been a hub for EDM DJs such as Avicii and Afrojack in recent years but there's about to be a dramatic, and welcome, change as Richie Hawtin gears up for a first solo show in Sin City. The techno artist has been used to treating sun-drenched Ibiza clubbers to techno sets at his recently finished Enter residency at Space this summer but he may have to take a slight change in direction when catering for the booming, EDM-craving Vegas crowd. Heading to the bright lights of Marquee nightclub, known to host the likes of Chuckie and Benny Benassi, on Saturday, Hawtin believes it's the "right time" to introduce the city to a different kind of sound, and thankfully so. Speaking to Las Vegas Weekly, he said: "I'm happy to see the growth of our scene and the music, but you do have to be careful with the timing of introducing new and deeper sounds to any new developing scene. "I want to play to a crowd who are open-minded and ready to hear something a bit different than perhaps they've been exposed to so far." From the sounds of it, he's certainly not going to be taking any requests, aka Deadmau5's $200,000 jukebox charge. He says: "[it would be terrible to] come for a performance and the crowd before you is just not ready for the type of music you play. It's a game of balance; of course I can play slightly to the left or right, but there's a line that I won't go over." Whether or not his show will open the eyes of a fresh crowd, there's no doubt the underground aficionados from the USA's new tribes of dance music will be ready for the Hawtin. source: mixmag.net