Ida Engberg
Inside Carl Cox’s Two-Decade Saga at Ultra Music Festival
Iconic, breathtaking, indelible—what can be said about Carl Cox‘s music that hasn’t already been said about Ultra‘s RESISTANCE Megastructure? The legendary DJ is embedded in the mythos of Ultra, a festival that is as vital to rave culture as Cox is to techno. He’s been throwing down in Miami for nearly two decades now, and the star of his legacy only grows brighter with each eye-popping RESISTANCE set. There’s no arguing the power of Ultra’s Main Stage, but the immersive Megastructure is the festival’s pièce de résistance. It’s here where Cox has enraptured the nation’s electronic music community since 2017. Carl Cox performs at Ultra’s RESISTANCE Megastructure. Rudgrcom But that wasn’t always the ca...
Ida Engberg Denounces Tributes to Erick Morillo: “We Should Not Glorify Rapists”
Swedish dance music producer and DJ Ida Engberg has decried tributes to Erick Morillo in the wake of the “I Like To Move It” artist’s death. As tributes to the late DJ—who was found dead on September 1st, 2020 in Miami Beach—continue to pour in via social media, Engberg took to Instagram to share a statement urging the music community not to forget about his transgressions. Morillo had recently been arrested and charged with sexual battery on a woman after the results of a rape kit came back and tested positive for his DNA. “Our dance music community should not be brushing the behavior of Eric [sic] Morillo under the carpet. We owe it to all women of our generation and to generations to come. We should not glorify rapists,” Engber...
