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March 22, 2012 – The Cleveland electronic trio Emeralds are about as far away from a dance act as you could fathom.

March 21, 2012 – Kingdoms, the debut album from a British artist with the Continental name of Fort Romeau, is a rarity for electronic music: pure, floor-oriented house music that nevertheless works wonderfully as an album-length listening experience.

March 20, 2012 – This week, scores of thousands of fans will head to Florida for Miami Music Week, an annual beats-and-booze-athon that's anchored by the massive Ultra Music Festival, a three-day extravaganza featuring 300 boldface DJs representing virtually every corner of the dance-music spectrum — from David Guetta and Tiësto to Seth Troxler and Maya Jane Coles.

March 19, 2012 – The last couple of years have seen a stampede of rappers branching out into dance music, many of them under the tutelage of David Guetta. Count Snoop Dogg among the pack; he turned up on Guetta's "Sweat" last year, surprising absolutely no one — after all, for Snoop to turn down a guest verse would be like Carl Weathers declining a free brunch buffet.

March 16, 2012 – This week's five faves are all about the groove. Perhaps that should go without saying, in a column about electronic dance music. But not all grooves are created equal, and the records featured here all share an interest in teasing out unusually tensile rhythms, while combining unlikely musical elements.

March 14, 2012 – Like just about every other category of electronic dance music, "trance" means vastly different things to different people. You've got your psy-trance and your Goa, your uplifting trance, your Frankfurt acid, and whatever you call what Tiesto's making these days. In the early 1990s, trance was a constant throughout Europe — the Continent's answer to house and techno.