A Conversation with Becks Lange
Becks Lange
Miami's Architect of Sound
There is a particular kind of courage required to build something in a city that doesn't yet know it needs it. Becks Lange arrived in Miami carrying a world of sounds she had collected across her travels — Berlin, Ibiza, Barcelona — and decided to give that world a home.
PL0T, the event series she founded in 2007, became that home. Not a club, not a brand, something a little more complex to define and far far more lasting. An insistence that music could be raw and intimate and international all at once, even in a city that ran on over the top spectacle.
This conversation took place when PL0T was already becoming a Miami institution. What follows is Becks in her own words: honest, funny, and completely uninterested in giving a safe answer.
Antakly Projects · Miami Music Series · Originally 2009 — Updated 2026
Becks Lange · Miami
Your inspirations, your greatest influences — where do they come from?
I don't limit myself when it comes to inspiration. You could get inspired out of pretty much anything. And there are many times that you sit with a blank piece of paper in front of you and feel not inspired at all — but once you draw the first two or three lines, boom. You have inspired yourself to keep working on that piece of art.
Travel is the biggest thing for me. Every city has a rhythm. Every underground has its own logic, its own dress code, its own relationship between the music and the crowd. I've always been trying to understand those rhythms and bring something of them back to Miami.
Tell me about the best event you've ever produced. The one you go back to.
Every night has its own magic. PL0T has let me live so many experiences, meet so many people I will never forget. But if I had to choose one — it's "Don't Worry, Everything is Going to be Amazing."
"It was meant to be a family party and that was exactly what it was."
It was the event where we gave more than a hundred percent. Probably the most complex logistics of anything we had done. But also the most satisfying. To see everyone — industry or not — with those big smiles and impossible-to-believe expressions on their faces. That gave me the biggest satisfaction I've had in this work.
And to hear from people all over the world that it was the party that made their conference, that made us very proud. I want to take the opportunity to thank the artists, B4Bookings, Like That–La Villatek, and of course our favorites: the guests. It wouldn't be the same without you.
Some favourite DJs — I know that's a difficult question.
Hmm. This is a tough one. Marco Carola. Alexi Delano. Paco Osuna. Ricardo Villalobos. Adam Beyer. Gaiser. Matthew Dear. And one of PL0T's own residents — Alejandro Sab.
What those names have in common is a kind of seriousness about the craft. They're not performing for an audience — they're in dialogue with one. That's rare and I've always chased it when booking.
And venues? Places that have shaped how you think about what a night can be?
Weekend Club in Berlin. Watergate in Berlin. Club 4 in Barcelona. DC 10 in Ibiza.
What connects them? They're all spaces where the architecture disappears. Where you stop thinking about what the room looks like and start feeling what it sounds like. The best venue I've ever seen is one where the room gets out of the way of the music.
What makes Miami nightlife special — or difficult? What separates it from everywhere else?
Miami is a very unique city with a very hard to predict market. One day they like this, the next day they like that. We have all worked very hard to make Miami a must-stop destination for artists.
I think the fact that people have become more open-minded — that we are able to have successful events introducing fresh talent, rather than only artists with heavier names — that is unique to Miami now. That wasn't true when we started. Back in 2007, those were the times when Defected Records and clubs like Cameo and Crobar were dominant. The sounds growing in Europe, New York, even Detroit didn't have a home here. We tried to build that home.
"It was very raw — very, very raw. All of that new sound that was gaining exposure in Europe didn't really have a home in Miami."
And what makes it even more unique is that I am a part of it.
Your dream project — if you could do absolutely anything.
You would be surprised — it's actually non-music related. It has to do with my other passion, which is fashion. Two things: one would be to produce a Givenchy or Alexander McQueen fashion show. They are works of art. And second — to have my shoe collection in stores. Stay tuned.
The events, the artists, the places that defined what Becks was building.
Soul Clap
White Room, Miami · 2007The crate-digging duo who helped launch PL0T. A declaration of intent: this was going to be about music with a history, not just a playlist.
Seth Troxler
Art Gallery, Miami · 2007–08An art gallery. Not a club. That choice said everything about the atmosphere Becks was committed to creating.
"Don't Worry, Everything is Going to be Amazing"
WMC, MiamiThe most complex event PL0T ever produced, and the most loved. A family party that became the benchmark for everything that followed.
Ryan Elliott
Detroit · PL0T Regular"A loose creature of the night who couldn't care less whether his shirt is tucked in." One of Detroit's most adept techno DJs, and a PL0T favourite for years.
Where she is now (2026)
2026 Update · Antakly ProjectsBecks Lange has not stopped moving. Today she is the Creative Director and partner of DJ Tennis, and together they have built something that extends well beyond the dancefloor — into film, art direction, and visual culture.
Her new venture, The Negative Club Studio, is the clearest expression yet of the sensibility she has always carried. The tagline says it plainly: "I make artists look like themselves, louder." It is creative direction, film, and art direction at the intersection of music, fashion, and culture.
The shoe collection, we're told, is still coming. We believe her.
You can follow the work at @negativeclub on Instagram.
This conversation was originally published in 2009 and has been revisited and expanded for the Antakly Projects archive. Becks's words from the original interview are reproduced with her voice intact.
Part of the Antakly Projects Miami archive — conversations with the people who built the city's underground, one night at a time. Read more Miami conversations here.
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