April's lineup for Broken Disco exemplifies what makes the resurrected monthly night great. The two top billers/ballers, Ghislain Poirier and Thomas Fehlmann, occupy space at almost opposite ends of the sonic spectrum, but both are among the elite of their respective styles.
While Poirier's first release, 2001's Il N'y a Pas de Sud, came out on minimalist-ambient imprint 12k and dealt in that label's chilly, technoid tone poems, he later bloomed into the sort of producer whose bass frequencies and beats are typically sonic foreplay to raw sex; the producer/DJ's parties in his native Montreal, Bounce Le Gros, are reputed to be low-end, bootycentric bacchanals bursting with extroverted hiphop, baile funk, and dub. Poirier's transformation has been one of the strangest and unlikeliest of recent electronic-music history.
On the other hand, Fehlmann followed a stint in German/Swiss new-wave mavericks Palais Schaumburg by playing crucial roles in 3MB—a techno supergroup with Juan Atkins and Basic Channel's Moritz Von Oswald—and the blissful ambient dub/techno outfits Sun Electric and the Orb, while also maintaining a successful solo career. He's become one of the esteemed Kompakt label's most revered producers, thanks to excellent works like the Visions of Blah and Honigpumpe full-lengths and contributions to the Total, Schaffelfieber (with the Orb), and Pop Ambient compilations. Lowflow, Fehlmann's 2004 LP on Plug Research, proved he excels at what can reasonably be called dubhop, as well.
While Fehlmann's forte is über-danceable, subliminally dubby minimal, he shows versatility with lush, swirling ambient cuts and heavier, shuffle-rhythm techno. As a live performer, the bald, bespectacled Fehlmann dances his svelte Teutonic ass off while whipping crowds into their own blur of swaying limbs. The fiftysomething beatmeister stays in constant motion behind his laptop, proving against odds to be a phenomenally riveting entertainer. For Broken Disco, he'll be focusing on the dubbier end of his repertoire.
By contrast, Poirier's music is about the radical rupture and contort-your-face bass pressure. Working increasingly with MCs (including Seattle's DJ Collage and Anti-Pop Consortium's Beans), Poirier shoves rap into some aural avenues down which it rarely creeps. Purists may scowl at the tracks on 2005's Breakupdown and 2007's No Ground Under, but Poirier vitally scrambles hiphop's rhythmic atoms in his international genre (s)mashups. The new Soca Sound System EP finds Poirier exploring rambunctious Caribbean rhythms and boisterous, alpha-male vocal cadences. It's music to jump through the ceiling to.
Finally, don't sleep on Miami's Romulo Del Castillo, a member of experimental-electro units Soul Oddity and Phoenecia. 
