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Altone is Yuki Takasaki, an emerging talent in dub techno. This is evidenced by his latest record, Invincible Nature, which landed on Echocord, the Kenneth Christiansen-helmed label that’s been at the forefront of the genre for more than two decades. (If that’s not enough to tempt you into a listen, it comes with remixes from […]
Kayper—real name Kaajal Bakrania—was born in Croydon, South London and raised in a family of DJ-producers. During the early 2000s, while still at university studying Music Technology, she drew inspiration from Nookie, her cousin and a pioneer in the UK’s jungle and drum & bass community, and she quickly gained recognition for her exceptional skills […]
More than three decades have passed since John Beltran—an iconic American DJ-producer from Ann Arbor, Michigan—released “Aquatic” on Carl Craig’s Retroactive Records. With it, Beltran capsulized his musical interests and influences of the moment—Carl Craig, the futuristic jazz tracks of Larry Heard, and Logic—and earned the praise of the global house and techno community. Through […]
For West London’s Kessoncoda—the collaboration of drummer Tom Sunney and keyboardist Fil Sowa—it has taken more than 12 years to craft their debut album, Outerstate, which will land next month on Matthew Halsall’s Gondwana Records. They first met in school and became the rhythm section in a heavy metal band, and in the years since—working […]
Christian AB will release his debut album on Ryan Elliott’s Faith Beat imprint. Nu Life is inspired by Christian AB’s early days of collecting music and speaks for “the sounds I have been passionate about for the past decade and a half,” he says. The album delivers a raw yet simple and minimalist approach to […]
UPDATE: As of 7:30 PM PT, the gates have reopened and the festival was allowed special permission to continue until 12:30 AM. It seems like the weather continues to throw ravers a curve ball! Techno City’s Prime Music Festival Movement made the hard decision to temporarily evacuate attendees to seek shelter on day two of […]
Movement Music Festival has announced the set times for its 2024 edition, featuring over 115 acts across six stages and three days. Memorial Day Weekend turns into a Techno holiday in Detroit at Hart Plaza. Set Times The lineup includes headline sets from dance music legend Fatboy Slim, German-Bosnian superstar DJ and producer Solomun, a […]
Tresor Records has partnered with Carhartt Work In Progress (Carhartt WIP), a brand with roots in Detroit, on a forthcoming mini compilation to celebrate the links between the Michigan city and Berlin. The compilation, 030313, which is released in May, references early 90s compilations like Tresor II – A Techno Alliance, and features artists such […]
Having learned the ropes in Detroit‘s underground scene in the mid to late 90s, Magda became a household name almost overnight when she teamed up with the M_nus crew in 1998 – joining artists such as Richie Hawtin, Ricardo Villalobos, Zip and others as they ploughed new furrows for techno at the start of the Millennium. […]
Ryan Crosson has released a new album as Ryan Crosson and The Ridgewood Vanguard on London label FRNTR. We Can Only Ever Be How We Are sees Crosson continuing to explore and push boundaries through his experimental musical output. Across 10 tracks, he brings together an array of friends including Ryan Cavanagh, Violeta Vicci, Emil […]
House legend MK is set to top a bill at a special show at Punchestown next 1 June, with Dom Dolla on support. The Detroit producer, also known as Marc Kinchen, has been a force in house music since the early 90s, with tracks such as Burning, Always, 4You and his reworkings of tracks like […]
The techno of Detroit DJ-producer DJ 3000 (born Franki Juncaj) can be distinguished by its heavy sampling and instrumentation drawing from his Albanian heritage. A longtime Underground Resistance associate, he was raised in Hamtramck, Michigan, a city within the Detroit borders that is heavily populated by immigrants from Southeastern Europe and the Middle East. He […]
Featuring artists such as Decal, Phil Kieran, Americhord, Chymera, Magnetize, Metroneem, John Braine and Takeover Sound, the new Dreams of Electric Bleep compilation (released on Earwiggle’s Bandcamp on 6 October) shines a light on the emerging electro scene in Ireland at the turn of the Millennium – specifically the period from 1999 to 2005. It was […]
Since he began spinning minimal techno records at friends’ parties in 2014, Italian producer D:fferent Place has never looked back. Shirking away from the limelight, he’s instead released a stream of quality EPs on the label of the same name. Last year, he released “Shades of Time,” five-and-a-half minutes of feel-good melodies and chunky low-slung […]
“Travelling in the fastlanefuture techno on my brainnothing stays the samebut human I’ll remain…” Detroit techno pioneer Juan Atkins has revived his legendary act Cybotron to release a new EP on Tresor Records, Maintain The Golden Ratio. The EP is the first new release from Cybotron, in 28 years, and was produced by Atkins alongside […]
Eddie ‘Flashin’ Fowlkes has been a mainstay of the Detroit techno scene since its inception in the mid-80s. Part of the Deep Space DJ collective – alongside Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, Art Payne, Keith Martin and others – Fowlkes took the nascent electronic scene by storm with 1986’s Goodbye Kiss on Metroplex Records, one of the tracks that […]
Ari LaShell (born Arianna Calloway), a neo-soul songwriter from Atlanta, has released her debut EP. LaShell, who has been singing since the age of three, moved from Detroit to Atlanta after eight grade and became infatuated with music during high school. Over the past few years, she’s been releasing singles through her Soundcloud page, spanning […]
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