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    April 19, 2010

    Day 3: Plastikman Teaches Future Technology By Digging Into Past At Coachella

    Dennis RomeroA blow-up doll made the rounds at Hawtin's performance Sunday.​The electronic dance music line-up at the 11th annual Coachella festival was decidedly ho-hum, drawing its large audiences from huge names (Tiesto, Deadmau5, Kaskade), but eschewing next-wave talent. Perhaps one excep ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2009

    Interview: Claude VonStroke Says U.S. Doesn't Get Enough Respect In Dance Music

    Claude VonStroke is the prankster of dance music, a provocateur whose tracks ("Who's Afraid Of Detroit," "Deep Throat") are cantankerously groovy. While many DJs set their watches to the latest movements in club-land (minimal, nu electro, tech-trance), VonStroke is a rare spinner who has created an ... More >>

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    September 17, 2009

    An Interview with Techno Kingpin Juan Atkins: "L.A. is Still Behind the Curve Three or Four Years"

    Cybotron's "Clear," from 1983 More than any other person, Detroit's Juan Atkins is credited with creating techno. Of course, electronic dance music, which fills clubs, warehouses and festivals each weekend, provides sounds for car commercials, movies and public radio, and fuels the technology of c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2009

    An Interview with Compression LA's Robert Pointer

    Robert Pointer is part of a handful of Angelenos responsible for the city's techno renaissance. While the likes of the Droid Behavior crew were already organizing warehouse parties, Pointer's Compression events, starting in 2005, gave the city a legitimate, consistent, accessible venue for the rise ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2009

    Dopplereffekt: Mysterious Electro Legend Makes First LA Appearance Tonight (MP3)

    For fans of Detroit electro, the mere fact that Dopplereffekt is performing in LA is something of mindblower. A brilliantly executed art project/synthetic-beat-music concern whose member(s) remain anonymous, the group and/or person behind Dopplereffekt has crafted some of the funkiest and propella ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2009

    SXSSXSW Day 4/Days Late (Pt. 1): On Rap/Rock, The Legacy of the Beasties, and Asher Roth Vs. The Knux

    Other than freshman Delta Sigma Theta rushes at Cal-State Chico, no substrata of the American population has worse taste in rock than rappers. Sure, your little brother likes Fall Out Boy, but eventually, he's going to grow up and discover The Clash, then weed, then hopefully Junior Murvin and Lee ... More >>

  • Music

    May 25, 2006

    Memorial Madness

    Other than freshman Delta Sigma Theta rushes at Cal-State Chico, no substrata of the American population has worse taste in rock than rappers. Sure, your little brother likes Fall Out Boy, but eventually, he's going to grow up and discover The Clash, then weed, then hopefully Junior Murvin and Lee ... More >>

  • Music

    July 29, 2004

    Electromash

    Other than freshman Delta Sigma Theta rushes at Cal-State Chico, no substrata of the American population has worse taste in rock than rappers. Sure, your little brother likes Fall Out Boy, but eventually, he's going to grow up and discover The Clash, then weed, then hopefully Junior Murvin and Lee ... More >>

  • News

    August 22, 2002

    A Mythic Thing

    Tony Wilson on the city of Manchester, the Sex Pistols, Joy Division, Factory Records, New Order, the Hacienda Club, Happy Mondays . . . had enough yet?

  • News

    November 8, 2001

    Black to the Future

    Juan Atkins on the vision thing

  • Music

    August 2, 2001

    Motor City Breakdown

    Freeways’ hot fahren in the summertime

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