Electronic Music

Why Are Old School Electronic Artists Annoyed With EDM?

Broadly speaking, if you're an electronic music fan over 40, you probably dig Danny Tenaglia more than Skrillex. And chances are, if you're a Skrillex fan under the age of 30, you're like, "Who the hell is Danny Tenaglia?" Coachella 2013 exemplified the generation gap in the world of dance music. ... More >>

Jason Bentley Influences the Country's Indie Musical Taste, but His Heart Still Beats to the Electronic Underground

"When you're music director at KCRW," Jason Bentley says, "you're kind of music director of Los Angeles." This may sound a bit presumptuous on its face, but it's basically correct. For many listeners, KCRW is a community as real as any actual physical location in the city, its personalities the fir ... More >>

The 20 Greatest EDM DJs: The Complete List

Electronic dance music's recent resurgence has made the genre more popular than ever before, but it's still often not taken seriously as an art form. World's Douchiest DJs: The Top Five The 20 Worst Hipster Bands Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre And yeah, many goofily-dressed ravers are ... More >>

The 20 Greatest EDM DJs: 10-1

See also: The 20 Greatest EDM DJs: 20-11 Electronic dance music's recent resurgence has made the genre more popular than ever before, but it's still often not taken seriously as an art form. And yeah, many goofily-dressed ravers are so high they'll literally dance to anything. But below we've highl ... More >>

The 20 Greatest EDM DJs: 20-11

Electronic dance music's recent resurgence has made the genre more popular than ever before, but it's still often not taken seriously as an art form. And yeah, many goofily-dressed ravers are so high they'll literally dance to anything. But below we've highlighted 20 top-notch spinners who put real ... More >>

Skrillex, James Murphy - Hard Summer, Day Two - 8/4/12

Our review of HARD Summer, Day 1 Claude Vonstroke Got in the EDM Game Late and Now He's Taking It Over HARD Summer 8/4/2012 Los Angeles State Historic Park Better than... A night without dance jams. Earlier this week, Forbes Magazine published a list of top 10 highest paid DJ/producers on the ... More >>

Top Ten EDM Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Dance Music

*World's Douchiest DJs: The Top Five *Ask a Teen Raver *Interview With a Raver Who Wears Electrical Tape on Her Boobs *Top Ten Jazz Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Jazz *Top Ten Metal Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Metal Electronic dance music (you know, EDM) is the hottest ... More >>

DJ Justin Martin, at Avalon Tonight, Says West Coast is Best Coast

The West Coast was a shining beacon for American dance music. It was where Kaskade, Miguel Migs, Mark Farina, DJ Dan, Doc Martin, Donald Glaude, Marques Wyatt, Hardkiss and so many others fostered a special sound. While this is still the place to be for massive festivals like Coachella and Electric ... More >>

Nero's Joseph Ray On Classical Music, Being Inspired by Sci-Fi Flicks and Why People Bash American Dubstep

Nero's eclectic, electronic sound has always been a bit obsessed with sci-fi and spaceships. So it seems fitting that their profile has blasted off in the last year following the release of their 2011 debut, Welcome Reality. Their ability to build on the ferocity of dubstep for the last several year ... More >>

12th Planet is the Johnny Appleseed of Dubstep

Skrillex sleeps on his couch

Moguai: Deadmau5's Associate Leads a Big Beat Comeback

Veteran DJ Moguai was born Andre Tegeler; he's been playing parties and putting out music since the mid-'90s. Jams like "U Know Why" (2002) picked up on the Big Beat sound popularized by artists like Fatboy Slim, while 2007's "Freaks" is a guitar-inflected electro track. He's even got his own label, ... More >>

John Acquaviva

Skrillex: L.A. DJ, Producer Is Boy King of Electronic Dance Music

Leads the mashed-up, remixed generation

Friday Night Fever

Formerly the bastard stepchild of club nights, Friday is giving Saturday some competition

Pictureplane, oOoOO- Check Yo' Ponytail 2 - 8/16/11

Colin Young-WolffYasmine Kittles of Tearist performing with Pictureplane​Who: Pictureplane, oOoOO, Javelin, Babe Rainbow, Hollagramz Where: Check Yo' Ponytail 2 @ The Echoplex When: August 16, 2011 Better than... Tumbling psychedelic druid gifs all night. With the increasing amount of refe ... More >>

John Digweed Heads to The Mayan Downtown Wednesday: He Does The LA Weekly DJ Q&A

John Digweed.​Paris Hilton recently tweeted that "House music is taking over!" And she thus marked a new life cycle for a 30-year-old genre. In dance music, though, it's not about what's taking over but about what aspect of the scene has bubbled back up and taken on a new identity. The house ... More >>

Dance at Coachella: Where (and How)

Your best dance choices if you are ...

Swedish House Mafia's Steve Angello: The Swedish Godfather

Despite the rumors, Coachella may have not lost its edge — it just relocated to the dance tent

The Godfather and the Pusher

Vanguard and King King set the stage for dance music

DJ Q&A: Pete Tong Says 'L.A. Is The Home Of The BIG Event' When It Comes To Global Dance Music

It's all going Pete Tong Saturday at Monster Massive.​Pete Tong, as the U.K.'s Independent newspaper put it, is "the god of dance music." With BBC Radio 1's "Essential Selection" and "Essential Mix" shows, he certainly is global clubland's most influential DJ. He's the guy who every other A-l ... More >>

DJ Q&A: Felix Da Housecat Helps Celebrate Avaland's Sixth Anniversary

​Felix Da Housecat is a rare survivor of house music's '80s beginnings. An acolyte of DJ Pierre and an O.G. producer in his own right (he put out "Phantasy Girl" in 1987 -- 1987!), the DJ has reinvented himself as a contemporary hipster fluent in the neon accents and hip-hop flavorings (he's c ... More >>

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 >>

Coachella Q&A: DJ Richie Hawtin Speaks About Technology And The State Of American Electronic Music

​We caught up with Richie Hawtin, a.k.a. Plastikman, at Coachella over the weekend and asked him a few questions about technology and the state of North American dance music. Hawtin has pioneered the use of Ableton Live software to atomize and reconstruct tracks on-the-fly during DJ performanc ... More >>

House Club 'Deep' Calls It Quits

Marques Wyatt​As West Coast church of house music Deep celebrates its 11th anniversary Sunday, it's also calling it quits. Promoter and DJ Marques Wyatt made the announcement this week. The Valentine's Day wrap party will include Mark Farina, Miguel Migs, Lisa Shaw and Wyatt himself on the dec ... More >>

Ten Techno Jams We Still Love

Whether it's IDM, minimal, electro, acid or whatever other name you want use to pinpoint a sound, we love techno. We love the way it forces us to dance, even when we're sitting in front of a computer in an office trying to finish a story. We love the way it affects our walk when we enter a party. W ... More >>

Top 10 Dance Albums: Club-land Crossover

In 2009, the mainstream flocked to dance-floor grooves

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 >>

Interview: Ben Watt on the Dark Euro Sound, the Business of Dance Music and the Future of Mixes

Ben Watt has had one of the more unusual journeys in the annals of DJ success. As one half of pop act Everything But The Girl, he had much more mainstream fame (and likely more fortune, too) than almost anyone could achieve in club-land. But as the duo followed its muse toward electronic elements in ... More >>

Larry Tee Talks: 'L.A. Has a Better Club Scene Than New York'

Larry Tee has floated through contemporary club history like Forrest Gump on ecstasy, seemingly everywhere you'd want to be. Growing up in Atlanta, he hung out with R.E.M. and co-wrote fellow Atlantan Ru Paul's 1992 hit "Supermodel (You Better Work)." In 1990s New York he became a DJ on the club kid ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

This Weekend's Electric Daisy Carnival: An Interview with Promoter Pasquale Rotella

By Dennis Romero For the 13th year Los Angeles promoter Pasquale Rotella and his company Insomniac are putting on one of the nation's largest dance music festivals, Electric Daisy Carnival. We say festival because rave just doesn't do it justice, even though he started off in the glowstick undergro ... More >>

LA Rave Champion Swedish Egil Plays Downtown Saturday Night

Saturday night's Rave L.A. event will bring together the old school and new when Swedish Egil, one of the major forces behind popularizing techno and house in the city, joins Bul!m!atron and DJ S!n for a downtown all-nighter. "Swedish" Egil Aalvik began his DJ career in Europe in the 1970s and relo ... More >>

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 >>

Throbbing Gristle's 33rd Annual Report

They coined the genre name Industrial, foresaw acid house and pushed electronic noise into distant orbits. A legendary art quartet returns to Southern California

Droog to Bring in One of Berlin's Deepest, LoSoul, to LA on Dec. 19

Berln-based producer LoSoul has always been a secret fave of mine, a relatively obscure creator of deep, bass heavy minimalist techno whose work feels much less synthetic than many of his brethren. The stage-name of one Peter Kremeier, LoSoul is part of the consistently fascinating Playhouse Recor ... More >>

Boogie Wonderland at Nocturnal Festival

Infected Mushroom, Richie Hawtin, Dubfire, DJ Craze and many more at San Bernardino event

How Autechre Got Their Groove Back

The English duo mine their past for advice on how to go forward

Record Review

Supermayer's Save the World

Mix and Mash

Neighborhood Music Fest and Nocturnal Festival

Fuck the DNA

The evolution continues with the return of Genesis P-Orridge and Psychic TV

Giant Village's Summer in the City

Electromash

Cease to Exist

The opening of Genesis P-Orridge

Hit the Decks

The Nine Lives of Rave

Black to the Future

Juan Atkins on the vision thing

Motor City Breakdown

Freeways’ hot fahren in the summertime

Sweaty Machines

And smooth Modulations