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West Coast Sound Interviews Underworld on Eve of Hard Summer 2009

Dennis Romero
With roots that reach back to the dawn of the Reagan Administration, Underworld is one of the longest surviving electronic dance bands in history, outlasted only by the likes of Kraftwerk (which, frankly, isn't really Kraftwerk without Florian Schneider, who left the act in January). You would think three decades......
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We Used To Dance

Dennis Romero
“Not everyone understands house music,” goes Eddie Amador’s 1998 anthem. “It‘s a spiritual thing, a body thing, a soul thing.” The song that put West Coast house music on the map is an ode to a hybrid culture that has struggled to be accepted. For a long time, not everyone......
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Hit the Decks

Dennis Romero
L.A.‘s club DJ circuit is like the local porn industry. Performers are paid to bang it hard, the business is overshadowed by Hollywood (in this case, the mainstream music industry), and it’s all about the hand-raising drum-roll crescendo, dance music‘s own money shot. Newer jocks are proficient at blowing their......