After our second artist album, Tweekend (Interscope, 2001), we Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland started DJing a lot more as the Crystal Method. Because we...
Danny Howells worships his records almost as much as he loves his coffee, which he takes iced, and his tequila, of which he prefers Patron. Clutching...
If playing a show doesn't involve swearing (sometimes at the audience) or onstage mishaps, James Murphy doesn't want anything to do with it. And although...
Turning electronic music into a improvisational experience that both maintains the feel of the original material and allows for some flexibility is not...
In 2001, Zach Sciacca, aka Z-Trip, hit pay dirt with his self-released CD, Uneasy Listening (Against the Grain, Vol. 1), a slice-and-dice mix CD on which...
When going back to the beginnings of hip-hop, electro and even house music, the roads definitely intersect with Arthur Baker. Although the Boston-born...
I have DJ'd for many years. I have also produced, remixed and released many mix CDs (the latter including several for Global Underground) for more than...
DJ mixing from a laptop has always been somewhat of an awkward job. After all, DJs are limited to the point-and-click functions of a mouse and computer...
Hernan Cattaneo lives a story of improbability. Who could have predicted that a DJ from Buenos Aires, Argentina, would emerge as one of the most popular...
Have you ever had your confidence broken? Have you ever been so stressed out about making an album that you cracked open your knuckles on the vocal-booth...
I'll put it this way, says Prefuse 73, aka Guillermo Scott Herren, during a recent press junket to New York City to promote his new joint, Surrounded...
One of the landmark figures of Japanese electronic pop and the winner of Grammy, Golden Globe and Academy Awards, Ryuichi Sakamoto has influenced legions...
It's a frigid winter day in Boston with a face-numbing wind gusting up the street from the river and past the front door of Satellite Records. DJ and...
With music, it doesn't matter where an artist comes from as long as a certain sense of creativity comes from within. Although 27-year-old Maya Arulpragasam...
Do you ever hear about athletes who were already skiing when they were 18 months old or swimming at 3 months? Well, I was brought into the music business...
Tiefschwarz, which comprises brothers Ali and Basti Schwarz and engineer Jochen Schmalbach, is currently one of the biggest names in the thriving German...
We don't try to make happy music, Lemon Jelly's Nick Franglen says. It is just what comes out from Fred [Deakin] and me working together. We make uplifting...
Man, we just missed Diamond D, DJ Vlad says with genuine disappointment after being informed of the infamous hip-hop producer's recent departure from...
The biggest argument from people who don't dance music is that the genre is cold, impersonal and short-lived. However, there was a time when groups like...
The expert staff of Antiques Roadshow would be greatly improved by the addition of Chris Adams to its roster. The vocalist and co-programmer of the Leeds,...
Before we, Gabriel & Dresden, started DJing, remixing and producing as a team, we were deeply involved in music. Josh Gabriel began writing and producing...
Anthony Gonzalez doesn't play around when it comes to emotions. His are direct, unfiltered and raw, pouring forth from stereo speakers with an urgency...
No matter what else Howie B achieves during the course of his career, people will always want to ask him about U2. It's been seven years now since the...
So much goes into making a club night special everything has to be perfect: the venue, the sound, the crowd, the mood, the people and (most important)...
For anyone who plays in a live band, something will inevitably go wrong at one point or another. Someone will get electrocuted, a piece of gear will malfunction,...
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