Perfection is a nebulous concept, one that varies dramatically depending on who or what is directing the point of comparison. In terms of music production,...
The weather in Miami's South Beach is indeed hot, but so are the music scene and the record-industry types that call the area home. And these days, no...
The man of a thousand freaky hats, Jay Kay, is sitting in the English garden of his Chillington, Buckinghamshire, estate in England. A stronghold during...
If the standard pop band is the result of years of evolution and natural selection whereby the most well-adapted species rise to the top of the entertainment...
It's rare these days that Luke Fair shops for records in a record store. Since opening for Sasha's Involver tour this past year and John Digweed's Fabric...
I was lucky to grow up in a household that had a lot of music going on all the time. My dad was always listening to music, and he was an avid hi-fi electronics...
At the turn of the millennium, it was difficult to escape Armand Van Helden's tight grip on surging dancefloors across the United States and abroad. From...
With the proliferation of cheap, easy-to-use software, just about anyone can be an electronic-music producer. Although a good percentage of bedroom electronic...
On Sept. 16, Miami's Ultra Music Festival teamed up with New York based dance label Ultra Records to present a stripped-down Ultra Music Festival New...
Although most devote their week in South Beach to mojitos and sangria, producers do occasionally work during the Winter Music Conference even if it is...
Listening to Ellen Allien's albums some several thousand miles away from the city of their conception, one obtains a fascinating aural picture of Berlin...
I started my own record label in Detroit called Ersatz Audio in early 1995 with the release of a 12-inch for my solo project, Artificial Material. A year...
VHS is the new vinyl, Jack Dangers states as he approaches the cash register of Village Music, holding a conspicuous lack of wax. Dangers' video-tapes...
Armed and animated, Timo Maas is flipping through his latest grab bag of CDs and vinyl, rattling off the new acquisitions with the informed nonchalance...
Outer-space beings are my brothers, the enigmatic Sun Ra told writer Michael Shore back in 1979. They sent me here. They already know my music. Amazingly,...
UNPLUGGED With only acoustic instruments, Alarm Will Sound takes on Aphex Twin True instrumentation is almost an afterthought these days thanks to the...
Do you remember when music served as a vehicle to tell a story? Although most are familiar with the impact that '60s-era rock and folk musicians had on...
SOUND SAGE The Juan Maclean builds anew from experience and pieces of his past New Hampshire might not be a hotbed of the electronic-music scene, but...
Lee Burridge is indeed a man of mystery. By day, he is a normal guy who plays with his Microsoft Xbox, goes to the movies and occasionally whips up a...
FREE MARKET The pop-culture multimedia hustle of Negativland knows no bounds Rock band, experimental-art group, media pranksters and ersatz archivists...
At Franz und Josef, Berlin The spaced-out beats and cinematic atmospherics of trip-hop have found their avatar in downtempo pioneer Richard Dorfmeister...
If you're a child of the '70s and maybe even if you're not you're sure to recognize the whistling oscillator melody that provided the main theme for the...
From the subterranean, womblike confines of his aptly named 80 Hz Studio in Brussels, Belgium, Benoit Franquet, aka Pole Folder, has been quietly cranking...
Recently, at a gym in New York, a music video from DJ Rap's 1999 major-label debut, Learning Curve (Columbia), popped up on eight big-screen televisions,...
It's amazing that anything gets done in the Goldie Lookin Chain studio, what with eight core members (sometimes as many as 23) constantly clouding up...
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