techno
CD: Madonna - MDNASaturday, 24 March 2012
Everyone wants their own Madonna. Some want the mischievous, tinny, Eighties, New York club chick; some want the sexadelic, Shep Pettibone-produced art-nudie; some want the gently euphoric Ray of Light trance angel; some want the house-tinted... Read more... |
Justin Broadrick previews JK Flesh albumMonday, 19 March 2012The veteran noise artist Justin Broadrick - whose previous projects include Godflesh, Head of David, Napalm Death, Jesu, Greymachine, Palesketcher and Techno Animal, the latter in collaboration with Kevin Martin - has unveiled the new track "... Read more... |
CD: Mouse On Mars - ParastrophicsSaturday, 03 March 2012
Jan St Werner, half of German duo Mouse On Mars, recently held forth on their inspirations, citing the tension between metrical freedom and metronomic funk in the work of Sun Ra and Funkadelic as their key motivator. And while it might seem odd to... Read more... |
Sbtrkt, KokoFriday, 02 March 2012
A mea culpa from me: I never gave Sbtrkt's records the attention they deserved. I always thought they were a capitulation, a softening of the radical developments of the post grime and dubstep generation with more traditional musicality and indie... Read more... |
Justice, Brixton AcademySaturday, 11 February 2012
Justice – pronounce it “Joosteece”, for they are as French as they come – deconstruct the opposition between style and substance. Everything about them is preposterous, from the hipster facial hair via the rock-pig antics in their A Cross The... Read more... |
Nicolas Jaar, The RoundhouseFriday, 03 February 2012
The Roundhouse is a melee of moneyed cosmopolitan twentysomething trendies. The beautiful people are out in force. My God, there are some delicious women and men here, expensively dressed, uptown couture to the hilt, a hefty smattering of languages... Read more... |
CD: Enter Shikari - A Flash Flood of ColourMonday, 09 January 2012
Of all the unlikely and incompatible collisions of genre imaginable, thrash metal with clubland trance must be pretty near the top of the tree. One is beefy, roaring, angry and punctuated by vocals akin to a dyspeptic troll burping, the other is... Read more... |
2011: The Rave ReturnsFriday, 30 December 2011
Against all the odds, I find myself going into 2012 with a strong sense of optimism. And the reason? I am a born-again rave zealot. I saw it at Outlook Festival in Croatia, I saw it at Sónar in Barcelona, and I saw it at the Big Chill where I was... Read more... |
Red Bull Music Academy: a caffeine boost for the music industry?Tuesday, 06 December 2011
I almost feel duty bound to make a declaration of interest here. I have done several pieces of paid writing for the Red Bull Music Academy, including a piece of course material for this year's Academy, and a few days ago I went to Madrid to see the... Read more... |
CD: Aquasky - Raise the DevilMonday, 05 December 2011
A decade and a half ago I was junglist correspondent for Eternity magazine, a long since defunct organ that catered to the then thriving print press for rave devotees. This was how I ran into Aquasky, a trio of studenty, long-haired guys from... Read more... |
CD: Korn - The Path of TotalitySunday, 04 December 2011
In the mid-Nineties, America had a bit of a moment with electronic dance music. The most emblematic sign of this was The Prodigy’s Fat of the Land topping the Billboard charts in 1997. The truth was, however, that despite inventing house music and... Read more... |
CD: Radio Slave - Works! Selected Remixes 2006-2010Monday, 14 November 2011
If there's one electronic sub-genre that is not worth approaching blind it's “tech-house”. Since the late Nineties, it has tended to be the most functional and generic of club soundtracks, a steady, decadent plod, all clean lines and predictable... Read more... |
