Oh, we’re halfway there — the soundtrack to beating 2020, with the last two months featuring a mythical Filipino dragon, Japanese doom metal, Irish hip-hop, industrial funk, glitchy pop, prehispanic death metal, white noise symphonic […]
Tag: techno
Jeff Mills interview: ‘I’m just throwing music into the spiral’
“Your brain needs to be wired a certain way to do it. I don’t even think it’s about confidence, you just have to have no fear in what you’re about to try next. I’m not afraid to make mistakes. I’m not a machine.”
The sound of real isolation on The Razor Wire: Answering Machine (1990 – 2000)
Terms like self-isolation and social distancing crept up on us over the last few weeks, and they’re now drummed into our heads. And even if you’re rolling your eyeballs inside out at the state of […]
Daithi interview: A problem shared
Electronic music has always been about specifics, but often it’s focused on the intricacies of sound design or a utilitarian blueprint for dancing. Some of the greatest electronic albums and tracks are futurist concept pieces, […]
The Mannheim Sound: Nick Curly and Marc Sholl pick their top 10 Cécille Records tracks
German electronic label Cécille Records is relaunching after going on “indefinite leave” in 2015 — rebooting a rich legacy of deep, minimal house and techno that became known as the ‘Mannheim Sound’. Founded in 2007 […]
Fist-up dance floor defiance on Louisahhh’s Feral Rhythm
The clue’s in the title here — Louisahhh’s new EP Feral Rhythm is a straight-up classic call to arms track about dancefloor escapism. The Paris-based New Yorker hits the club with a techno-punk snarl and […]
Beatyard’s bittersweet five-year plan
Since 2015, Beatyard has been one of the more joyous city festivals, throwing parties in Dun Laoghaire thar are family-friendly while still retaining an underground and left-field vibe. But its annual slot at Dun Laoghaire […]
Orbital: When Chime becomes a loop…
A few months ago, Phil Hartnoll lit up Tengu in Dublin with an Easter Sunday DJ set of Orbital classics, with a few deep cuts and exclusives, including an amazing new cosmic krautrock jam remix […]
Colossal rave mutations on Varya Karpova & Vanya Koreya – Extrapolation
Dutch label New York Haunted released a free download compilation last week called In Debt To the Preset, a warm-hearted tribute to famous synth presets, warning: “This is not some ironic hipster joke, this is […]
The Black Madonna interview: ‘I was radicalised pretty early
“I certainly have a little dragon lady in me,” the Black Madonna says over the phone, laughing. It’s a few days after the Game of Thrones finale with half the world losing the plot, but […]
Phil Hartnoll interview: Orbital On + On after 30 years
“No worries, I am officially nocturnal,” is Phil Hartnoll’s text assuring me it’s OK to call him for an interview at 11pm midweek. Later on, he jokes, “I can’t tell the time anyway”, when I […]
Sansibar makes some Finnish EBM-techno noise on White Swan
Helsinki producer Sansibar has been turning the dial in recent years, flitting between trip-hop, dark techno and even lo-fi punk as Shoplift – but hopefully he doesn’t change the station after hitting a bullseye with […]
‘Tomorrow’s music and ideas’: Who to check out at Tallinn Music Week 2019
On the weekend of March 29 when a collective facepalm spreads around Europe over Brexit, at least one city will be fuelled by an inclusive, open-door international ethos, as Tallinn Music Week once again hits […]
For the record: The sound and vision of Eamonn Doyle’s Dublin
Few artists in the early days of techno had a long-term projection, aside from an abstract idea they were making the music of the future. Legacies were for classic rock bands, and even a 10-year […]
Sound minds: January 2019 in 21 tracks
Thank u January, next. Here’s some music you might’ve missed under the deluge of shit memes about how long it lasted. Last month was powered by street meat, desert synthwave, dank dub, DIY minimal wave, […]
