Kicking off our new podcast series is none other than techno icon Ellen Allien. A generational visionary, she has always looked to the future for inspiration, carving her own path in the world of techno and the Berlin dance scene as DJ, musician, label-manager and creative all rounder. Unable to
Acid House / acid techno / interviews / New EP / podcast / Techno
From expertly crafted tech house to simmering latin flavoured tech, we roundup our favourite releases of the week. Listen below. Follow our Roundup Selections playlist on Spotify to stay updated on what we have on repeat. Pabllo Vittar & Rina Sawayama – Follow Me Brazilian pop sensation Pabllo
Acid House / acid techno / AfroHouse / afrotech / Alternative / House / Pop / Tech House / Techno
Whereas the dance music most immediately associated with South Africa are the forms that have arisen from the country’s townships and underground spaces, Portable (AKA Alan Abrahams, AKA Bodycode) has taken things in a different direction. Based in Paris, the South African DJ and producer has typically grappled with reconciling
Acid House / ambient / electronica / experimental / House / Techno
If you are unfamiliar with what goes down in the underground queer club spaces of the world, it’s perhaps best to start by understanding that you’re dealing with a counterculture rooted in modes of subversion and performativity. These are spaces unafraid to reference, to clash, and to piece together mutant
90's house / Acid House / House / Techno
The wabi-sabi school of thought is one of Japan’s most influential aesthetic philosophies, informing many aspects of Japanese culture and artmaking. Finding beauty in the imperfect, the everyday, and otherwise mundane, wabi-sabi proposes an alternate perspective on the world around us. Shinichi Atobe’s music has never strived for outward perfection.
The moment that Japanese-American singer Hikaru Utada (aka Utada) crossed over from moderate success in her home country to full blown J-pop sensation came at around the same time she decided to start producing her music herself. In taking this creative control, Utada crafted a new direction for her sound
Acid House / House / J-pop / Pop
The origin point of house music can be traced definitively back to Chicago, where the form arose as a reaction to disco and became popularised by its Black, mostly queer, progenitors at the South Side’s The Warehouse nightclub from which the genre takes its name. But house would also find
IMAGE: MARCUS MOONEN/VIA FLICKR Keyboardist, bassist and member of pioneering acid house band 808 State Andrew “Andy” Barker has died. The Manchester band confirmed Barker’s passing on social media. An Instagram post on Saturday with a photo of Barker included the caption: “After a happy life Andrew Barker experienced a
Image by Jordan Johnson & Louisa Nicolaou DJ, rapper and acclaimed party starter Chippy Nonstop has released her self-titled debut album with collaborator dj genderfluid, and it’s an astoundingly nuanced experiment in storytelling. Spanning 11 tracks with two bonus remixes, the album spins together a rave utopia that lives up
