Aleksi Perälä is the definition of a stalwart. The Finnish producer has been programming tunes to move your body to since the late 90’s. But his most distinct quality is his ability to evolve his sound with the times; he’s always created left-field EBM that walks the tightrope between techno
The last we heard from Japan’s Soshi Takeda, he was making Balearic vaporwave inspired by a book of vintage Chinese landscape paintings and sounding like it could be the soundtrack to a Final Fantasy reboot for Nintendo. Floating Mountains, made entirely by using retro synths and technology, was a strikingly
Here’s a fact; William Orbit is one of the most prolific producers of the century. It’s not an unfounded statement; his multiple Grammy awards attest to that. The English producer had an immense impact on the sound of Y2k pop radio, shaping the direction of that era’s most influential records.
Based in Phoenix, Arizona, Michelle Sparks is quickly making a name for herself as an icon of American techno. Her sound is a future leaning blend of barebones minimalism and deft musicality, meshing the atmospheric with the propulsive. Her luscious basslines and euphoria-inducing breakdowns have found a home on LA-based
Image courtesy The Echo Agency Auriga’s sound is the sort of techno that can only be formulated by a deep rooted understanding of music. Her dynamic and kinetic productions embrace the sort of melodies, harmonies and textures that add an impossible sense of dimension to the regular time thud of
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Image: Melody As Truth The word that comes to mind when considering the body of work from Los Angeles native Suzanne Kraft is evolving. The producer and multi-instrumentalist has always maintained an aura of L.A cool melancholy, first introduced on 2011’s disco influenced Green Flash EP, then extracted and isolated
Image by Estudio Primo The arc suggested by French electronic ambient composer and multi-instrumentalist Colleen’s latest offering, The Tunnel and the Clearing, is simple. It is a journey from darkness to light, from one opening to the next. However, Colleen’s invocation of this journey takes what is otherwise a linear
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Image: Glydezone Recordings Over the course of the past few years, prolific Californian producer Dâm-Funk has been preoccupied with the structural core of the sounds that inform his music. What these experiments have produced is a trilogy of EPs that see the artist unlearning, relearning and reformulating the codes of
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Image: Rush Hour Detroit is arguably one of the most significant cities in the history of electronic music. It marks the birthplace of what has become known as ‘Detroit techno,’ one of the last stylistic inventions of African-American dance music in the 1980’s and one of the most influential sounds
Image: black.round.twelve There was a time before the hour-long microbeat acid trip of Matsu that Ricardo Villalobos was busy crafting the music that would, in so many ways, shape his genre. Arguably one of the foremost pioneers in the minimal techno and micro-house scenes, the Chilean-German producer and DJ’s early
