Image courtesy Sotto Voice Most fans of electronic music will probably agree that the form saw the peak of its golden era in the 21st century from the mid-2000s to the early 2010s. This boom saw largely underground styles such as dubstep, drum & bass, and fidget suddenly burst forward
Image by Zydre Venckus Mark Reeve is the sort of techno legend who has quietly made a name for himself over the course of his career. Having moved to Germany from England fifteen years ago, Reeve sought out the scene that would embrace and develop his particular sound. That sound
Image by Zanele Muholi It makes a ridiculous amount of sense that Desire Marea should tap prolific queer South African photographer Zanele Muholi to shoot the cover for their immaculate debut album, DESIRE. No one else could have captured the multifaceted visionary quite like Muholi. Marea is an artist who
Image by Rosie Marks It’s surprising that someone as iconic as Joy Orbison should put out their first full length release twelve years into their career. Since his debut in 2009, Orbison has enjoyed an illustrious métier as one of the foremost innovators on the U.K underground, all off the
Image courtesy Toolroom It’s no secret that the world of electronic music is a bit of a boys club. The narrative of bedroom producer to major festival headliner is one most often associated with young male acts in the vein of Martin Garrix and Madeon. This is why when fierce
Image by Angelo Kritikos Jersey Club is having a moment. The lightning speed beats and hyperactive bounce of the genre have become increasingly more pertinent in the sound of the zeitgeist (cue: Ciara’s Level Up). This is likely thanks in part to the astronomical rise of Tik-Tok, whose one minute
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Image: Diskotopia San Francisco’s Doc Sleep and Berlin based DJ Glenn Astro have a history of collaboration. The two have developed a sort of creative repartee that has seen them release original work and remixes that speak towards how they inspire each other. Beats Unlimited, both the moniker and eponymous
Image by Emilie Pria 2012 was an important year for electronic music. The renewed interest in the sound of underground club music had brought about the birth of modern EDM and the superstar DJ, and by then this interest was reaching its peak. Also in 2012, a new music broadcasting
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Image by Arthur R Severio Anyone who has been to a bathhouse knows it’s an experience that lingers long after the steam of the sauna has dissipated. Simultaneously liberating and degrading, it’s entering into a microcosm where the rules and standards of the world outside no longer apply. To this
Image: Nyege Nyege The music East Africa refers to as ‘techno’ stands in stark contrast to what we understand as techno in the Western canon, taking the form of mind bending abstract sound collages and works of noise art. Like it’s Western counterpart, East Africa’s techno is very much a
