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The phrase ‘disrupting techno’ is one that gets thrown around a lot in electronic music and critics circles, usually in reference to an act who breaks the mould of techno purism, but for all accounts is still making techno. As a style born as a form of disruption in of

New York producer Vitesse X used to make shoegaze. It makes sense that she was drawn to George Clanton’s 100% Electronica movement (née label), known for their futuristic chill and vaporwave and most recently, their cyber-rave VR events that streamed over the course of lockdown. It was here that Vitesse

Oh, electroclash. That glorious moment between the late 90’s and early 2000’s when the sound of the European underground was defined by a seedy sort of glamour, simultaneously grimey and glittery in the name of vanity, hedonism, and deliciously louche excess. Pulling both visual and sonic aesthetics from the New

On last year’s Reporting From Detroit, minimal techno visionaire Terrence Dixon mapped a portrait of the city that made him. Like sonic cartography, the music on Reporting echoed the architecture of his home city, both physical and social. Sparse, spacious, yet simultaneously dense, Dixon notes how his ‘Detroit techno’ comes

From sci-fi gospel to another great Soulwax remix, 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.  Kelly Lee Owens – Sonic 8 On 2018’s Inner Song, Welch DJ and musician Kelly

We were privileged enough to speak to techno icon Jeff Mills last year, shortly before the release of his jazz inspired collaboration with Rafael Leafar, The Override Switch. The album marked a continued interest for Mills in finding the intersections between electronic music and analog instrumentation, an interest that has

Max Cooper approaches music like mathematics. His background and PhD in science is likely part of this unique approach, with Cooper’s interests lying in the science of sequencing sound. The result of this obsessive investiture into the possibilities of sound design has resulted in Cooper becoming renowned for crafting a

Earlier this year, Flume announced his upcoming new album Palaces, his first since 2016, with a single featuring MAY-A. Surprisingly, the comeback single seemed to gesture at a change in direction for the Australian producer away from his signature style of post-dubstep / future-bass toward poppier waters. Say Nothing was

There are few bands quite like Guerilla Toss currently out there. The New York based outfit occupy a space in the rock-electronica crossover sphere that has often been traversed by groups in the past like The Naked And Famous or LCD Soundsystem, but while most art rockers these days have

The dichotomy between PC Music and 100 Gecs’s respective styles of hyperpop is sort of bridged by umru. The Brooklyn based producer has always brought his American sensibilities to the otherwise UK informed PC Music collective; immediately bawdier, more in-your-face saturations of pop tropes than, say, A.G. Cook’s slightly more

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