One day there will be a Hall Of Fame for techno, and Richie Hawtin will surely be a first ballot entry. One of the most important purveyors of the minimal school, Hawtin was among the second wave of techno artists birthing from Detroit (he was actually from Windsor across the border) in the early 90s […]

LA-based label Culprit bids sayonara to the summer in style with their closing party atop the Standard Downtown this Sunday. Label founders Droog are joined by the magnetic RnB house and disco infused duo Soul Clap (who were kind enough to show us around their hometown for our Coordinates: Boston feature) to end their monthly […]

We were lucky enough to discover Jimmy Edgar back in 2008, thanks to our hometown party luminaries DROID BEHAVIOR. It was 2am on the 2nd floor of a crumbling warehouse in downtown Los Angeles, in a suffocated room of about 75 sweaty, frenzied future-music enthusiasts. The scene was a perfect complement to the exquisite sounds […]

Australia’s PVT have just released their sophomore album Church With No Magic on the peerless Warp Records. Leftfield, dense with textured sounds and more than a bit deranged, the band formerly known as Pivot have a headlock on damaged techno, for lack of a better term. Amidst all that digital rubble, however, are beautiful layers […]

Kenneth James Gibson is one of Los Angeles’ most prolific house producers. Guy has more production aliases than you can shake a stick at, including Premature Wig, dubLoner, Reverse Commuter, Eight Frozen Modules and [a]ppendics.shuffle, and his work has graced some of the top labels in dance music today. Hallucination, Adjunct, Leftroom, Superfreq, Trapez and […]

Our friends over at DROID BEHAVIOR are throwing it down tonight with techno magnate Chris Liebing, spinning alongside residents Drum Cell vs. Audio Injection. Expect much techno hardness. We got more with DROID, but seeing as our man got the interview in to us about 4 minutes ago, we don’t have time to post for […]

If you’ve been to any house club in the past couple years worth a damn then chances are you’ve boogied down to Soul Clap. Elyte (Eli Goldstein) and Cnyce (Charles Levine) first came together under the tutelage of seminal Boston Jedi DJ Caril Mitro of the late Vinyl Connection records (RIP), who taught his young […]

Legendary Detroit techno producer/DJ Jeff Mills created a disc with vinyl pressing on one side and a CD mix on the other. This Occurrence project merges analog and digital together in one format for the everyday music listener. Mills released this new piece of technology as part of his ‘Sleeper Wakes’ series — his project […]