Mono’s new EFX Series of “DJ Assault Gear” is a collection of luggage pieces designed to fit all the necessary accouterments a DJ might need to apply his trade on the go. Coming in a variety of styles and sizes, ranging from $140-$190, the DJ bags feature specific compartments for your laptop, vinyls, headphones, hard […]
8
Jan
LA's Droid Behavior returns with its 30th installment of Interface
One of our favorite (and of course best) LA undergrounds is celebrating its 30th installment this Saturday, January 7. That’s right – 30 nights of pure techno and its mutations in its freshest form. If you were one of the lucky Angelenos to attend the last installment – Droid’s 7 year anniversary party – then […]
16
Oct
LA's Best Techno party turns 7...and celebrates the only way they know how
If you’re like me, then you’re totally stoked for this weekend. What’s going on? I’ll tell you. Droid Behavior, purveyors of all things techno, is having its Seven Year Anniversary party this Saturday (October 17th) in Los Angeles. Home to one of the strongest underground techno scenes in the US, Los Angeles owes a debt […]
23
Sep
M.A.N.D.Y. takes us through some of the Berlin label's best
Get Physical, one of our favorite Berlin labels (there are, admittedly, several), is celebrating its seventh year of existence this past summer. The guys have perfected a tech-house sound that, as their label name, suggests, is aimed squarely at the dancefloor. Acts like Booka Shade and M.A.N.D.Y. have become headliners at festivals across the world, […]
Today’s stale pseudo-celebutard Hollywood clubs and inpersonal massive corporate candy raves leave the sophisticated Angeleno music lover, like myself, yearning for a simpler time — aka the 90s. The warehouses were plentiful, the drugs were clean, the soundsystems went 8am strong and the energy was lucid and pure. And what there wasn’t was just as […]
A little something to get your Friday moving. Atlanta’s Le Castlevania sent his latest remix with Computer Club and Rrrump — “Back Up In This”, originally produced by Designer Drugs. “On this one I really went for a more fun and poppy dancefloor kind of sound, although you can still hear my signature Le Castle […]
Berlin’s Modeselektor and Ellen Allien are going on tour this summer, and if you like shaking your butt to soundwaves emanating from giant speakers, then you should mos def check them out. Modeselektor are among the best producers out there, making music so bass-filled and dark that you’d have to be a quadriplegic to not […]
Not true. What about in the four-minute, 25-second mark when the tinny hi-hat drops? Won’t you feel stupid when you miss that moment of extacy, smartypants.
