It’s time for the Junior Boys to go bananas as they release the first single from their upcoming album It’s All True. Apparently inspired by a veritable smorgasbord of influences (namely Orson Welles, ...
I first came across Anna Sophie Berger when my girlfriend asked me for my wisdom tooth which had been removed in a very painful one-and-a half hour procedure at a dental clinic a few months earlier. I ...
On this weeks EB Radio episode chat with Ville, a true Renaissance Man. Aside from running his label/party-making promotional machine Import/Export and hanging with the WhoMadeWho gang, he also crafts ...
Rudi Zygadlo is the Scottish solo artist who signed to Planet Mu after sending demos to just two labels and with no real intention of pursuing music production outside of his bedroom. After a swift ...
In this interview taken from our Winter, 2012 print issue, magazine editor A.J. Samuels makes contact with the original Drexciyan and the missing link between Detroit techno and particle physics.
The basic elements of house have been the same since its dawn in the mid-1980s: a vocalist and an instrumental. Of course, that isn’t a surprising combination considering that the genre continued the ...
This is one of the band’s most incendiary live songs. There are many references hidden inside this track, but one of the most immediately obvious comes in the form of the charging disco rhythm that ...
The first time I heard Kraftwerk was on The Electrifying Mojo’s radio show in Detroit in the late seventies. This is when FM radio was still young, and there were only, like, three stations. There ...
Few DJs can claim to have had such a lasting impact as Daniele Baldelli. Throughout the ’70s and into the ’80s he was an instrumental figure in the development of the curious Italian sound known as ...
This week, in an article titled About Vatican Shadow Link With the Far-right, culture journalist Jean-Hugues Kabuiku has highlighted relationships between experimental producer Dominick Fernow—also ...
House is a continuation of disco. You can hear that easily in its arrangement and in its sound, which samples and pulls liberally from the popular club music of the ’70s and early ’80s. And, in fact, ...
Mobb Deep are nothing if not survivors. As teenagers in the mid-nineties, Albert Johnson and Kejuan Muchita created an era-defining sound in hip-hop that was at once uniquely jazzy, deep and ...