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LFO's Mark Bell, Electronic Music Pioneer and Crucial Warp Signee, Dies at 43
How a former teenage breakdancer became one of the greatest innovators of early UK electronic music.
Piers Martin
10.13.14
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Cruising Down ‘Momento Drive’ with Rebolledo of Pachanga Boys
We caught up with the Mexican tripper about his new work for Kompakt and Cómeme.
Piers Martin
5.24.14
Words
Daft Punk: The Birth of The Robots
Daft Punk became robots on September 9, 1999.
The date – 9-9-99 – is significant, according to Thomas Bangalter, because this was the day the little-known “9999 bug” corrupted the...
Piers Martin
12.4.13
You Need to Hear This
The Five Best Electro Tracks According To Helena Hauff
Plus we caught up with the Hamburg producer and DJ to chat about how dance music changed her life but ruined her academic career.
Piers Martin
7.12.13
The Mistakes Issue
The Sound of Fear
Film composer Alan Howarth on the Sci-Fi and horror soundtracks that defined a genre.
Piers Martin
10.31.12
Music
Summer Vacation Gets An Acid Trance Remix In Ceephax Acid Crew's "Mediterranean Acid" [Q&A]
Bringing back memories of too much cheap wine and sunburnt skin.
Piers Martin
8.6.12
Music
Dadamoshing With Warp Record's Leila Arab
Forget datamoshing, there’s a new pretender to the throne.
Piers Martin
1.25.12
The Seeing Trails Issue
Synthesisers In The Rain
Every so often, Scandinavia produces a group who seem to exist in a world of their own, but whose music welcomes you in like an old friend. Röyksopp had that quality, so too, rather more sadistically, do The Knife.
Piers Martin
1.1.10
The Universal Sadness Issue
Electric Independence
Regular readers may have noticed the absence of this column in Vice for most of last year. For those who cared, I can only mumble a sheepish apology and promise to write it more regularly. What amazing new music have you missed out on? Quite a lot, I...
Piers Martin
1.1.09
The Homo Neanderthalensis Issue
Electric Independence
For the second month in a row we're over in New York, in a manner of speaking, talking to a couple of guys who've made an incredible record that perhaps a few hundred people might think about buying.
Piers Martin
3.1.08
The 4-ACO-DMT Issue
Electric Independence
There’s rarely anything positive to say about the Daily Mail or the Mail on Sunday, but it wasn’t the toughest decision in the world to buy a copy of the paper the other weekend when it offered a free copy of Jean Michel Jarre’s Oxygene album on CD
Piers Martin
2.1.08
The What We Do is Secret Issue
Electric Independence
At the end of October last year, Bogdan Raczynski fell from a hotel window in Graz, Austria, and ended up in hospital with two broken heels. Heels-ouch.
Piers Martin
1.1.08
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