Electric independence
By Design
Zeitergeist. Victorian patterns soon haunting a coffee-table book near you. Patterns are the shit. After years of cold, hard lines and over-teched fliers covered in arrows, the electronic-music scene is showing that it's ready for some tricked-out...
Electric Independence
When I think about the first time I was really exposed to electronic music, I was too young to be into shit like the sample-a-delic space age pop of Jean Jacques Perrey, or the twisted genius of inventor Raymond Scott.
Electric Independence
High school sucked. I was short, had thick-ass glasses, and dressed funny. I was bad at sports and wasn’t a huge hit with the ladies.
Electric Independence
There’s been a lot of hype surrounding the NYC electro revival, with a bunch of producers picking up where pioneering acts like Afrika Bambaataa and Man Parrish left off. What a lot of people don’t know is that 1,350 miles south, in a small Latino...
Electric Independence
Even though the hottest Now Wave acts like Fischerspooner and Chicks On Speed are being praised for re-injecting fun into electronic music, some of the best live shit I’ve seen recently wasn’t performed by humans at all. The User is a Montreal duo made...
Electric Independence
They say only two things come out of Texas: steers and queers. But now that Dallas label Downlow Recordings has just released their latest bomb electro-disco EP you can also add “top-notch techno label” to that list.
Electric Independence
11 DAYS OF ELECTRONICAMention the words Montreal music Festival and most people think of standing around the (in)famous Jazz Fest with a bunch of middle age yuppies watching a half assed caricature of a once revolutionary music. Alain...
Electric Independence
I HATE TECHNOLast month I hated techno. I thought experimental electronic music wasn’t going anywhere and used adjectives like “boring” and “played out” when people mentioned it. I guess that’s what happens when all you do is eat, sleep and...