In this special preview of our new Summer 2013 print magazine, we present the cover story—an extensive interview with the divisive pop phenomenon—in full. Photo by Robert Carrithers. Lana Del Rey’s ...
City pop is a genre of Japanese popular music that was popular in the 1980s and featured a “cosmopolitan” image that appealed to those who benefited from the so-called post-war “economic miracle,” an ...
As the yearly festival circuit grows bigger and bigger, A-list DJs like Nina Kraviz, Ellen Allien and Gerd Janson have started to reach for ’90s anthems, which have been, for better or worse, frowned ...
In the second installment of his newly revitalized Rewind column, Finn Johannsen speaks with a true veteran, Flemming Dalum. The Denmark native discovered a passion for Italo disco in the early ’80s, ...
When the promoters behind the Romanian party and festival series Interval announced its closure last December, we took it as proof that their project to open up their countrymen’s hearts and minds to ...
Native Instruments heralded the release of the Komplete 11 audio production suite with Komplete Sketches: a set of 24 commissioned compositions by a range of artists, all of which were made ...
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 ...
We begin with this absolute monster by 999999999, because it describes the way the Berlin underground is going: back to a raw old-school and straight-forward sound.
“This is an album that I produced with Dennis Ferrer. Dennis was working at this great music store in Manhattan called Rogue Music. I met him there a few times as I was always looking for new gear. I ...
The Sound and Style of Beat-Driven Culture. Club music and lifestyle at the global intersections since 2000.
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 ...
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.