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Mine Italy's music history and it doesn't take long to hit on a strand of dance music outliers, from disco godfather Giorgio Moroder and the Italo movement to industrial pioneer Maurizio Bianchi, and techno DJs such as Marco Carola and Donato Dozzy. Yet these artists are the exceptions in Italy, even in the internet age.
Electronic protest music? In this three-part feature from the Spring 2013 issue of Electronic Beats Magazine, we speak to three contemporary electronic music acts challenging traditional power structures through this most unlikely of musical forms. Here Louise Brailey talks to Janine Rostron aka Planningtorock.
Born in Białystok in 1980, Karol Radziszewski studied painting at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and is a co-founder of the art collective Szu Szu together with Ivo Nikic and Piotr Kopik. He is also the editor-in-chief and publisher of the DIK Fagazine, billed as "the first and the only artistic magazine from Central and Eastern Europe concentrated on homosexuality and masculinity."
"I remember when rosary beads became popular and I was like, 'Nah, I don't want normal rosary beads. So I went and bought beads and got rosary beads made.'" Louis Carnell creases up at the memory, laughing through the visible cringe.
Musically disparate, geographically diverse, and proudly weird: how the Cómeme family built one of the finest dance record labels around today.
In this interview taken from the forthcoming Winter 2013 issue of Electronic Beats Magazine, the experimental musician Laurel Halo talks reality TV, Voyager Golden Records and her latest album of experimental Chance Of Rain with Louise Brailey. Photo by Ismini Adami.
Beneath the blistering afternoon sun, Hannah Wants is giving Mixmag a tour of Ibiza's San Antonio district. "I literally came here with a dream..." she says, breaking off to take a photo of the poster for that evening's gig at Amnesia. Her logo, front and centre, completes the sentence for her.
Despite protestations to the contrary, Adam Beyer looks dog-tired. Collapsed in a chair, he's playing absentmindedly with the frayed edge of a slim-fit, black jumper poking from the sleeve of his slim-fit, black leather jacket. "It's been on repeat for the last six months," he says, in his baritone voice.
DJ Richard is a producer and DJ currently based Berlin. He is a founding member and co-label head of White Material together with musician and producer Young Male. In the upcoming issue of Electronic Beats Magazine, he expounds on his love of the new album from PAN-signed musician Heatsick.
DFA songwriter Dan Bodan, fresh from releasing new album 'Soft', talks musical theatre, fanfiction, and growing up alongside the internet.
As Maxmillion Dunbar, Andrew Field-Pickering creates sensate, intuitive electronic music: it's as if Field-Pickering, a voracious crate digger in his local record stores of Washington DC, has internalized decades of dance music-disco, boogie, go-go, hip-hop-refracting reference points through the right brain until they become snags of sonic phonemes in an advanced sonic language.
In 2011, a run of hand-stamped white labels announced the arrival of yet-another anonymous techno project. Going by the name Dense & Pika, the unit specialised in bunker-optimised techno: all booming kicks and raw, hardware-derived physicality. Twelve inches like 'Buttplug' and 'Vomee' pre-empted the wave of second gen, British warehouse bangers, and yet these productions felt special, different.
In our BPM column, we review a clutch of the most intriguing electronic music currently on offer. This month, Louise Brailey on EeOo, Evian Christ, Minor Science, Planningtorock, Untold and the new compilation from Power Vacuum.
After the fury comes the despair. Elias Bender Rønnenfelt and Loke Rahbek's post-punk side project is a lament for all the beautiful boys who have to grow up, says Louise Brailey. When Vår's music was first turned loose on the world a year ago it was under the banner War.
Katy B is the pop star we deserve. Louise Brailey catches up with UK bass music's biggest success story Katy B, who in turn ventures her own picks of the genre that helped break her. There's a distinguished history of British popular music that, on the one hand is larger than life; the other, kitchen sink.
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In our BPM column, we review a clutch of the most intriguing electronic music currently on offer. This month, Louise Brailey on Mr. Beatnick, Fis, Objekt, Nguzunguzu, Pearson Sound, and Renaissance Man. London's Mr Beatnick may not be the world's biggest self-promoter, preferring that his musical knowledge speak for itself.
In our BPM column, we review a clutch of the most intriguing electronic music currently on offer. This month, Louise Brailey on Mr. Beatnick, Fis, Objekt, Nguzunguzu, Pearson Sound, and Renaissance Man. London's Mr Beatnick may not be the world's biggest self-promoter, preferring that his musical knowledge speak for itself.
This week sees CTM kick off its annual winter residency at the center of Berlin's cultural world. Among the deluge of events which push at the seams of electronic music and performance, it's the Berghain blow-out helmed by Marcel Dettmann that promises to be a showstopper.
When the Mercury Music Prize nominations were announced last month, we weren't impressed. In fact we said they were a "staid group of albums, unrepresentative of the ethnic, age, social or musical mix of Britain... a narrow view of music picked by judges of a narrow background, creating the deeply false impression that British music has had its progressive, subcultural tendencies expunged."
Louise Brailey speaks to the producer, DJ and label owner about hero worshipping Suicide, kicking against the swing and playing "Warbeat" to a club full of Germans. Oscar Powell makes music that sounds ill right down to its splintered bones.
It's 1993, and in the city of Cologne - a good 573 km from Berlin, Germany's main protagonist in its self-mythologising post-unification dance history - buddies Wolfgang Voigt, Jörg Burger, Jurgen Paape and Ingmar Koch open a record shop called Delirium.
Set back from a torpid canal opposite Hallesches Tor, Horst Krzbrg's exterior cuts a modest prospect. Yet, once inside, the ex-post office sheds all trace of municipality, replacing it with beat-up sofas, sticky walls and the kind of sound system that ensures you feel the bassline in your chest cavity.