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SINCE 2010

Depeche Mode: “Told You So” (Construction Time Again, Mute 1983) Depeche Mode’s third album is one I somehow skipped when I discovered their music. It was only much later that I...

AxH: Destroy (Tempa) Dubstep really has gotten a pretty bad rap in many of electronic music’s interconnected circles. Instead of perceiving it as an either/or, I tend to view most...

Gerry Read: “U Got No God Damn Groove” (Fourth Wave, 2013) Gerry Read’s lo-fi mutant house tracks are fairly distinct — they usually share the same grimy lack of polish and exploit...

eccybread: Sendex - Just Dance  (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Efdemin: Decay (Dial) The latest from Phillip Sollman as Efdemin is a significant departure from his previous albums. It’s also one of the best techno albums of recent past, making the...

Cosmonauts Of Innerspace: “Allergy” (Allergy EP, International Deejay Gigolos 2003) This 12" surfaced right at the peak of “electroclash,” and it’s too bad that it...

Lucy: Churches Schools And Guns (Stroboscopic Artefacts) Stroboscopic Artefacts label boss Luca Mortellaro has been releasing a steady stream of solid electronic music through his label,...

Ben Frost: A U R O R A (Mute) Bedroom Community affiliate and collaborator Ben Frost migrates to Mute for the release of his latest opus of bleak machinery drones. His fifth album picks up...

I’m sure Jimi Hendrix had a very intimate relationship with his guitar. But it’s also very different when the instrument you use is the same that you Skype your mom on, and get really good or bad news on – it’s just such an intimate, integrated part of your lifestyle in a way that I don’t think has ever been possible before, and so if that could somehow be communicated, I think it would be really interesting. I’m trying to explore that now, to get at the crux of the intimacy we have with our technology, because so many people really cast it in this light of the laptop being cold. I really think it’s a fallacy the way people cast technology in this light and then cast acoustic or even analogue instruments in this warm, human light, because I don’t understand what would be more human between a block of wood and something that was also created by humans, for humans. People see code as this crazy, otherworldly thing, but it’s just people writing text. It’s a very idiosyncratic, human language.

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Aril Brikha: “Life Like” (Poker Flat, 2008)(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Clark: Superscope (Warp) This 2-tracker from Chris Clark is a curveball after the unusually lush intricacies of his previous double whammy of his Iradelphic album and its follow-up...

uvmann: The US of EDM explained This seems roughly 100% accurate to me. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

IZC: Zig-Zag (disko404) “Zig-Zag” starts off straightforwardly enough, but it’s a much weirder track than one might initially give IZC credit. Its beat grows more jerky...

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