When Tehran lights up Köln, pull up your experimental electronic caravan and celebrate

Here comes the twist – in a year in which so much of the adventurous end of the electronic music scene was stalled, that dynamism was alive in Köln by way of Iranian diaspora. Timcheh was a window into where electronic musical inventors can go next, together.

Techno: The Gathering, scene satire fantasy game, keeps getting better

Curse if you must the fact that modern DJing requires managing social media accounts, navigating scenes, understanding the dimensions of cool. But some DJs will mix all those things as adeptly as they do records – and hold up a mirror to the rest of us.

Peter Kirn - November 1, 2018

Watch The Black Madonna DJ live from … inside a video game

Algorithmic selection, soulless streaming music, DJ players that tell you what to play next and then do it for you… let’s give you an alternative, and much more fun and futuristic future. Let’s watch The Black Madonna DJ from inside a video game.

Peter Kirn - August 16, 2018

Someone made a bot for The Black Madonna, and it zeitgeist is

Peter Kirn - July 7, 2017

Producers and DJs can now sign up to get paid for SoundCloud plays

Peter Kirn - March 13, 2017

Mixes of the moment: dark techno, diverse records

Peter Kirn - November 16, 2016

Meet the new faces of DJing in this unique video series

Peter Kirn - October 16, 2015

Here’s how to start making your own Stems for sale or DJing

Peter Kirn - August 24, 2015

Jazzy Jeff, Shiftee Show Us Turntable as a Musical Instrument

Peter Kirn - April 14, 2015

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