DJ T-1000’s Generator revived from reel-to-reels, and more Detroit back catalogs

Here’s another great Bandcamp phenomenon – digital reissues. And for a Detroit techno throwback, where better to start than this DJ T-1000/Generator remaster – and two big back catalogs, while we’re at it?

New Music From Sheffield’s The Black Dog: Focused, Finely-Honed Objects [Stream, Video, Mix]

Out this week is a new full-length from The Black Dog. The Sheffield, England-based trio – Ken Downie, Martin Dust, Richard Dust – have been making smart, non-boring electronic music for ages. (Let’s not utter “IDM” – but “smart” fits.) From Warp to Ostgut Ton, they’ve been an indelible and irreplaceable part of the creative […]

- May 22, 2013

Note from the Editor: Music for Dance, Music and Movement

“Dance music” is a term that has lately become maligned all over again. And the press is often fond of deriding the music of machines, as if drum machines and computers are sentient alien technology that climbed out of the smoldering remains of a wrecked UFO rather than the handiwork of someone’s imagination. For me, […]

- May 21, 2013

Music Video: Untold’s Overdrive (Hemlock) Brings Dirty Techno, Clean Animation

Peter Kirn - September 6, 2012

Accepting Grammy Awards, Skrillex Acknowledges Dance Roots, EDM Community

Peter Kirn - February 13, 2012

Bassnectar on Beat Structure, EDM, and Dubstep, Illustrated: Hearing Rhythm

Peter Kirn - January 4, 2012

A Reader in Electronic Dance Music’s History and Creation, Now Available

Peter Kirn - December 16, 2011

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