Recover From CTM With Laurel Halo’s Mix For Berlin Community Radio
A kaleidoscopic mix of melted ambience, new age, beat downs and breaks.
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Ninos Du Brasil’s Favorite Tracks from Laurel Halo and Fatima Al Qadiri
Hospital Productions outfit Ninos Du Brasil explain why they love Hyperdub gals Laurel Halo and Fatima Al Qadiri.
“I could call myself a cultural Marxist, but I don’t”: Louise Brailey talks to Laurel Halo
Call “Chance Of Rain”—Halo’s most dancefloor-attuned work yet—a techno record at your peril. As she tells us in the upcoming winter issue of EB Magazine, Halo’s music is anything but straightforward.
Rain Dance: Angus Finlayson on Laurel Halo’s Chance of Rain
On her new album, the electronic musician finds her pulse quickened to the dancefloor, says Angus Finlayson.
Henning Lahmann on Laurel Halo’s Quarantine
I can’t be sure if I’m entitled to speak here for anyone else but myself, yet what is it that we’re really looking for when we listen to a record for the first time? We want to be surprised, I’d argue. We hope that what we’re gonna spend the next minutes of our precious lifetime … Continued
Laurel Halo joins Mute sub-label Liberation Technologies
Mute have started a new electronic music sub-label called Liberation Technologies which will be run by Patrick O’Neill. The first release is by King Felix, aka Lauren Halo, and will be aimed squarely at the dance-floor. Mute have a bulging back catalogue of esoteric dance music (Fad Gadget to Richie Hawtin basically) and look set … Continued
Apply To Work With A Production Mentor At This Berlin-Based Artist Residency
Laurel Halo, Robbert Lippok and Caterina Barbieri have already been confirmed as mentors at the ACUD-based program Amplify Berlin.
Winners of 2014: Arca
Win records from Laurel Halo, John Talabot, and more by participating in our Arca-themed contest.
Live Report: Electronic Beats Festival Vienna 2013
EB feels love in Vienna with a night of intense—and intensely fun—music to bring down the curtain on a showstopping EB Festival 2013 season. Love to love you When Saints Go Machine, Laurel Halo, Giorgio Moroder, and Metro Area.
Electronic Beats Magazine Winter 2013 is out December 5th
Take a look inside 2013’s final edition of our award-winning Electronic Beats Magazine, featuring H.P. Baxxter, Laurel Halo, and—of course—ayahuasca rituals.
EB Festival Vienna: Line-up announced!
The Austrian capital once more plays host to our Fall Festival season, featuring Italian legend Giorgio Moroder with support from Laurel Halo, Metro Area and When Saints Go Machine.
EB Magazine Winter 2012: Out now
For our cold-weather edition, Electronic Beats Magazine has put together perhaps its most varied issue of 2012, featuring names like Gary Numan, Laurel Halo, Madlib, Grimes… well, perhaps you should take a look and see just what’s in store for you.
The Top 7 Mixes of May 2020
This time last month we were all in it together, weren’t we? The world was in lockdown, the weekend was something that happened on Zoom, baker’s yeast was rare as vibranium, and the menfolk had started shaving their heads. This month, things are different. Some cities have emerged from quarantine. In China, clubs are open. … Continued
Berlin’s DIY Radio Scene Booms, but Braces Itself for an Uncertain Future
For a moment in mid-2019, the future of independent online radio in Berlin looked bleak. The city’s most recognizable station for electronic and experimental music, Berlin Community Radio, announced it was shutting down. “It is with heavy heart that we came to this decision, but we reached a dead end and spirits have fallen low … Continued
Resolutions 2020: Advance Your Artistry With These Music Resources
Looks like the new 2020 you has finally committed to leaving behind the socially encoded path to become an artist. A creative career is a nebulous quest that, unfortunately, comes with no roadmap. But rest assured that countless like-minded people have been in similar vulnerable positions and have started their new life phases from scratch. … Continued
Watch Block9’s Imposing New Stage In Action At Last Week’s Glastonbury Festival
The 65-foot interactive IICON stage was one of the festival’s biggest highlights.
20 European Techno Festivals That You Should Go To This Summer
It’s officially summer, and the 2019 European festival season is already under way. There are a lot of great choices out there, and, as usual, we’ve put together this guide to our essential destinations for the discerning techno festival goer. June 13 – June 16: Telekom Electronic Beats Festival Bucharest Location: Bucharest, Romania Lineup includes: … Continued
You Can Now Apply For The Third Semester Of ACUD’s Mentorship Program
Applications to work with Amplify’s newest mentors—including Pan Daijing (pictured) and Andrea Belfi—will be open until June 30.
Explore Techno’s New Creative Frontier With This Dekmantel Mix By object blue
One of the most exciting breakout artists of last year has just released a must-hear mix through Dekmantel.
Electronic Artists Are Turning Politics Into Change On These Compilations For Charity
Releases like Physically Sick, Praxis Houston and Shxme, among others, are bringing artists together for today’s most crucial causes.
Listen To 1800HaightStreet’s Cavernous Techno Mix For Lobster Theremin
Distant warehouse sounds from London’s lo-fi powerhouse.
Brave! Factory: Our Thoughts On Kiev’s New Underground Festival
Last week the crew behind Closer nightclub hosted the first edition of its off-site 24-hour rave.
Unsound Announces 3 Satellite Festivals In Russia and Ukraine
The cities of Murmansk, Lviv and Kazan will play host to Unsound’s Dislocation festival series.
From Audioriver To Unsound: Poland’s 11 Best Music Festivals
We’ve gathered Poland’s most exciting music festivals so you can plan the rest of your summer.
Kiev’s Closer-Affiliated Brave! Festival Shares Initial Lineup
Robert Hood, Nastia and more join the first wave of artists to play at Strichka’s sister festival.
A Queer Feminist Techno Festival Is Coming To Leipzig
BALANCE runs May 11-13 in various Leipzig venues, like Institut für Zukunft.
A Map Of All The Fall European Festivals You Need To Know
‘Tis the season for the year’s most exciting festivals. From ADE to Unsound and beyond, our handy map will help you sort through the options.
Do All-Female Lineups Really Help Women In Electronic Music?
Are all-female lineups empowering, or do promoters use the feminist cause to boost their own image? Female artists and industry professionals discuss.
Contemporary Experiments Collide With Pioneers at CTM 2016
CTM 2016 featured a bunch of interesting collaborations between established artists and upcomers influenced by them. But the best performance was by a hologram.
Win Two Passes To Bloc Festival
We’re teaming up with UK weekender Bloc to offer one lucky EB reader the chance to win a pair of passes, plus on-site accomodation. Bloc takes place in Minehead from March 11 to 13, and the tickets have you covered for four full nights (you get an extra night to wind down). This year’s event features … Continued
2015’s Most Important Moments for Feminism in DJ Culture
Look back at the people and moments who made 2015 a particularly important year for feminism in dance music, from The Black Madonna to Björk.
CTM Festival Brings 3D Superstar Hatsune Miku To Berlin
Virtual popstar Hatsune Miku has gained a global following since being rendered in 3D from a vocal synthesizer back in 2007. Miku will appear in Berlin as part of CTM Festival in early 2016 for “Still Be Here,” a collaborative project conceptualized by Mari Matsutoya and created with producer Laurel Halo, choreographer Darren Johnston and virtual artist LaTurbo Avedon, with … Continued
Bloc Festival Hosts Dystopian, Leisure System, R&S
Bloc Festival has announced the crews presenting its stages for next years’ 2016 edition at Minehead. Orwellian-techno peddlers Dystopian will bring Laurel Halo and Demdike Stare to the table, while Leisure System present their brand of schizoid genre-jumpers via Objekt, Helena Hauff and Evian Christ. Meanwhile R&S continue to mine the English scene with Logos, Khan and … Continued
Julia Holter Talks Gendered History With Lucrecia Dalt
Julia Holter and Lucrecia Dalt make disembodied pop which confronts expectations of female artists…but they employ very different methods of creation.
Berlin and Antwerp Promoters Detail Refugee Charity Events
With the influx of Syrian refugees into Europe, DJs and dance music promoters have begun mobilizing to help address the crisis. One such initiative is Belgian promoter IKON’s Techno for Humanity, which hosts Ida Engberg, Guti, Matthias Tanzmann and more in Antwerp on September 17. Revenue will be routed to Médecins Sans Frontières, the Migrant Offshore Aid Station, the International Rescue Committee … Continued
A Look into Lithuania’s Vibrant Electronic Music Scene
After a week of bad press for Lithuania thanks to Ten Walls, we set out to find representatives from its criminally underrepresented scene.
Electronic Beats’ Top Ten Releases of 2013
As voted by our staff and contributors, we bring you our top ten records of the year just gone.
Electronic Beats Spring Festivals 2014 dates announced!
Save the date! It’s time to break open your shiny 2014 diaries with the announcement of next year’s Electronic Beats festival fixtures.
Pattern Recognition Vol. 8: The Year in the Online Underground
In this edition of his monthly column, Adam Harper—the premier writer on emergent, underground music—reflects on a year’s worth of music emerging from the online underground and selects his favorites.
Pattern Recognition Vol. 7: James Ferraro’s NYC, Hell 3:00 AM
In this edition of his monthly column, Adam Harper—the premier writer on emergent, underground music—examines the new album by one of experimental pop’s most capricious players.
Get twenty percent off EB Festival Tickets!
Download one of the Electronic Beats mobile applications and get a twenty percent discount off EB Festival tickets—for a limited time only!
EB Listening: Stream the Close remix of When Saints Go Machine’s “Mannequin”
EB Festival regulars When Saints Go Machine have roped in Close for the remix of “Mannequin” and announced a string of live dates. Be the first to get clued in here.
Pattern Recognition Vol. 5: Is ‘Internet Music’ the New ‘Lo-Fi’?
In this edition of his monthly column, the premier writer on new, emergent, underground music addresses how the framing of music can radically redefine it.
“We must invest in the future of orchestral music” – An interview with André De Ridder
Max Dax speaks to conductor and self-described intermediary between the worlds of classical and pop André De Ridder ahead of his stargaze presented concert this Sunday.
Revolution9: An interview with Kode9
We untangle the history and many activities of the leading British DJ and producer and get his reflections on his label Hyperdub, one of the most consistently rewarding imprints in underground music.
How Holly Herndon spends $100
We gave RVNG Intl.-affiliated avant techno artist Holly Herndon $100 to spend on whatever she wanted. This is what she bought.
Editor’s Choice: April 20th, 2013
Want to know what’s been going into the collective ears of EBHQ? Our regular hack to the best music the internet has knocked out over the past seven days.
British Murder Boy: An interview with Surgeon
Anthony Child, alongside Regis, is well-known for his tensile and steely techno, and has been one of the defining artists of the Birmingham scene. While a slew of ‘noise’ artists are currently engaging with techno, Child schools them at their own game, dropping his LP of archival experimental sounds.
Our EB Favorites of the Week: March 3rd, 2013
We’ve finally bowed to public pressure and launched our new feature collecting the last week’s worth of EB Favorites (sent out via Twitter and Facebook). You can now enjoy it all in one, weekly spot with additional commentary.
Trans-genre: Joey Hansom’s 2012 Mixtape
Distortion and delay, drip-droppy aquatic sounds, sterile beats and weird vocal FX: all things we love, and all present in the young musician’s best-of cuts, including heavy-hitters like Trust, Grimes, Death Grips, Mykki Blanco and more.
Editor’s Choice 12
What’s that? You want to know what’s been going in our ears this week, reverberating our cochleas and sending broader vibrations throughout our bodies and by extension our audio-addled souls? That’s a coincidence: here’s this week’s Editor’s Choice.
Synthesis of Change: an interview with Teengirl Fantasy
After a string of madly hyped first tracks and their critically acclaimed debut LP 7AM in 2010, Brooklyn-based duo Teengirl Fantasy return with their sophomore full-length Tracer, out August 20 on seminal Belgian/UK label R&S Records. For the new effort, Oberlin College alumni Logan Takahashi and Nick Weiss abandoned the sampling that defined 7AM, in … Continued
2011 Editor’s Picks: Lucia
Girls I admit, I’m now probably going against an article that appeared on these very pages, but I’m a girl, so I can get away with it, right?:) I’m not a chauvinist or a feminist, I’m just glad that these days you can be a man, woman, dog or an alien and make whatever strange … Continued
Planningtorock reworked by When Saints Go Machine
What a great concoction: two of our favorite artists together for an absolutely genius remix! This remix is one of a number on Planningtorock‘s new Living It Out EP for DFA that also features remixes from Billy Lock, Jackson, Cosmodelica and Laurel Halo. Have yourself a treat and listen to the When Saints Go Machine … Continued
RISING – Hippos In Tanks label
We decided to do something different this week and feature a label instead of an artist. Hippos In Tanks is a label based out of L.A. started by Barron Machat and Travis Woolsey. Artists such as White Car, Sun Arow, Gatekeeper and Hype Williams are all on their roster. H.I.T. describe themselves as – “a … Continued
The Cultural Urgency of Schinkel Pavillon’s ‘Disappearing Berlin’
Disappearing Berlin is a music and performance program with a title that resonates beyond the city limits of Berlin to any major city subjected to rapid cosmopolitan transformations. Contemporary art institution Schinkel Pavillon’s off-site program showcases artists in spaces that are responsible for shaping Berlin’s cultural landscape since the city’s upheavals and reconstructions in the … Continued
Why Interdependence—Not Independence—Might Be The Future Of Underground Music
Mat Dryhurst outlines a new vision for future forms of musical organization and practice.
Actress to release album on Warp?
Actress has been a busy bee recently. Not only has he finished an album for his own Werk Discs imprint, he has another coming on Honest Jon’s and according to a Twitter feed from earlier today, he has one in the bag for Warp too. The details currently amount to zero but according to Actress’ … Continued