As shows and club nights are canceled until further notice, it’s more important than ever to keep our beloved music communities together and animated from home. That’s why Telekom Electronic Beats is teaming up with Native Instruments and Warp Records for a new iteration of the ongoing #RemixThis competition series on Metapop, a platform helping … Continued
A back-to-back set for the ages.
On April 6, Time Warp, one of Europe’s biggest indoor events for house and techno will celebrate its 25th anniversary. As we all know, nightlife years are like dog years. They feel longer, the wear-and-tear is more intense and whoever made it this far has definitely made it into rave culture’s storied, but still comparatively … Continued
The granular convolver is the newest piece of hardware from the famous synth engineer.
The artist breaks new ground on ‘Safe In The Hands Of Love’, his debut full length for the label.
The Russian techno mainstay put it down in Mannheim.
This 45-minute mix will take you to higher places.
This one is not for the faint-hearted.
The UK label’s website is now offering an interactive approach to its roster.
The IDM heavyweights have three of their touchstone records reissued in the lead-up to a huge European tour.
Cape Town’s Angel-Ho soundtracks the battlefield of our dance club floors. As with any of the NON Worldwide affiliates, it’s always exciting to see new music emerge from the alias of Antonio Valerio. His latest slice of warped beauty can—and should—be streamed above, but only if you want to hear some extremely dank awesomeness. Shattered vogue rhythms pierce machine-gun bass, … Continued
Warp announced a new album by Brian Eno called The Ship, which will be released on April 29. It’s the first Eno LP since LUX in 2012, unless you count the reissues from 2014. Thematically it’s set around vast Belgian fields and the First World War. The album closes with a cover of The Velvet Underground … Continued
A new iOS app called FieldScaper is promising to turn your iPhone into “advanced field recorder combined with sound-warp engine.” Developed by iMusicAlbum, the app aims to simplify field recording and enable the creation of “spectacular soundscapes.” Several different recording functions allow users to capture environmental sound, which can then be processed and distorted through … Continued
Watch Warpaint’s headlining appearance at the Electronic Beats Festival in Prague this past March.
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Check out our photo revue of last night’s Electronic Beats Festival Prague starring Warpaint, Ibeyi, Von Spar and ADI.
This one’s more of a pop/rock kind of festival.
Warpaint canceled their tour, but we’re making it up to you with free drinks and new additions to the lineup.
We’re bringing EB Festival to Leipzig on November 21st, with Wild Beasts, Warpaint and more—click for full details!
A collection of Electronic Beats Slices features and Electronic Beats Festival videos featuring (past and present) Warp Records artists.
Brooklyn five-piece My Best Fiend have just signed to Warp and to celebrate they are giving away ‘Higher Palms’ – a track from their upcoming album. In fact it is the first time you can hear any of the music they are recording for the legendary Sheffield label. Jangling like The Byrds with a healthy … Continued
Longtime friend of ATP, French filmmaker and reinventer of music videos Vincent Moon is well known for his Take-Away Shows series, for contributing to Warp‘s full length All Tomorrow’s Parties documentary and directing fantastic films for Arcade Fire, Efterklang, Mogwai and more. Now he’s teaming up with the ATP Festival and Warp Films for launching … Continued
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
Brian Eno is to deliver his second album for Warp later this year. Following last year’s Small Craft on a Milk Sea which was well received by Eno and Warp fans alike (actually, I can’t imagine the two groups are mutually exclusive at all) he is now preparing Drums Between The Bells. This next adventure … Continued
Next on Telekom Electronic Beats TV’s Ask The Producer Series we have Kenny Larkin. As part of the second wave of Detroit techno producers, his musical legacy holds worldwide relevance. Debuting on Richie Hawtin’s Plus 8 imprint in 1990, he then went on to produce his first album, entitled “Azimuth”, for Warp records in 1994, … Continued
In the last few years, DJs and producers have been sublimating their societal anxieties into blood-curdling vocals, grating distortion, and pummeling blast beats.
The Brixton MC’s vocals have the range to evoke a wounded lover almost on the verge of remission, only to slide right back into incoherent grief.
On ‘Healing Is A Miracle,’ her first album in four years, the LA transplant finds restorative energy in new surroundings
What a month on Planet Earth. The longer the dancefloor remains off-limits, the more important music becomes–not as a communal experience so much as a spot-relief balm for the tired and angry citizen. Headphones are a refuge and music (and speech!) connects us to each other, to history, and to our deepest-held identities. On top … Continued
The Manchester artist’s latest reimagines trap hits as soothing melancholic ambience.
Our newest series Ode to the Night captures the rave as a rite of passage. Each personal essay reveals how the party scene is as much about hedonism and celebration as it is about coming of age. In “Beyond the Limits of Endurance”, Larissa Pham puts an end to chasing highs and discovers transcendence by … Continued
In this column we shine a light on seven mixes that deserve your attention this month; seven mixes that you may otherwise have missed in the ever-roiling sea of musical uploads. From superstar DJs to underground operators, from peak-time heat to home-listening treats, there’s something for all ears. This month we learn the “Ebonics” theory … Continued
In one of Joker‘s pivotal scenes, Arthur flees into a shabby bathroom, churned up from committing his first homicides. He realizes what just happened and channels his agitation into a spontaneous, graceful dance—it’s the Joker’s spiritual awakening. The power and poetic quality of these two minutes, and the film as a whole, is largely indebted … Continued
From hallucinatory experiences to nocturnal terrors
As the decade comes to a close, it’s become clear that the recent surge in electro’s popularity is more than just a fad. Increasingly, young producers are looking to electro in all its shapes and forms as an especially fertile ground, adding new and innovative mutations to the genre’s diverse legacy. CYRK (A.K.A. Berlin-based duo … Continued
When the first Unit club opened in Hamburg in 1989, it was embraced as an alternative to other places that ran on tighter curfews and were often in less central locations. Unlike Front, the pioneering club that introduced house music to Germany—and arguably continental dance floors—, the first Unit at Talstrasse was right in the … Continued
Techno has always been a futuristic genre, but it didn’t emerge from a vacuum. Prior to the formal founding of the sound in mid-’80s Detroit, artists in disparate places were making music that could be easily classified as a form of “proto-techno”. This loose definition includes electronic music created by the likes of Kraftwerk, Silver … Continued
Haunter Records is quite the mysterious operation. From its headquarters in Milan, the label—helmed by Daniele Guerrini (A.K.A. Heith) and Francesco Birsa Alessandri (A.K.A. Sense Fracture)—has established an artistic network that contains some of the most unique, uncompromising visions to be found in electronic music. Always direct and intentional yet wildly diverse, the label’s releases, which … Continued
Leyland James Kirby has been chopping things up for decades. To enter his world is to explore a universe of identities and side projects: He’s disrupted pop anthems with beds of noise as V/VM, subverted classic country as Billy Ray Cyrix and made Christmas music terrifying as Butcher Claus. In general, Kirby has gained notoriety … Continued
The ecclectic mix features unreleased material from Micay’s new labels, Original Schvitz and Eternal Schvitz.
The set is full of the tripped-out techno that Nina Kraviz is known for.
Unlike most other all-women music collectives, Drömfakulteten is anchored in a physical sense of place. Where its internet-savvy contemporaries congregate on private Facebook groups and Slack threads, this Stockholm, Sweden-based crew established an IRL community within a bike repair shop-turned-studio in the neighborhood of Södermalm. The space, in the basement of an old housing complex … Continued
Yegorka isn’t like other labels. Their catalog—which includes a lo-fi, guitar-driven noise album, intimate digital ambient played on Asian instruments, and a French touch revival project—looks, on the surface, like one of the least cohesive around. But the label’s founders, Tobias Lee (A.K.A DJ and producer Why Be) and Dan Denorch (who founded the highly-influential … Continued
There were many, many highlights during Warp Records‘ three-day NTS takeover, celebrating the legendary label’s thirtieth anniversary. One that made people especially happy was Autechre debuting two hours of previously unreleased material from their early years. However Rob Brown, Sean Booth and Warp didn’t stop there. If you visit the duo’s Bleep store page, you … Continued
Novelty is rare in dance music these days, which is why our eyes bugged out of our heads when we came across DJ Flapjack. To experience the Los Angeles-based DJ’s various social media feeds is to be transported to an alternate timeline where rave culture still has a place for JNCO jeans, slapstick hardcore sounds … Continued
French DJ François X has been a mainstay at Paris club Concrete for a number of years. He’s also recently launched his own record label, DEMENT3D XXX—with his Murky Dreams EP as the first release—and is touring extensively around the world on a regular basis. When you’re producing, playing and traveling as much as François … Continued
Gear from over 10 years of 0PN recording and touring is now available to bring home with you.
“Fire Is Coming feat. David Lynch” is the first single off ‘Flamagra’ the producer’s sixth full-length LP.
Complex music from a simple name.
The 90-minute set was a highlight on the Mojave stage at week one of the festival.
‘Unsound:Undead’ features 64 short essays on the transmission of sound between the living and the dead.
“Lifetime” is taken from the artist’s remarkable 2018 album on Warp Records.
Two hours of uncompromising cuts from the “elder statesmen of electro.”
Hear why Nina Kraviz’s трип imprint is an essential pillar of modern techno.
Shyboi is a core member of New York’s Discwoman collective.
The video features all the dancing lego guys, snake people and great typography that you’ll need.
“Two hours of post-death experience” is how Paula Temple described her own set at last year’s Katharsis festival in Amsterdam. While that might seem hyperbolic, the truth is that the Berlin-based DJ and producer’s sets and original tracks sound pretty close to the kind of darkly ecstatic experience that that quote suggests. Her sound, which … Continued
Breakbeat house is back. The sound, which initially came to prominence in the ’90s, has recently taken the dance music world by storm, and the frenetically ravey sound’s revival isn’t showing any signs of slowing down. Scroll through any of your favorite online record stores, and you’re bound to find a sizeable stream of weekly … Continued
Aphex Twin fans, your day has just got a little bit better.
It’s common knowledge that Silicon Valley has been the epicenter of the digital revolution as we know it since the late 1980s. A lesser known fact is how intertwined the tech world and the then burgeoning rave scene were. Based on a shared futuristic ethos, Silicon Valley companies and the US rave scene developed in … Continued
The minimalist remix will feature on Daniel Lopatin’s new EP, Love In The Time Of Lexapro, out via Warp.
We caught up with the RVNG Intl. artist following the release of his seminal avant-EDM album, ‘Siblings’.
“Mainly the unknown is what makes us tick. It’s like living on the edge.”
It’s been 15 years since the last time Aphex Twin played a show in Berlin. TEB senior editor Sven von Thülen explains why it was worth the wait.
The notorious Berlin party is pushing a sound that’s dominating the city’s nightlife scene.
His Warp Records-affiliated online store also includes several unreleased tracks
Catch up with Life and Death label head DJ Tennis before his set at our festival in Warsaw this weekend.
Let the impeccable ambient selections of the legendary British trio lay you down softly.
But don’t watch it if you have epilepsy.
A new video from Richard D. James’s new EP failed the Harding test for epilepsy safety.
Meet Oddball, the strangest drum machine concept you’re likely to see all year.
What could he be up to next?
“Now that’s what I call a e s t h e t i c!”
“Welcome to the virtual nightclub.”
A collection of the most trippy flyers and posters from the heyday of rave.
It’s her first new work in almost 20 years.
Lorenzo Senni, Caterina Barbieri and Not Waving explore the strange musical properties of electronics.
Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein show off the ghoulish synths that went into creating the show’s soundtrack.
The record will be the producer’s first full-length since 2015’s ‘Discreet Desires’.
The hardcore, gabber and acid compilation marks the imprint’s 20th release.
Trance is finally hitting the exhibition space.
Berlin’s exploratory electronic music festival returns July 23-29 with a lineup that includes Paula Temple (pictured above), Tim Exile and JK Flesh.
Funkhaus’ Shedhalle concert hall will play host to Richard D. James’ return to the Haupstadt.
Organizers Losoul and S-Max pick the house, techno, and breakbeat tracks that fueled the epic Wiesbaden event.
“When this sync moment occurs, it’s one of the most amazing miracles you can have as an artist.”
At least one of these tunes will be stuck in your head for the rest of the day.
Hear why Aphex Twin’s impact goes far beyond dance music.
Leeds native George Evelyn formed Nightmares On Wax in the late ‘80s in a scene teeming with hip-hop and b-boy culture. He got his start dancing before eventually beginning to DJ. Eventually, Evelyn formed a crew in the form of production specialist John Halnon and musician Kevin Harper. But after only one studio album, the … Continued
From marathon sessions at ://about blank to closing sets at Berghain, Freddy K is a DJ with an eclectic style of playing that’s been honed since his early days spinning in Rome’s ’90s party scene.
Software cracks have never sounded so good.
“The very first step in the visual realisation of techno.”
Discover some of the DIY artists who are helping to keep the Bay Area scene alive in the face of gentrification.
The respected Berlin-based techno DJ walks us through a chunk of his recent ‘Berghain 08’ mix.
Get ready for a party.
Let Claude Young show you how it was done.
These cuts from JTC, Dexter, Japanese Telecom and more are our favorite tried and true dance floor anthems.
The Berlin Wall Distortion’s circuitry is a city plan of Cold War-Era Berlin, including Checkpoint Charlie and Tempelhof Airport.
The movie’s grand premiere will take place in Berlin on February 14 and will be accompanied by a live scoring.
Among them is the band’s exclusive studio session in Berlin marking the release of their newest LP, ‘Love What Survives’.
Journey beyond the boundaries of electronic music with Warp Records artist Gonjasufi on Telekom Electronic Beats TV, for an in-depth look at his musical mindset and dynamic live performances.
The cult event will feature appearances from Donato Dozzy, Don’t DJ and Warp legends Plaid.
The chaos and quality of Hamburg’s famous party institution.
From rare techno b-sides to electroclash anthems, these are some of the tracks hidden inside Hamburg duo Extrawelt’s record bags.
The legendary musician and producer on talks about Roxy Music, touring and his first solo album.
Roman Flügel and Jörn Elling Wuttke tell us how their work kick-started the city’s notorious techno legacy.
Discover the sound of Aufschwung Ost and Stammheim, the most famous places to rave in 1990s Kassel.
The one-hour set for Solid Steel arrives on the heels of her latest EP, which landed today.
Take a trip to Frankfurt’s techno heyday with this seriously banging one-and-a-half hour mix.
“You” will feature on her forthcoming EP for Len Faki’s label, Figure.
Softube’s virtual Eurorack will soon have the Buchla 259e’s “twisted digital sonic landscapes” as part of its modular artillery.
Comparative Irrelevance uses generative music techniques to make ambient patches that can play forever.
The London duo’s Kai Campos sheds insight into their brilliant new LP, ‘Love What Survives.’
Mount Kimbie have returned with their third studio album via Warp Records entitled “Love What Survives”, and Telekom Electronic Beats TV welcome them back with open arms. In an exclusive live studio session, watch the UK act perform “Blue Train Lines”, the classic “Made To Stray”, and the brand new single “Delta”.
Japan’s burgeoning electronic subculture is integrating ’80s city pop influences into a twisted new club music.
The British duo drop a new Frank Lebon-directed video for “Delta” ahead of the release of their new album on Warp.
No techno collection is complete without B12’s seminal ‘Electro-Soma’ on the shelf.
The seminal IDM producer is turning 46.
The legendary DJ digs up some of the hidden gems from his mind-blowing record collection.
Cool and trippy in the best way possible.
We sifted through the massive lineup for Melt! Festival this weekend and compiled the highlights.
‘Love What Survives’ features guest appearances from the likes of James Blake, Micachu and King Krule.
The DJ made a brief appearance alongside Au Revoir Simone and Sky Ferreira.
Rediscover one of the most influential Warp Records compilations of all time.
Former resident DJ Monika Kruse names the tracks that defined Ultraschall, one of Munich’s most historically important nightclubs.
The special white label release was sold at Field Day on June 3.
We celebrate our partnership with Gorillaz by counting down the best remixes.
“A lot of the stuff that gets called ambient is a kind of an accidental offshoot of my taste.”
1997 was a very creative and exploratory year for dance music.
The ambient master has just made his new album on Warp available for streaming.
The ambient master is back with a new masterpiece for Warp.
A new retrospective anthology offers a comprehensive look into Ron Trent’s seminal Chicago deep house label.
Melt has just announced the first round of artists to play its 20th edition.
One of the resident DJs at Germany’s number-one club for ’90s rave, breaks and UK sounds reminisces about the tracks that defined the Milk! experience.
The iconic producer is set to perform on a “high-powered soundsystem and one of the most technologically advanced lighting rigs around.”
Warp Records’ (Motion) video has been ripped from VHS to YouTube.
Legend looks in the mirror, sees more ambient music staring back at him.
Music non-stop!
The city has banned all electronic music events.
We’ve seen the future and it looks really, really cool.
The two lords of London-based boundary-pushing music have previewed a heavy new collaboration.
Dance music historian Tim Lawrence sat down with DJ Daniele Baldelli to learn the story of how cosmic disco emerged from northern Italy in the late ’70s.
From Frank Ocean to Pauline Oliveros, we count down summer 2016 favorites and imagined what their listeners did these past few months.
Is early ’90s trance making a comeback? It sure feels that way. Here are a few underrated gems you might hear the next time you’re out dancing.
Here’s a chance for your partying to positively affect someone’s life.
Autechre’s avant-garde influence extends beyond music.
Previously unseen footage of a young New Order will even make you read the subheadline.
Discover 11 artists contributing to the present convergence of art and nightlife, from Cory Arcangel’s trance archive to Wolfgang Tillman’s party photos.
Paul Kalbrenner’s new mix series is a beautiful trip down memory lane. The illustrious Berlin techno personality, Paul Kalkbrenner, has just announced the launch of a new mix series. The Back to the Future project began when Kalkbrenner started hunting down a certain track he remembered from his youth. According to the project’s press release, the hunt instigated an endless “rabbit … Continued
Trolls NAMM; Drops Track. All a day in the life of Richard D. James. Aphex Twin keeps the good news rolling in the lead up to the release of his new Warp Records EP, Cheetah. The EP takes its name from the Cheetah MS800, a ’80s synthesizer that has the questionable reputation of being one of the hardest synths … Continued
Stop the presses: You can now listen to music from Aphex Twin’s new Cheetah EP!
Now you can quickly and easily press your favorite SoundCloud streams into vinyl records. Vinylize.it is a new startup that could change how records are made forever. It wants to facilitate the custom pressing of SoundCloud files to vinyl by acting as an intermediary between music enthusiasts, artists and pressing plants. As Fact reports, the company will work … Continued
The Cheetah MS800 is considered to be one of the most annoyingly complicated instruments on the planet.
Angel-Ho and Why Be sit pretty high on our list of insanely good modern producers. The Cape Town NON Worldwide affiliate and the Berlin-via-Denmark dance floor crusher made these two incredible mixes for Berlin Biennale, and we’re very pleased to be giving you the exclusive web premiere. You can also hear them at the KW Institute of Contemporary Art, … Continued
A couple days ago, Aphex Twin announced a new EP via a a mysterious ad that looked like a vintage synthesizer advert from some ’70s magazine. Now Warp Records has posted more info about the release. The Cheetah EP will be out July 8 on vinyl, cassette, CD and digital, and you can pre-order it now via Bleep.com. … Continued
To all of you for whom the period after 2014 has felt like a dark age, a verlorene Zeit, a time only made meaningful by Aphex Twin‘s 2014 record Syro and the distant promise of another waxy morsel in a forever postponed future, well, that time is over. Rumors are swirling that Mr. Twin has a new record prepped for Warp Records, with … Continued
It’s time you did your homework, son. Timed with the release of their brand new LP, The Capsule, Necro Deathmort have provided this sick mix for The Vinyl Factory which traces a broken line through the history of electro, which they describe as “in many ways…the purest form of electronic music: it’s uncompromisingly hard-edged and laser-focussed on the future, and … Continued
We don’t need acid anymore to transform our visual reality—our modern addiction is technology, and as big fans of the upcoming Singularity, we’re always happy when something new comes along to provide a beautiful distraction from life’s slow journey toward the grave. Check this thing out—it’s a new application from Pinkwerks! Just tweet the deets to your Microsoft Hololens, hit the … Continued
We sorted through piles of cassettes to bring you the five top tape releases of May 2016, a list that includes Northern Electronics and RSS B0YS.
Autechre always find a way to make guerrilla marketing fresh and not sickeningly ostentatious (*coughRadiohead*). Last week they premiered a track titled “Feed 1” without as much as a hint of forewarning, thereby taking BBC Radio 6 by surprise with 15 minutes of growling modulation and a tangle of severed sequences. Then, yesterday, following a … Continued
Five rare LFO tracks appeared on the YouTube channel “LFO – Gez Varley & Mark Bell – Lost & Found Demos etc” some time ago. They’ve been sitting there more or less untouched — until now. Here’s your chance to listen to these rare deep cuts: embedded above is Track 4 (Alt.Version) , a track that appeared first on … Continued
Xiu Xiu‘s work in dark, wavey elctronics and experimentalism of the Lynchian kind has made them synonymous with quality listening since we first heard 2003’s incredible A Promise LP. While the idea has evolved substantially since then, we’ve followed each new step feeling pretty damn good about it. Winkie are fresher to our ears, but just as pleasing … Continued
Get ready for some more Squarepusher – the British beat destruction machine has upgraded his live performance into a manic band setup. As Shobaleader One he transforms his trademark LED facemask into a disguise for his whole ensemble. This is Slipknot for the post-breakbeat age – a warped vision of cyberpunk folklore. Check Shobaleader One live … Continued
Mount Kimbie defied the elements at the rainy Electronic Beats Festival in Podgorica with this fantastic live performance of “So Many Times So Many Ways”, taken from their 2013 album “Cold Spring Fault Less Youth” on Warp Records.
Vinyl records have been made from the same material since the early 20th century, and are therefore prone to scratches, static and warping. Now, Japanese company Ulvac has developed records that are nano-coated in a material called molybdenum. The material, which is widely used in the fabrication of semiconductors, could prevent records from being damaged … Continued
Electronic Beats Radio has officially moved to Mixcloud. We pick some of our top new mixes and podcasts, featuring Adam X, Tiga, Underworld, Move D and ADA.
Darkstar’s sold out live performance at Kantine am Berghain in Berlin was one to remember. Electronic Beats TV was there to take in the action and now you can enjoy the live versions of “Pin Secure” and “Stoke The Fire” from their latest album on Warp, plus their Hyperdub classic “Need You”.
The title says it all. UK mega-label Warp, London’s Barbican theater, and Boiler Room have come together to bring you this glorious extended remix of Oneohtrix Point Never by Four Tet. It’s streaming now; go tune in here.
FoundSounds just rolled out an upgraded version of its app, which turns your phone into a field recording portal. Users can filter clips by the time when or the place where they were recorded, allowing it to act as a network that recreates the world map through sound. The upgraded edition allows you to sample recordings of up to two minutes, … Continued
London Contemporary Music Festival booked a very daring music and art program with James Ferraro, Visionist and PC Music at the helm.
Can dark music be healing? Techno specialist Xosar talks to influential New Age artist Iasos about finding inner balance and transforming her sonic output.
Marcel Dettmann, Radio Slave, Loco Dice and more tell us about their favorite tracks from techno legend Richie Hawtin.
In her newest video, Björk gives us an unprecedented view of the inside of her mouth. The video was created with help from Jesse Kanda, who also creates Arca‘s visuals, and is part claustrophobic horror trip, part psychedelic experience. Warped views of teeth and tongue culminate with Björk dancing around in luminous bondage. Watch it here, and get into the … Continued
Minimal tech-house icon and one of underground dance music’s biggest stars, Ricardo Villalobos, has played all over the world since 1999—except the United States. According to event listings on RA, in 2011 he played two gigs in a single day in Detroit, a popular stopover for European legends who influenced house and techno in America and abroad. This … Continued
The modular synthesizer is the century’s most over-hyped instrument. This guide offers our favorite way to unlock its power without selling your house.
Mouse On Mars’s Jan St. Werner talks to Warp artist and Native Instruments developer Tim Exile about how Reaktor 6 unites digital and analog worlds.
A wicked 3D video from Long Clothing and visual new media collective Pussykrew introduce a new season collection, joining forces with London-based producer Visionist to complete the A/V identity of this reality-assaulting drive.
DJ Crystl is one of the forgotten heroes of golden era jungle and drum and bass between 1993 and 1998. Tracks like “Meditation” and “Warpdrive” were massive hits back in the day, but for reasons unknown to us DJ Crystl retired from music in the mid-90s, just when drum and bass started to cross over into … Continued
Ahead of his Nothing LP, Hyperdub boss Kode9 has unveiled a video for lead single “Third Ear Transmission,” which features his late collaborator The Spaceape. The clip was produced with artist Lawrence Lek and foreshadows a collaborative live show, which will debut at Unsound Adelaide in 2016. The project reportedly explores “a post-scarcity world in which the only thing … Continued
Dance music luminaries like FaltyDL, Max Dunbar, Mike Servito and more contribute their favorite Autechre tracks to create the ultimate listening guide.
Oneohtrix Point Never is the non-experimental music fan’s favorite experimental producer. But did his new LP convince longtime avant-gardist André Vida?
Fade to Mind’s R&B rep Kelela has given a track off her upcoming Hallucinogen EP the visual treatment. The video features theLA-based vocalist dancing her way through multi-colored rooms, and was directed by Eric K Yue. Watch it in full here before the record—which features collaborations with Kingdom and Arca—lands via Warp on October 9.
Warp mainstays Autechre have delivered a lengthy inspirations mix for Dekmantel’s (LINK TO OUR REVIEW) podcast series. According to the Amsterdam outlet:
An interview with the creator of “Secret Power,” an exhibit that uses works by a former NSA art director and from documents leaked by Edward Snowden.
In the run-up to her new EP, Hallucinogen, Fade to Mind’s resident R&B vocalist Kelela has unveiled another track, “Rewind.” The record follows from her debut mixtape, Cut 4 Me, and foreshadows the LA artist’s first full-length effort. It was originally scheduled for release in May via Warp and Kelela’s own Cherry Coffee imprint, but is now due to … Continued
The lineup for our two-day Electronic Beats Festival in Budapest is in! Check out who will perform at four events in Hungary this fall.
Autumn is high season for adventurous music and art festivals like Unsound and CTM. Here are the 10 of the most exciting offerings in Europe.
This Detroit techno megamix of Chrissy Murderbot’s finest in a discontinued series of stellar themed sets that also cover digi-dancehall, rasta jungle, ghetto house and more. Find more at My Year of Mixtapes. Rhythim is Rhythim; Strings of Life (Piano Mix) (Transmat, 1987) K.S. Experience; Electronic Dance (KMS / Ten Records, 1988) Model 500; Sound … Continued
Some key movers in Tijuana’s music scene explain how an exciting experimental underground took root in a Mexican border town overrun by drug war violence.
Trilogy Tapes’ Eugene Ward AKA Tuff Sherm/Dro Carey blends diverse genres into a unified sound, but a South African Warp LP was a cultural curveball.
Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner scroll through some of the best original cuts and remixes from German IDM figureheads Funkstörung.
Check out our new photo column, Track I See, in which we take photos of readers and ask them about their current favorite piece of music.
From Supynes in Lithuania to Sustain-Release in New York, here’s your ultimate guide to this summer’s premiere avant-garde summer music and art festivals.
Here are 10 artists and labels from the Mexican capital’s bustling house, techno and experimental music scene, from the NAAFI collective to Selma Oxor.
Which of these stories about Django Django isn’t true? Throw in your hat to win signed vinyl for guessing right.
Our final festival of the EB Spring season, which features Róisín Murphy, Howling, Django Django, David August, ADI and more, is sold out!
Check out the captivating 3-D world ADI created for “Chinatown.”
After our first two spring festivals of the year in Warsaw and Bratislava, we brought drums, driving guitars, and cosmic vibes to Prague’s Divadlo Archa.
The EB Festival in Bratislava took place at the Refinery Gallery in Bratislava on March 6 and featured performances by Adi Ulmansky, Son Lux, Young Fathers and Archive.
The EB team hit Warsaw to kick off our spring festival season. Our 2015 visit to the Polish capital included two concerts.