A WORD FROM THE WISE - Heartbreak
Lex Records latest signing Heartbreak, made up of smooth as silk Argentine vocalist Sebastian Muravchix and British-born beatsmith/italo disco legend Ali Renault, are figuratively, and some may argue quite literally, on fire. Their emotive pop infused italo disco tones tempered with metal has h...
MY MUSIC MOMENT - Errorsmith
A music obsessive to the core, Erik Wiegand is maybe an inconspicuous presence in the vastness of the Berlin electronic scene, but his productions, whether in collaborative projects like MMM, Smith n Hack or under the moniker Errorsmith (his solo project), are anything but low profile. For this...
MY MUSIC MOMENT - Anja Schneider
Anja Schneider is the driving force behind the very successful, Berlin based, mobilee record label. Anja and the label have a huge following around the world and her music takes her on many travels. Here she tells us how one special journey (a road trip across Mexico), proved very inspiring, as...
THE COLLECTOR’S GUIDE - Transportive Tracks
CHROMATICS: RUNNING UP THAT HILL (Night Drive, 2007) Many would be intimidated by the excellence of Kate Bush, but not Chromatics from Italians Do It Better label, whose cover of ‘Running up that Hill’ achieves its own heights inversely by way of their very individual emotional restraint....
MYSPACE OF THE MONTH - July 2008
We like the Internet and all the cool people, places and things you can find on it. It has never been easier to show your ideas and have a platform for your creations whether that’s underground Techno, street war games or just random stuff. Here for your enjoyment are a selection of c...
MYSPACE OF THE MONTH - June 2008
We like the Internet and all the cool people, places and things you can find on it. It has never been easier to show your ideas and have a platform for your creations whether that’s underground Techno, street war games or just random stuff. Here for your enjoyment are a selection of cl...
ONES TO WATCH - Johnny D
If you’re a breakthrough DJ and producer there can’t be many more potent ways of realising you’re about to make it than getting booked to play a big gig abroad. Wheeling his record bag through Frankfurt’s departures lounge in March, the Eritrean-born, Mannheim-bred Johnny D walked to the check-...
A WORD FROM THE WISE - Josh Wink
A pioneer of the American rave scene in the early nineties Josh Wink is the creator of anthems like ‘Higher State of Consciousness’ and other productions which are all very much his own distinctive sound – both fresh and timeless. In this issue of Electronic Beats Wink shares the wisdom that ke...
TOUGH AT THE TOP - Renaat Vandepapeliere / R&S Records
Back in the day, R&S Records were hailed as dance music pioneers. They unleashed Detroit techno on an unsuspecting European audience and were key players in the first rave revolution. Then after more than a decade at the top, they sold out, burned out and faded from view. Now, with a new di...
MYSPACE OF THE MONTH - May 2008
We like the Internet and all the cool people, places and things you can find on it. It has never been easier to show your ideas and have a platform for your creations whether that’s underground Techno , street war games or just random stuff . Here for your enjoyment are a selection of...
MYSPACE OF THE MONTH - April 2008
We like the Internet and all the cool people, places and things you can find on it. It has never been easier to show your ideas and have a platform for your creations whether that’s underground Techno , street war games or just random stuff . Here for your enjoyment are a selection of...
TOUGH AT THE TOP - Bogdan Teran / Amber Muse
Growing up in Communist Latvia, Bogdan Taran’s exposure to alternative music was limited and his earliest memories are of listening to his parents’ Soviet records. As the USSR fell apart, access to new music became easier, and after a friend’s visit to Amsterdam in 1993, Bogdan discovered the w...
MYSPACE OF THE MONTH - March 2008
We like the Internet and all the cool people, places and things you can find on it. It has never been easier to show your ideas and have a platform for your creations whether that’s underground Techno , street war games or just random stuff . It is also full of downright weird funny a...
THE COLLECTOR'S GUIDE - When Worlds Collide
FRANKIE TEARDROP, SUICIDE / SUICIDE (Ariola, 1977) Being ahead of your time can be real painful; when Martin Rev’s ferocious electronics accompanied by Lou Vega’s psychotic Elvis-like crooning exploded on the early New York punk scene, the bottles thrown by an audience hungry for the cust...