With an album as hyped as this, Daft Punk's first LP in eight years if you discount the Tron: Legacy score, it's probably worthwhile actually addressing the instantly tossed off...
I missed Random Access Memories landing on iTunes by about 12 hours. I was on my way home from work when the stream went live, and when I walked in the door I immediately set to...
Exquisite digital schmaltz and visionary analog quackery evokes classics from 'The Wall' to 'The Wiz'
With its talk of "anonymity as function" and music "conceived in the shadows to be consumed in the dark," the mission statement on the Vault Series website is hardly what you'd...
As Miss Kittin, Caroline Hervé has always been a generous guest—think of "Silver Screen Shower Scene" with Felix Da Housecat and "Rippin Kittin" with Golden Boy, or more recent...
In the small but respectable discography which precedes Slava's debut LP, Raw Solutions, the Moscow-born, Chicago-reared, and now NYC-based producer has shown an affinity for...
In the last year or two, New York's Slava Balasanov, best known for releasing old school-style house on labels like Future Times and Mathematics, has shifted to less traditional...
Sometimes it’s nice to be late on things; to not have to rush yourself to form some kind of [forced] opinion. Morris Cowan’s debut album for Wigflex (his second to date) is a case...
It doesn't matter that he's long-since moved to Manchester: I'm claiming Morris Cowan for Nottingham, the city from which we both hail, in the vague hope that if I do so, a rift...
Despite having a title that hints toward Chicago and juke, Feetwork—the latest release from prolific Northern Irish producer T-Polar—actually comprises a handful tracks that pay...
From an extreme distance, it can be easy to assume that there's a hard line dividing the dancefloors of Berghain and Panorama Bar. It's as simple as techno in one room and house...
It may have taken Oliver Deutschmann a while to get around to his debut album, but the German DJ and producer hasn't been wanting for things to do. His outings over the years...
Over the last 13 years, Stefan Kozella, better known as DJ Koze, established himself as one of the most playful producers in electronic music. Through numerous singles and remixes...
It's been roughly seven years since DJ Koze last put out a solo record and four years since his notable Reincarnations remix collection was released. In the electronic-music world...
Hey again. This hypnotic album by TM404 was added to Spotify a couple of days ago. Genre: electronic. Good stuff. Enjoy! TM404 – TM404 Filed under: 2013, Electronic
Sheffield's The Black Dog has a substantial legacy to manage. Slapped with the unfortunate IDM tag early on, the lineup-shifting trio has neither balked at nor played to...
Berliner Ellen Allien clearly doesn't view boundaries in quite the same way as many of her techno peers. Using terms like "fearless" to describe musicians who cycle through...
Ellen Allien's new work LISm is already being referred to as a milestone in the label's history: rarely has an LP from the circle of BPC artists deviated so far from the club...
If anything anchors Ellen Allien's work, it's her attitude, rather than a sound. From the icy abstraction of Sool to the playful indie-dance of Dust, from the leftfield techno-pop...
Since the release of her first record in 1995, Ellen Allien has proven to be a highly versatile artist. Over the course of her career, the Berlin producer has consistently come to...
The last track on Wings of Techno is a skit, a phone call between two music producers who are complaining about "the industry" and, specifically, idiotic labels that ask for...
The Present Tense is the inaugural release from Houndstooth, the new label offshoot of London club Fabric which features Rob Booth—the man behind the consistently on-point...
Though they aren't necessarily its biggest name, Dadub play a crucial role in Stroboscopic Artefacts. The Italian duo master all of the label's releases in their impressive studio...
Dadub are powering downriver into a barren jungle clearing where mortal fear and animal energy reign o'er the wee small hours. Gravely enveloping, You Are Eternity hums with...
Mano Le Tough (a.k.a. Niall Mannion) has been going down the song-oriented path for some time, but the assurance with which his latest album, Changing Days, creates its own...
During the past four years, Irish-born producer Niall Mannion, better known as Mano Le Tough, has built a reputation for florid, sprightly house music with tracks like "Mountains...
Diamond Version is the collaborative project between two of the most groundbreaking, experimental and forward-thinking creators in modern music, Byetone and Alva Noto. As joint...
Brothers Wolfgang and Richard Voigt may be thought of as techno producers, but Die Zauberhafte Welt Der Anderen is one of their many forays into electronic music's outer-reaches...
The title of the latest collaboration between brothers Wolfgang and Reinhard Voigt translates as "The Magical World of Others". It fits in a sense: Die zauberhafte Welt der...
It's hard to tell if Kompakt co-owner Wolfgang Voigt is the Cologne label's bellwether or its impish black sheep. Whatever the case, after resurrecting the Mohn moniker with Jörg...
The young Dutch electronic producer Pascal Terstappen has numerous assets, any one of which would be enough to build a strong aesthetic. He has a keen ear for melody, a terse...
Applescal's debut and sophomore full-lengths came just eight months apart from each other, a fact that may have lent the impression that although the budding Dutch producer was...
It's a shame that Matthew Dear's career has continued to stray further and further away from the dancefloor—while his latter-day role as a post punk-informed, ostensibly pop...
Berlin-via-Detroit artist Kris Wadsworth has mostly appeared on Morris/Audio and Hypercolour these past few years, but he's chosen Get Physical to release his debut album, Life...
Madteo may have first come to your attention with his single for Workshop back in 2010, or maybe earlier, through his collaboration with leftfield rapper Sensational on Lanquid...
Evening. It’s time for one of those rare late night Spotinews blog posts. This intense, dark electronic album is from 2012. Read a very positive review and enjoy Madteo! Madteo...
Brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll formed electronic dance music duo Orbital in 1989 and recorded their seminal hit Chime on their father's cassette deck. @3 years later their...
Jan, aka Kim Talon, releases her self- titled debut album. With riot grrrl- infused vocals, fuzzed out guitar lines, and blissed out grunge rhythms, Jan is a genre-straddling...
On the rare occasions the subject comes up, it's now the default response to sneer at the track that, ultimately, will define Florian Senfter's career. True, in its remixed form...
Container's Ren Schofield makes techno, but he doesn't make techno like Carl Craig, Richie Hawtin, or Marcel Dettman. Instead, he's one of a growing number of noise and...
You can tell just from scanning its sleeve notes that LP promises a continuation of Container's debut. After all, it arrives with the same mischievously anonymous title. Plus...
At this point in electronic music culture, it's hard to avoid being part of a trend, or at least what someone somewhere perceives as one. Pretty much any given style is apt to be...
Hague-based producer Legowelt's Discogs page lists 24 different aliases, not including his recent, productive collaboration with San Francisco's Xosar as Trackman Lafonte and...
Legowelt's transformation from master of twitchy electro bangers like "Dirty Tango," "Swimming Pool" and "Strange Girl" to deep space house epics isn't so much a change as an...
Sigha has been one of my most closely-watched producers of the past two years. I'm hard pressed to say why because he doesn't really have a distinctive sound. Since his debut on...
London DJ and producer James Shaw aka Sigha confidently returns to the label with his heavily-anticipated debut LP, Living With Ghosts. For this offering, he presents 12...
Sigha is a producer without a hook: both his story and his music are so familiar you'll long for a Twitter-sized morsel of discontent or a trendily vapid remix. First, the story...
Over the course of two years and 11 releases, James Shaw (a.k.a Sigha) has made a gradual shift away from the fractured, ambient garage of his earliest tunes to a wholehearted...
In the liner notes of his DJ Kicks mix two years ago, James Holden praised the virtues of atypical dancing: "The dance you do lying in bed or driving your car or riding the bus is...
Much of the current wave of aggressive, pop-oriented dance music can be traced to 2005. That year, Madonna's late-career foray into Eurodance, Confessions on a Dancefloor marked...