Electric independence
Electric Independence
There’s been a lot of hype surrounding the NYC electro revival, with a bunch of producers picking up where pioneering acts like Afrika Bambaataa and Man Parrish left off. What a lot of people don’t know is that 1,350 miles south, in a small Latino...
Electric Independence
Even though the hottest Now Wave acts like Fischerspooner and Chicks On Speed are being praised for re-injecting fun into electronic music, some of the best live shit I’ve seen recently wasn’t performed by humans at all. The User is a Montreal duo made...
Electric Independence
High school sucked. I was short, had thick-ass glasses, and dressed funny. I was bad at sports and wasn’t a huge hit with the ladies.
By Design
Zeitergeist. Victorian patterns soon haunting a coffee-table book near you. Patterns are the shit. After years of cold, hard lines and over-teched fliers covered in arrows, the electronic-music scene is showing that it's ready for some tricked-out...
Electric Independence
When I think about the first time I was really exposed to electronic music, I was too young to be into shit like the sample-a-delic space age pop of Jean Jacques Perrey, or the twisted genius of inventor Raymond Scott.
Electric Independence
11 DAYS OF ELECTRONICAMention the words Montreal music Festival and most people think of standing around the (in)famous Jazz Fest with a bunch of middle age yuppies watching a half assed caricature of a once revolutionary music. Alain...
Electric Independence
I HATE TECHNOLast month I hated techno. I thought experimental electronic music wasn’t going anywhere and used adjectives like “boring” and “played out” when people mentioned it. I guess that’s what happens when all you do is eat, sleep and...