Electric independence

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    Regular readers may have noticed the absence of this column in Vice for most of last year. For those who cared, I can only mumble a sheepish apology and promise to write it more regularly. What amazing new music have you missed out on? Quite a lot, I...

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    It's always a treat to hear Aphex Twin DJ, especially in unusual places. He never disappoints.

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    One of the coolest things about Francisco's new Music Business album on Nature-well, the coolest thing by miles, actually-is that the CD and vinyl editions turn into a board game, called Music Business, which is loosely based on Monopoly. The object of...

  • Electric Independence

    The top six Electric Independence things of 2005. Break it down...VITALICOK Cowboy</bOdd: I played this to death every day up until its April release. Since then I’ve

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    Well, it seems kind of childish to try to muster any feelings of hate into this column when you're still trying to get your head around the news that John Peel has passed away.

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    Attention, all uber-minimal techno geeks: take a deep breath and brace yourself for the bad news: the revenge of the nerds is over.

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    My friend Greg is getting married and it's the funniest thing I've ever seen.

  • Electric Independence

    My friend Greg is getting married and it's the funniest thing I've ever seen.

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    So Sónar was fun this year. Well it always is, in Barcelona. The more times you go, the more people you meet, the more you socialise and the fewer bands and DJs and installations and films and Final Scratch demonstrations you investigate.

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    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...

  • 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.