Audio Assault News Today

Chicago footwork artist Heavee steps up for the Recognise mix series, and speaks to Arielle Lana LeJarde about following in the footsteps of their mentor DJ Rashad by releasing an EP on Hyperdub, and how cartoons and video games helped lead him to a life in electronic music

There’s the maximal and spacious sounds of Slikback, Iceboy Violet’s jaw-dropping debut, and Punko’s mysterious backdrops

That wrap dress is a phenomenon. >> diane von furstenberg became a symbol of womens liberation, womens empowerment, and that dress embodied all of it. >> 45 years later, its still around. i made the dress, but really, the dress made me. >> theres a new form of assault on city streets these days, an audio assault. the sound of disco music pouring from portable radios and cassette tape players. its part nuisance, part culture, and part sociology. >> so disco gets its start from funk and soul music...

Created fairly recently that have had staying power? that wrap dress is a phenomenon. >> diane von furstenberg became a symbol of womens liberation, womens empowerment, and that dress embodied all of it. >> 45 years later its still around. i made the dress, but really the dress made me. ♪ >> theres a new form of assault on city streets these days, an audio assault. the sound of disco music pouring from portable radios and cassette tape players. its part nuisance, part culture, and part sociolo...

Womens liberation and womens empowerment and that dress embodied all of it. >> 45 years later its still around. i made the dress but really the dress made me. >> theres a new form of assault on city streets these days, an audio assault. the sound of disco music pouring from portable -- >> disco gets it start from funk and soul music from the 1960s and 70s. >> disco was a drug-saturated party scene. you danced the night away with all your gyrations and you were covered in sweat and people were ca...

Dress embodied all of it. >> 45 years later its still around. i made the dress, but really the dress made me. ♪ >> theres a new form of assault on city streets these days, an audio assault. the sound of disco music pouring from radios and cassette tape players and its part nuisance, part culture and part sossology. >> disk owe gets its start from the 1907s. >> disco was a wild, mad, drug-saturated party scene. you danced the night away with all your gyrations. you were covered with sweat and p...