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Adam Beyer shares how Kevin Saunderson influenced him, the perks of being married to a fellow producer and how his daughters inspired his love of Billie Eilish. 

This 1992 meeting of Moritz von Oswald, Thomas Fehlmann, and Juan Atkins is a monument to the improbable transatlantic alliance that techno forged between Detroit and Berlin.

Listen To Signers Isolated Dreams EP07 Chris Cudby / Wednesday 19th May, 2021 2:17PM    Signer aka Bevan Smith (also of Introverted Dancefloor and Glass Vaults) has been releasing editions of his Isolated Dreams series of EPs onto Bandcamp at an impressively steady clip, since kicking off the low key project in October 2020. The world has opened up considerably in the months following and Signers creative flow still feels uncontainable, with new collection EP07 notably featuring m...

Fact Mix 806: exael Fact Mix 806: exael West Mineral Ltd. artist exael straddles the line between personal home-listening and social energy on a mind-bending mix. Over the past nine years, exael has quietly built one of the most vital discographies in what could loosely be called “ambient”. However, the music of exael (who also produces under their own name naemi and various other monikers) is never quite so straightforward: within single tracks, exael can move from serene, beatless drift t...

Open share drawer Marking 10 years since he set off down his path of dour, slow-motion techno, the Manchester musician returns to his familiar palette of ashen moods and richly textured electronics. Featured Tracks: Never the Right Time — Andy StottVia SoundCloud A decade ago, the Manchester-based electronic musician Andy Stott extinguished the dub-techno torch he’d been carrying for Basic Channel and plunged into some lightless place where all the usual values got switched around....

Christian Eede , April 15th, 2021 13:02 The 52-track release takes in music by Juan Atkins, Helena Hauff, Jeff Mills and lots more Tresor has shared full details of a 30th anniversary box set that will be released later this year. TRESOR 30 takes in 52 tracks in all, much of it brand new. Among those contributing new and unreleased tracks to the compilation are Surgeon, KMRU, Function, Regis + James Ruskin (as O/V/R), LSDXOXO, Donato Dozzy, DJ Stingray, Speaker Music, AFRODEUTSCHE, and Moritz ...

The 9 Best DJ Mixes of January 2021 Pitchfork 1/29/2021 © Graphic by Drew Litowitz Graphic by Drew Litowitz Every month, Philip Sherburne listens to a whole lot of mixes so you only have to listen to the best ones. It’s a new year… sort of. Perhaps you’re still figuring out how to feel about the onset of 2021, which, at least so far, doesn’t seem like a huge improvement on 2020. These sets offer two possible coping strategies. Option 1: Rage to your heart’s content and work out y...

Bicep: Isles review – dance duo create the ultimate living-room rave Alexis Petridis The progression from record collector to DJ to artist is a common one in dance music: the difference with Northern Irish duo Bicep is they have done it all in public. They first emerged 12 years ago among a plethora of late-noughties bloggers devoted to digging up musical obscurities of varying hues and presenting them to the public. Their Feel My Bicep blog began as a means of keeping in touc...

Last modified on Tue 26 Jan 2021 06.09 EST The progression from record collector to DJ to artist is a common one in dance music: the difference with Northern Irish duo Bicep is they have done it all in public. They first emerged 12 years ago among a plethora of late-noughties bloggers devoted to digging up musical obscurities of varying hues and presenting them to the public. Their Feel My Bicep blog began as a means of keeping in touch with record-collecting friends from Belfast who’d gon...