Stories about electronic music.

Sometimes I ask interesting musicians to record a mix that contains only their own music. Check a Marco Lazovic showcase with ambient…

Derrick May used high-tech soul to describe at least his own music. He didn’t agree with Atkins’ techno, especially since that was similar…

To promote the album, which will become a classic for the band, Rupert Huber and Richard Dorfmeister arranged interviews not in the lobby…

At the beginning of the noughties, Tiësto’s career was going uphill. The Delerium remix reached the top ten. Collaborations with more…

Ian Pooley: “I discovered the Brazilian sound when I was in Porto for a gig in 1996. We went for drinks in a bar and the DJ was playing…

This is how Air sounded before turning to psychedelia. In 1995, Parisian clubs were shaken by fast house and techno music brought by the…

They were two completely different people, but with great imaginations, the same passion for music and childishness. “Our concept was to…

Just like the entire family of the first acid genres, acid house, acid trance, and acid techno tracks are based around the sounds of the…

In the late 1980s, acid house had spread from the UK across the North Sea to the Netherlands. In the Dutch capital, house music was…

A documentary about the most famous drum machine of modern times and its legacy. A film that took three years to make, and which began with…

Once, in 1989 or 1991, Andy Compton was lying down after a bad performance of his metal band, thinking about existential questions. Having…

Fatboy Slim or Armand van Helden? In the spring of 1999, it finally became clear who ruled. In three years, a small South British party Big…

This is an original album. In large part because it remained an unreleased third studio album and also because it is 95% stylistically…

The creators of Hybrid (Mike Truman and Chris Healings) met during the decline of the British rave scene in 1993. Chris was a resident at…

As a DJ I was playing out a lot back then, so that’s what I wanted to make my music for. There were a lot of albums that came out that…

I’ve loved dance music as long as I can remember, but it wasn’t until I was 19–20 years old that I made music of my own. I started by just…

Jean-Benoît Dunckel: Daft Punk were down the street from us in Paris and we could almost hear the music they were making when we opened…

When progressive house was actually progressive

Today’s cover story is about why people from the Jarre’s Équinoxe cover look at us — it’s not Eclipse after all. Michel Granger, picture…

“We just smoked all day long and planned to continue, but soon we got bored and started making music,” jokes Richard Dorfmeister openly.

BT: “My first introduction to Jan Johnston was on a 7" I bought in a cut-out bin at This Great Record store in Manchester. I had been…

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