You’d think that dance music was a young man’s game. It requires very late nights, a lot of high energy, working knowledge of cutting-edge audio technology and the ability to stare into the smooth-skinned, bug-eyed faces of merrymaking young people without curling up into a ball and screaming, “Oh God,
‘Deicide’ is the second offering from Crystal Castles since the rather acrimonious and well-publicised departure of singer Alice Glass last year, which sparked a bit of a social media war between Glass and fellow founding member Ethan Kath. When any band loses a member their future immediately is cast into
Hudson Mohawke is a phenomenon. Hudson, once known as DJ Itchy, was the UK’s youngest ever DMC Finalist and has shown the world what he’s been working on in the time he gets between producing Kayne West, writing songs for Grand Theft Auto V and being an outright trend setter.
“8.58 is a moment of choice, it’s almost 9 o’clock. Are you going to school? Are you going in to that job you hate? Everybody faces that decision now and again. 8.58 am is when you’ve got to make up your mind.” “Am I going to be truthful to myself
Caribou is an animal, literally and figuratively. Let’s leave the North American deer species to David Attenborough and focus on Dan Snaith’s musical persona. Releasing music under the names Manitoba and Daphni, Dan Snaith is a musical behemoth and is defined more as a composer/recording artist than a DJ. It’s
Producer Dara Smith may be better known as one half of Lakker. His debut solo EP, under the moniker Arad, is out soon on Speedy J’s Electric Deluxe Label. First track, ‘Basswave,’ has the kind of fast, dull, repetitive bass line that you will want to speed up, just to
Green Language: In mythology, medieval literature and occultism, the language of the birds is postulated as a mystical, perfect divine language, green language, adamic language, enochian language, angelic language or a mythical or magical language used by birds to communicate with the initiated. Scottish producer extraordinaire Rustie released a follow
Good Luck And Do Your Best by Gold Panda It’s been three years since Gold Panda’s universally acclaimed and endlessly alluring ‘Half of Where You Live’ came out. The 2013 album was a globe-trotting adventure in which the British producer took us on an epic odyssey from Brazil to the
Happy Meals are an experimental electro-pop duo who are based in Glasgow but, like many of that vibrant city’s creatives, are firmly international in their outlook. Suzanne Rodden sings in both English and French and there’s a European disco flavour to the couple’s tangy music as well, not to mention
Belgium produces hundreds, perhaps thousands, of different varieties of beer and yet if you ask the average British consumer to list as many types as they can, he or she will start to struggle after citing Stella Artois and Hoegaarden. Likewise, Belgium is the home to countless extraordinary and experimental
