At a recent edition of Everyone’s a DJ, which wound up being one of my favourites because/despite a number of things that I’ll tell you about later, I got to have a great conversation with a skilled young DJ named Mr. Sperken. He was big fan of Z-Trip, quite rightly, so I asked if he’d […]

“I have adopted sophisticated terrorist tactics,” former president George W. Bush declares in the opening moments of Rio Grande Blood, “and I am a dangerous, dangerous man, with dangerous, dangerous weapons.” These are the sort of snidely manipulated samples that Ministry used to great effect in their fast and heavy indictments of government throughout their […]

Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder, CEO and President of Facebook, is twenty-six years old. Not only does that make him the world’s youngest billionaire, but it’s also prompted some interesting discussions over whether he’s a total prick or just too immature to know better. It also means he’s probably too young to remember a time when […]

Remember when this album came out ten years ago? The timing was definitely right for such a well-crafted blend of jazz and electronic music, and it’s no wonder it was such a big hit in record stores and gigantic bookstores alike. Ten years later, it still holds up. Maybe that’s because it was very much […]

I picked up the third and latest from Holy Fuck last week, and I had it in my headphones yesterday as I cleaned out my garage. If I were a better music critic, I’m sure I could spin a great yarn about the aesthetic serendipity of listening to a band that makes ostensibly electronic music […]

Chart recently granted me the opportunity to review the new Underworld album, which will hit the shelves in a couple of weeks. The review hasn’t been published yet, but once it has, you’ll find that I singled out the good work of a number of producers whose work appears on the disc – including Mark […]

Manu Dibango may not be a well-known name these days, he said smugly, but his place in musical history is assured; the title track from his 1972 album Soul Makossa is widely considered to be the first disco record. And listen, don’t let your preconceived notions about disco fool you. In its early underground days, […]

Underworld is about to release a new album, and I don’t mind telling you that I’m pretty excited about it. That’s admittedly nothing new; I’ve gotten pretty excited about the impending release of every Underworld album since Beaucoup Fish in 1999. But there’s a reason for that, and if their latest single is any indication, […]

I haven’t even made my way through the bulk of this three-disc mix, but I’m loving what I’ve heard so far. Renaissance: The Mix Collection is considered one of the classics of the genre, and it was certainly one of the first DJ mixes to make a major dent in the commercial market. Listening to […]

“Influential” albums are usually a bit of a gamble. There are records that strike a chord with artists and listeners alike, and then there are records that somehow fall short of appealing to the general public, despite being celebrated or even worshiped by the artists that they influenced. Take an album like Trout Mask Replica. […]