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The mighty Forced Exposure distribution company is America's lifeline to the fertile global electronic-music underground—as well as many other arcane sonic delicacies. Whenever a package from FE arrives, I can be assured a bounty of excellent sounds from the planet's most forward-thinking sound sorcerers. Below is a survey of releases from the most recent batch of goodies. More treasures can be yours at the FE site or at your local hip record emporium, if you're indeed fortunate enough
April 5, 2007Photos: Lollapalooza 2007
The Daft Punk mothership lands in Chicago. Click the image for photos of Blonde Redhead, M.I.A. and other bands at the festival:
August 7, 2007Crystal Method in Newport Beach Dec. 27
December 26, 2007Autechre, Why You Gotta Mess with Our Minds So?
Quaristice is the name; fucking up minds is the game. All I wanted to do was to see where in North America Autechre would be touring in support of their forthcoming album, Quaristice (out March 3 on Warp Records). So I went to the British duo's MySpace page. That seemed like a logical move. As you can see, once you load their page, you're assaulted with a contemptuous visual “remix” of the wack MySpace template. Ocular chaos ensues. It's a-freakin-maze-in'. And the sounds perfectly comp
January 9, 2008Coachella lineup announced
Via Coachella.com: FRIDAY, APRIL 25: Jack Johnson, The Verve, Raconteurs, The Breeders, Fatboy Slim, Tegan and Sara, Madness, The Swell Season, The National, Animal Collective, Slightly Stoopid, Mum, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Stars, Battles, Aesop Rock, Midnight Juggernauts, Does it Offend you, Yeah?, Minus the Bear, Spank Rock, dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip, Diplo, Adam Freeland, Santo Gold, Jens Lekman, John Butler Trio, Vampire Weekend, Dan Deacon, Architecture in Helsinki, Sandra Col
January 22, 2008Last Night: Autechre, Rob Hall, Massionix at Echoplex
April 5, 2008Chew on This: The Bubblegum Sequencer
Sweet new way to create electronic music.
April 14, 2008L.A. Weekly's Top Ten Dance Collections of 2008, Both Mixed and Unmixed
Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry and synthetic to wet and gushy), rhythm tracks can be tempo-tweaked with an upward toggle to change a Timbaland beat into a Chromeo one. Add some T-Pain-esque pitch-correction vocals to your between
December 18, 2008CD Review
Oh Astro, Champions of Wonder (Illegal Art)
December 20, 2007[CD Review] Syclops, 'I've Got My Eye on You' (DFA)
August 14, 2008[CD Review] Flying Lotus, 'Los Angeles' (Warp)
June 19, 2008Shake & Pop
June 19, 2008[CD Review] Jamie Lidell, 'Jim' (Warp)
May 8, 2008Coachella's Robot Rock: Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin and Justice's Automation for (Moving) the People
April 17, 2008[CD Review] Carl Craig, Sessions (!K7)
March 27, 2008[CD Review] Autechre, Quaristice (Warp)
February 28, 2008Hits!
Dr. Freecloud's Record Shoppe
February 7, 2008Spinnin' & Singin' Pretty
DJ Colette Vox the House
October 25, 2007Into the (weird) Groove
Holy Fuck’s Raw Music Is As Provocative As Their Name
September 13, 2007Detroit Bass Baller
Ghetto-Tech Guru DJ Starski’s Hard-Cop Life
August 23, 2007Hispanic! at the Disco
The Freestyle Experience revives ’80s electro fun(k), barrio-style
August 23, 2007The Sound of Godzilla Urinating
Skinny Puppy & Otto Von Schirach speaker-fist America
June 21, 2007Hits!
Dr. Freeclouds Record Shoppe
May 10, 2007Gathering of the Tribe$
August 9, 2001The Year the Superstar Dj Died
WEB EXCLUSIVE!: Dinosaurs rule the dancefloors no more
December 28, 2006Hits!
Dr, Freecloud's
November 9, 2006Polymorpous and Polyrhythmic
May 17, 2007Pretty Awesome Christ Pose
March 30, 2006Hits!
March 23, 2006Stuck in Thee Garage
January 22, 2004In the Beginning
February 6, 2003Westminster Rock City
October 17, 2002Fatboy Slim
August 29, 2002Raving In Wonderland
September 6, 2001The Return of Q
August 9, 2001Hey, Mr. DJ
July 26, 2001The Prodigy Are Still Changing Their Pitches Up, Probably Not Smacking Bitches Up
May 21, 2009Chicago DJ Bad Boy Bill Goes Old-School, Releases an Album
July 9, 2009Dance Music Pick of the Week: Sultan at Code
In the early '00s, after the hype of club culture peaked and many Johnny-come-latelys went home, a new generation of DJs and producers ascended. These younger men and women entered club-land for the right reasons--the music--and came armed with digital-production and social-networking skills that put vinyl-toting veterans to shame. The likes of James Zabiela, Deadmau5, 16 Bit Lolitas and Joris Voorn emerged as both technical and artistic whizzes.Montreal-based Sultan is at the vanguard of tha
August 12, 2009Dance Music Pick of the Week: Garth and Jeno at Focus
Before Jay Denes' Naked Music label arrived from New York, there was a West Coast sound in dance music that was meatier, funkier, and more tribal. While the Naked sound set Kenny G.-like moods to a house beat, the pre-Denes flavors of left coast house music were heavily spiced by dub reggae and the psychedelic bliss of a handful of British expatriate DJs who arrived in California in the late 1980s and early 1990s to escape rave crackdowns and drug violence in the U.K.
August 19, 2009Dance Music Pick of the Week: Marques Wyatt at Focus
BY DENNIS ROMEROQuietly, with little of the nihilistic self-promotion seen in a new generation of spinners, Marques Wyatt has been one of the most-influential West Coast DJs of the super-club era. In 1988 - 1988! - he co-promoted a night that celebrated house music, a year before the sound would help inspire rave culture in the U.K. Not long after that he hosted "Brass" acid jazz parties that showcased the likes of the Brand New Heavies and Jamiroquai.From 1992 to 1999 Wyatt hosted an after-hour
July 8, 2009Dance Music Pick of the Week: Joris Voorn at Code
Krijin van NoordwijkOnce every few years a game-changing album will accelerate the evolution of electronic dance music. The Prodigy added punk rock aggression to the scene in 1992 (Experience), the Chemical Brothers became the Beatles of club-land in 1995 (Exit Planet Dust) and Moby introduced the world to the tuneful, down-tempo side of e-music in 1999 (Play). In the '00s, much of the progression happened behind the scenes and in studios where technology forged new ways of layering, mixing a
October 8, 2009Dance Music Pick of the Week: Thee-O at the Light Gallery
Since the dawn of the 1990s, American dance music culture has seen waves of club-goers, artists and DJs come and go. The survivors are rare: It's hard to stick with a dancing-till-dawn culture as your 40s approach, but that's what one DJ has done. Thee-O continues to be a pillar of Southern California club culture, and his banging, bouncy house style hasn't let up, either.
October 15, 2009Dance Music Pick of the Week: Mark Farina at Code
In the often futuristic realm of electronic dance music it's easy to forget there is also a strong strain of reverence for the highest forms of pop musicianship. DJ Louie Vega often recalls his salsa heritage, Dennis Ferrer elevates his grooves with gospel, and jazz accentuates the palette of one Mark Farina.The latter, who will DJ Tuesday in Newport Beach, is the West Coast's DJ laureate. A Bay Area spinner with deep appreciation for soulful chops and improvisation, Farina led a conga line
October 1, 2009Dance Music Pick of the Week: James Zabiela
As the '00s dawned a fresh crop of DJs and artists descended on club-land. Where the last generation had mastered the long mixes and hip-hop-style tricks of turntables, the new kids were getting under the hood of technology to produce multimedia experiences on the dance floor. James Zabiela is chief among the new wave of spinners. The Brit burst on the scene in 2000 by winning a mixtape contest put on by a UK dance music magazine (Muzik). He was soon embraced by the progressive house elite
October 29, 2009Onetime Smooth-House DJ Andy Caldwell Toughens Up His Sound
October 29, 2009Dance Pick Of The Week: DJ T at Focus
Some would credit Europe with this thing we call electronic dance music by pointing back to the pioneering work of Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder and Can. They would be half right: Contemporary electronic dance music, like blues, rock and jazz, is a progeny of the interplay between black and white music. (See Juan Atkins, Frankie Knuckles and Moby). And so, for many years New York was the club capital of DJ culture, and Southern California was its backyard playground.DJ T But Europe has, in rec
November 5, 2009Dance Pick Of The Week: Doc Martin At Focus
It's a little strange to sense all the buzz surrounding Europe's new dark wave of dance floor sounds, which combine tribal drums with deep, chugging bass and a simmering sense of bacchanalia. The likes of Loco Dice, Sven Vath, Dubfire and Radio Slave have been churning out this latest club-land flavor, which lies somewhere between minimal techno and dubby house music. But it's been done before.Fabric LondonThe doctor is in the house. Rewind to the mid-1990s and behold one Southern Califo
November 12, 2009Mash-up Master Dirty South Leads Geekdom's Charge Into Clubland
November 12, 2009Ghostland Observatory
November 19, 2009
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