For Throwback Thursday we dial the clock back to 2011, when we talked to M83′s Anthony Gonzalez about his ambitious double album, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, which was regarded as one of the best albums of the year. Here we talked to Gonzalez about the ambitious album and how ’90s alt-culture informed the now-classic album. [...]

A two-hour video of the Paradise Garage‘s two closing parties held in August 1987 have been posted on YouTube by someone going by the alias DJ SimonC. While some portions of the footage of these legendary events at the famed and sadly defunct clubbing institution have appeared online over the years, this is the first [...]

What do you do after you’ve attained most of your career goals before you’re 40? If you’re Danish DJ/producer Anders Trentemøller, you dream up new ones for yourself. From the mid ’90s through the mid ’00s, Trentemøller dominated global dance floors with his sound comprised of shards of minimal and tech-house, forging sinewy club tracks [...]

New York City-based Austrian DJ/producer Peter Rauhofer died on Tuesday, only a few weeks after he was rushed to the hospital and diagnosed with a brain tumor. The news was announced by Rauhofer’s manager, Angelo Russo, via the artist’s Facebook page. His passing at only 48 is tragic. I had the pleasure of interviewing Rauhofer [...]

Australian experimental electro-rock band PVT, formerly signed to Warp Records who are now with the Brooklyn label Felte Sounds, have recently released their fourth album, Homosapien. Drummer Laurence Pike spoke with us via Skype about a range of topics at the end of the band’s recent Australian tour.

Emerging during the ’90s, a time when DJs earned their reputations from throwing down on the decks, not cake at their audiences, Timo Maas literally came out of nowhere. Raised in a small town in Germany, his story of musical fascination and desire to DJ and produce music becomes interesting after he issues his life [...]

It might be sacrilege to say it, but I’ve always felt Basement Jaxx lost the plot ten years ago after they released Rooty, which spawned the international smashes “Romeo,” “Jus 1 Kiss” and “Where’s Your Head At?”. Their evolution into a faux live samba band just didn’t do it for me, probably because the musicianship wasn’t [...]

In 2011, we interviewed Japanese turntable legend DJ Krush (a.k.a. Hideaki Ishii) about celebrating two decades in the mix, his plans for the future and his thoughts on the earthquake and tsunami which devastated his country that year. For the first edition of Throwback Thursday, we’re republishing our conversation with one of hip-hop’s master mixers. [...]

Tim Simenon etched out a permanent place in dance music history in 1987 when he waxed his legendary acid house track “Beat Dis.” Despite countless musical trends and fads, the song recorded for just £500 has the power to devastate any dance floor. Period. While BTB was a one-man show for many years, Simenon recently [...]

The final day of the Ultra Music Festival 2013 was a harsh reality and fans were arriving early and were pumped to make it an ultimate last day. Arriving at the festival grounds before the crowds poured in and scoping out the place and vast space it was difficult to envision hosting (squeezing) the tens [...]

DJ/producer Scott Hardiss passed away unexpectedly earlier today. In the early ’90s Scott Friedel was a member of pioneering San Francisco DJ/producer trio Hardkiss which was rounded out by musical partners Gavin and Robbie. The Hardkiss Brothers (who weren’t biologically related) helped nourish and influence the era’s fledgling West Coast sound — psychedelia mixed with [...]