George Orwell's 1984 starts with, "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." Nights of techno ravers end similarly—dancers stepping out of the club after a long night ...

Techno: A universal language. No matter your native tongue, the myriad beats that define the genre can be understood by all. By cultivating emotions, causing movement, forming sounds and generating ...

Recently, I’ve been getting more into electronic music. I can’t get enough, and it seems like the world agrees. There have ...

EARLY AFTERNOON ON THANKSGIVING FRIDAY in 2023, two branches of Black American dance music’s family tree broke philosophical bread together in Detroit. The occasion was a lecture by King Britt, a ...

'To be honest, I don't get the whole discussion about the moral of our scene. I have not and will not participate in it,' Väth tells Billboard. By Katie Bain In 1981, Sven Väth hitchhiked from his ...

I guess it's only fitting that somewhere in a blog about Berlin we'd have to talk about Techno music. But to be sure we were giving the music genre a fair shake, we went to techno aficionado and music ...

KOLKATA — Scott Jordan, professionally known as Scotty, is a Kolkata-based DJ and electronic music artist whose work spans ...

Techno is Black music. So is house. And footwork. And dubstep. Pretty much all dance music as we know it is rooted in funk, soul, and disco, which is to say that it is rooted in fundamentally Black ...

In electronic music, impact is rarely about one sound in isolation. It comes from contrast, timing, space, and the way ...

Electronic music is post-industrial music. It is the beneficiary of mass production, and as such, it has always maintained a dynamic relationship to manufacturing, technology, and labor, ...