Techno is a genre not necessarily geared towards the album format. Optimised for dancefloor impact, it's a pacey, breathless style primarily presented in short, sharp and hard-hitting records that ...

With our free press under threat and federal funding for public media gone, your support matters more than ever. Help keep the LAist newsroom strong, become a monthly member or increase your support ...

In early '90s Melbourne it was difficult to find electronic dance music on the radio or at the record store. But almost every weekend, somewhere in the city, a dancefloor would be filled with ravers ...

“Hardcore” was the first rave subgenre. An investigation of early-’90s rave culture would reveal its participants’ insistence on using the word “hardcore” to describe themselves and their music.

Old music technology has been making a comeback with sales for vinyl, cassette tapes, and analog synths increasing over the past few years, but one musician is leaning into our collective retro ...

When the first Unit club opened in Hamburg in 1989, it was embraced as an alternative to other places that ran on tighter curfews and were often in less central locations. Unlike Front, the pioneering ...

DJ Mike “Agent X” Clark has observed the Detroit house and techno scene from numerous angles over his 35-year career. He recalls the high school house parties of the ’80s, the commercialization of ...

The best Detroit techno artists produce the kind of music that practically demands the audience to get up and move. DJ Kelli Hand (K-Hand for short) had it down to a science. "First of all, she was a ...

The history of an experimental music-and-mythos project with Black Diaspora at its core. The Quest’s original album art, as one example, features a blackened Mollweide projection—a map well-suited for ...