The ability to create and play music is one of the greatest pleasures in the world. Until fairly recently, this was a much harder game for people with physical disabilities. New advances in technology ...

Mouse On Mars is the quintessential 1990s electronic outfit. Like many of the groups that emerged during that time, the duo—which consists of Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma—is bent on the denial of ...

Years of research went into this list. While at one point there would have been no real demand for it, the listicle has become a key instrument of modern lifestyle journalism. When it comes to ranking ...

Earlier this year, we partnered with the Do School to explore new possibilities for Telekom Electronic Beats. In the process, we met Noah Fields, a talented young trans* writer from Chicago. We tapped ...

Djax-Up-Beats is techno royalty. Founded in 1988 by Miss Djax, the Dutch label helped shape the sound of techno up until the early ’00s, thanks to the funky and rough approach it championed. Simply ...

Even today, it’s pretty safe to say that “big room” house music doesn’t have the best reputation. Yet, like many dance music genres engineered for mass consumption, there’s often some good to go with ...

The Sound and Style of Beat-Driven Culture. Club music and lifestyle at the global intersections since 2000.

This week, in an article titled About Vatican Shadow Link With the Far-right, culture journalist Jean-Hugues Kabuiku has highlighted relationships between experimental producer Dominick Fernow—also ...

Danceteria sent shockwaves through the city’s party scene when it opened in May 1980, all the way down to the Mudd Club, where its owners had spent a fair amount of time hanging out. Dedicating the ...

On the occasion of International Transgender Day of Visibility, we highlighted a few of our favorite artists working across electronic music, experimental, club, pop and more. March 31 is ...

Mobilegirl, Amber Akilla, bod [包家巷], and others speak out against the upsurge of violence towards diasporic Asian communities. The phrase “Go back to China” haunts me. As a Taiwanese-American, I am ...

Aperture, released on Shanghai's SVBKVLT, finds the artist weaving dense industrial atmospheres, skittering beats, and an ephemeral coming of age narrative. In Shanghai, talking about the garbage is ...