From Kraftwerk’s travel obsession and the endless poetics of Manuel Göttsching’s E2-E4 to Atom™’s overt Schubert references on Winterreise, German Romanticism has been an enduring presence in electronic music. So too for Berlin clicks and cuts/dubtechnoist Stefan Betke and minimal techno godfather Wolfgang Voigt. Over the past fifteen years, both artists have forged a – more

We’re pleased to bring you an Electronic Beats exclusive: a pre-release stream of the entire trilogy of Pole’s Waldgeschichten! Three 12″ platters of extremely dank minimal dub reggae, best served smoked. – more

Fast Food is a new, regular blog on electronicbeats.net by Thomas Schoenberger and Max Dax. Every Saturday you can read a new piece of a sophisticated ongoing conversation about cooking, traditions and how to read the menu of any given restaurant. It is a discussion about disappearing spaces and why so many chefs listen to – more

“You have to imagine mastering as the necessary second pair of ears. If I make a piece of music by myself, and then try to master it myself as well, it’s a bottomless pit. (…) It’s really important that you take your material to someone else and tell them to listen to it.” — watch our Pole Tech Talk video feature, taken from Slices Issue 1-08. – more