05 – September – 2012 – Electronic Beats

Picture of the Day: Pet Shop Boys - Live Stream — Picture of the Day

Illustration: Inka Gerbert Pet Shop Boys - Live Stream

Today marked a very special event on the Electronic Beats calendar — and for Pet Shop Boys enthusiasts the world over. Earlier today, the most successful duo in UK music history played a selection of songs from their new album Elysium at the HAU 1 in Berlin. Thanks for watching the album’s premiere performance here – more

Today marked a very special event on the Electronic Beats calendar — and for **Pet Shop Boys** enthusiasts the world over. Earlier today, the most successful duo in UK music history played a selection of songs from their new album *Elysium* at the HAU 1 in Berlin. Thanks for watching the album’s premiere performance here at **electronicbeats.net** and at our YouTube channel per livestream — please check back on Thursday for live pictures and more! For now join us at **Horst Krzbrg** for the official afterparty featuring the likes of Kompakt’s **Justus Köhncke**, Ostgut Ton’s nd_baumecker, and local talent **Pet Shop Bears**. Last but not least: buy ‘Elysium’ here. Illustration: Inka Gerbert & Max Dax

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— German contemporary artist Annette Kelm new solo show on Presentation House Gallery — link sent by Johann König Berlin
— Watch Todd Terje & Bryan Ferry working together in the studio on Vimeo — link sent by Moritz Gayard
— Hotflush Recordings brought together John Talabot & Jon Convex to remix ‘Sex Drive’ from Jimmy Edgar’s Majenta LP on Soundcloud — link sent by Moritz Gayard
— Listen to a new Efterklang song from their upcoming album ‘Piramidia’ on their website — link sent by Michael Aniser
— Grab a book about the experimental sound in New Zealand on Boomkat — link sent by Moritz Gayard
— Stream Matt Carlson’s new track ‘Reality Club’ on The Fader — link sent by Michael Aniser
— Watch the new ZZT video for ‘Nickel Und Dime’ directed by Femme de $arkozy on Youtube — link sent by Moritz Gayard
— Listen to Rihanna feat. ASAP Rocky ‘Cockiness’ collaboration on Youtube — link sent by David Bogner
— Hardwarcade chiptune comes to Berlin’s Loophole on 8bitvomit — link sent by Olya
— Taschen announces $1000 Robert Crumb sketchbook set on Boing Boing — link sent by David Bogner
— The Growing Silence of the Natural World on disinformation — link sent by Daniel Jones
— Stream Bruxa’s new album Victimeyez on Bandcamp — link sent by Daniel Jones
— Watch Neon Bunny’s unusually minimal new video for ‘Oh My Prince’ on The Fader — link sent by Michael Aniser
— Interview with Antibalas’ Martín Perna on Afrobeat — link sent by Moritz Gayard

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Editor’s Choice 10

You want to know what’s been going in our ears this week, reverberating our cochleas and sending broader vibrations throughout our bodies and by extension our audio-addled souls? That’s a coincidence: here’s this week’s Editor’s Choice. – more

Mix of the Day: Martin Hossbach’s Pet Shop Boys retrospective

EB’s Martin Hossbach recently shared airtime with EB Radio host Mathais Weck. During this time, there was only one thing on his mind: Pet Shop Boys, natch! He dropped a mix that covers the UK duo’s career from beginning to present. Stream it here! – more

The Radio Sessions – Electronic Beats on air with Max Dax on FluxFM

Once again, EB Editor-in-chief Max Dax faces the world of broadcast audio on our EB Radio Sessions. For one hour he talked about the latest issue of Electronic Beats Magazine, including The Kills, what it was like meeting Pet Shop Boys, and most anything you’d want to know about the new issue. For hour two, he dropped a diverse (yet sophisticated) mix, including Plastic Ono Band, Kavinsky, and Frank Ocean – more

Interview: Groundislava

Jasper Patterson produces sounds in the vein of video games and ’80s chiptune nostalgia. That description sound a bit boring? No worries, there’s more to his sound—a general melancholic vibe that doesn’t seem to go along with his home of Venice, CA and all the beach vibes you would usually link to that. – more