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Nicolas Jaar - Playing With Tempo

Although I tend to expect the unexpected, I was pretty surprised when the booking agency told me to meet Nicolas Jaar at the Park Inn Hotel in Berlin – a place where you usually find Asian tourists in bucket hats and ‘I ❤ Paris’ t-shirts or busin...

TODAY WE LIKE: Martin Solveig’s homage to The Royal Tenenbaums

French house producer Martin Solveig is releasing his fourth album called SMASH next year. Solveig is known for his very poppy take on techno – his latest track ‘Boys & Girls’ got over 2 million hits on YouTube, and is actually not too far aw...

Efdemin - Chicago

Three points which make me think that Phillip Sollmann, aka Efdemin, refers to modernism with his second album Chicago.1) The LP’s artwork features an obviously modern city environment with clearly structured skyscrapers, the symbol of Modernism...

Caribou – Swim

Remember your maths teacher? Probably not, but even if you could, he is probably not the kind of guy who plays venues like Berghain and hangs out with visionary musicians such as Four Tet eh? Dan Snaith easily could teach you some serious maths,...

"I think I am a very lazy person" - An interview with Seth Troxler

Partying with Seth Troxler means having a blast. Ellen Allien knows about that and therefore asked the young troubadour to mix the latest instalment of BPitch Control’s mix series Boogybytes. The result is a pulsating mix of tracks from Cadenza b...

Pantha du Prince - Black Noise

Continuing to try and redefine the borders between the natural and the artificial, the dark and the light, Pantha du Prince brings us his third solo-album Black Noise. While releasing his previews two albums on Hamburg-based Dial Records, his thi...

Thomas Hammann & Gerd Janson - Live at Robert Johnson Vol. 4

Modeselektor’s massive Body Language Vol. 8, the dark and deep Panorama Bar 02 by Tama Sumo or Dixon’s visionary Temporary Secretary, all go to show that 2009 was a year of quality compilations. French DJ/producer Chloé kicked off the year with t...

Dixon - Temporary Secretary

Dixon is a kind of phenomenon: He neither releases records on a regular basis nor seems to be a very busy DJ, although he occasionally appears at hotspots like Panoramabar. On the other hand, it's nearly impossible to not be aware of him if you a...

Dinky – Anemik

With Dinky’s latest release, Anemik, closely following last August’s May Be Later, it's clear that the prolific Chilean-born producer, who releases records on Mathew Jonson’s Wagon Repair, is not leaning back.On Anemik, Alejandra Iglesias continu...

EB TV feature: The future of music distribution

The future of music distribution is a huge and serious issue. As CDs and vinyl are disappearing slowly but surely musicians have to ask themselves how to earn money in future? There are a lot of ideas in the room: Customers could pay as much as t...

Moderat - Pump up the melancholy

Modeselektor + Apparat = Moderat. Electronic Beats recently met the illustrious power trio – Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary of Modeselektor and Sascha Ring of Apparat –for a chat about past, present and future, the relevance of professional...

Mulatu Astatke + The Heliocentrics

For the past 40 years, Ethiopian jazz musician Mulatu Astatke has been expressing himself in collaborations with bands and fellow musicians. But it wasn’t until Jim Jarmusch’s touching tragicomedy “Broken Flowers” came out in 2005 that Astatke’s...

"The Radio Sessions – Electronic Beats On Air" featuring Filthy Dukes

On March 26 at 10pm, we're rolling out the red carpet for the Filthy Dukes, who will be playing an exclusive DJ set for "The Radio Sessions – Electronic Beats On Air" on Motor FM after chatting about their very own little music cosmos. Besides r...

Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas II

Prins Thomas and partner in crime Hans-Peter Lindstrøm are about to release another album. After their self-titled debut in 2005 the two viking disco pioneers venured off on solo careers: Lindstrøm released an epic cosmic disco album called “Wher...

Various Artists – Perspectives 01 (Selected by Dairmount)

Phil Dairmount, founder and boss of brand new Hamburg label A Room With A View, proves his unique perspective on the first installment of the accordingly named EP series. The five-track compilation perfectly captures the current zeitgeist while f...