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Fuck Buttons - Thunderous Squalls

Fuck Buttons is not the kind of name you forget in a hurry. Neither, for that matter, is their music. Comprised of art school graduates Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power, the band have garnered something of a cult following since releasing their “sounds-like-the-end-of-the-world” debut Street H...

Crate digging the future

For music lovers across the world, the Internet has become an almost indispensible godsend. Whatever your background the net provides a resource for any style of music you happen to be into – ambient, dubstep, techno, funk, rap or even Brazilian samba. In the midst of all the ballyhoo and debate...

Jimmy Edgar - Motor City Houdini

Jimmy Edgar is a bit of a musical Houdini. Prone to doing the odd disappearing act, the one-time wunderkid’s career is littered with tantalising glimpses of greatness. Snapped up by Warp Records in 2003 at the tender age of 18, this pale-faced prodigy was hailed as proof of a new dawn for the Det...

Love is in the Air

Air are touting their new album as a ‘rebirth’. Paul Sullivan chats to Nicolas Godin about their brand new studio, growing wise and how – despite their best efforts – they can’t stop sounding like Air. It was ten years ago that Nicolas Godin and Jean-benoît Dunckel drifted on the scene with their...

Best of the Noughties - Sounds noughty

The noughties have been a tempestuous and adventurous decade for music. In the last ten years we’ve seen pop get creative, alt. go mainstream and the entire traditional music industry get roundhoused by the digital realm. Paul Sullivan reports… If the eighties were all acid-washed jeans, exuberan...

Night Music - An interview with Etienne Jaumet

Etienne Jaumet is probably most familiar as one half of French electro pairing Zombie Zombie. However, a penchant for vintage analogue equipment and an unexpected period of having to work alone has resulted in one of the best albums of space techno that I have heard in recent times. Add Carl Crai...

The Top 25 Records of 2009

Music, lists, and end of the year roundups - they're everywhere. Everyone with an opinion and access to the Internet -- be it professional or personal -- wants to make their contribution to the best of the best: the ultimate albums of the year. Naturally, Electronic Beats couldn’t resist creating...

Best of the Noughties - 10 most underrated albums

Welcome to the seventh instalment of the “Best of the Noughties.“ After previously examining our favourite music blogs, public art installations, songs, documentaries, music trends and albums, we did a little soul searching and came up with a redeeming list of this decade’s most undervalued gems....

Dissident Records - Rip It up and start again

Dissident - Rip It up and start again

Punk is something that many people pay lip service to, but rarely put into practice. It’s hard to take some-one’s ‘punk’ credentials seriously when you are reading about them on a promo sheet sent by a company employed to tell you just how punk an artist is. However, if one record label sums up a...

The Asteroids Galaxy Tour photo blog

The Electronic Beats Recommends club tour with The Asteroids Galaxy Tour has recently finished and was a massive success. Spanning six European cities in three countries The Asteroids Galaxy Tour sold out each of their concerts. Spreading their Scandinavian love the band have kept Electronic Beat...

Jorge Socarras – Losing my religion

Earlier this year rumors began circulating on the internet about an entire album of unreleased material by disco legend Patrick Cowley (pictured on the left). These tapes, discovered in the basement of the former owner of Megatone, Cowley's label, were compiled with art student Jorge Socarras und...

Best of the Noughties - Top 10 albums

Welcome to the sixth instalment of the “Best of the Noughties.“ After previously examining music blogs, public art installations, songs, documentaries and music trends, we’ve come up with a personal list of our ultimate albums of the decade. Of course this list is not complete: there are a huge n...

Best of the Noughties - The Age of Digital Downloads

Welcome to the fifth instalment of the “Best of the Noughties.“ After previously examining music blogs, public art installations, songs and documentaries, we turn our attention to digital downloads and the music trends which cropped up this decade. In the last ten years, iPods, file-sharing, and...

Living in a Skinnerbox

Israeli musician Iftah Gabbai and his German friend Olaf Hilgenfeld make up Skinnerbox, a live, improvised electronic outfit that make twisted music with strange machines. After building a cult following in Berlin’s underground party scene, and releasing a clutch of 12’s on labels such as Tonkind...