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The Kills - The merits of God, squats, ghosts, and oddly monikered fake meat - Interview

Despite a recent history of mental and financial breakdowns, The Kills’ personal and creative chemistry has remained untainted. Indeed, from tonight’s encounter it’s immediately evident that tabloid hounded Englander Jamie Hince has lost none of the brooding intensity he shares with his enigmat...

Mark Stewart - Interview

Mark Stewart has been at the cutting edge of the British underground for the best part of 30 years. Initially starting out in Bristol with his first band; The Pop Group, he forged a path for post punk bands that had a bit more to say than “there is no future anymore…” After sowing the seeds of...

Falko Brocksieper - A good day is a heavy day - Interview

Falko Brockskieper is probably best known as the head of Sub Static, the label he runs in conjunction with long term collaborator MIA. He is also a rather good DJ, Producer and is about to make his live debut, showcasing his new album "Heavy Day" to the masses. We spent some time on a...

Dance, Desert People! - Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival

Southern California’s desert has over the last nine years become a true mecca for music lovers and hard-boiled ravers. In fact on the last weekend of April, Palm Springs turns to just another pit stop in the Coachella Valley, and all attention is on Indio, where one of America’s biggest festiva...

Booka Shade - A Darker Shade Of Neon - Interview

Booka Shade are arguably the most famous German music export since Kraftwerk. Starting life as a synth-pop duo, they slowly but surely gravitated towards harder techno sounds, threw off the shackles of being a major label act and started to create their own vision of electronic music. The rest,...

Marc Antona - Interview

Marc Antona has been making quite an impact lately. With a string of releases on Dan Ghenacia’s Freak N Chic sub label, Micro Fibres (which he co-runs) and a staggering amount of live shows over the last couple of years, it’s a wonder he manages to find any time to spend in the studio. With rec...

Neon Neon - Interview

Albums with a concept are risky affair, especially in the context of Pop, and even more so when the subject is cocaine smuggling auto baron of the 80’s, John DeLorean. On the surface this makes it all the more surprising, but dig a little deeper and you find that unlikely pairing of Super Furry...

Sebastien Tellier - Master of seduction - Interview

“Everything is perfect for me! I think I'm living the better part of my life,” purrs the ever dapper, perma-bearded Parisian, musician and actor Sebastien Tellier. His joyous affirmation is hardly surprising considering the cinematic upward arc of a career he’s enjoyed since his debut...

RPR Soundsystem - The Romanian invasion

One of the European Union’s newest nations is currently the source of its hottest dance music. Romania signed on the dotted line on January 1, 2007, and ever since a new minimal party sound has been migrating towards the West. Champions of this new techno wave are RPR Soundsystem, otherwi...

In the Batbox with Miss Kittin

Meeting Miss Kittin in person is exactly as you would imagine: black hair, black clothes, black nail polish, tattoos creeping from the bottom of her sleeves. What is surprising, however, is how relaxed and friendly she is. Her voice is high and she sounds almost Russian, although she originally...

GET SHAKES - Confident to the core

On the crumbling shores of the lesser known Jurassic English island known as the Isle of Wight (or known to the locals as ‘Ioooiill ov wheeeet’ ), the sounds of cutting hi-hats, ebbing, vintage synths and new wave vocals are crashing against the high tides. Award winning, Modular lovies ‘...

Bruno Pronsato - Contemplating rhythm

Steven Ford aka Bruno Pronsato has a manipulative approach to rhythm. In another lifetime he was a drummer from Seattle and now he’s an acclaimed Electronic Music artist based in Berlin who indeed ‘has got the ultimate Funk!’ [Magda in an interview for EB]. Ever since early releases o...

Stefan Eichinger / Lopazz - Just music - Interview

Stefan Eichinger is a musician to the core, intrigued by anything music can offer. As Lopazz, he brings us off-kilter dance music, like his first club hit ‘I Need Ya’ (Freundinnen: 2003) or his acclaimed debut album ‘Kook Kook’ in 2007 on Get Physical – the label he calls now home. But most not...

Prosumer, Murat Tepeli, Elif Bicer - House is a feeling - Interview

In August 2006 at the Weekend club in Berlin, Prosumer and Murat Tepeli performed live when vocalist Elif Biçer, inspired by their performance, spontanously joined them onstage marking the start of their creative relationship. From that very first moment, it was all about passion and faith that...

Droid Behaviour - Eat.Sleep.Sh_t.Techno - Interview

Who would have thought, that L.A. has an underground Techno scene?! A Techno-spoiled Berliner might tend to associate L.A. rather with Hollywood, South Central or Venice Beach. But in fact L.A. had a quite rampant Rave history. The brothers Vidal and Vangelis aka Acid Circus and Moe aka Drumcel...