Uwe Schmidt, has been making Latin influenced music as Senor Coconut for over 10 years, but it wasn’t always cha-cha and bossa nova for the Frankfurt native. A drum kit, EBM and acid house all appear in a musical career that has seen him release...
Welcome to the second instalment of “Best of the Noughties”. After zeroing in on music blogs last week, we now turn our attention to temporary public art installations, the most eye-catching movement that arose this decade. The installations we h...
Christmas is over, right, but do we really need a specific day to make (ourselves) presents? I don’t think so... Having seen the picture above I really got this obsessive feeling of wanting to have one of these things... Immediately!This yellow g...
Micro-house luminary Ricardo Villalobos is the main focus of a new documentary premiering at the 66th Venice film festival. Filmed and directed by the German-born Romuald Karmakar between 2006 and 2008, Villalobos is a stimulating look into the c...
Cadenza label boss Luciano has been added to the growing list of DJs who have been memorialized with in-depth self portraits. We recently wrote about the forthcoming documentary "Villalobos" based on Ricardo Villalobos and featured his pioneering...
Pioneering Chilean producer Ricardo Villalobos has re-released some of his most seminal work through the German label Playhouse. Available now, the six records and a CD include his much-lauded Alcachofa LP and a number of 12"s, such as the Halma...
Pablo Martin’s new multiouch controller - the EMULATOR - will give tech-heads a lot to cheer about. Typically, a spin-doctor will claim that their tech-gadget will ‘change the face of DJing’. All too often this statement has been thrown around an...