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Around the world in 80 electronic beats

Around the world in 80 electronic beats

ALL ABOARD, ALL ABOARD1. Happy Mondays: Step On2. Wham: Wake Me Up Before Your Go Go 3. The Rolling Stones: Start Me Up4. Led Zeppelin: Stairway To Heaven5. Jamie Principal: Baby Wants To Ride6. The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour7. The Fifth Dimen...

Sebastien Tellier

Master of seduction - Interview with Sebastien Tellier

“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...

Let the King of Pop rest in peace

Let the King of Pop rest

Michael Jackson is gone. It’s strange to hear myself say that, but after 40 years of creating and inspiring, the man who laid down the blueprint for virtually every pop star prototype we live with today, has suddenly left us at the mere age of 50...

The future of pop is Female!

The future of pop is Female!

Music, like civilisations, fashion and washing machines, tends to move in cycles. Generally 20-year cycles, interestingly enough. The rock-a-billy fifties made a nifty comeback in the seventies. The stoner soul and rock grooves of the sixties bac...

The Asteroids Galaxy Tour

Orbiting around the Asteroids Galaxy Tour

The Asteroids Galaxy Tour’s Mette Lindberg and Lars Iversen have spent the last ten years moving through a succession of different bands, never finding creative happiness in any of them. The two outsize personalities felt cramped by the whims and...

Damian Lazarus - Smoke The Monster Out

Damian Lazarus - Smoke The Monster Out

The debut artist album from Crosstown Rebels founder Damian Lazaurus is nothing, if not unexpected. Eschewing the conventional patterns of a dance oriented alum, the London born producer, now based in LA, offers an eclectic debut that takes in ci...

Jamie T returns

Jamie T returns

London based hipster troubadour Jamie T is set to return to our collective consciousness this year with a number of releases and a summer tour. The young producer, who shot to fame with the Mercury Prize nominated “Panic Prevention”, took a two-y...

Frenchbloke reveals all

Frenchbloke reveals all

Bootlegger, blogger and DJ Frenchbloke just made computer DJ mixing even easier, with a wonderfully catchy, tongue in cheek mix of pop hits that displays, click by click, how he put it together using Sony's Acid Pro software program. Cramming in...

Jackson autobiography reissued

Michael Jackson autobiography reissued

The circus of morbid fascination with the life and death of Michael Jackson shows little sign of abating with news that Jackson's 1988 biography Moonwalk is to be reprinted. According to the Montreal Gazette "the rights to the book have been boug...

New Mayer Hawthorne Video

New Mayer Hawthorne video

Check out this rather nice new video from retro-pop supremor Mayer Hawthorne for his latest single "Maybe so, Maybe no" out now on Stones Throw. Further cementing a reputation as a thoroughly agreeable person whom you would probably want to take...

Goldfrapp break from the shackles with new album

Goldfrapp break from the shackles with new album

***UPDATE***Watch the 'Rocket' video below. <object width="430" height="275" id="delve_playerf41db15d64b449eaa0064d5529d83f23334260o" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"><param name="movie" value="http://assets.delvenetw...

Lone to give ecstasy and friends a go

Lone to give ecstasy and friends a go

British electronic producer Lone will soon release his third effort Ecstasy & Friends on the Werk label. Lone aka Matt Cutler’s prowess for creating excellent ambient sounds has been evident for quite a while. His fantastic LP Lemurian, whic...

Kompakt’s Pop Ambient 2009

Kompakt’s Pop Ambient 2009

With the ‘Pop Ambient’ series the Cologne-based label Kompakt celebrated in the past few years an unfamiliar aspect of electronic music and showcased that it also can survive far away from dancefloors with booming basses and rave anthems.The 2009...

Pop Ambient turns 10

Pop Ambient turns 10

The 10th anniversary of Pop Ambient has finally arrived. Kompakt's signature series commemorates ten years in the game with a genre defining compilation entitled, you guessed it; Pop Ambient 2010.Out early next year the annual compilation, which...

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