SLAVE TO THE RHYTHMA chance encounter with a samba school in Rio when DJ and producer wizard Ricardo Villalobos was just 15 years old led to a marathon samba session – now we know where the inspiration for those epic DJ sets comes from!I have an...
Welcome to the third instalment of “Best of the Noughties”. After first focusing on music blogs and public art installations, we’re now presenting our favourite tracks of the decade. Editors Carlos de Brito and Gareth Owen personally selected the...
There has been an awful lot written about Hessle Audio recently and, in fairness, it is well deserved. As a label and as individual artists - Ramadanman, Pangaea and Ben UFO - they have been in receipt of support from the likes of Gilles Peterson...
Sad news from Skull Disco. Label boss Shackleton has announced that the labels latest release "Soundboy's Gravestone Gets Desecrated By Vandals" will be in fact the label's last. After three years of ultra successful releases, the East London bas...
19 years ago Thomas Koch aka DJ T launched ‘Groove Frankfurt’. After the first few years focusing on Frankfurt and the surrounding area, the magazine broadened its horizon in the mid 90s to include the whole scene. Accordingly they changed their...
Berlin-based record label Get Physical recently asked 13 renowned DJs which song should be played on their funeral. Bizarre question, indeed. But the result is a surprisingly good compilation. Nearly every track belongs to a different genre. Howe...
Omar-S is the next DJ mixing a compilation for London’s techno and house temple Fabric. The tracklist might look a bit unilateral, indeed it reminds of Ricardo Villalobos' Fabric mix, where the Chilean included just own and unreleased material an...
Sascha Winkler aka Kalabrese is a producer from Zurich, famous for his organic tracks and remixes somewhere between minimal, house, hip hop and funk. In addition to releases on labels like Stattmusik, Perlon or Sonar Kollektiv, his sets at Dachka...
Time Warp is one of the most historic festivals for electronic dance music in Europe. It all begun in Ludwigshafen, where the first installment took place in 1994. Nowadays the festival attracts 15,000 visitors and expanded in 2007 to the multi-d...
Fifteen years ago, a small party in the Monegros desert welcomed 200 revelers to the abandoned club F135. Today, the same party has turned into a huge festival. Attracting over 40,000 people, this desert rave 200 kilometers from Barcelona now has...
With the summer season gearing up for full swing, German labels, DJs and clubs are taking full advantage of the good weather and gearing up for all kinds of touring, releasing and partying.First up Ricardo Villalobos, Rhythm & Sound and Ivan...
London duo the Italoboyz are now readying their anticipated debut album "Bla Bla Bla" for a September release.With only a handful of EPs to their name, Marco Donato and Federico Marton’s initial release for Claude von Stroke’s Mothership label w...
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...
Since 1969, Munich based label ECM has consistently released high quality music. This was recently recognized by Chilean/German DJ Ricardo Villalobos, who announced in a Resident Advisor interview that he will be reworking several selections from...
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...
RSS FEEDS
EB NEWSLETTER
AUSTRIA
CZECH REPUBLIC
GERMANY