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This is how one of Russia’s most hyped DJs keeps audiences guessing and grooving.

The Czech underground has been slowly carving out a radically distinctive sound.

Wear the records you love.

These awesome black-and-white kicks will let you dance in style at all of your favorite clubs.

Russia is home to some of the most progressive instrument and synth producers in the world right now.

Japan’s burgeoning electronic subculture is integrating ’80s city pop influences into a twisted new club music.

Discover 23 important artists fueling the country’s electronic renaissance.

‘The Art of Sound’ examines acoustic, electrical, magnetic and digital recording methods with bright and detailed images.

Ricardo Villalobos, Blawan, Margaret Dygas and Nicolas Lutz have all been recruited for the London institution’s birthday bash.

These ten pervasive sounds come from an astounding range of genres and time periods.

From techno heavyweights like Adam X to tripped-out ravers like DJ Spun, this site lets you explore the old-school.

From Egyptian gods to philosophy: Sun Ra’s seminar on afrofuturism is a key insight into the jazz legend’s intellectual landscape.

“Music is the Weapon” is a vital insight into the Nigerian’s musical genius and political activism.

The illustrations accompanied Richie Hawtin’s 1992 classic, ‘Overdrive’.

Baggy is back.

The sound of Durban has hit the worldstage.

Rave flourished in some of Sydney and Melbourne’s weirdest locations.

Rave has never been more chic.

Michael Dixon’s vinyl cuts give a whole new meaning to “limited edition”.

Rediscover one of the most influential Warp Records compilations of all time.

It’s Friday, and Germany just legalized gay marriage. Time to party.

These pieces by the Berlin label GmbH have gone from Berlin’s clubs to Paris’ catwalks.

For artists and listeners alike, the effects of tinnitus can be crippling.

This comprehensive list explains all of the artists, labels and early influences you need to know, like Metroplex, Slam and The Electrifying Mojo.

Berlin wasn’t the only city changed by post-communist raving.

Now you can make machines that read musical notation better than you do.

More proof that life was better in the ’90s.

The story of Bang & Olufsen is also the story of modern technological innovation.

BALANCE runs May 11-13 in various Leipzig venues, like Institut für Zukunft.

This ’50s-style circuit board maps out the history of alternative music from Radiohead to The Ramones.

From Daft Punk to Darude, the ’90s had their music videos on lock.

Why does it always feel like things were better “back in the day?”

The festival’s Polish edition had replaced dark dystopian themes with something floral.

The Pan Sonic member and techno legend has reportedly died.

Víctor Doval brings audio and visual worlds into stunning harmony in his new video for ‘Howler Monkey’.

The German DJ, producer and Radio 1 resident shares some of the album covers that have inspired her.

Nicolas Jaar explains the profound influence that Lydia Lunch has had on his career.

This style of bare-bones techno needs a revival.

These photos reveal how Fiorucci distilled the bright neon shades of Italo club culture into fashion.

The Zenker Brothers will be resident DJs at Blitz, a new club opening in Munich’s Deutsches Museum in April.

DJ Soo shares a need-to-know guide about the intimidating world of cables, wiring and pre-amps.

Sound has never looked so good.

These designs have changed the way that we listen to music.

Let Vladimir Ivkovic guide you around the city he calls home.

The animated music app Seaquence lets you dive deep into polyphonic sound design.

Now here’s something you don’t see every day.

This video traces the use of popular culture’s most recognizable sound.

A$AP Rocky reading Jane Austen? You better believe it.

Notes On Rave explores the radically DIY movement that largely grew out of the LGBT subculture of the time.

The Canadian techno legend will return to Detroit to debut a new multi-sensory experience.

A new book of essays and photos “illustrate[s] the power of dance music to unite and create community.”

This is what sound would look like as fashion.

A film crew was allowed where cameras are famously banned in order to film one of Ricardo Villalobos’s 2009 DJ sets.

These photos will take you back to the days when dancehall was young and sound clashes were everything.

The vinyl industry is on track to reach sales levels not seen since the 1980s.

Somebody cover Kraftwerk’s “Radioactivity” with this ASAP.

Berlin’s techno hedonism has nothing on this.

After 23 years, the UK pranksters are back with the heavyweight jams.

Over three million records were sold in 2016.

An archaeologist of sound has reconstructed the dense and lively sounds of the 18th century French metropolis.

This map lets you hear all the world’s distinct holiday sounds in one convenient place.

One site has analyzed the data, and the results are in.

Feline the burn!

Vinyl’s renewed popularity may not be such a good thing after all.

Will your favorite C2 classic be included?

Finally.

Go ahead, click. You know you want to know.

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FACT’s Christ Zaldua was distraught about the disappearance of torrent site What.CD—but not for the reasons you might think.

You can also now stream a portion of her forthcoming live album, ‘Before The Dawn’.

A 10 date European tour has also been announced.

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Listen to the strange sonics of the giant planet, live and direct from a DIY radio.

The xx are back.

A new study looks into what makes people indifferent about music.

Here’s Johnny! Stream the whole thing below.

The design behind the Holographic Whisper lets you project audio at particular points in space. Pixie Dust Technologies have crafted this beautiful and interesting piece of tech using ultrasonics, which allow for audio focal points to be projected into thin air—essentially, you can project and suspend sound within select points which remain inaudible to those not … Continued

Your patch bay has never looked better.

Some of the most influential experiments with optics and audio were conducted by the Soviet avant-garde in the 1930s—and predate the synthesizer by decades!

The extremely rare recordings were found by a hairdresser who used to cut the group’s hair.

Say hello to Shelter.

‘Kid A’ fans are going to be very, very happy.

Pacha and Ushuaïa are the latest clubs to be searched by Spanish police over tax fraud accusations.

Monoloc’s LP for the cult Berlin label is like listening to the sonic landscape of a gothic horror film.

When online music is your club and the controller is your drug, this is your dance subculture.

The 909 Day celebrations continue as Roland rolls out new versions of the TB-303, TR-909, VP-330, TT-99 turntables, a new DJ controller that lets you live program 909 sounds and more. Roland closes out a big week of announcements for music tech with details on a new line of gear that includes updated versions of … Continued

Edit: the original video was taken down, but you can find the recording here. Sun Ra is more than a legend of music; he’s also one of the most intriguing orators of his time. To hear him speak is to be swept away into his vision of the world and beyond—and as the video here proves, he … Continued

Creating sculptures that not only make music but also truly resonate with the viewer is a magical thing.

The UK techno pioneer says that the White Isle embraces “the ultimate reflection of egotistical capitalism.”

No budget? No problem—this video shows you the proper way to kraft for modular success.

A beautiful video for an equally beautiful song.

‘False Readings On’ is a gorgeous new ambient LP from Matthew Cooper’s Eluvium project.

A fantastic insight into the rich world of non-Western musical experimentation.

Hatsune Miku is a virtual pop star from Japan. A new game for PlayStation VR lets you join her in her reality.

A Christian fundamentalist group is portraying the Radiohead frontman as crippled by satanic vice.

Autechre’s avant-garde influence extends beyond music.

No matter how much technology changes, a good idea is a good idea, and ladies and gentlemen, this is a very good idea.

Cybertwee is dreaming of a future, and it’s not the morbid one you thought it would be. Over the past couple of years, scandals such as Gamergate have drawn a lot of industries to self-reflection on the role of women within their sphere. These questions strike at the heart of not only  marginalization of women in central … Continued

The Expert Knob Twiddlers are back.

“I just want to hear something I haven’t heard before.”

YouTube as a streaming service is controversial business, and that’s putting it mildly. Here we are in 2016, and it’s almost difficult to imagine a time when the entirety of the world’s media supply wasn’t readily available for free on the internet. Websites, like YouTube, act as massive repositories full of albums, movies, techno mixes, … Continued

DJ Obi has broken the world record with a marathon 229 hour set! If you think those “marathon” eight-hour closing DJ sets at Berghain are the stuff of legend, then you should give some serious props to this guy. DJ Obi is the new record holder for performing the world’s longest DJ set. The Nigerian DJ … Continued

It may not look like much, but Obilab’s cardboard drum kit makes the pleasures of rhythm accessible to everyone.

Here’s how a new generation of music teachers are using electronic music to put life into their curriculum.

Russian military men arrived hours before the event to shut it down and prevent riots in response to the last-minute closure. Read Outline’s statement.

This is the excerpt that should tantalize you into clicking the link and reading the article.

Next weekend the Deep Minimalism festival will kick off at London’s Southbank Centre with three days of live workshops and live performances of seminal early electronic compositions. The lineup includes the first-ever rendition of “Still Point” by Daphne Oram of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a John Cage composition, a deep listening session with Pauline Oliveros, … Continued

Back in the 1950’s, electronics company Philips tried their hand at creating electronic music. The results were… interesting. That is, with the exception of the above track, a jittery cut that resembles acid house almost four decades before it was actually invented. It’s an interesting piece to listen to—just think what would have happened if people started to … Continued

Joy Divison’s album Unknown Pleasures got released 37 years ago, on June 15th, 1979. There have been countless reworkings of the cover over the years, to the point where it’s a meme of its own. German carpenter Schreinerei Luther came up with the neat idea to create a wooden cover for the LP with the famous PSR … Continued

After any spate of drug-related deaths, there’s an almost compulsive sociological kickback of media-stoked exaggeration and fear-inducing pontificating, almost all of which smacks of moral panic (not to mention, often, inter-generational myopia). When two youths sadly lost their lives in ecstasy-related deaths at recent Australian festivals, the hyperbole machine lurched into action once again, betraying the need … Continued

Daphne Oram’s legacy at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop is one of pioneering sound design and a vanguard attitude towards modernizing music production techniques. One of Oram’s memorable 1960s experiments was the “Oramics Machine”, which ran film strips across photo-electric cells which would in turn translate the images from the film into control voltages used to modulate parameters like duration, … Continued

News flash: the inability to consume music in the “traditional” manner does not mean that the deaf don’t find alternate ways to listen and love music. A recent ABC Australia report explores Amber Galloway Gallego’s very specific line of work as an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter of music in real time for deaf fans at concerts and … Continued

The challenges that women confront in the music industry have been well documented by Electronic Beats, so regular readers will be familiar with the idea that the sexism and prejudice that burdens the musical aspirations of female musicians has a long and often overlooked history. Luckily, however, a new book by Anna Beer, Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten … Continued

Earlier this year, we reported that the fine people at female:pressure were crafting a special compilation in solidarity and in direct support of Rojava‘s female freedom fighters. Following on from the initiative, musician AGF has recorded an inspiring and politically charged collage of female electronic and traditional Syrian musicians, interviews and news clips for NTS Radio entitled “Rojava”. Leading off with the catch-cry … Continued

Ever thought tacking “dark” or “deep” as a prefix onto a designated genre was a bit stupid and misses the point? If yes, well, researchers at a number of prestigious universities around the world agree with you. In a new study published in the journal Social Psychological And Personality Science, music psychologists and researchers argue that … Continued

It seems having a studio set-up like this—and that link only shows one half of it—has really rubbed off on deadmau5’s workflow. The controversial Canadian DJ god née Joel Zimmerman recently dropped a slew of new electronic experiments, the most recent of which involves three new tunes that aren’t the jaw-gnashing EDM we have come to expect from him lately. “Whelk Then”, above, … Continued

Besides the fact that both activities take place in front of computer screens—and can both give you massive eye strain, leading to immense frustration—audio engineering is as far away from the gaming world as you can get. Or is it? With this new initiative from Grammy nominee Jonathan Wyner and the designers at iZotope, the secrets of music … Continued

After drool-inducing appearances at Superbooth and a handful of other tech shows, Richie Hawtin has finally released a video demo of his new baby: a 100% analog mixer called PLAYdifferently. Built from a two-year collaboration with Andy Rigby-Jones (formerly of Allen & Heath), the PLAYdifferently Model 1 blends traditional mixer design with an array of … Continued

  Though more known for his film score work, Algerian composer Ahmed Malek was apparently also an avid electronic music producer. Arab music focused blog Habibi Funk was recently given the entirety of Malek’s recorded material. In it they discovered two hours worth of electronic music from the ’70s and ’80s—apparently a passion project never … Continued

Creating sound effects for film and radio is a huge part of creating an entertaining product. These days, decorative noises are mostly created using digital methods, but things worked differently 80 years ago. Watch the video above to see some hilarious examples of early sound design. For more ancient tech, watch the first drum machine in … Continued

The British Library released an archive with around 8,000 Afropop tracks.

Every February for the past nine years, Ranjit Bhatnagar has built an instrument every day. That’s 29+ instruments in as many days. So far, this industrious artist has created over 200 objects. Most of them were built to be ephemeral and don’t exist anymore, but you can check out many of his creations on Hyperallergic. He uses … Continued

Cassette buff Alexis Malbert has a knack for crafting new technology, and FACT has brought to our attention that he’s come up with the best idea ever: the scratchette, a scratch machine for tapes. His technological experiments regarding tapes began in the 1990s, when he built various sound installations by altering a standard cassette player. … Continued

Daniel Mueller from Berlin sent this beautiful DIY construction to our favorite gear blog Synthopia. Is there a better (non-alcoholic) combination than modular synths and LEGOs? We doubt it. If you’re in search of some more DIY projects, check out how to build your own theremin from old AM radios—or what about a watermelon-controlled synth? If … Continued

The development of music scenes is directly related to the conditions in the cities that incubate them. On first glance, one may not get what the deal is with garages in Seattle and grunge music, or why grime couldn’t have grown out of anywhere but the UK. Similarly, the abandoned warehouses of post-Wall Berlin nurtured … Continued

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Classical music has been struggling to rediscover its place amid the swarming chaos of new music (or New Music?) genres. Once regarded as the music of culturally savvy, middle-age intellects, the “big” music is seriously rethinking its marketing strategies, according to a new article on the Economist. Taking leading venues such as Carnegie Hall and the Barbican into account, the author suggests relaxing concert-going etiquette … Continued