Martin Buttrich is famously as fluent behind a mixing console as in front of a virtual drum kit. That technical prowess, combined with a fascination for music of every shape, has resulted in outstanding releases on influential labels such as Planet E, Four:Twenty, Cocoon, Poker Flat, Nervous and Desolat. He’s also put his sonic thumbprint…
Franck recalls vividly toying with his audiotape recorder, cutting voices out, matching the beat, a symptomatic, diy approach to music that soon translated into a mission of instinction; the very same intuition underneath the house movement from the beginning: a need for loops and beats. From raw-edged, stripped-down tracks to those flourishing with an intense…
Moritz von Oswald, legendary master of electronic experimentalism and technical exactitude, has an unassailable place in the modern history of forward-thinking music. To follow his career is to take a guided tour through some of the most important developments, places and people in the history of electronic music. Trained as a classical percussionist, von Oswald…
Sherard Ingram aka DJ Stingray has been a strong presence in the world of techno for over twenty years. Growing up in Detroit, this school friend and DJ partner of Kenny Dixon Jr. realised his Urban Tribe project in 1991 with the now classic ‘Covert Action’, a track released on Retroactive’s seminal ‘Equinox’ compilation, a…
Detroit has been credited as one of the Soul Music capitals of the world, spawning legendary artists like The Four Tops, Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross just to name a few. In the mid 1980s, Detroit’s Underground Music Movement brought rise to a new genre of electronic music known as “Detroit Techno” pioneered by artists…
Often you need to go backwards to move forwards. And crouched in the eye of this proverb is Marco Bernardi, the Italo-Weegie alchemist of electronic sound. Stripping out the lazy laptop from his production set-up and focussing on simply “old fashioned machines” he then sets these controls to the centre of integrity – this man…
Mark Fanciulli is one of modern electronic music’s most complete artists. An innovative and forward thinking producer whose dexterity and creativity behind the decks have made him a much desired DJ around the world. With a strong work ethic and a clear and determined vision for the future, it has been no surprise to see…
Korrupt Data is more than a mere musical moniker, pseudonym or alias. Korrput Data is a belief system, musical revolution and a commentary on our very existence all rolled into one. The question you should be asking is not “who is Korrupt Data”, but rather “what is Korrupt Data?” Let us explain. The nature of…
Fabrice Lig is considered a world class producer by his peers & techno fans around the globe. He is well known for his particularly funky use of Roland’s sh101 analog synth, and for his particularly emotional and personal melodies and harmonies. There is no doubt that after more than 20 years of teaching himself production…
The music career of Dimitri Kneppers (1967), better known as ‘Dimitri from Amsterdam’, reads like an encyclopaedia. A Dutch house encyclopaedia, that is. After 30 years of spinning records you could call him a real veteran, known for his enormous sensitivity, true feeling and mixing skills. NOW Dimitri has always had a mind of his…
