Reade Truth’s 2009 release for Planet E, “Crimen Excepta EP,” reveals the New York native’s latest wonder-beast classic, churned, chiseled, and set free from the Vienna-based studio; a fantastic hybrid of bottomless grooves, maniacal rhythms, and moody Detroit-esque vibes from and for the underground. With influences from Skinny Puppy to Derrick May, Reade Truth has…
Sebastien San grew up to the sounds of Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder, Stevie Wonder, Prince and Serge Gainsbourg. In the early 80’s he got heavily into the New Wave and Industrial scene much inspired by Depeche Mode, Cabaret Voltaire, Fad Gadget, Human League, Front 242 and Severed Heads amongst many others. “It was the most amazing…
Boogie sirens meander the narrow streets of Milan, the same air on which traveled the feral melodies of Jackson’s Bad, second-hand wailing from the table top of Diego Montinaro. Inspired by Quincy Jones, Italian-born Montinaro found himself propelled towards jazz, funk, boogie, disco and soul. The earliest beats began with an Akai S950 sampler and…
Marcus Belgrave in brief: Marcus has been an internationally recognized jazz trumpet great for over forty years. Bursting into prominence as a teenaged sensation in The Ray Charles Orchestra. Marcus also delivered the soulful horn that helped to define the legendary “Motown Sound” as a featured player on many of the labels classic releases. Marcus…
Monty Luke is a revolution in sound – a forever push towards forward thinking; a man unafraid to explore the space beyond the assumed boundaries of electronic dance music. What began in Brooklyn quickly spread, as Monty spun his way across the west coast, honing in on a raw, brain-pumping sound that would catapult him…
Catcalling from the depths of a city seen from the outside as crumbling, sonic grooves carve a path to the soulful Detroit duo known simply as the Oliverwho Factory. First noticed across the primitive music sharing plateaus of a decade past, the Oliverwho Factory quickly gained notoriety overseas with a Glasgow based distribution, and a…
Any true fan of great electronic music should instantly recognize Niko Marks as one of the second wave of producers from the Detroit house/techno movement. He began recording in the early part of the nineties, releasing innovative and soulful house, techno and a mixture of other music genres. The wide variety of genres he takes…
Kenny Larkin is distinctly one of the world’s most premiere leaders of Detroit techno in the electronic music industry today. As a producer, DJ and remixer, Kenny has mesmerized crowds and fans across the globe for nearly twenty years with his music. Since 1990, Larkin has cemented his name in the pages of dance music…
There are DJs who grab bigger headlines, and producers who invite more press. In the ebb and flow of what’s popular in electronic music, there are those who have larger followings or whose names are on more bloggers’ fingertips at any given moment in time. But no artist in the genre commands as much respect,…
