PAN Artist M.E.S.H. Recommends TCF’s Latest Effort
M.E.S.H., aka James Whipple, is a Berlin based artist and electronic musician originally from Southern California. A member of the Janus colletive, Whipple’s second EP, Scythians (PAN), was released...
View ArticleDylan Carlson Recommends The Bug’s Angels & Devils
Dylan Carlson is a guitarist, singer, and the only constant member of the band Earth, whose ultra-slow and muddy incantations massively shaped the genre of doom as we know it today—thanks also in no...
View ArticleTin Man Recommends Roman Flügel’s Happiness Is Happening
Tin Man (aka Johannes Auvinen), is an American electronic musician based in Vienna. His most recent album, Ode (Absurd Recordings), is an entrancing and noirish interpretation of acid. Tin Man’s...
View ArticleMr. Style Icon – Jessy Lanza on John Carpenter
John Carpenter on the set for The Thing in 1982. Photo: © Sunset Boulevard Corbis Like many smalltown kids, Jessy Lanza learned to sing by emulating Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey. However, unlike...
View ArticleMark Smith Recommends Transllusion’s The Opening of the Cerebral Gate
Mark Smith is one half of improvisational electronic duo Gardland, whose most recent LP, Syndrome Syndrome, was released in 2013 on RVNG Intl. Currently based in Berlin, he is a regular contributor to...
View Article“Hip-hop is our therapy” – Mobb Deep interviewed
Mobb Deep are nothing if not survivors. As teenagers in the mid-nineties, Albert Johnson and Kejuan Muchita created an era-defining sound in hip-hop that was at once uniquely jazzy, deep and...
View ArticleAt the Lucky Cloud Loft Party, Records Are Selected to Match the Arc of An...
Photos by Matt Cheetham.Three records selected by Tim Lawrence that reflect the phases in an LSD experience invoked at a Lucky Cloud Sound System party, top to bottom:Chuck Mangione with the Hamilton...
View ArticleCounting With Jackmaster
Glaswegian Numbers label and clubnight founder Jackmaster has a rep for surprising and raucous selections in his DJ sets. But did you know about his past as an Oasis obsessive and repentant dubstep...
View ArticleZola Jesus— “Sia gives me hope that pop music is ready to loosen its strait...
The elegant alt-pop singer filled out our latest ABC column with wise maxims about death, nose jobs, and the mainstream music industry.For Nika Roza Danilova, creating Zola Jesus was a way of coming to...
View ArticleBen Frost Speaks to Richard Mosse— “Your work will be distilled into a plugin...
Ben Frost in conversation with Richard Mosse.In early 2012, the Australian-born, Iceland-based composer and expansively dynamic musician Ben Frost stumbled upon Infra, a book by Irish photographer...
View ArticleThe Fall 2014 edition of Electronic Beats Magazine is out now!
This October marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Its demolition not only ushered in German re-unification and the end of European communism, but also stimulated a musical...
View ArticleAn Alternative History of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
In this oral history, Berliners tell us about the city's iconic and freewheeling '90s art and squat culture that spawned rave culture as we know it. The post An Alternative History of the Fall of the...
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