BrainCan - electronic music

andrew weatherall: anyone can make music. what a...

After three decades as a disco maverick (an independent, nonconformist person),the acid-house DJ...

andrew weatherall: we re at the apex of the punk...

After three decades as a disco maverick (an independent, nonconformist person),the acid-house DJ...

kaytranada: i prefer a house party vibe. just the...

The top-flight remixer is in constant demand as a DJ. But it’s his first LP,featuring Vic Mensa,...

jean michel jarre: all the people on my new album...

Pete Townshend,M83 and Fuck Buttons appear on the electronica pioneer’s latest studio project. He...

børns: prodigy rises from child magician to psych...

Taylor Swift said he had made an ‘instant classic’ and with his psychedelia-tinged prefer on...

tim hecker: i make pagan music that dances on the...

He lost his religion,but this electronic artist is fascinated by the transcendent tropes of sacred...

låpsley: i don t have to say i love the kind of...

She was raised on techno in the clubs of Liverpool,but it’s the singer’s Radio 1-friendly...

sophie review - scream if you want to go slower

Village Underground,LondonThe enigmatic pop producer sees his music as a thrill ride but as a live...

kelly lee owens: my patients were my career...

The Welsh nurse turned techno-pop shaman is creating waves with her healing,trance-like debutMusic...

let s eat grandma review - a singular, genre...

Electrowerkz,LondonNorwich’s otherworldly teenage friends veer between breathtakingly original and...

gold panda: good luck and do your best review -...

(City Slang)It would be unfair compare Gold Panda to Caribou on the basis that they both make...

i dj, therefore i am: floating points on musical...

The neuroscientist-turned-DJ who likes to throw impromptu parties with Four Tet and Caribou has been...

wysing arts centre festival review - silky...

Wysing Arts Centre,CambridgeThere’s everything from b-boy dance and a Spice Girls-inspired art...

tim hecker: love streams review - fascinating,...

This Vancouver-born leftfield composer’s intense,tall-concept swathes of electronic noise prove...

moses sumney: i have an obsession with...

It’s impossible not to cherish the genre-spurning singer with a heavenly falsetto – despite his...

yello: toy review - absurdist pop pioneers go back...

(UMC) Related: The return of Yello: ‘America thought we were black guys rapping’ The Swiss...

floating points: elaenia review - a soaring,...

(Pluto)Floating Points,AKA Sam Shepherd, has a repuation for being a DJ’s DJ, or but for his...

powell: sport review - joyfully oddball electronic...

(XL)Powell is the Mr Robot of electronica,hacking its code to create an idiosyncratic style that’s...

we re gloving it: the led trend lighting up us...

The latest craze to hit the American EDM scene is sitting in front of a friend waving light-up...

real lies review - synthpop goes back to the...

Electrowerkz,London There’s a reassuring familiarity in these euphoric songs evoking long nights...

peter zinovieff: i taught ringo to play synth. he...

He invented sampling,taught everyone from the Beatles to Bowie, and climbed up Big Ben to record its...

moon diagrams: lifetime of love review -...

(Sonic Cathedral) With stress,anxiety and memes taking up ever more of our valuable mental genuine...

dimensions festival review: larry heard keeps...

Fort Punta Christo,Pula, CroatiaSet in a stone fort, and this dance music festival was a...

cassius: ibifornia review - funky pop, sunshine...

(Polydor)It’s a decade since this pre-Daft Punk French electronic duos final album,15 Again, but...

oneohtrix point never: garden of delete review -...

(Warp)Perhaps a little playfully,Daniel Lopatin has suggested that Garden of Delete is his pop...

no bounds festival review - pristine rhythms,...

Various venues,SheffieldTerre Thaemlitz’s polemic kicked off an extraordinary festival celebrating...

jessy lanza: oh no review - wonky pop, peak...

(Hyperdub)When Canada’s Jessy Lanza debuted with 2013’s Pull My Hair Back,she was pigeonholed as...

lloyd cole: quite a number of fans have been...

The Commotions’ former frontman on swapping his guitar for a synthesiser,living in the US and...

rufus: bloom review - efficient, highly functional...

In their second album Sydney dance trio RÜFÜS continue to accomplish music that excels at not...

the playlist - electronic: laurel halo, special...

Decaying trance tracks and breakbeats that sound like they’ve been beamed in from 1993 … this...

fischerspoon: sir review - not worth the nine year...

(Ultra) Fischerspooner were key to the electroclash movement that briefly twinned Europe’s...

rizzla: bringing politics and passion back to...

share of the LA-based collective Fade to intellect,Rizzla belongs to a movement reaffirming dance...

pantha du prince: the triad review - elevating and...

(Rough Trade)The German minimalist producer and stickler for a conceptual framework recently...

how dub master kode9 became the hero of zero

Voids,loss, a future without humans: the influential DJ/musician and Hyperdub founder is back with a...

hudson mohawke review - ferocious, apocalyptic...

Roundhouse,LondonWith synths that screech like air brakes and crushing, abrasive beats, or a night...

floating points review - warm electro weaves a...

Islington Assembly corridor,LondonDJ Sam Shepherd employs strings, sax and a cooing choir to bring a...

soulwax: from deewee review - impressive, seamless...

(Play It Again Sam)Hearing that Soulwax’s latest was recorded in one acquire – a process that...

sound into light: the techno colour dreams of...

Producer Atom TM once made salsa versions of Kraftwerk songs. Now with artist Robin Fox,he has...

prins thomas: principe del norte review - cosmic...

(Smalltown Supersound) Related: Prins Thomas’s favourite tracks Like some psychic twin-town...

harold budd: the ambient music master floats again

Returning to current York for a rare concert,the composer, whose work with Brian Eno helped shape...

lost in a moment review - otherworldly tech house...

Osea Island,EssexThe Hydra brings together DJs from Kristian Beyer and Frank Wiedemann to Job Jobse...

cassius: ibifornia review - squelchy tunes pack...

PolydorA comeback from a much-missed French electronic duo,with an eclectic guest list that includes...

steve davis: call me dj thundermuscle!

The six-times world snooker champion is about to execute the colossal Bloc weekender. Over a...

el guincho: hiperasia review - abrasive, high...

(Everlasting/Canada)Hiperasia is the product of two life-changing moments for Pablo Díaz-Reixa. The...

jean michel jarre records with edward snowden -...

When we interviewed him final year,the French electronic pioneer asked for our help in putting...

the egyptian lover: i only started singing so...

The electro producer also known as Greg Broussard recalls the studio techniques and diverse...

from lad to lover, the story of luh

After deserting his lad band Wu Lyf,Ellery Roberts was lost and in trouble. Then Ebony Hoorn...

gaika: if you re a black guy you re supposed to...

The Brixton musician is testing the confines of British black music with his tall-concept image and...

låpsley review - beguiling r b spells and...

Heaven,LondonAll too immaculate on record, the 19-year-old Liverpudlian electro auteur showed some...

radioland: radio activity revisited review -...

(The Leaf Label)In March this year,keyboardist Matthew Bourne and electronic composer Franck Vigroux...

floating points: elaenia review - a creeping,...

(Pluto)Every so often,a wordless electronic record turns up that genuinely doesn’t sound like much...

the playlist - electronic: rabit, angel ho,...

The year’s most violent dance track,a crackling fresh EP with a touch of jazz and a thunderously...

powell: sport review - lost in discord

(XL)The underground electronic producer Powell has caught some sun in the past year with a couple of...

arca: mutant review - digital shape shifting

(Mute)Roughly a year on from his final album,Xen, cutting-edge digital producer Alejandro Ghersi...

the new sound of clubland? riots, explosions and...

Backed by gunfire and explosions,a new wave of electronic musicians are providing a soundtrack to...

lafawndah: when you re listening to my music, i...

Fantastical,not exotic – the Egyptian-Iranian performer draws on her heritage to create pop from...

its frankly sickening: sydney band the presets...

Electronic act say Australia Day should not tumble on the anniversary of British settlement,and...

edward snowden releases techno song with jean...

Swapping the NSA for BPM,the whistlebower’s song with the electronic music legend has hit the web,...

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