electronica

  • Album of the Week: Jay Daniel’s Broken Knowz

    When it comes to musical legacies, Detroit’s is singular: talking about “Detroit sound” can refer to a jump into Motown’s soul vibes or a dive into the roots of techno’s hammering basses, two apparently distant and antipodal hearts that have…

  • Sound Takes: Everyone Was a Bird

    Sound Takes: Everyone Was a Bird

    Grasscut’s bones may be electronic, but its heartbeat is good and warm.

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    Song of the Day: “Coronus, The Terminator”

    Four years ago, LA Weekly called Steven Ellison’s music “spiritual electronica.” Today, in the wake of his fifth release, Your Dead!, the artist known as Flying Lotus is still just as difficult to categorize. The experimental producer and beat-making virtuoso is known…

  • The Definite Article

    The Juan MacLean finally have a new album out. A much-anticipated garden of electronica songsmithing, The Future Will Come is tremendous, careful, and sleek; it will blow your little mind-feet! The Juan MacLean is touring with The Field (What’s the…

  • Running on Sexy

    Sébastien Tellier recently toured the States, bringing a spacious European balance to “sex music” from this side of the pond, such as the brilliant, raunchy new Peaches album, I Feel Cream (which imeem is streaming for free, thanks to XLR8R).…