As part of the innovative '90s Warp Records crew that included such mad boffins as Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, LFO, the Black Dog and Nightmares on Wax,...
Standing among the cramped aisles of Uncle Sam's Music, a Miami Beach institution, DJ Craze looks momentarily stymied by the bins of 12-inches. he says,...
The longer you work, the more experience you gain. If you keep delivering good-quality music, and if you're open-minded to all sorts of things, then your...
The phrase If it ain't broke, don't fix it is usually sound advice for any musician who has achieved a modicum of success in today's tumultuous music...
Style: Unclassifiable Established: Started in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 2003 by Rich Zerbo and Joe Gaer. Artists: Gang Gang Dance, Blood on the Wall, Psychic...
It's not often that Remix gets to wear 3-D glasses in the office, but considering the VJ/DJ/scratch multimedia mash-ups Mike Relm is known for, it wasn't...
For better or worse, the '80s revival is still alive and kicking. From Knight Rider remakes to the electro resurgence, the influential decade isn't going...
Some artists sit down at a piano or pick up a guitar to start writing, but Rafter finds more inspiration setting up a microphone on his desk and dropping...
The Heavy Circle's first album was something of a surprise. Producer/guitarist/composer Harper Simon, son of Paul Simon (yes, that Paul Simon), and singer/songwriter...
To start with the hypothetical: If you were an American composer trying to eke out a living in the immediate aftermath of World War II, odds are you were...
It's interesting that dance music's top DJs are often labeled by their adoring fans. While spinning other artists' records before a crowd isn't really...
When London's influential XFM radio DJ John Kennedy received an innocuous-looking disc in the mail in December 2006, he liked it so much, he immediately...
It was a perfect evening in downtown Los Angeles: unusually clear night, unusually beautiful skyline, unusually traffic-free, unusually cheap parking...
At 11, a young Frenchman started taking keyboard lessons. Self-taught bass, drums, guitar and a lifelong fascination with The Beatles would follow and...
Calling from New York while lounging in bed with her two dogs, Lick Lick Science and Pantera Marvelous, Sia Furler speaks like the same soulful, slightly...
It's certainly not Carl Craig's first visit to this small record shop in the centuries-old city center. The Detroit DJ/producer has had a long relationship...
Alexis Taylor is rummaging around his flat, looking for the lap-size Yamaha keyboard he bought at a car boot sale a few years back for three quid. I know...
Style: Techno, Established: BPitch Control has been introducing diversity to the club society of Berlin since 1997. The label, created by Ellen Allien,...
VIVA EL MAESTRO! With the studio as his launching pad, Esquivel blew the hi-fi into outer space Believe it or not, those of us who watch television you...
Having braved curses, floods, mysterious injuries, mental breakdowns and desertions, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and the Mars Volta leap headlong into the signal-processed unknown...
Have you ever wondered what the 6 Great Moments in Puking are? Well, of course you have! And now you need wonder no more thanks to Amy Wallace and Handsome...
Three decades ago, Jamaicans would gather hundreds deep in front of giant sound systems while two MCs rocked it over the same instrumental. When it was...
I've always enjoyed being exposed to new things, says a young lady standing nearby. On a damp November night on New York City's Upper East Side, she wouldn't...
San Francisco based DJ and world-music producer Cheb i Sabbah began bridging cultures through music and dance back in 1964, when he spun American soul...
For the sake of all that's right in world, Kenna Zemedkun should be huge. But as author Malcolm Gladwell wrote in his best-selling book, Blink, he's just...
Remix Hotel rocked New York City yet again, and you can witness the highlights—everything from Junior Sanchez, Just Blaze and Pete Rock in the Guitar Center Sessions @ Remix Hotel panels to Jazzy Jay and Grand Wizard Theodore in the Rane/Serato room—at Remixhotel.com. Videos, photos, interviews, product demos and more coming soon!
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