Andrez Bergen Gets Iffy

In March this year, Andrez Bergen released his sixth album, a free download offering through British label Dead Channel. The title of this LP was a pisstake of Bergen’s own career trajectory as a producer over the past 12 years: ‘I Have Become So Many People I Do Not Know Which Is Myself’ nods at [...]

Q&A session with Steve Stoll

The Elektrax Music crew have recently caught up with the master of proper, minimal techno – Steve Stoll, who chats about his music, digital downloads and a new remix for Elektrax Recordings.

HI-SHOCK TACTICS

“It’s all about the music, getting the sounds out there, experimenting with fresh styles – and now the new possibilities with digital platforms let me introduce not only more of my own sounds, but also to expose other great artists to a worldwide audience.”

So enthuses Simon Nielsen, better known in Australia – and increasingly around [...]

Biochip C meets Psyborg-9

Flashback 14 years to to a techno-rave scene that was basking in the glories of the TB-303, its Devilfish adaptation, and the overarching “acid” sound – grandstanding 303 moments that included early records by Richie Hawtin in his Plastikman guise, Honeysmack in Australia and Freddie Fresh in America, and the innovative, darker underground acid of [...]

LUKE’S ANGER

I recently did a Little Nobody track in which I had the eerie feeling I was channeling vintage Underground Resistance or Suburban Knight, but with about 1% of the talent of those people – and even that’s claiming some unwarranted kudos. It was around 4:00am and I was chronically sleep-deprived at the time I finished [...]

PAUL BIRKEN: TONEWRECKER

Before I hit Tokyo in 2001, I’d somehow landed a copy of Paul Birken’s Speaker Freakin’ on Communique from about 1997, then his and Bob Brown’s insanely brilliant Immediate Conclusions vinyl 3 years later through Brown’s label Framework Music; neither record has parted company with my moth-eaten, beaten up, beer-stained record case.

Next (for me) came [...]

Gayle Force Winds

Anyone who knows anything about mind-blowing, professional DJ’ing and superlative techno production on a global scale will skip right on by your bland, usual suspect superstar DJs, and head instead to one of the world’s most predominant and respected female DJ’s around…a long-time veteran…Gayle San, who left Singapore in 1990 to launch a career starting [...]

Reclusive Jungle Rhythm King

Ever heard of Gunkanjima?
I hadn’t, although I assumed it was something Japanese, especially since I was asked to interview one of Japan’s most reclusive producers: Jungle Taitei (real name unknown), a long-time member of the TTAK collective, and possibly previously never interviewed, according to his/her handlers.

Jungle Taitei has just unleashing a scintillating record, something that’s [...]

Jammin’ Master

If there’s anything remarkable about German producer Cem Oral, it’s that he’s a down-to-earth realist without a bone of pretention.
“I just came in from a cold, cold rainy outside, and am happy to be back in my musical submarine,” Oral recounts from his base of operations in Berlin. “Besides my mastering work, I’m focusing on [...]

Interview: Darkmode over Detroit

1. How and when did you first get into DJing and producing electronic music in general – and what motivated this commencement?
DM: I first got into Electronic music back in 1980 after my dad bought me the Queen soundtrack of the movie Flash Gordon on vinyl what caught my attention when I listened to it [...]