Shin Nishimura signs to SCI+TEC

Fact: Shin Nishimura is currently considered the hottest DJ in Tokyo. He headlines all the major parties in Japan, is in-demand overseas, and his name is being increasingly touted around techno and tech-house circles as the hottest Japanese treat since, well, sushi.

But Nishimura isn’t content to be just a DJ – he’s also a cutting [...]

Sweet and Sour, Bitch Shift style

Along with Japan’s DJ Warp and Alone Together, Ben Mill has been one of the true discoveries of 2008.
And while his name itself might mean very little to anybody (bar his mum in Melbourne, Australia), Mill is setting dance music critics’ chins wagging for his work under the ulterior alias of Bitch Shift – as [...]

Enclave is the Bomb!

“I’m fiercely proud of this city.”
So declares Paul Derons, and he’s talking about a city that in the 1990s shaped up on par with Detroit, Chicago, Berlin and London, in terms of the rampant nature of the hugest, coolest underground warehouse rave parties in the Southern Hemisphere, the array of respected DJs and producers stopping [...]

Mijk van Dijk remix on Hypnotic Room – The Immaculate Q&A

Elektrax caught up with the legendary German producer responsible in the 1990s for techno/trance rave classics under the aliases Microglobe, Mindgear, and Marmion, on labels such as MFS and Superstition.
He’s no less relevant today, working closely with DJ Hell on International DJ Gigolo, and having just done a sizzling remix of the Little Nobody vs. [...]

‘Disquo’ / ‘Robota’

The first time I interviewed Andrez Bergen 10 years ago in Melbourne, Australia, I made the mistake of being serious—and asked him why he made music.
“To pass time,” he quipped. “It’s amazing how quickly time flies when you’re stuck in an airless studio, with absolutely no food in your stomach, no friends, and no life.”

Interview: Dale Baldwin

“I was pretty much the outcast most of the way through high school,” says Dale Baldwin in reflective mode. “I used to spend lunch times when I wasn’t in a rehearsal pulling apart and putting back together the school’s PA system.”
It’s in this way that the Australian best outlines the origins of his electronic music [...]

Dave Tarrida speaks up against cocaine

“What we have here is the single most infectious groove to land in my lap.”
Thus began a glowing critique in DJ Mag this year, of a particular track submitted to the magazine’s Mix Doctor section.
That infectious groove they mention was in fact nine years old, first mixed-down to DAT in Melbourne, Australia, way back in [...]

Domo Arigato, Mr. Robota

For his most recent Little Nobody release, known simply as ‘Robota’, Andrez Bergen had to write lyrics for the first time in his 12-year career as a producer—somewhat surprising, given that Bergen is also a professional journalist and has his debut novel about to be published.

The reason for the change of heart was a fellow [...]

Removing the Mask: Ein Kleiner Schelm’s new move

One thing you’ll notice about the promotional iconography flaunted by Kurt Knispel for his alterego, production outfit Ein Kleiner Schelm, is a fixation on Mexican wrestling masks.
I first became aware of the obsession when I saw him perform live in Tokyo in 2004, going head to head (or in this case mask to flesh) with [...]

Interview: We call it ‘Si Begg’ house

“I make music with my computer and other electronic devices. Sometimes it sounds nice, sometimes it is unpleasant and mildly grating.”
So declares a simple two-line sentence on Si Begg’s MySpace site – and that’s it. Nothing more.

He’s apparently content to let the music on the site speak for itself, which it does. It speaks [...]