Interview: DJ Warp unleashes debut ‘Psychic Attack EP’

“Sometimes I sing ‘Danger Zone’ in the bathroom. I like the music from Top Gun. When I was a child, I dreamed of becoming a fighter pilot, and to this day, Top Gun is my favorite action movie.”

So declares Japanese producer, DJ Warp – a man better known these days for his prowess behind an [...]

Meet Allan Klinbail, Melbourne’s own tech house hero

I’m going to rear-vision you a decade back, to Melbourne’s (Australia’s) tech-house heyday, when that city was up in the Top 5 international cities for the style, and every international DJ/producer of tech-house worth made his way down most weekends.

On one particular date – it was September 5th, 1998 – we had the Swedish triumvirate [...]

Little Nobody bears forbidden fruit

Never imagined you could slot together two such disparate terms as “weird” and “beautiful”?
Think again.
‘Woklurk Orange’ is one of the more gorgeous EPs I’ve heard this year – weird or not.

“Funnily enough, it has everything and nothing to do with the movie,” Andrez Bergen tells me down a particularly crackly phone line from Tokyo, Japan.
Bergen [...]

Stoking the Engine: Dick Drone releases the ‘Engine Room’ EP

One thing the Tokyo-based 2-member outfit Dick Drone is missing is honesty.
That’s because one member also makes electronic music under a different alias, and would prefer to remain anonymous here.

The other member can’t quite vocalize the truth either, because she’s only two and a half years old…
Let’s call dad and daughter Chichi and Chigo (their [...]

Zen and the art of musical paternity

Steve Law is a dad.
While this news shouldn’t come as any shock regarding someone Steve’s age (in his late 30s), it might surprise those who have known Steve more for his music – which always seems to have been the man’s top priority, under guises like Zen Paradox, Mr. Suspicious, and Mutagenic Mind, for labels [...]