BERLIN - Shabiza Shazri, owner of the popular laundromat Das Soap Maschine located in central Berlin, says she is disappointed that her son shows no interest in pursuing a career in techno; the lifeblood of the German city. Despite her constant prodding, Samir, the youngest of her two sons, seems [...]
MONTREAL — “He would have been 84-years-old this July,” Ryan Horowitz thought to himself, while letting the romantic melodies of Nils Frahm’s Mutek performance permeate his consciousness. The 22-year-old slowly melted into the looping drones of Frahm’s pianos, closing his eyes for the majority of the performance. “I think I [...]
BALTIMORE — Twenty-five-year-old college graduate David Virenzi has been patiently parsing the job market, regularly visiting Craigslist and Kijiji’s jobs sections and sending out one or two resumes per week in response to postings that he feels he might possess adequate credentials to obtain. After three weeks of no responses [...]
IBIZA — For Minus and Richie Hawtin fans, it’s clear that their minimal techno guru has always been at the cutting edge of technology. In 2008, Hawtin revealed a device he called “The Cube,” which was then described as “a highly advanced communications device that responds positively to the presence [...]
ROME — Following an incident that occurred at the Atlantico night club in April, Jeff Mills has publicly announced that he will be boycotting pasta and pizza from his diet for the duration of one month. The incident in Italy saw Mills being hit in the head with an object [...]
CHICAGO - Two years ago, Brian Wilms graduated from DeVry community college in Chicago, moving forward with a degree in Business Administration and a passionate hunger to start his own business. Over the last twenty-four months, Brian has saved the majority of his wages as an IT call centre representative [...]
EDINBURGH — Since the secretive release of a new Boards of Canada 12″ record was discovered at a record store in New York, the cryptic electronic duo have been releasing bits and pieces of mysterious material, including a password-protected website and snippets of music on BBC and NPR. The duo [...]
NEW YORK — The developers behind Watson, IBM’s Jeopardy-winning supercomputer, have recently announced plans to introduce the intuitive learning machine to the art of DJing. Watson, who is already being represented by public relations and artist management firm the Agency Group, will be programmed to apply his existing algorithms to [...]