Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

American mega-corporation Apple currently dominates the creative computing world, but the California-based company has yet to make any forays into the rapidly growing market of music-making devices; that is, until now. Apple recently unveiled it’s first consumer product tailored towards musicians: the iPlay. At first glance, the iPlay’s physical appearance [...]

NEW YORK — The stresses of running a multi-day music event are still in their earliest stages for Mike Hayworth, the audio-visual coordinator at New York’s annual Electric Zoo festival. Hayworth is one of the festival’s primary contacts for performing artists and agencies; he is responsible for liaising with artists [...]

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 [...]

Armin Van Buuren’s fifth record, Intense, is a pastiche of bleeps and bloops that exhibit textural similarity to the sounds created by the hospital machines that monitor heart rate and other bodily functions. Van Buuren, who’s quick to note that he did not take any inspiration from the sounds made [...]

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 [...]