Even the Mayor knows what’s up. Have fun at Movement, kids! Facebook : As the Movement Electronic Music Festival approaches and the festivities get underway, Mayor Dave Bing has proclaimed this week to be ‘Detroit Techno Week.’ Read and comment. From thedailyswarm.com.

In the late '00s, Sistema">Buraka Som Sistema introduced much of the world to the energetic Angolan sounds of kuduro (which translates literally as "hard ass"), most notably with the release of its seminal album Black Diamond in 2008. Since then, the Portuguese outfit has put plenty of its own spin on the genre, and has actively encouraged other producers to cross-pollinate diverse types of dance music such as baile funk, tropical bass, cumbia, and of course house, bass, and techno. Through its Enchufada imprint, the group has also released six mini compilations called Hard Ass Sessions , in which BSS ...

Incredibly, the collision of Liars and Matmos doesn't leave a pretentious mess all over the road What do you get when you take Liars (a band who in the past have called their songs things such as Scarecrows on a Killer Slant and If You're a Wizard Then Why Do You Wear Glasses?), then add sonic experimentalists and Björk collaborators Matmos (a duo whose first album made music out of the neural activity of crayfish and who have also created techno out of the sound of liposuction)? A pretentious mess, right? Well, almost disappointingly, no. Matmos's take ...

The brilliant Ghosting Season have done our most intricately-constructed mix yet, featuring anything from dystopian techno to their own embellishments. Bunker down below

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Working the seam between deep house and deeper techno, NYC DJ mixes records like a sculptor massages stone.

Since first establishing himself in the early 2000s as a producer of aquatic, cerebral techno under the Polmo Polpo moniker (which is probably most well known for the 22 minute cover of *Arthur Russell*'s '*Kiss Me Again*'), Perri has variously indulged his interest in Nigerian juju and shantytown...

Gather ‘round the telescope ever’buddy, we got new stars to observe! It’s been two years since we first discovered the Musique Fragile constellation — a three-star cluster of full-length albums by Khôra, Nick Kuepfer, and Les Momies De Palerme — and now another linked cluster has become visible in the night sky. Kanada 70, Pacha, and dual strobe star Hangedup/Tony Conrad are set to become official additions to the growing constellation on June 26, and to commemorate the event Constellation is releasing a 3LP set documenting each star’s most beautiful “sounds of burning.” Since the first Musique Fragile ...

Soak up some appropriately sun-drenched, psychedelic house and electronica in this week’s ClashMusic DJ mix, from Austrian production duo, Komaton. Signed to the eclectic Dame-Music imprint founded by techno producer Bloody Mary, sound artists Tomá Ivanov and Sebastian Lehner have only been releasing tracks since 2010 but have made a deservedly big impression, thanks to a forward-thinking musicality and sensitive craftsmanship in their ear-catching and delightfully uncategorisable tunes that makes them stand out far above the crowd. Blending refined dancefloor moods with dashes of blissed-out house and a mature electro-pop sensibility, the experimental and melodic tendancies of Ivanov and ...

Compost Black Label Sessions return to Radio Magnetic with another house and techno filled slice featuring a guest mix from Martin Landsky.

Joe And Will Ask? siempre han tenido un algo que ha hecho su sonido especial en el mundo del techno británico. Accesible y con la misma facilidad para funcionar en pista [....]

Steadfast Australian techno duo The Finger Prince keep on jammin’ with the release of their ‘Mao’ EP on the newly appointed Motorik Records. Channelling inner-city lights, the EP is characteristic of the fast surging revival of gritty techno in Australia and abroad – with the release in my eyes, their best yet. To...

Adam Horovitz of The Beastie Boys was recently interviewed regarding the passing of bandmate Adam Yauch. You can read the full interview here or a snippet of it below by clicking “Read More.” “I’m totally numb,” Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys said bluntly, in his only interview following the  death on May 4th  of his bandmate Adam Yauch. Sitting in the New York office of the Beasties’ publicist, only 10 days after Yauch’s passing, Horovitz fondly recalled their lifetime together in punk, hip-hop and hijinks. He also struggled to describe his feelings after his friend’s death ...

Earlier today we premiered this on ad hoc : Berlin-based expatriate Steven Warwick aka Heatsick , who last year released one of 2011's most inventive left-field dance LPs with Intersex , is dropping a new 12” on May 29. Intersex managed the difficult feat of balancing a polymorphous interest in the way electronic music acts on the body and can lead to new ways of being in one's body, with the kind of cerebral approach to sound that bespoke a practitioner well-versed in the full spectrum of electronic music from Detroit techno to avant-garde composition; and all of this with virtually ...

New track uploaded to Soundcloud from SBTRKT, "Gamelena." Assume this is an unfinished track or a piece of something bigger because SBTRKT is back to work in the studio. Drum and bass with that techno thump. The man drops a few words himself... "back in the studio. working towards eps/ album/ etc.... something new - no plan for it - just thought id share"