Mania D. Sept. 1979 Berlin. From l to r: Bettina Köster, Gudrun Gut, Karin Luner. Track: Herzschlag. Photo: Eva Gößling. Beate Bartel: We had seen each other around. With her yellow overalls and short ...

Mouse On Mars is the quintessential 1990s electronic outfit. Like many of the groups that emerged during that time, the duo—which consists of Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma—is bent on the denial of ...

A selection of the DJs, producers, and innovators who gave us hope in 2021 Opening the 2020s in pandemic mode, the dance music stage progressed into a new era with a cohort of young talents and ...

Semi-professional tennis player, student of computer programming, punk rock band manager, chef—Manfredi Romano has worn many hats over the years. Since stepping out as DJ Tennis in 2010, the Italian ...

A friend recently started an email saying something along the lines of ‘hope you are doing well’… “with the winter and COVID and the fascists.” Living in Romania, where we’re currently torn between a ...

Ion Dumitrescu: Paul, I wanted to start out by talking about the transitional period between so- called “proto-manele” and today’s manele. I know you’ve extensively investigated the timeframe between ...

Spanish music journalist Yasmina Elkak dives into the sound of the country's wildest clubbing route, from its origins in the '80s up to its end in the 90s. As a child raised during the 90s in Valencia ...

Djax-Up-Beats is techno royalty. Founded in 1988 by Miss Djax, the Dutch label helped shape the sound of techno up until the early ’00s, thanks to the funky and rough approach it championed. Simply ...

They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and that’s certainly the case when it comes to the story of the humble disco edit. Back in dance music’s early years, DJs came upon the idea of ...

Earlier this year, we partnered with the Do School to explore new possibilities for Telekom Electronic Beats. In the process, we met Noah Fields, a talented young trans* writer from Chicago. We tapped ...

Even today, it’s pretty safe to say that “big room” house music doesn’t have the best reputation. Yet, like many dance music genres engineered for mass consumption, there’s often some good to go with ...

It’s official, summer is over. While we wave goodbye to what almost felt like a normal summer that wasn’t one, September was jam-packed with events, releases, and content squeezed in to enjoy those ...