Electronic Music

Why Are Old-School Electronic Artists Annoyed With EDM?

Broadly speaking, if you're an electronic music fan over 40, you probably dig Danny Tenaglia more than Skrillex. And chances are, if you're a Skrillex fan under the age of 30, you're like, "Who the hell is Danny Tenaglia?" Coachella 2013 exemplified the generation gap in the world of dance music. ... More >>

30 Of the Most Kick-Ass DJ Residencies In DFW in Every Genre

It's nearly impossible to list them all, but what you will find below is a list of more than 15 awesome DFW-area DJs and musicians with 30 collectively kick-ass DJ residencies in your city. These residencies span almost every single day of the week and feature damn near every type of music imaginabl ... More >>

Jeff Ryan, Drummer for Sarah Jaffe, St. Vincent and Others, Releases a Solo Album This Week

You might not recognize Jeff Ryan's name, but you've probably heard his drumming on a number of acclaimed releases in the past few years. Playing on albums by Sarah Jaffe, St. Vincent, Pleasant Grove and Crushed Stars, he's also had time to do an ambient side project called Myopic. Myopic's second r ... More >>

Derrick Carter at It'll Do Club

Saturday, August 18 at It'll Do Club

Elemental Souls

Saturday, August 4, at Sandaga 813

Miguel Migs and Lisa Shaw at It'll Do Club

Saturday, June 16, at It'll Do Club

It'll Do

EDC 2012: House Music Beef With DJ Sneak Plays Out in Steve Angello's DJ Set

In early spring, a Twitter beef erupted between DJ Sneak, a Chicago house music legend, and Steve Angello, one-third of the DJ supergroup Swedish House Mafia. Sneak called SHM's music "fake shit" and said they "do not play house music" -- as in, real house music. On Friday, in front of a huge crow ... More >>

Top Ten EDM Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Dance Music

by Andy Hermann Electronic dance music (you know, EDM) is the hottest thing going right now. But to you, it still all sounds like "oontz, oontz, oontz" -- except Skrillex, who sounds like "wom, wom, wom." Right? Fear not. You don't have to be a kid yourself to know what the kids are into nowadays ... More >>

Blixaboy's Steady Electro Journey Through Futro City

Preview: Beau Wanzer at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studio

Thursday, April 19, at Rubber Gloves

Ronan Harris of VNV Nation Talks Living in Germany and Hating on David Guetta

Even after more than 20 years in the music business, Ronan Harris of VNV Nation still rambles on like a kid half his age. Enthusiastic and confident in the extreme, Harris believes (correctly) that the music he and partner Mark Jackson create is as important now as when it first came back in 1990. ... More >>

Q&A: Wanz Dover Talks About (Real) Dubstep and His Own Genre, Futro

Check out this week's issue for a feature on The Black Dotz, but multitasker that he is, Dallas DJ/producer/musician Wanz Dover has another project to talk about as well. Blixaboy is Dover's long-running techno/electronic moniker, and he celebrates the release of a new EP, Intro to Futro, on Saturda ... More >>

Eliot Lipp and the Gravitational Pull of Dubstep

​ Eliot Lipp's spent most of his professional career traveling from city to city, picking up different sounds along the way. One piece of memorabilia: an outdated SP-1200 sampler. Lipp's also released six albums, the latest of which, How We Do: Moves Made, came out in October. After dealing wi ... More >>

A Beginner's Guide To Electronic Music: From Scratching to Dubstep and Everything Between

...among other things.​Electronica is an infant genre compared to most, its creation depending solely on tools and instruments designed in the last half of the 20th century. And its interpretation is constantly evolving. Because, even though it remains relatively new type of music, there remain so ... More >>

DJ Cyberina Flux Celebrates 10 Years on KNON With a Big Anniversary Party at Dada

DJ Cyberina Flux​When it comes to the ups and downs of Dallas' electronic music scene, DJ Cyberina Flux, host of KNON-89.3 FM's "Rocket Radio," has seen it all. Her industrial/gothic/electronica show has graced the KNON airwaves every Friday from midnight until 4 a.m. for a decade now. And, hey ... More >>

Get With the Program

Ableton Live becomes the latest technological advance to shape music.

Dc9er Mixtape, Vol. 32: That's What's Hot

​Music producers, DJs and electronic music purists, Rodrigo Diaz and Oleg Belogorsky have been tag-teaming the local electronic/dance music scene for a few years now with multiple DJ gigs and their own radio show. And while the pair states they enjoy their artistic freedom and, with it, the abilit ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Alexander Robotnick at Brooklyn Jazz Cafe

Alexander Robotnick​Alexander RobotnickBrooklyn Jazz CaféAugust 13, 2010Better than: seeing the bad guy from the Sonic the Hedgehog games in a live concert. Well, maybe.Fresco has been putting on parties in Dallas for years, bringing to town legends of electronic music such as Larry Heard, Ron Tr ... More >>

Q&A: Legendary Electronic Musician Alexander Robotnick Talks Italo Disco And His First DJ Gig In Advance Of His First Ever Dallas Stop.

Alexander Robotnick​The city of Dallas has never been a very vocal champion of electronic dance music. Apart from the infamous "club kids" and the days when MDMA was sold at bars in Dallas, the city hasn't ever really been known for its electronic music culture--not in any important or globally re ... More >>

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 22: DJ INDO

​DJ INDO, born Ricky Roe, grew up with music as an integral part of his life, and it was his love for music, alongside inspiration from his father and brother, that led him to DJ. When he first got started, nearly four years ago, DJ INDO explored a wide variety of sounds: "I would try spinning all ... More >>

LCD Soundsystem

This Is Happening (DFA/Virgin)

DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 8: Wanz Dover

​This week's DC9er presents readers and listeners with not one, but two very different mixes from seasoned area musician, dubstep producer and DJ, Mwanza Dover. And not by accident, either. Dover voraciously admits that there was no way he could "really make one mix that would make sense for what ... More >>

Year in Review: Sampling the Best DJ and Dance Music of 2009

The past year brought the worst economy since the malaise of the 1970s, and like that era, it also saw dance music sweep the nation. Lady Gaga, the Black Eyed Peas, Beyoncé and Sean "P. Diddy" Combs all dabbled in the sound. Even Michael Jackson was said to be working on a dance album with the Peas ... More >>

Night Moves: Your Hat Has Fur, But Mine Lights Up

Ray and Peter LekAt Excuses Friday night. Could be a German thing.​M.A.N.D.Y. spun German techno at Excuses Friday night as the dance floor filled up with partiers wearing furry animal faces and light-up octopi on their heads. Saturday night, our nightlife crew caught up with Austin's Irrespo ... More >>

The Crystal Method

Saturday, December 13, at the Lizard Lounge

Echoes And Reverberations: Hitchhiking Along Post-Industrial Boulevard

Noise is not for everybody. Some people hear a jackhammer on the street corner and promptly cover their ears; others hear a subsonic melody and random harmonic movement in the staccato repetition of mechanized machinery. “Industrial music” is the umbrella term used to describe artists who e ... More >>

Hot Chip

Thursday, April 26, at the Granada Theater

Steve Reich

Phases

The Beatdown

Hernan Cattaneo's turntables never took geography lessons

The Crystal Method

Friday, April 22, at Seven

Dance, Dance Revolution

This was the year electronic dance music got its head -- and its ass -- out of the past.

Skinny Puppy

Wednesday, October 20

On the Down Low

George Minto and JT Stewart are putting out the best dance music you've never heard of

Squarepusher

April 20

Paul Van Dyk

Reflections (Mute)

Best Alternative Club

Trees

AK1200

September 21

Pop is Dead

Hip-huh? Antipop Consortium doesn't expect you to get it at first.

Baby, "One More Time"

Whether you like to dance or just listen, with Discovery, Daft Punk has the record for you

Perpetual Movement

Trance music pioneer BT continues to trip the light fantastic in a never-ending search for sound

Better's not better

A new electronic-music documentary clears the dance floor

Under control

The Chemical Brothers' beats may be rockin' fewer blocks, but they won't Surrender

Clearing samples

Moby returns to electronic music, and he's ready to Play

Out There

What you bought in 1998

Steady breakin'

Jeff K and Kelly Reverb put the needle on the record and dance, dance, dance

The Crystal Method

Out There

Fish and microchips

Aphex Twin is the enfant terrible of British electronica