New York was the first city to define the public image of a modern metropolis and is undeniably one of the world cultural epicentres. hip-hop and rap might dominate the Big Apple's dance floors and airwaves, and while the city's current 'zero tolerance' policy doesn't make life for party promoters any easier, New York City still boasts a rich electronic music and club culture - from soulful house to classic techno to the eclectic sounds of the nu rave scene.
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Martin Buttrich is something of a mystery - quiet and unassuming in real life, Buttrich is the quintessential silent studio partner. Or at least he used to be. In collaboration, he's produced pop (The Sugarbabes), Italo house (Sounds of Life) and...
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From his first electronic band Chaotic Sound Matrix, to his major contributions to the early productions of Deep Dish; from his first success in the techno world as part of the seminal New York duo Disintegrator to his successful collaborations with...
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The noises in my head - Francis Harris better known as Adultnapper is the master of darkness. His minimalistic tunes are branded by a strong subbass and short metallic reverb effects. With his chary soundscaping sounds sometimes seem trivial, but just on...
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A Touch Of Class are New York based DJs Oliver Stumm and Dominique Clausen, who run the record label of the same name. Mixing Disco, Rock and Old-School Electro elements, the pair has created a very distinct sound for their output, further lending their...
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Rising from New York's gay and performance art scene to chart-topping fame in only a few years time, the Scissor Sisters combine a sure-fire sense for catchy dance-pop with a enigmatic stage show that is bound to appeal to all but the most cold-hearted...
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The Diskokaines is a collaboration of New York's glam queen Princess Superstar and Vienna based DJ and producer Marflow, combining the Princess' distinctive vocal style with some of the most kicking neo-disco and jack house beats we've heard this century....
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The Ones story begins at the legendary Greenwich Village boutique Patricia Field (renowned designer and Sex and the City stylist). Known for its outrageous fashions and clientèle, it was a natural place for the trendsetting native New Yorkers Paul...
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Discovering DJing in the 80s, Abe Duque became obsessed with vinyl and electronic dance music production. In the early 90s he became the keyboard player for the then techno supergroup Program2. In 1993 Abe made a decision to start his record label Tension...
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Blaze started to deliver their unique blend of gospel house back in the days in 1984, what makes them somewhat of the oldest still active band in house music. Their first studio album was released in 1990 on the legendary Motown label, followed by an enormous stack of maxis and productions for other artists, of which some were even...
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Coasting the open seas between rock and rave, New-York based duo The Glass neither shies away from heavy guitars nor from catchy vocals haphazardly strewn over kicking dance beats. With a reliable hand for remixers and collaborators, from Mylo to 2020...
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Always a girl to do things her own way, Susanne Brokesch has been creating her idiosyncratic brand of electronic music since the mid-90s. Born and raised in Vienna, Brokesch found her first outlet in the Cheap Records label, which released her 'White Cloud' EP to a puzzled public in 1995. A second release under the same project name...
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Initiated by Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani out of their joint love for classic disco boogie tunes, moody house and modern techno, Metro Area burst onto the scene in 1999 with their self-titled debut 12" featuring the cult smash 'Atmosphrique'. Bringing...
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Initially inspired by England's take on the sound of Detroit, Morgan Geist eventually tracked techno back to its Motor City innovators. Geist released his first 12" (via Dan Curtin's innovative Metamorphic label) while studying at Oberlin College in 1994....
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Only active for a mere three years in the early 80s, New York no-wave band Liquid Liquid has had a far more profound influence on modern pop music than there output of only a handful of rare 12"s would suggest.
Formed by Scott Hartley, Richard McGuire, Salvatore Principato and Dennis Young, the band famously featured only...
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Code 718 is a New York City telephone area code and pseudonym of legendary House producer Danny Tenaglia.
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Also known under his Beat Pharmacy and Echologist guises, Brendon Moeller was originally the drummer of a South African indie band, who tried to convince his band members to move to New York, but eventually ended up moving there by himself. To compensate...
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Jerome Sydenham's illustrious music career took off in the late eighties when he joined the prestigious A&R division at Atlantic Records. While Sydenham was working with mega stars, ranging from En Vogue to Das Efx, his interest in the underground house...
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Silicon Soul are K. L. Schafer, an innovator of musical instruments, and vocalist Olgalyn Jolly, adding the mesmerizing touch to all of Silicon Soul's releases. Their first production, originally released in 1982, was entitled 'Who needs sleep tonight'...
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Those declared dead live longer: Formed in 1997 by the MCs Priest, Beans, M. Sayyid and beatsmith Earl Blaize, Anti-Pop Consortium was one of the most ground-breaking underground Hip-Hop Crews to emerge in the late 90s. The group was signed to Warp but...
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Born as Louis Thomas Hardin, Moondog was a a blind American composer who decleared the streets of New York City his home.
Moondog's work was only started to be appreciated in the final decades of his life, primarily because of his stubborn refusal to wear anything other than his own home-made clothes, all based on his own...
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With her first performance dating back as far as 1994, Concetta Kirschner a.k.a Princess Superstar is everything else but new to the game. With five full length albums on her back and numerous collaborations with people like Kool Keith, The Prodigy and...
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Spanning 20 years, more than 3,000 concerts, and the sale of over 20,000,000 records worldwide, Moby's prolific career has seen him release nine studio albums, remix everyone from Metallica and David Bowie to The Rolling Stones and Michael Jackson, and in the midst of it all he's even managed to find the extra time with which to make...
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With a style that defies boundaries, Michna, or Adrian Michna (also known as DJ Egg Foo Young), is part hip hop, part experimental, part electro-funk, and part lo-fi, and his latest release 'Eggstra Ep' on Sam Valenti IV's Ghostly International consortium...
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With musical genes running in the family - his father was a major Irish jazz musician and his brother signed to BMG at age 17 - Mike Slott's career as one of the UK's most exciting new producers of stumbling hip hop breaks hardly comes as a surprise....
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NYC's Vinyl Life is a live electro hip-house group using all hardware both in the studio and on stage. Their aesthetic is very analog and old school, combining electro, bass and Baltimore-style breaks, and their 'gear-only' philosophy gives them a sound...
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Born in London and raised in Long Island, New York, Daniel Dumile, also known as MF Doom (the 'MF' stands for Metal Face in case you were wondering), began his rap career freestyling incognito at open-mic events in Manhattan, covering his face by putting a stocking over his head. Inspired by Marvel Comics supervillain Doctor Doom,...
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Alexi Delano's productions strike the perfect balance between shiny minimalism and dark vivacious techno. Intimately linked to the Plus 8 and Clink labels, each of his projects has been leaving foot prints on the minimal/techno scene, occasionally exploring very different directions, such as with his excellent electro-ambient...
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FaltyDL is New York City's Drew Lustman, whose hotly tipped productions merge 90s UK rave aesthetics with a wide range of contemporary influences, ranging from garage to dubstep, dancehall and wonky hip-hop. So far his releases have appeared on British labels Ramp Recordings and industry stalwart Planet Mu.
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Mux Mool is the alter ego of Minnesota-born Brian Lindgren, who records his eclectic mix of hip-hop, chiptunes and freestyle electronica for Ann Arbor's esteemed Ghostly International label. and Raised on a steady diet of sci-fi and second hand vinyl,...
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Also known under his Locust moniker from his recordings for R&S subsidiary Apollo, Mark Van Hoen is an ambient producer whose musical range encompasses abstract soundscapes, experimental trip-hop and pop-influenced electronica. The native Londoner, who now resides in Brooklyn, NY, has recorded for some of the most highly though-of...
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Originally part of electro-punk outfit Six Finger Satellite, who recorded five albums for Sub Pop between 1990 and 2001, John MacLean got to meet James Murphy, who worked as a sound engineer the band. When Six Finger Satellite disbanded and Murphy founded...
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Perhaps surprising to some of his many fans, Jamie Lidell started out producing rough experimental techno during the late 90s as part of the then booming Brighton scene. Employing his distinct voice more and more, both for singing and as a means of sound...
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Taylor Deupree is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NYC, renowned as an electronic musician, but also working in the fields of photography and graphic design. He is known for the founding of the 12k record label, as well as its sister imprint...
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A legend in US-American techno music, Joey Beltram grew up in Queens, NYC, getting into the graffiti and music scene at a remarkably early age. When he 12, he stood behind a turntable for the first time, at age 17 he had recorded his first maxi single for seminal NYC imprint Nu Groove, and by the time he was 20 he had already...
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One of the breakthrough artists of the season, Nicolas Jaar has been releasing his experimental deep disco house productions via labels like Wolf + Lamb and received much praise for his inventive remix of Ellen Allien's recent 'Flashy Flashy' single. Born...
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Brooklyn's Travis Stewart has been recording his explorations of abstract broken beats for the sadly defunct Merck label since the early 2000s under his Machinedrum alias. In recent times he has hooked up with the highly recommendable Lucky Me imprint for the release of his 'Many Faces' album, an eclectic journey through experimental...
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Cynics might argue that in a city as drained of electronic music as NYC, it shouldn't be hard to grab the public's attention with a good party series. Yet, you have to give it to Zev Eisenberg and Gadi Mizrahi that they're doing an exceptional job with...
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Originally hailing from Sacramento, California, curiously named dance-punk outfit !!! (pronounced 'chk chk chk') was formed in 1996, when several members of hardcore act Yah Mos decided to pursue a more dance-oriented direction. After several singles and...
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Perhaps best known for his productions of dance music with Dinosaur L, and his classic proto-house track 'Is It All Over My Face', Arthur Russell's musical legacy bridges styles from rock over experimental music to disco. Born in Oskaloosa, Iowa, the classically trained cellist moved to New York in 1973, after a stint in San...
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Danny Krivit is one of New Yorks's most revered DJs and re-edit pioneers, whose career spans over 30 years and includes waypoints like residencies in the Roxy and Body & Soul, as well as working with James Brown and Gloria Gaynor. Growing up in New York's Greenwich Village in the 1960s, Krivit started DJing in his father's club, The...
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Daniel Lopatin's music has been appearing mainly on exotic media over the past few years, such as cassette tapes, CD-Rs and DVDs, and it hasn't been easy for the interested public to purchase copies of his elusive releases. This has changed with Oneohtrix Point Never's recent album 'Returnal' on Editions Mego, which introduced...
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The Hundred In The Hands is the Brooklyn-based band of Eleanore Everdell and Jason Friedman, fusing New York indie-disco influences with synth-pop leanings in their recordings for Warp Records, such as their hotly tipped album debut, the eponymous 'The...
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Zach Saginaw's pseudonym Shigeto is more personal than most - Shigeto it is his middle name, which he adopted to express his music's connection to his family history as Japanese emigrants in the United States. His productions for Ghostly International...
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Although a native New Yorker, Frankie Knuckles' name is inseparably connected with the creation of house music in Chicago, where he was a resident DJ at the seminal Warehouse club between 1977 and 1982. Tutored by Chip E, Knuckles began producing around 1985, striking up a creative partnership with Jamie Principle, whose compositions...
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Sepalcure is the Brooklyn-based duo of Travis Stewart (a.k.a. Machinedrum) and Praveen Sharma, who after running the Cassette NYC club night joined forces in the studio to develop an ingenious brand of post-dubstep. Signed to Scuba's Hotflush label, the...
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Hercules & Love Affair is the musical project of New York based DJ and producer Andy Butler, well known for its disco and house music influenced recordings for DFA. Butler started out as a DJ in Denver, Colorado, before moving to New York and founding Hercules & Love Affair in 2008. With a concept of working with a varying line-up...
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Ulysses is Brooklyn-based producer Elliot Taub whose extensive discography of no-wave, disco, and electro-influenced house music includes releases on labels as diverse as Guidance, My Best Friend, Internasjonal, as well as his own Scatalogics imprint....
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Composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist and oft-proclaimed 'sound-alchemist' Raz Mesinai has been producing and performing music on the intersection of dub and modern composition since the mid-90s. Born in Jerusalem and now settled in New York, his work...
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New York techno pioneer and Synewave label owner Damon Wild has been producing music since 1991 and DJing since the age of 15. He is recognized for his prolific productions as a solo artist, such as his early acid classics like 'Bang the Acid' and 'Avion'...
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The daughter of mining magnates turned championship racehorse breeders in Turkey, Deniz Kurtel developed a deep love and connection to the sentiments of electronic music during her studies in the USA. Growing up with constant exposure to art from her...
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NYC duo Holy Ghost! consists of Nicholas Millhiser and Alexander Frankel, who grew up only a few blocks from each other in New York City and began collaborating on music at an early age. Recording with their first band, Automato, they met DFA founders Tim...
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Battles is a Brooklyn-based band comprised of drummer John Stanier (of Helmet and Tomahawk), guitarist/keyboardist Ian Williams (of Don Caballero and Storm & Stress), and guitarist David Konopka (of Lynx). All members bring their honed-in musical skills...
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New York City's Matteo Ruzzon a.k.a. Madteo has been creating sounds in a truly unique style over the past few years. Murky, dark, and experimental, yet firmly rooted in underground house music, his recordings on labels such as Workshop or Meakusma are as...
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