Hot on the heels of our Stockholm City Focus our DJ mix this week comes from one of the city's finest young artists, Kranglan Broadcast label owner Harald Björk. Over the past few years Björk has defined a unique style of melodic, electronica-influenced techno for himself, across EPs for Traum Schallplatten, his own Kranglan Broadcast label, and most recently his debut album 'Bigfield'. Having grown up in the suburbs of Stockholm, nature has served...

Our podcast this week comes from one of the most interesting Scottish producers in the field of dubstep: Glasgow's Ali Jackson a.k.a. Gravious. Socialised by diverse styles of electronic music, from ambient to drum'n bass, Jackson got hooked on the sounds of the emerging dubstep scene at the start of the millennium and took to producing his own music shortly thereafter. One of Jackson earliest supporters was Hotflush Recordings label boss Scuba,...

Stockholm might be known the world over as the epicentre of Scandinavian pop music, from ABBA to the A*Teens, but our City Focus on the Swedish capital is bound to reveal quite a different side of the city's bustling music scene. With Axel Boman and Harald Björk we talk to two rising stars in Swedish electronic music, who readily share their inside knowledge on their home town's club and music culture. Our podcast this week is also going to dispel...

We start into a new year of zero" podcasts with a very special guest behind the decks, someone who is celebrating his 20th anniversary in the techno business in 2011: acclaimed DJ and veteran producer Dave Tarrida. Tarrida's career started in Edinburgh, where he set up the Sativa club nights together with friends back in 1991. Over the five years of its existence Sativa became Scotland's best known techno club and eventually turned into an equally...

For our 25th and final podcast this year we would like to look back on a year of amazing music with our most personal podcast edition to date. Each member of the zero" team - those that haven't gone missing in the holiday snow chaos that is - presents his favourite track of 2010 in this podcast edition, the one track that has made this year special for him or her. With a number of different tastes and penchants represented by the people that zero"...

This week's podcast is once again our Crew Picks edition, which brings you a fresh selection of our favourite tracks from the past few weeks. For every Crew Picks edition each member of our team selects five of his current favourites to be assembled into a one-hour mix by one of the DJs in our crew. This time around the mixing part has been done by Georg, editor-in-chief at zero" and also known under the name of DJ Glow from his productions of...

This week's podcast comes from someone who certainly ranks among the hottest artists of the year 2010: Bucharest's Cosmin Nicolae, better known as Cosmin TRG. Nicolae originally become known under the name of TRG when he single-handedly put Romanian dubstep on the map back in 2007. His very first single, 'Put You Down / Broken Heart', was the first release on Ramadanman's Hessle Audio imprint and provided a template for the label's influential deep and...

Ten years ago DJ TLR took up the baton to represent the west coast sound of Holland with his Crème Organization label. With close to a hundred releases since, the label has firmly established itself as a bastion for of jacking Chicago house sounds, eclectic synth-disco, and Detroit-style electro alongside like-minded imprints such as Bunker and Clone. Many well known artists of the Dutch scene have contributed to Crème from the start, such as The...

Our City Focus this week takes us to South America - to the Argentinian capital of Buenos Aires to be precise, where we talk to prominent techno producers Gurtz and Seph about their bustling home city and its music. Buenos Aires is of course the city of Tango - from Carlos Gardel to Gotan Project - but also of cumbia, as well as rock nacional, the hugely popular Argentinian version of US domestic rock. Electronic music never had it easy in Buenos...

The 20th zero" podcast stars one of today's most prolific and versatile electronic music producers, Brendon Moeller. Born and raised in South Africa, Moeller left his Johannesburg home, teaching career, and fledgling indie band behind when he moved to New York in 1994. In absence of his band mates, he turned to electronic means of production, releasing his first 12" on Sm:)e Communications in 1997. Eventually one of his demos, recorded under the...

Peverelist's Punch Drunk imprint has been doing an excellent job at spotting new talent over the past few years, breaking young artists like Guido or Heytal, and firmly establishing Bristol as a hotbed for cutting-edge dubstep mutations. The latest artist to step out of the Bristol underground via a release on Punch Drunk is Superisk, whose debut single 'Find Your Way' has recently caused a stir, among others at De:Bug magazine who chose it as their...

With Slam's Stuart McMillan, Optimo's JD Twitch, and Numbers' Jackmaster we interview three main protagonists of Glasgow's burgeoning electronic music scene in this week's edition of our City Focus podcast. It's not by accident that Glasgow has been likened to Detroit in regards to its music scene. Journalists might have had Detroit's Motown era and Glasgow's plethora of famous indie bands - from Primal Scream to Franz Ferdinand - in mind, but also in...

It's once again time for our Crew Picks podcast, which brings you a hot selection of our favourite tracks from the past few weeks. For every Crew Picks edition each member of our team selects five of his current favourites to be assembled into a one-hour mix by one of the DJs in our crew. This time around the mixing part has been done by Koko, responsible for the number-crunching at zero" and currently preparing the launch of his upcoming label...

Back in the late 1990s, Karl Moestl and Uwe Walkner were part of the Viennese downbeat movement that swept the globe. The pair released two EPs on Kruder & Dorfmeister's seminal G-Stone Recordings imprint, the 'Bluish EP' in 1999, followed by 'Heaven Or Hell' the next year. Despite critical acclaim, Walkner.Moestl disbanded after the release of 'Heaven Or Hell', with both producers dedicating themselves to other projects. Karl Moestl's ensuing solo...

The Netherlands' west coast is like an island in time. Nowhere else is the memory of classic house, techno, electro, and disco more fondly treasured and kept alive, nowhere else do these classic dance music styles constantly serve as blueprints for new and exciting productions. Paul du Lac is a prime protagonist of this movement. The Rotterdam based DJ and producer was recently signed to Clone Records for his enthusiastically received 'Kira / Bingo'...

Robots in the house! This week's podcast comes from one of our favourite artists at the moment, Robot Koch, whose production skills have recently led his Jahcoozi project to fame via Ellen Allien's Bpitch Control label. His prolific solo work, such as his latest 'Listen To Them Fade' EP, has further provided us with some of the most memorable broken beat creations that have met our ears in recent months. We might also add that Robot Koch is widely...

Fifteen million million people make Los Angeles one of the most culturally diverse places on the planet. We talk to three of LA's most prominent electronic music artists, Santiago Salazar, Silent Servant and John Tejada, who share their insights on the ever-changing City Of Angels. Over its 200-year history Los Angeles has transformed from a small pueblo into a multi-cultural urban sprawl, a melting pot of Hispanic, Asian, and European influences....

Little more than a year has passed since the first Keinemusik record landed on our doorstep and first alerted us to the freshly founded Berlin-based collective. Seven releases later and Keinemusik has by far surpassed our expectations, having become one of the city's most consistent and increasingly prominent imprints for contemporary house music. The productions and DJ sets of Keinemusik members &Me, Rampa, Adam Port, and David Mayer follow a recipe...

August 2010 has turned into a tiny speck in our rear-view mirror, and an autumnal breeze reminds us that a busy September beckons ahead. Time to savour the highlights of the past month in our one-hour Crew Picks podcast! For our Crew Picks each member of our team selects his five favourite tracks of the past month. One of us then applies his best mixing and editing skills to fit as many of these tracks as possible into a one hour mix - not an easy task...

What does denoised noise sound like? Richard Eigner's album 'Denoising Field Recordings' does just that - remove the noise from recordings of train stations, church bells, and public spaces, until only abstractions of the original sounds remain. It is an approach which stands for Eigner's open-minded inventiveness, something that has made the young Linz-based producer one of the most interesting artists in Austria's music scene. The trained session...