Featured DJ: Tektite (NYC) 31 Mar 2009

TEKTITE (Vitamin Breaks, NYC)
Tektite got his start in the 90’s with Old School (UK) Hardcore, which quickly became an addiction to the hoover synths, old school stabs, and choppy breaks. Fast forward to 2008, and he is still searching for records that carry that old school sound while rounding out his repertoire with the massive [...]

Track Review: Dustbowl “Dustbowl EP 2″ (U&A)

Meat Katie & Elite Force have been working on the Dustbowl project for several months now and it just keeps getting better and better. The first EP came out in January on Lot49 and I snatched up faster than a
trigger happy meter maid. Their second effort, on Elite Force’s bulletproof label U&A, is nothing short [...]

Jelo, Slyde, Icon @ WHACK 4 April

Newmindspace hosts “interactive public art, creative cultural interventions and urban bliss dissemination” in New York and Toronto several times a year. This Saturday, it is in the form of a pillow fight in downtown Manhattan. This event has drawn thousands in past years and will undoubtedly turn a few heads as the spontaneous battle royale [...]

Joris Voorn Article in Village Voice

I came across this great article in the Village Voice while on the train to Manhattan today – check it out! I’ve been digging Joris Voorn for a while now and I know some other DJs in my scene have as well. Really interesting read on DJing/mix-sets even if you are not a big techno [...]

Featured DJ: Chad North (NYC) 23 Mar 2009

CHAD NORTH (Erase / Bad Advice / Exceptional / www.jungoroad.com)
A producer first, DJ second, Chad has honed his sound to an eclectic mix of minimal house/techno, breakbeat, and electro – or as some people call it – simply ‘tech-funk’. Although a classically trained musician and a professional composer before he ventured into the underground, Chad [...]

Featured DJ: Raydeus (San Francisco) 16 Mar 2009

RAYDEUS  (Pronoia SF / raydeus.com)
A staple of the San Francisco underground scene and co-founder of the Pronoia DJ collective, Raydeus mix sets are bassbin melting concoctions of everything from fidgety techfunk to stomping electro (with touches of dubstep and DnB) that make people dance their asses off. He’s made a name for himself in the [...]