DROID BLOG TAG - interview
August 28, 2012
Los Angeles' finest techno promoters.
Droid Behavior eats, sleeps and shits techno. It says so on their business cards. The crew is nearing a decade as one of Los Angeles' preeminent promoters of 4/4, a group of DJs, producers, photographers and writers that have filled the need for regular underground techno parties in the city. Raiz (Vangelis and Vidal Vargas) and Drumcell (Moe Espinosa) founded Droid, but over the years things have grown exponentially. Credit for this is down to the ...
February 23, 2012
Young Italian DJ/producer Claudio PRC is one of techno's enthusiastic explorers. He combines an inspired, informed passion for classic techno with a productive interest in the legacy of electroacoustic experimentation. Combining the streamlined with the raw, the repetitive with the unpredictable, his music is a study in sonic and tonal combination.
Claudio's set to follow up a productive 2011 this March with a new album for Prologue, an abyssal dive called "Inner State," sampl...
August 2, 2011
Jeff Witscher makes electronic music. This includes ambient soundscapes, thrash, noise, layers of arpeggiated synthesizers, and much in between. Abelard Scout, Impregnable, Secret Abuse, Marble Sky, and most famously Rene Hell are a few of his monikers. His list of collaborations and groups is longer.
A few weeks ago I had the chance to hear Witscher perform as Rene Hell, the name under which he's released two excellent albums (The Terminal Symphony, 2011; Porcelain Opera, 2010) on Type, a...
May 4, 2010
Brooklyn noise artist Carlos Giffoni made his way to Brooklyn from Venezuela via Miami and has spent the last decade building up a catalogue of experimental sound excursions using both digital and increasingly analog production techniques. He created and operates Brooklyn's annual No Fun Fest (funded yearly on credit cards, I've read), as well as the label No Fun Productions, which put out my favorite release of 2009. His latest album, Severance on Hospital Productions passes on noise aggressi...
April 22, 2010
On Saturday, Sonic Groove celebrated its 20-year anniversary.
Sonic Groove is a piece of NYC music history waiting for its own annoying congratulatory documentary, one of those music movies that overstates the significance of something journalists thought couldn't be overstated. That's to say that it played an important role in music culture, not only for New York but also nationally.
The lasting names of Sonic Groove are Heather Heart, Adam X, and his brother Frankie Bones, often called ...
