Take a listen or purchase a copy on Bandcamp here. Unveiled as a gatefold vinyl set on November 24th, Spheres is the first release from new UK-based record label Research. The label is a component […]
Review: Various Artists – Spheres
Interview: Luigi Tozzi
Luigi Tozzi’s fathomless techno deep-dives and captivating biomorphic atmospherics have been a favorite of ours at Dub Monitor since the young Italian producer began regularly releasing in 2014. Tozzi is one of a surprising cohort […]
Interview: Eric Cloutier
It’s a few weeks before Movement 2015, and Eric Cloutier and I agree to meet up at a classic downtown Detroit restaurant called “Smallplates.” I have never met Eric before, and we choose the restaurant […]
Images: Movement Detroit 2015 (Main Festival)
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Interview: Ctrls
Ctrls has been consistently releasing solid techno tracks with the Belgium-based techno label Token since 2012. The mid-February arrival of Users marks his sixth techno EP and the 50th entry in Token’s growing catalog of […]
Orphx: an Extended Review
Driving west from Detroit to Chicago or east to Toronto, you see a lot of the same thing: the vast stretches of land, empty but tamed by decades of economic activity; the uniform developments of […]
Interview: Dino Sabatini
Let’s start out talking about your label, Outis. In ancient Greek, this translates to “nobody.” And it’s mentioned in some ancient Greek stories. To my knowledge, the entirety of your label is themed around Greek […]
Review: Stroboscopic Artefacts’ V (Chapter Two)
Stroboscopic Artefacts’s release of the series V – Five Years of Artefacts in celebration of its five-year anniversary invites us to consider the important role that the label has come to play in fostering some […]
Interview: Oscar Mulero
Unquestionably, Oscar Mulero has been one of the most pivotal figures of the Spanish techno scene, with a career as a DJ, producer, and label head spanning over 20 years. In this interview, transcribed from […]
Interview: Edit Select
Altstadt Echo: I think that one of the techno scenes that has gone relatively undocumented (at least compared with scenes like that of Berlin, Birmingham, etc) is the Scottish techno scene. But of course during […]