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Dance, Dance Revolution

This was the year electronic dance music got its head -- and its ass -- out of the past.

By Darren Keast
Dec 30, 2004

For hipsters, the coolest things are to be found twenty years ago, the most dreadful things ten years ago. So starting a few years back, we were deluged with '80s electro and synth-pop, and we pretended to forget jungle ever existed. Electroclash, the first naive sortie by dance music into...
Waves of Fascination

Music's lunatic fringe lives, breathes and flourishes on the shortwave radio dial.

By Darren Keast
May 15, 2003

For forty bucks, you can buy a device that emits some of the most irritating and beautiful sounds imaginable; a device that not only presents an international kaleidoscope of opinion, but also receives secret spy transmissions. Best of all, every time you turn it on, the thing behaves completely differently,...
Perpetual Movement

Not content to simply milk his invention, trance-music pioneer BT continues to trip the light fantastic in a never-ending search for sound.

By Darren Keast
Jul 13, 2000

One afternoon, Brian Transeau received a phone call that would forever change his life and, without exaggeration, the nature of dance music all over the world. "I was making records out of my bedroom in Maryland, never having heard English club music, and came up with IMA," he remembers. "Some...

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