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Globe-trotting electronic musician and DJ Richie Hawtin is the living embodiment of techno, the man CMJ calls a "techno God." "He doesn't just play techno," the influential publisher of music ...

The mood is tame as she takes over the turntables on this paradisiacal island night. The crowd is content lounging on the salt-stained ocean rocks, the smooth techno ahead mixing with the calm lapping ...

Many techno DJs are used to playing music on vinyl, but creating it? That's another matter. However, Graham Dunning has found a wonderfully strange way to make that idea work. His Mechanical Techno ...

Sharing a dance floor is a unifying experience, whether it’s 30 people in a living room or thousands packed into a club. But no matter how strong that bond, no two sweaty ravers are having the exact ...

The DJ mixer controls and contours all sounds. The slightest twist of a knob or the slide of a fader can change the structure of one sound to make room for another. The instrument, which is at the ...

Even the DJ’ing top brass need a place to celebrate their turns around the sun. On January 17, the DJ/producer titan, Nicole ...

Such moments are, in a way, the essence of techno — an escape from reality that pulls the dance floor into a raw, instinctive headspace, stripping away self-consciousness. The Sejong Center described ...

Detroit and techno music go together almost as well as Detroit and cars. With the Movement Electronic Music Festival coming up this Memorial Day weekend, sponsor Ford decided to get a few DJs together ...

IT IS not often that a touring DJ’s career is associated with quiet reflection or a conscientious work ethic. People who make a living as professional party-starters are, one might think, as ...

Since the late 1970s, the Iranian government has regulated many of life’s pleasures, including music. Imam Khomeini considered the art “no different than opium” — a sentiment that was echoed in a ...