Towards the end of last year, a mild frisson developed on dance blogs and forums regarding the diminishing merits of minimal techno. Why the fuss over a genre big in Germany but with a profile as low ...

Whither minimal? Once a niche proposition, now an increasingly bulky subset of house and techno-- at least in name-- the genre is suddenly ubiquitous. A year or two ago, when Ubercoolische.com ...

Sometimes you’re a bit late to the game, as I personally am with the work of London-based Oscar Powell, who has recorded under his last name for Death of Rave, Liberation Technologies, and others. I ...

In the mid-Nineties, DJ Derek Plaslaiko made a name for himself on the Detroit rave scene with what promoters describe as “clinical … sophisticated sets.” A residency at legendary club Motor soon ...