Louie Vega

A godfather of global dance music, Louie Vega has painted an award-winning career from a palette mixed with everything from salsa and afro-beat, to jazz, hip-hop and soul. A godfather of global dance music, Louie Vega has painted an award-winning career from a palette mixed with everything from salsa and afro-beat, to jazz, hip-hop and...

ROLI SEABOARD RISE

  Boundary-pushing London company ROLI specialise in innovative keyboard instruments. Greg Scarth finds out if their entry-level RISE controller lives up to the hype. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGr7VbDiRNw ROLI first appeared on our radar early in 2013 when they announced their flagship instrument, the Seaboard Grand. Initially available as a limited-edition run of 88 units (one for each note on...

RONI SIZE Q&A

by attack magazine We grabbed the drum’n’bass icon at this year’s Take Note music conference and put him to the test with our quick-fire Q&A. WHY MUSIC? It was the only thing that gave me something to feel hungry for. Time was non-existent when music was in my life. You know you’re in love with something when...

Aira Modular

SYSTEM-500 Based on the classic SYSTEM-100M modular synthesizer, the SYSTEM-500 is a fully analog recreation of one of the the most revered electronic instruments of all time. Newly designed in Eurorack format, the SYSTEM-500 delivers the classic character and functionality of the original with the advantages of a modern instrument. Built in the USA and...

KEXP Presents Midnight In A Perfect World with Teen Flirt

Teen Flirt is the alias of Monterrey, Mexico-based electronic producer David Oranday. He’s emerged as a standout artist in the Latin electronic music community with his seductive nostalgia-tinged future bass/R&B sound as well as serving as the driving force behind the label Finesse Records. His shape-shifting exclusive mix for Midnight In A Perfect World sheds...

Sebastian Mullaert Boiler Room Berlin Live Set

https://soundcloud.com/platform/sebastian-mullaert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nye5LAhZmA

Gangstercast 70 – Darius Syrossian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KabGn-Fd6c Darius Syrossian, his style, attitude and passion can be summed up with three words ‘TRUE, HOUSE, MUSIC’. Darius has always worked with these three words at the forefront of his mind, and reflects these principles through his music, music that never wavers from his devotion to the groove. He is one of the core...

RA Sessions: Surgeon

@RA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxuGukuDRgk Modular techno, live and improvised. For a techno artist of his years and experience, Anthony Child caught the modular bug late. "I wasn't really that interested in it because it seemed like you had to spend thousands of pounds to make a very basic kind of 'clip-clop' sound, and that didn't really appeal...

Podcast 410: Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts

by Bruce Tantum  @ xlr8r We'll admit it. For a big chunk of the '00s, probably from period beginning 2006s Sélection Surnaturelle EP on Mutek_Rec through to his second album, Circus Company's Breaking The Fourth Wall—we were under the impression that Guillaume & the Coutu Dumonts was a band. After all, why else would that ampersand...

Skepta: Top Boy (The Documentary)

This summer Skepta embarked on a sold out tour of East Coast America & Canada, culminating in a performance alongside Drake at the OVO fest in Toronto. Noisey were there throughout the trip to document this milestone in his career. What happened was very spiritual and very crunchy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6XIe8w57OQ&list=TLCZQgQj_Is20yMjExMjAxNQ