2021 has been another difficult year for electronic music, thanks in part (three-quarters, really) to the ongoing global pandemic. More than any other modern genre of music, electronic is deeply ...
As festivals and events scale globally, the culture that sustains them is increasingly being shaped in smaller, more connected spaces.
A pianist plays a series of notes, and the woman echoes them on a computerized music system. The woman then goes on to play a simple improvised melody over a looped backing track. It doesn't sound ...
Electronic music typically gets boiled down to a handful of qualities, even by fans: It’s euphoric, energetic, at times utopian. For the ambient heads, it’s calming, meditative, and spiritually ...
Armin van Buuren stood, eyes closed, arms outstretched at a music console, in front of 10,000 screaming fans at Mumbai’s Turf Club. Under the huge LED panels, psychedelic lasers and thundering ...