Electronic Music

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Gongs, Boopers, and Disintegrating Loops: The S.F. Electronic Music Festival Will Challenge Your Assumptions About "Electronic Music"

Just what is electronic music, anyway? That phrase typically connotes electronic dance music, your techno/electro/electronica, untz-untz-untz and all that. The mostly annual LovEvolution festival calls itself a celebration of "electronic music culture," and we here at All Shook Down described the no ... More >>

Top 10 Dance Music Albums For People Who Don't Know Shit About Dance Music

[Editor's note: Ahead of this weekend's Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas -- of which we'll be bringing you full coverage -- we thought it'd be a good idea to make sure everyone's up to speed on Electronic Dance Music 101. This post comes courtesy of our sister blog in L.A., West Coast Sound. Ke ... More >>

Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson: Show Preview

[Editor's note: Ahead of this weekend's Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas -- of which we'll be bringing you full coverage -- we thought it'd be a good idea to make sure everyone's up to speed on Electronic Dance Music 101. This post comes courtesy of our sister blog in L.A., West Coast Sound. Ke ... More >>

Five EDM Tours that Paved the Way for Identity Festival

Colin Young-WolffWe've seen this before...​ The good folks of Identity Festival, which comes to Shoreline this Saturday, don't want to lie to you. Yet despite what they've claimed, they're not the first-ever electronic touring festival ever seen in America. It's merely the first electronic-onl ... More >>

S.F. DJ Andy Schneider Aims to Resurrect Progressive House

Colin Young-WolffWe've seen this before...​ The good folks of Identity Festival, which comes to Shoreline this Saturday, don't want to lie to you. Yet despite what they've claimed, they're not the first-ever electronic touring festival ever seen in America. It's merely the first electronic-onl ... More >>

Soulico: Show Preview

Colin Young-WolffWe've seen this before...​ The good folks of Identity Festival, which comes to Shoreline this Saturday, don't want to lie to you. Yet despite what they've claimed, they're not the first-ever electronic touring festival ever seen in America. It's merely the first electronic-onl ... More >>

Matthew Dear: Show Preview

Colin Young-WolffWe've seen this before...​ The good folks of Identity Festival, which comes to Shoreline this Saturday, don't want to lie to you. Yet despite what they've claimed, they're not the first-ever electronic touring festival ever seen in America. It's merely the first electronic-onl ... More >>

Ninja Tune celebrates 20 years of influential electronica

Colin Young-WolffWe've seen this before...​ The good folks of Identity Festival, which comes to Shoreline this Saturday, don't want to lie to you. Yet despite what they've claimed, they're not the first-ever electronic touring festival ever seen in America. It's merely the first electronic-onl ... More >>

Saturday Night Fever Indie Division

How the hipster set learned to shake their skinny jeans.

Marc Romboy: Show Preview

How the hipster set learned to shake their skinny jeans.

DJ Bobina

How the hipster set learned to shake their skinny jeans.

Tim Exile

How the hipster set learned to shake their skinny jeans.

Om Records at 15

How the hipster set learned to shake their skinny jeans.

Ghislain Poirier and Daedelus

How the hipster set learned to shake their skinny jeans.

DJ Paul van Dyk Announces Cow Palace Show, iPhone App

DJ Paul van DykBerlin-based DJ Paul van Dyk  has just announced an appearance at the Cow Palace May 23, as part of the ETD POP festival, an electronic music extravaganza (okay, it's a rave) sponsored by Skills Workshop, expected to draw 10,000 people to the same venue once popular among arena ... More >>

That's Rebotini, Not Robot-ini

DJ Paul van DykBerlin-based DJ Paul van Dyk  has just announced an appearance at the Cow Palace May 23, as part of the ETD POP festival, an electronic music extravaganza (okay, it's a rave) sponsored by Skills Workshop, expected to draw 10,000 people to the same venue once popular among arena ... More >>

Electronic acts trade laptops for live bands

DJ Paul van DykBerlin-based DJ Paul van Dyk  has just announced an appearance at the Cow Palace May 23, as part of the ETD POP festival, an electronic music extravaganza (okay, it's a rave) sponsored by Skills Workshop, expected to draw 10,000 people to the same venue once popular among arena ... More >>

Devil Inside

DJ Paul van DykBerlin-based DJ Paul van Dyk  has just announced an appearance at the Cow Palace May 23, as part of the ETD POP festival, an electronic music extravaganza (okay, it's a rave) sponsored by Skills Workshop, expected to draw 10,000 people to the same venue once popular among arena ... More >>

Dearly Beloved

DJ Paul van DykBerlin-based DJ Paul van Dyk  has just announced an appearance at the Cow Palace May 23, as part of the ETD POP festival, an electronic music extravaganza (okay, it's a rave) sponsored by Skills Workshop, expected to draw 10,000 people to the same venue once popular among arena ... More >>

Allien Invasion

DJ Paul van DykBerlin-based DJ Paul van Dyk  has just announced an appearance at the Cow Palace May 23, as part of the ETD POP festival, an electronic music extravaganza (okay, it's a rave) sponsored by Skills Workshop, expected to draw 10,000 people to the same venue once popular among arena ... More >>

Wrecking Rampant Idolatry: Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip

DJ Paul van DykBerlin-based DJ Paul van Dyk  has just announced an appearance at the Cow Palace May 23, as part of the ETD POP festival, an electronic music extravaganza (okay, it's a rave) sponsored by Skills Workshop, expected to draw 10,000 people to the same venue once popular among arena ... More >>

LoveFest Promises 65,000 Ravers Listening to DJ Dan and Donald Glaude at City Hall

DJ Paul van DykBerlin-based DJ Paul van Dyk  has just announced an appearance at the Cow Palace May 23, as part of the ETD POP festival, an electronic music extravaganza (okay, it's a rave) sponsored by Skills Workshop, expected to draw 10,000 people to the same venue once popular among arena ... More >>

Gristle for the Mill

DJ Paul van DykBerlin-based DJ Paul van Dyk  has just announced an appearance at the Cow Palace May 23, as part of the ETD POP festival, an electronic music extravaganza (okay, it's a rave) sponsored by Skills Workshop, expected to draw 10,000 people to the same venue once popular among arena ... More >>

Blank Film

DJ Paul van DykBerlin-based DJ Paul van Dyk  has just announced an appearance at the Cow Palace May 23, as part of the ETD POP festival, an electronic music extravaganza (okay, it's a rave) sponsored by Skills Workshop, expected to draw 10,000 people to the same venue once popular among arena ... More >>

In Their Element

DJ Paul van DykBerlin-based DJ Paul van Dyk  has just announced an appearance at the Cow Palace May 23, as part of the ETD POP festival, an electronic music extravaganza (okay, it's a rave) sponsored by Skills Workshop, expected to draw 10,000 people to the same venue once popular among arena ... More >>

Matthew Dear’s subversive dancefloor antics

DJ Paul van DykBerlin-based DJ Paul van Dyk  has just announced an appearance at the Cow Palace May 23, as part of the ETD POP festival, an electronic music extravaganza (okay, it's a rave) sponsored by Skills Workshop, expected to draw 10,000 people to the same venue once popular among arena ... More >>

It Was a Year Of ...

Well, lots of things, actually

Feeling the Fuck-a-Thon

Matthew Dear comes on strong as Audion

The Birth of BOCA

SF venue brings new hope for cutting-edge dance music

Nobody Listens to Techno

Why San Franciscans are suffering from a case of technophobia

BeatBox

Swayzak's techno ain't what it used to be, but Matthew Dear is picking up the slack; the Nortec Collective brings beats from Tijuana.

Highly Evolved

Psychic TV's long-awaited reunion pales in comparison to singer Genesis P-Orridge's odd transformation

Akufen

Fabric 17

Don't Speak

A man of few words, dance-music hero Sasha talks with his turntables

BeatBox

Rephlex Records brings its rebellious sounds to S.F., Luomo spins his aphrodisiac future-disco

The Germans Are Coming!

Cologne's premier techno label is sending two of its ambassadors to town boasting shuffle, sizzle, and tips for jump-starting S.F.'s lifeless scene

Rechenzentrum

Director's Cut

Rise of the Machines

Some say electronica's dead. We say Tadd Mullinix could be what's next.

Kraftwerk

Tour de France Soundtracks

Various artists

Fabric Vol. 11 (Swayzak)

Hear This

Amon Tobin's gorgeous, genre-mashing electronica

Balancing Act

Naked Music wants to be one of the premier dance labels in the country -- without losing its indie cred

You Can Dance If You Want To

Local artist Sutekh defies the rules of techno by ignoring them

Various Artists

Machine Soul: An Odyssey into Electronic Dance Music, Ohm: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music

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John Digweed

The Re-Rebirth of Cool

Jonah Sharp, aka Spacetime Continuum, strives to uncover the meeting point of jazz and techno

Depth Charge

Jonah Sharp, aka Spacetime Continuum, strives to uncover the meeting point of jazz and techno

Hear This

Jonah Sharp, aka Spacetime Continuum, strives to uncover the meeting point of jazz and techno