Electronic Music

The Top Five Parties in San Francisco This Weekend

With 4/20 behind us and Cinco De Mayo in rapid approach, this coming weekend exists as a kind of placid middle ground. Normally that might be considered a bad thing when it comes to partying, but pros know that now is the right time to get out and enjoy the city at its best. And, to help you come to ... More >>

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Etbonz on Futuristic Sci-Fi Sounds and Why Total Recall Is the Best

Listening to Portland-based producer and DJ Etbonz's live analog sets and cosmic techno jams makes one suspect that he can channel music from the future. As if embarking on a musical space odyssey, Etbonz employs physical synths and sequencers to play a mix of Italo-disco and sci-fi-sounding tracks, ... More >>

I Love That City: An S.F. Mega-Rave Moves to Shoreline

I Love This City Festival: Tiësto, Duck Sauce, Steve Aoki, James Murphy, Holy Ghost! and More to Play Over Two Days in S.F.

This May, San Francisco is getting a two-day electronic dance music party of titanic proportions: I Love This City will bring huge names like Tiësto, Steve Aoki, Duck Sauce, James Murphy, the Crystal Method, and many more to the AT&T Park parking lot over Memorial Day weekend, May 25 and 26. No do ... More >>

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Weekend Parties: Juan Atkins and Balam Acab, Slow Hands, Groove Merchant Holiday Party, and More

Slow Hands performs Friday at Beatbox​ The holidays are rapidly approaching and, if you're anything like us, you're probably getting pretty stressed. If that's the case, take some time out for yourself and decompress at one of this weekend's many offerings. Here are four solid options for goin ... More >>

Weekend Party Preview: Benoit & Sergio at Public Works, Danny Krivit at BeatBox, Cosmin TRG at the Endup, and More

Hope you enjoyed the Thanksgiving break, because this weekend, things are dropping right back into gear. The guiding principle seems to be a strong showing from the new school of house music, with major headliners playing over the course of the entire weekend. But if four-on-the-floor isn't your thi ... More >>

Machinedrum's Travis Stewart Explains Seven of His Favorite Weird YouTube Videos

Travis Stewart, aka Machinedrum​ Electronic dance music fans can be thankful that Travis Stewart, who performs as Machinedrum, spends the bulk of his time behind a computer screen. The obvious reasons lie in a voluminous output of material stretching back to his 2001 debut LP Now You Know on t ... More >>

Producer Adrian Sherwood Helps Celebrate Dub Mission's 15th Anniversary

S.F. Producers DJG, Dials, and Jus Wan on the Local Bass Music Scene and Their New Compilation

​ There really is something in the water here. At least that's what it seems like, judging by the number of San Francisco electronic music producers touring across the Atlantic and releasing tracks on U.K. and European labels. Dubstep and bass-driven club music producers have been especially p ... More >>

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Friday Night: Mr. Oizo Thumps Parisian Bangers at 103 Harriet

​Mr. Oizo Boyz IV Men NastyNasty December 3, 2010@ 103 Harriet Better than: A 10-hour flight to Paris. Before the rise of Justice, Crookers, and, um, Ke$ha, Mr. Oizo (along with Daft Punk) was laying the foundation for the crunchy, electro-influenced sound sometimes referred to as bloghouse. Fav ... More >>

Ninja Tune Announces Free 20th Anniversary Show with Amon Tobin, Kid Koala, Eskmo, and More

This is a picture of a ninja. The label is called Ninja Tune. That was all the connection we needed.​We don't really remember it all that well, but our twentieth birthday party probably involved a case of Tecate, a few Modest Mouse records, and our roommate's six-foot bong. Whatever the details, w ... More >>

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Weekend Party Preview: Hometown Hip-Hop, Classic House

Lemonade​For our party picks this weekend, we've kept it pretty close to home. The choices are boiled down to a bit of hometown hip-hop, some classic SF house music, a long-awaited homecoming performance, and some solid disco music for good measure. No matter which party suits your liking, we guar ... More >>

Club preview: Bonobo

King Cannibal's bloody Valentine mixtape

Jega's SF Record Release Party this Saturday

Pensive: Jega​ I've always thought IDM--intelligent dance music--to be somewhat of a strange name for a microgenre. Its implications seem rather assumptive, namely that most dance music (and, by extension, dance music audiences) is stupid. Also, since dance music's primary function is to move our ... More >>

Richard Devine

Planetary Alignment

Syclops

I've Got My Eye on You (DFA)

The Crystal Method at Ruby Skye 7/25

Father Afrika commands large-scale musical hypnosis

Def Mix dynamo Hector Romero brings down the house

Tiefschwarz: German brothers bring down the (electro) house

Blaqk Audio

CexCells (Interscope)

Detroit techno by way of Berlin: Magda

BeatBox

The multitalented MC/turntablist J-Live pays a rare visit from NYC; S.F. house fixtures Miguel Migs and Julius Papp get you "Salted."

BeatBox

John Digweed and his prodigy spin through town; "Dub Mission" celebrates its eighth chilled out year

Sex, Lies, and Audiotape

Jeff Fare and the Paradise Boys may be S.F.'s best hope for electro-rock success

Matmos for Dummies

SF's beloved electronic duo has set up shop at Yerba Buena, comfy chairs and all

Autechre

Draft 7.30

LCD Soundsystem

"Losing My Edge" (DFA)

Various Artists

Disco Not Disco 2 (Strut)

Cabaret Voltaire

The Living Legends
Mix-Up
The Voice of America
Red Mecca (Mute)

Various Artists

The Forcelab Edition: Composure (Forcelab)

The Week's Can't-Miss Performance

Antipop Consortium brings wee-hour surrealism to hip hop.

The Royal Whee

Live house band Dubtribe Sound System gets older, wiser, and imperial

William Ørbit

Pieces in a Modern Style

Night + Day

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