Detail from the cover of 1438: Midwest Jungle, Techno, & Rave Culture Credit: Courtesy Aria Pedraza I love absorbing as much about dance music as I possibly can, even beyond writing about it for my ...

It placed Sadler’s Wells in the company of many other cultural institutions recently trying to bridge the gap between the ...

A book celebrating the history of Polish techno has been adapted into a stage play. 30 Years of Polish Techno Scene, an 800-plus page photo journal documenting the country's techno history, is the ...

Why does it seem like dance music has got so hard and fast recently? Isaac Muk investigates, exploring the impact of a new generation of "play harder" clubbers and artists, social media and economic ...

Time Warp’s eighth U.S. outing brings stacked lineups, big production and a Brooklyn takeover.

It’s common knowledge that Silicon Valley has been the epicenter of the digital revolution as we know it since the late 1980s. A lesser known fact is how intertwined the tech world and the then ...

Every generation needs its ecstatic rituals, and today's kids have raves, chemically friendly overnight bliss-outs presided over by electronic shamans with names like DJ Spooky or Scanner or Moby.

“When I use the term ‘EDM,’ I’m not referring to the entirety of the history of dance music,” Michaelangelo Matos explains to Sven Von Thülen. “I mean the stuff that has risen to prominence, ...

The music was cranked so loud the building vibrated. Lights flashed and spun across hundreds of faces. Smoke enveloped everyone and everything in the darkened room until the only thing left was the ...

In the wake of the demolition of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, something strange and wonderful happened. Youth from both East and West Germany converged on the space cleared by the wall’s ...

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 ...