Electronic Music

  • Daily Download: "Once Upon a Time," Air

    The masters of Gallic cool return.
  • All hail the ice queen

    As Bjork releases an extraordinary career retrospective, it's time to crown her as the most important pop musician of her generation.
  • Hail to the geeks

    Most of Radiohead's new album is pretentious jive. But by fighting their fans' expectations, the dork-rock gods continue to do important things with music -- even if those things aren't musical.
  • T. Raumschmiere: "Anti"

    On his latest offering Berlin-based Marco Haas issues a dose of sparse and gritty yet driven electronic dance music.
  • Music preview: Autechre

    "Gantz Graf" is the new EP by Sean Booth and Rob Brown, aka Autechre, creators of some of the most mind-boggling soundscapes in electronic music to date. Listen in.
  • The strange triumph of electronic music

    It may not be on the radio, but it's the most influential -- and unifying -- force in pop music today.
  • Can Moby save pop?

    Anointed by the desperate music media as pop's new king, Moby brings electronica to the masses with "18." (Now if only he would stop trying to sing.)
  • The most feared woman on the Internet

    Netochka Nezvanova is a software programmer, radical artist and online troublemaker. But is she for real?
  • After the gold dust

    The dot-coms went bust, but the Chemical Brothers are still office-partying like it's 1999.
  • The biggest beat of all

    A short introduction to two-step garage, followed by everything you need to know about pop music in the 21st century.
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen

    The composer of "the first great piece of electronic music" influenced the Beatles, Miles Davis and numberless others. And he comes from Sirius.
  • Sharps & Flats

    The problem with Oval's latest is that, like most minimal electronica, it's more fun to talk about than to listen to.
  • Sharps & Flats

    Sasha and John Digweed refined a subtle style of dance music. With a few more albums like "Communicate" trance will be classical.
  • Sharps & Flats

    So what if the movie "Groove" sucked? Its soundtrack is a miracle: Dance music that sounds good on the stereo.
  • Sharps & Flats

    Fatboy Slim and Paul Oakenfold star on a comp for rave newbies, while the two-CD "Trance Nation America" thins the strong pulse of early-'90s dance music.
  • Sharps & Flats

    Early electronic composer Raymond Scott dreamed of today's digital future -- in the 1950s.
  • Sharps & Flats

    DJ Dimitri from Paris swings at the Playboy Mansion.
  • Sharps & Flats

    Fronted by a husband-and-wife team of French psychiatrists, Rinocerose introduce house music to post-rock. Yikes!
  • Sharps & Flats

    The three-disc "Points of Light" comp flies off to an expansive, airy space -- somewhere between jungle, jazz-fusion and outer space.
  • Letters to the editor

    Readers squawk over Conason's offer of crow Plus: Electronic music isn't dead; a new club for Bush watchers.
  • Who sold out electronic music?

    Did a Rhino rave compilation kill the subculture? Sure, except that it was never a subculture to begin with.
  • Sharps & Flats

    Socially conscious hip-hop pioneers the Jungle Brothers find the dance floor. Pointlessness ensues.
  • Sharps & Flats

    For all its pretentions, William Orbit's "Pieces in a Modern Style" makes for seductive secret listening.
  • Sharps & Flats

    "Clicks + Cuts" reconciles avant-electronic music with the politics of dancing.
  • Sharps & Flats

    On the scattered "Passport," Khan's musical shortcomings upstage a compelling multiple-personality crisis.
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