Back in the ’90s, Sony’s PlayStation video game console helped to usher in a new era for sound in gaming. The PlayStation was one of the first consoles to use CDs instead of cartridges, which allowed ...

Painting makes me feel something a digital image could never make me feel,” says Lucas Dupuy about his work, which often ...

City pop is a genre of Japanese popular music that was popular in the 1980s and featured a “cosmopolitan” image that appealed to those who benefited from the so-called post-war “economic miracle,” an ...

On the pioneering electronic label's 25th anniversary, Planet Mu's founder relays his continued excitement with discovering genuine, groundbreaking work. “I just wanted to do it—I didn’t really think ...

Ambient is more than a genre. It’s a blank canvas with no rules and no structures. Shaped by geography and generations, it’s open to experimentation with sound, texture and space. That’s why it traces ...

Munich’s Ultraschall was one of the most important techno clubs in Germany during the years it was active. Its first incarnation—which was located in the kitchen of a cafeteria at the disused ...

In this special preview of our new Summer 2013 print magazine, we present the cover story—an extensive interview with the divisive pop phenomenon—in full. Photo by Robert Carrithers. Lana Del Rey’s ...

Call it what you will, but there’s no denying that West African funk or boogie will light up a European dance floor—and no one knows that better than Nomad and Dirk Leyers. Operating as Africaine 808, ...

This week, in an article titled About Vatican Shadow Link With the Far-right, culture journalist Jean-Hugues Kabuiku has highlighted relationships between experimental producer Dominick Fernow—also ...

U.S. heavyweights like Joe Claussell, Dennis Ferrer and Timmy Regisford have all passed through the venue, while Nina Kraviz made vital steps towards super stardom through her Voices residency at the ...

I have to admit up front: I was wary of Berghain’s new room Säule when it was first announced. I was ready to quickly dismiss it for invading the club’s chill-out area on its ground floor that was ...

In this essay based around themes he’ll touch on in his upcoming book Ghosts of My Life, Mark Fisher—the noted blogger known as K-Punk and the author of Capitalist Realism: Is There No ...