Globe-trotting electronic musician and DJ Richie Hawtin is the living embodiment of techno, the man CMJ calls a "techno God." "He doesn't just play techno," the influential publisher of music ...

A lot of people spend their free time defining what sounds fit inside a particular music genre, as well as the cultural ethos of what those genres represent. We call it “music hipsterdom.” Every genre ...

The best Detroit techno artists produce the kind of music that practically demands the audience to get up and move. DJ Kelli Hand (K-Hand for short) had it down to a science. "First of all, she was a ...

Sharing a dance floor is a unifying experience, whether it’s 30 people in a living room or thousands packed into a club. But no matter how strong that bond, no two sweaty ravers are having the exact ...

Detroit and techno music go together almost as well as Detroit and cars. With the Movement Electronic Music Festival coming up this Memorial Day weekend, sponsor Ford decided to get a few DJs together ...

If you, like many other friendless nerds, spend your days reading reviews and arguing with strangers under your favourite DJ’s latest terrible opinion on Facebook, you will probably already have heard ...

Many techno DJs are used to playing music on vinyl, but creating it? That's another matter. However, Graham Dunning has found a wonderfully strange way to make that idea work. His Mechanical Techno ...

Let’s take a quick step back in time to early 80s Michigan, where Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson (otherwise known as The Belleville Three) create the very first songs to fall under the ...

The Scottish techno DJ and producer on what it feels like to be part of Adam Beyer's Drumcode festival this summer, his relationship with the label, how his sound has evolved and what it's like ...