‘Universal Techno’:Terrific documentary on the history of Detroit electronic music
Juan Atkins in his mothership. Universal Techno is a very fine French documentary from 1996 on the Detroit techno music scene – chronicling its birth…
Electronic music
Stefan Goldmann’s Everything Popular Is Wrong: Making It In Electronic Music Despite Democratization
Stefan Goldmann is an electronic musician based in Berlin, who specializes in minimal techno and who holds a residency at the city’s prestigious Panorama Bar.…
Electronic music pioneer Milton Babbitt (1916-2011)
Composer Milton Babbitt died yesterday at the ripe old age of 94. I have always adored his piece Ensembles For Synthesizer, composed from 1962-64 on…
What the Future Sounded Like: the story of Electronic Music Studios
“Think of a sound—now make it.” Here is a very cool doc by Ian Collie about London’s Electronic Music Studios, the pioneering synthesizer company formed…