Music, Electronic, Issue 694

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Batida - Batida

8 Mar 20123 stars

African-inspired electronica record that probably works best in a club setting

(Soundway) Having carved out a reputation for unearthing rare tracks of touchstone Latin musics, Soundway now champions hot sounds heard today on the streets of Luanda. Angolan/Portuguese DJ Mpula (aka Pedro Coquenão) creates electronic dance music…

Creamfields 2012 line up announced

5 Mar 2012

deadmau5, Avicii, Tiësto, David Guetta and Skrillex confirmed for dance music fesitval

deadmau5, Avicii, Tiësto, David Guetta and Skrillex have been announced as headliners at one of the UK’s biggest dance music festivals this year. Creamfields 2012 will take place at Daresbury in Cheshire from Fri 24–Sun 26 Aug, and will also feature…

Dub/electronic/experimental act Hype Williams to play Glasgow's SWG3

29 Feb 2012

The London duo marry a shadowy stage presence with engaging tunes

The List once saw Hype Williams perform entirely hidden behind a white bedsheet. It was like a Poundstretcher version of Pink Floyd’s The Wall but with an added fug of skunk. The duo, Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland, revel in this sort of batshit chicanery…

VCMG - Ssss

28 Feb 20124 stars

Vince Clark and Martin Gore minimal techno album is great fun

(Mute) For many, the news that Vince Clark and Martin Gore were making minimal techno together seemed the perfect coda to the screenplay-like story of their respective musical lives. The former Depeche Mode bandmates’ last musical contact came in…