Song elettronica
E2-E4: the hour by Manuel Göttsching that seeded house
One afternoon in 1981, an hour cut in a single take, and thirty years of dancefloors. The story of a piece made for a Walkman.
All articles
Genres and monographs
We cover eras, scenes and figures that shifted something. The songs we love, seen up close.
No articles with these filters
Genre library
Italian Library Music in the 1970s: Soundtracks for Films Never Made
The sonorizzazioni of Piero Umiliani and Alessandro Alessandroni, made for a catalog rather than a film, became a mine for collectors and producers worldwide.
Monograph dub
King Tubby
King Tubby, the father of dub
How a Kingston sound engineer turned the mixing desk into an instrument, and invented a genre.
Genre idm
Artificial Intelligence
Warp
Artificial Intelligence: how Warp invented listening from the armchair (1992)
Genre elettronica
Japanese electronic
The machines before the music: how Japan built its electronic sound in the 1970s
Song funk
Bob James
Nautilus
Bob James's Nautilus: how an end-of-session leftover became one of hip hop's most used samples
Artist pick french-touch
Étienne de Crécy
Super Discount
Super Discount: Étienne de Crécy and the French touch seen from the control room
Monograph world
Tom Zé
Tom Ze, the engineer of Tropicalia rediscovered twenty years later