techno

Analogue techno, metal music, and Lady Gaga all have Lady Starlight in common, the Berlin-based, NYC-born techno producer and performance artist. We recently met up with Lady Starlight during her Movement debut in Detroit. We talk about everything from go-go dancing, to her preferred travelling DJ set-up, to David Bowie, and more. Check out the video below. You can also…

After a 2 year hiatus from in-person events, Movement Detroit is back. While it was nice to have Twitch streams in the interim, nothing compares to the wall of sound emanating from the city center during 3+ days of literal non-stop music. I can tell you, I FUXWITHIT. I plan to road trip down from Toronto and “bass bathe” to…

The very least that has to be said about techno is that if you don’t like it, then you probably haven’t heard Boys Noize on proper speakers.  At the Hoxton last Saturday, the in-house PK bins got a flex when the German techno/house/bass/bounce/everything producer came through and blew away the crowd. It was packed for a reason, and it’s definitely…

For more than a decade before Valentine’s Day 2016, the 1,500 square foot glass-walled warehouse at the corner of Dupont and Dovercourt occupied its quiet place in the world as a furniture warehouse. Then, for one night only, it took on a new role: party central for City Hearts Toronto. Aldous Huxley famously described the brain’s function as that of a…

FIVE+ NYE was a fresh scene for Toronto’s West end: a gathering of people unweighted by the usual shame and stress that underpin the keep-up cultures of fashion, capital-a Art, and club land. Five organizing groups collaborated on the Amazon-themed event, and the result was an eclectic fusion of white collar club and underground bohemian. Feel like eating gourmet dishes…

A note before we talk about this event: Primarily I’m a bass head and hip-hop fan, but I believe in house music. There’s a special mental (and emotional) state you get into after an hour and a half of bobbing your head to what feels like the same f-ing beat.. It’s called clarity, and in it you appreciate the subtleties…

“So listen to this,” I said to Don, my cab driver. “These young guys from San Diego – well, one of them isn’t so young, but he’s young at heart you see – these young guys get it in their heads that if they play house and techno music until 5 in the morning, they’ll somehow have spread the message…

“House, Techno & Love.” However familiar you are with the first two terms, no doubt you are very much so with the third: It’s this universal theme that is the backbone of California-grown collective Desert Hearts’ growth and evolution over the last three years, and it’s certainly what’s taking them to District 28 in Toronto on Saturday Aug 29th as…