Yesterday someone asked me what I’ve been listening to recently. I answered “house music.” Then she gave me a puzzled look. “What’s house music?” she asked. I tried to describe it for her and stumbled over my words coming up with a solid definition: “It’s sorta like disco; sample-heavy, funky, loop-based…” I trailed off and [...]
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From the moment I first laid eyes upon it’s seemingly infinite portal of symmetrically splayed buttons, the Monome has always seemed like the undisputed champion in the “Find a modern replacement for turntables to be used in electronic music performance” competition. You don’t even need to know how the thing works to comprehend the [...]
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I‘m pretty sure Discovery needs to ditch the outdated “Man vs. Wild” series and replace it with a more modern one, perhaps featuring this kid:According to Time, the guy’s robbed more than 100 homes, many of which belong to exceptionally wealthy people, stolen multiple cars, boats, and most recently, three (count ‘em) three airplanes, all [...]
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I‘m pretty sure it’s Sesame Street that’s responsible for my obsession with “words of the day,” so I suppose that means I should be thanking Jim Henson for the fact that today has been filled to the brim with all that is “wonky” in life: I did not get out of bed this morning. [...]
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You know that one section at CVS/Walgreens/Duane Reade that rotates its merchandise depending on whatever holiday is coming up next? The “seasonal aisle” has milk chocolate bunnies and pink Peeps around Easter. Then it’s filled with red, white and blue everything for the 4th of July—beads, sparklers, napkins and top hats. The stores are [...]
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Have you ever wished you could somehow be a part of a movement that would revolutionize the world of music? How many times have you caught yourself listening to the Beatles, wondering what it would have been like to be listening to those very same sounds back in the early 60’s, when the entire [...]
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Every genre of music has an ideal listening environment. Classical is best heard at a smyphony. Arena rock should be heard at, well, at a large arena. Electronic music? Nothing beats a dance party. But whether you’re a club person, a bar junkie or a house party lover, you’ve probably encountered a lot of obnoxious [...]
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I know I normally write about music itself, and I promise I will get right back to it in the subsequent days, but at this particular point in time, I’m feeling extremely compelled to offer a word of advice (in my own humble opinion) in the first of a series I’m going to call Picking [...]
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Good things come in pairs: Penn & Teller. Watson & Crick. Peanut Butter & Jelly. It’s true for electronic music, too. Look at all the popular groups with two people: Ratatat, The Bloody Beetroots, MSTRKRFT, Crookers, Justice, Simian Mobile Disco. And there’s a lot more than that. I could name dozens of popular solo artists, too. [...]
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Did anyone ever read the book? It's about how our entire lives and the world in which we live, especially in the digital age, is comprised of certain social epidemics-or perhaps just fads-that manage to explode out into public acceptance after months, or even years of dormancy. Myspace, and social networking in general, [...]
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You know that awful feeling you get when you finally score tickets to see your favorite band perform and, after months of listening to their album in hopeful anciticpation, their live show just totally sucks? I'm sure you do; we've all been there at some point or another. The guitarists misses the chord, the lead singer [...]
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Yes my friend, you did indeed read that title correctly. And in the very likely event that you’re now sitting at your computer wondering, the answer is yes: With a little bit of luck, you will most definitely be flattened, hollowed, and converted into a muppet-like character in preparation for your building of a [...]
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“Playing music is, I think, one of the most fundamentally joyful experiences that life has to offer. Just about everyone tries at some point in their life to learn to play music: piano lessons as a kid, guitar lessons as a teenager, or whatever. The overwhelming majority of people give it up after six months [...]
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Despite what the non-participating public might think, the world of dance is not just one giant collective community. In fact, the truth is quite the opposite. Dance music has evolved so rapidly and in so many directions since the birth of it’s single common ancestor (disco) that we have now reached a point [...]
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It really is shocking how fast the music industry of today evolves, especially when compared to the one the world knew, oh say, 50 years ago. Sometimes I become lost within my own mind, pondering the issue of whether it really is an artist himself that shapes the kind of impression he leaves on [...]
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I was watching the VMA’s the other day and realized something: I absolutely love music videos. I think it has to do with the “visual freedom” of the medium, the way that a music video can capture the feel or energy of music through film. There’s more flexiibilty than with a movie because there isn’t [...]
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Over the past four years since the mass popularization (so to speak) of modern dance music took place, we’ve been a part of an extremely dynamic and evolving industry. In fact, I do believe that the major contributor to the success of the genre was the plethora of new ideas and sounds found lurking [...]
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I was skeptical when I first heard about Electric Zoo. An electronic music festival in New York City? Yeah, right. Then I learned that Made Event was producing it. If anyone was going to make it happen, it was going to be them. After all, they’ve produced and promoted almost every other big electronic music event [...]
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Pedro Winter has a résumé that would make anyone jealous. When he was 21 years old, he started managing a little duo called Daft Punk. Today he’s the owner and manager of Ed Banger Records, a record label with some of the biggest names in electronic music: Justice, SebastiAn, Krazy Baldhead, and Mr Oizo. He also produces and [...]
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[It brings me great grief to have to mention this, but this article was written prior to the death of Adam Goldstein, aka DJ AM. We at UhOhDisco were all greatly affected by the loss of our good friend. May he rest in peace.]There are thousands of reasons for which a modern musical [...]
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