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Detroit’s repeat tourists help spread understanding of techno’s local roots as the music industry continues to commercialize the subculture.
What if Indonesia’s electronic music scene wasn’t born in clubs, but actually forged out of arranger keyboards, DIY sound systems, and the raw social energy of village life?
This December marks Daphne Oram’s centenary. She was a visionary and a key influence in the history of electronic music.
Kraftwerk helped invent modern electronic music. What happens to their legacy when a co-founder’s studio is broken up and sold off?
Both genres recently celebrated big birthdays. From their origins in the clubs and jams of the 1970s and 1980s, house and hip-hop have become global cultural forces.
Composers are keeping bow music alive through electronic music and other experiments.
Despite controversy at home and a decade late, the Grammy win proves how much the world loves South Africa’s biggest house music star.
Daft Punk’s anonymity was really a stroke of genius.
A classically trained musician, Schneider influenced a generation of musicians from David Bowie to hip hop.
Unlicensed music events are on the rise again – and the free parties of the 1980s and 90s show they’re not all bad.
Depite new technologies for music dissimination, EDM artists located in cities have access to resources not available in non-metropolitan areas.
The German band laid the foundations for the electronic pop revolution which continues today.
From niche player to chart hit, the characteristic sound of videogames has had a considerable influence on music.
In a world seemingly spinning out of control, music has important roles to play – either to reflect or interpret the state of affairs, or simply to provide solace.
Think the Cold War is over? It may be, but its effects still cast a long shadow over society.
On the same day that London’s legendary Fabric closed permanently, Berlin’s infamous techno club Berghain was granted a tax break.
One of popular music’s most influential artists, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, turned 80 this year. It is a good time to acknowledge his work as irreducibly complex, deeply layered, subtle and nuanced.
It might not sound like the best music in the world, but Australia was the first by a matter of months at playing a tune on a computer.
This year’s Ibiza Prom was a convenient target for those unhappy with the expanded remit of the Proms – but an unfounded one.
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Lecturer in Popular Music, Goldsmiths, University of London
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PhD Candidate, School of Design, RMIT University
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Assistant Professor of Cultural Sociology, University of Groningen
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Senior Lecturer, Media Arts & Production / Sound & Music Design Program, University of Technology Sydney
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Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow, Queen Mary University of London
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Lecturer in Music, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Media, The Digital Academy, Bath Spa University
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Professor in English, University of Westminster
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Senior Lecturer in Music Technology and Innovation, De Montfort University
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Adjunct professor of computer science at The University of Melbourne and Guest Professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)., The University of Melbourne
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Reader in German, Aston University
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Senior Lecturer in Music, The Open University
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