From Bunker in Berlin to Ultraschall in Munich, these now-closed clubs are the places where Germany's electronic dance music scene developed. Words by Electronic Beats Team This piece is part of our ...

In this special preview of our new Summer 2013 print magazine, we present the cover story—an extensive interview with the divisive pop phenomenon—in full. Photo by Robert Carrithers. Lana Del Rey: I ...

If you’ve seen our video feature WE CALL IT TECHNO!, you know that Frankfurt has long been a central node in Germany’s techno culture. What you may not know, however, is that the city has a rich ...

In this interview taken from our Winter, 2012 print issue, magazine editor A.J. Samuels makes contact with the original Drexciyan and the missing link between Detroit techno and particle physics.

House is a continuation of disco. You can hear that easily in its arrangement and in its sound, which samples and pulls liberally from the popular club music of the ’70s and early ’80s. And, in fact, ...

In this essay based around themes he’ll touch on in his upcoming book Ghosts of My Life, Mark Fisher—the noted blogger known as K-Punk and the author of Capitalist Realism: Is There No ...

In the early ’80s, venues in West Berlin were getting infected with strange sounds that I’d never heard before. Musicians generated all kinds of noise from scrap yard junk and untuned guitars—a lot of ...

In the last cover story for Electronic Beats Magazine, Karen O spoke to Lisa Blanning about crushes, songs, and more. Karen Lee Orzolek AKA Karen O first caught the public eye as the charismatic and ...

Although Berlin’s world famous record store Hard Wax is best known for playing an integral role in the development of dub techno and its meticulously curated stock of dance music, the shop’s DNA has ...

120 years ago, impressionist painter Edouard Manet made A Bar at the Folies-Bergére, a realist-impressionist scene depicting a barmaid at the eponymous Paris nightclub. Today, clubbing might be less ...

On her debut album Ten Billion Angels, the Fractal Fantasy cohead channels the artful and obsessive proclivities of the CGI erotica community. In Zora Jones’ digital portraits of herself, she always ...

The thing about “clicks and cuts” is that it never really existed as a genre; it was a marketing term that described works by artists who became bored with digital perfection. These musicians used ...