Electronic Beats

  • Breaking down dance music’s iron curtain

    Last year, Poland’s Oramics collective published a report highlighting how the vast majority of DJ mixes featured on international media outlets came from artists from Western countries. As we enter the end of year list season, some Polish artists are still finding their voices left unheard. I spoke to the artists, labels, and collectives pushing for change.

  • Enter Mordorkore: Berlin’s first fantasy-themed rave

    Imagine a dance floor where goblins, faeries and mages gather together to make merry, raise their goblets to the sky and set forth on adventures into the unknown. What seems like a fantastical wonderland in a metaverse far, far away, is a reality at Mordorkore–a new party series and collective in Berlin that explores medieval fantasy themes through fast dance music, costumes, and performance art.

  • Stacy Lee's “Underplayed” offers an intersectional angle to sexism in the dance music industry

    Stereotyped, sexualized, shut out: Stacey Lee's intimate portrait, which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival last month, captures the plight of women in electronic music. Last year, only five of the Top 100 DJs were female. “Underplayed” uses this bleak statistic as a vantage point to explore the systemic issues at the root of this lack of representation.

  • Tomorrow you start again: Octo Octa and Eris Drew confront ephemerality

    The house music power couple discusses the spiritual messaging within their contribution to the 'fabric presents' series.

  • The reality of post-lockdown clubbing in China

    With most of the world practicing social distancing, many of us harbor fantasies about our first post-pandemic raves. We’re up all night celebrating our new liberation, experiencing a 21st century version of the Second Summer of Love. A glance towards China, however, reveals a more subdued return.

  • Meet Sedef Adasi, the hometown hero queering Bavaria’s club scene

    Located in the conservative German state of Bavaria, an hour from Munich, and with a population of roughly 300.000, Augsburg might not seem like the kind of place which would play host to one of Germany’s hottest parties. But with HAMAM Nights, Adasi has put her hometown on the map