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Berlin Music

Molecular Music: Combining techno and physics with Dasha Rush

“Do you smoke?” asks the Berlin-based techno artist Dasha Rush as she lights up a cigarette. Sat on the window...

Mixtapes Music

FvF Mixtape 144: Bambounou

“It’s basically my job to adapt to a crowd and know what they want without compromising myself.” Bambounou will play...

Mixtapes Music

FvF Mixtape #117: Krystal Klear

Producer and DJ Dec Lennon, aka Krystal Klear, captures this timelessness and punches it up with the contemporary club in...

Thundercat’s latest album is a dreamy, groovy trip through musical genres

Signed to Flying Lotus’ label Brainfeeder, Stephen “Thundercat” Bruner has already gone on to win a Grammy for his performance...

Mixtapes Music

FvF Mixtape #115: Ben Bobby

Ben Robin on the dotted line, he’s a very relaxed fellow who works for Skateistan, an NGO that uses skateboarding...

Los Angeles

Speaking with producer Simon Green aka Bonobo about his latest album, Migration

We spoke with Simon on the cusp of releasing his latest album, Migration and embarking on yet another world tour....

Mixtapes Music

FvF Mixtape #114: Infinite Rework

For those unfamiliar with the term, “library music” is music created for use in films and commercials. In a time...

Mixtapes Music

FvF Mixtape #113: Evil Twin

Relocating to Berlin from Modena, Italy, the pair are drawing influence from the city’s harsh winter weather and the young...

London Music

Chris Sharp and the Barbican’s antidote to sonic snobbery

When asked for a favorite example of disparate threads being pulled together to create something magical, Chris cites the 2014...

Mixtapes Music

FvF Mixtape #112: Rain Dog

The term, stemming from the iconic Tom Waits album “Rain Dogs,” is also where producer Samuel Evans derives the name...

The Jungle Beat: Creating electronic beats in the Malaysian Rainforest

Few would pick the rainforest as the first place to test this theory, but an opportunity to do just that,...

Berlin Music

How Ellen Allien Set the Tone for Berlin's Nightlife

Ellen played a key role in transforming a small, localized phenomenon into an internationally celebrated movement. Her artistic drive is...

Mixtapes Music

FvF Mixtape #109: Not Your Girlfriend

Sarah is bursting with energy and output—with a background in both fashion and interior design, she’s also a DJ, party...

Berlin Art

Dazed and Composed: The East Berlin atelier of electronic musician and painter Markus Manowski

Amidst the towering Soviet apartment complexes and only a block away from the notorious Hohenschönhausen prison, the industrial face of...

Mixtapes Music

Mixtape #106: Alex Oxley

Seamlessly moving between genres from ambient electronic, to techno and post-rock, this mix is an exercise in musical gymnastics. Coming...

Berlin

Behind the scenes with Berlin’s electronic dream team Moderat: the making of Album “III”

The trio talk us through their shared history of techno, the mechanics of collaborative work, and the concept behind the futuristic...

Link List

Link List #44: Russian electronica, gif language and police eagles

We like to get up in each other’s browsers here at FvF. The links that caught our attention this week are media...

Mixtapes

FvF Mixtape #73

Living between Hamburg and Berlin, DJ Phono aka Henning Besser started out as a Hip-Hop DJ and music producer at...

London

Benji B

Attaching meaning to bricks and mortar is something human beings like to do. We point out where we were born...

Montreal Workplaces

Jacques Greene

While many of his globetrotting producer peers snap selfies at massive outdoor festivals and encourage throngs of sloshed revelers to...