electronica

“I’m heading to the cricket at like five to try beat the traffic, then playing a set at this basement party,” says Alvhin Adendorff,...

The electronic music scene is ever-expanding — from the heydays of African Dope’s pioneering compilations to today’s Soundcloud generation where bedroom producers, DJs and acts can showcase their work with nothing more than a laptop. Throughout it all, there’s been Angela...

For his latest album, Jarre has enlisted major names in music including Cyndi Lauper and Pet Shop Boys but also a more unlikely guest artist...

Not one to jump into the limelight, German-born electronic music producer Mark Ernestus prefers the shadows.

For almost 30 years Warrick Sony has been writing soundtracks to the ongoing social and political struggles in South Africa using his Kalahari...

At Kudzanai Chiurai’s State of the Nation exhibition opening in Newtown, Johannesburg, last year, Zaki Ibrahim, in her ascribed role...

When it comes to electronic music, the Brainfeeder label from Los Angeles is as hot as you get.

Like most addictions being hooked on music is also costly.

Avant-garde electronic musician Olaf Bender (44), better known as Byetone, is refreshingly honest about himself.

The mainstream fame of Afrikaner band Die Antwoord last year raises more questions than answers. Its brand of theatrical antics, techno-fuelled...

The first time I saw the Gaslamp Killer, I was a photographer covering an outdoor music festival in Los Angeles.