Since its inception in 2000, Telekom Electronic Beats has been shaping and connecting European youth culture. The program operates at the intersection of music, club culture, art, fashion and ...

Leeds native George Evelyn formed Nightmares On Wax in the late ‘80s in a scene teeming with hip-hop and b-boy culture. He got his start dancing before eventually beginning to DJ. Eventually, Evelyn ...

Max Dax met Jimmy Somerville in a nameless posh hotel along a nameless, not-so-posh street near Alexanderplatz in Berlin. Muzak wafted through the speakers in the hotel lobby, but the filter coffee ...

In 1981, when I was 16, my parents let me travel by myself for the first time, so I jumped in a car with a friend and took off for West Berlin. Back then, my home town, Vienna, was ultra-conservative ...

Call it what you will, but there’s no denying that West African funk or boogie will light up a European dance floor—and no one knows that better than Nomad and Dirk Leyers. Operating as Africaine 808, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Mouse On Mars is the quintessential 1990s electronic outfit. Like many of the groups that emerged during that time, the duo—which consists of Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma—is bent on the denial of ...

Located in the heart of Cologne’s historic Belgisches Viertel district, Gewölbe has long occupied its role as the city’s hub for house and techno. The word Gewölbe literally means “vault”, and the ...

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The Sound and Style of Beat-Driven Culture. Club music and lifestyle at the global intersections since 2000.

This week, in an article titled About Vatican Shadow Link With the Far-right, culture journalist Jean-Hugues Kabuiku has highlighted relationships between experimental producer Dominick Fernow—also ...