While only being on the electronic music scene for one year, nineteen-year-old Porter Robinson has already played next to DJs like Tiesto, Deadmau5, Benny Benassi, and Dada Life, and has performed at festivals like Electronic Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas to crowds of 30,000+. “My goal was to make cool songs—that was it. I never [...]
Tag Archives: Dance Music
Norman Cook Goes Back to Fatboy Slim
October 27, 2011 – 12:02 pm
For Norman Cook, also known as Fatboy Slim, his show begins with a long, lonely walk to the center of the stage. As a video titled “Norm’s Eye View” reveals, before Cook reaches the decks—which, he emphasizes, takes much more time than people think—he sees a beach-like expanse of pavement speckled with bouncers, then a [...]
The Vettes, Plasticville (Independent)
October 1, 2010 – 12:36 am
The Vettes meet their detractors head-on on their debut album, Plasticville. They’re not about keeping it real—what could be more boring? The Vettes have embraced rock’s artificiality because it’s more entertaining and fun than sincerity. In “Lil Wayne,” Rachel Vette can’t wait for Weezy to get out of jail to “save us from the ordinary [...]
Jermaine Quiz, Live in New Orleans (mixtape)
June 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
While New Orleans is known for being the home of dirty, in your face live shows of the most eclectic variety, it’s always a real treat to discover something on the other end of the of the sonic landscape. Jermaine Quiz, half of hip-hop funk duo Jealous Monk, has slipped a new mixtape over the [...]
Dan Deacon
May 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
4-13-09, Dan Deacon, Freeman Auditorium: I am holding hands with a shoeless girl in Freeman Auditorium on Tulane’s campus as Dan Deacon launches into another electronic dance anthem. There is no romance, however, at least not in the Shakespearean sense. She and I happened to end up across from each other in the human tunnel [...]
Consolidated, Friendly Fascism (Nettwerk/IRS Records)
September 1, 1991 – 12:01 am
Less an album and more a pro-vegetarianism, anti-sexism manifesto, Friendly Fascism, the second LP from this San Francisco-based trio, is nonetheless an ambitious synthesis of industrial dance music and hip-hop. Tracks like “Brutal Equation” and “Unity of Oppression” contain an element of humanity not generally found in soulless, repetitive, electronic industrial music, while taking a [...]
