Last year, in a basement club in East London, California’s Flying Lotus showed local dubstep fans how elastic the electronic music genre can be. As Flying Lotus subverted its two-step, dub and breakbeat elements with strange space-like noises, abrupt beat shifts and subtle, meditative melodies and samples, the crowd didn’t always know how to...
Organizers of the Short Circuit festival originally targeted well-known electronic musicians/composers like Vangelis, Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream, but its organizers opted instead for a more diverse, exhaustive, obscure lineup that may be household names to the devoted but will provide an impressive history lesson in electronic arts for the less electronically-inclined. A slew of...
When Flying Lotus came on, a few minutes after the dubstep artist Kode9 finished a heavy, tight DJ set, there was a noticeable shift. Suddenly the crowd didn’t know what to do with itself. No one seemed to know how to dance. Most dance music has a clear beat, and gives cues as to...