Email Author Kristal Hawkins

2012 Stories by Kristal Hawkins

• 'COME 002' w/ Aybee

  published May 23, 2012

  The second installment of Soul People Music head honcho Fred P’s occasional party features one of his more interesting collaborators, Aybee.... More >>

• Dopplereffekt+Solvent+Basteroid

  published May 23, 2012

  Born Gerald Donald, he first adopted the alias Heinrich Mueller in tribute to German proto-techno, then joined the late James Stinson to helm... More >>

• DO IT AGAIN

  published May 23, 2012

  If after too many New York late nights and with some help from DFA’s James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy you tried to re-create the synth pop... More >>

• Rinôçérôse

  published May 23, 2012

  Montpellier duo Rinôçérôse have always followed a more rock-strewn path toward French house than most of their Parisian... More >>

• 'Dance.Here.Now' w/ Nicole Moudaber

  published May 23, 2012

  London promoter turned Ibiza DJ Nicole Moudaber is nothing if not efficient: Her tribal-influenced hard techno is spare and straightforward, a... More >>

• 'Discovery vs. Future Times' w/ Beautiful Swimmers

  published May 23, 2012

  Sometimes unexpected creativity can sprout even in a company town: Washington, D.C.’s Future Times is proving this by releasing some of our... More >>

• 'Basic NYC' w/ Dave Clarke

  published May 23, 2012

  Veteran Dave Clark is something of a techno scholar. His sets are well-curated libraries of future-sounding electro and Detroit classics, mixed... More >>

• 'Beach Party' w/ Tom Middleton+M.AN.D.Y.

  published May 16, 2012

  Philip Jung and Patrick Bodmer’s Get Physical dominated the past 10 years with releases by heavyweight artists including Booka Shade, DJ T,... More >>

• 'Horse Meat Disco'

  published May 16, 2012

  This weekly party at tiny Vauxhall bar the Eagle is up there with Optimo (Espacio) and Berghain/Panoramabar on the list of internationally... More >>

• 'Tar and Feathered' w/ James What+Cem & RG

  published May 9, 2012

  hat he’s put out records on Damian Lazarus’s Crosstown Rebels and Steve Bug’s Poker Flat tells you what to expect from... More >>

• Steve Lawler+Sleepy & Boo

  published May 9, 2012

  Former raver Steve Lawler went legitimate with '90s residencies that found him playing tribal house at big clubs like London’s Cream and... More >>

• 'Verboten & Circoloco' w/ Matthias Tanzmann+DJ Sneak

  published May 9, 2012

  Moon Harbour captain and Leipzig native Matthias Tanzmann has been delivering narcotizing deep house to Ibiza’s legendarily hedonistic... More >>

• 'Verboten' w/ Soul Clap+Wolf + Lamb

  published May 9, 2012

  Soul Clap offer up an uncommonly friendly version of house music, strongly influenced by ‘90s R&B, ‘80s electronic pop, and ‘70s... More >>

• 'Trouble & Bass vs. Body High' w/ Samo Sound Boy+DJ Sliink+Nadus

  published May 9, 2012

  One-time Trouble & Bass artist Samo Sound Boy gleans sounds from Argentine clubs, Chicago house, radio-friendly hip hop and beyond, compounding... More >>

• 'The Bunker' w/ Serge+Dexter+Prosumer+Fred P

  published May 9, 2012

  The Bunker resumes its partnership with Clone Records, hosting the Dutch electro-and-more label’s boss, Serge, and one of its most astute... More >>

• Steve Lawler

  published May 2, 2012

  Former raver Steve Lawler went legitimate with 90s residencies that found him playing tribal house at big clubs like London’s Cream and... More >>

• 'Cinco de Techno' w/ Connie+Shadi+Duckhunter

  published April 25, 2012

  No, not tropicalia, just NYC techno. Connie (a/k/a conSTAR) has been a local fixture for years, spinning at big clubs and lil’ ol’... More >>

• 'Profound Sessions' w/ Monstar

  published April 25, 2012

  As Original Sin and half of G Dub, Newcastle’s Adam Tindall has made no-nonsense jump-up drum and bass; as Monstar, he’s culling some... More >>

• 'Space Radio' w/ Michna

  published April 11, 2012

  A special guest from Ghostly International isn’t a bad way to start a new DJ night, and Michna (a/k/a Egg Foo Young) ably represents the... More >>

• 'Trouble & Bass' w/ Silkie+Elijah

  published April 11, 2012

  Silkie runs that corner of dubstep painted “purple,” the subgenre in which (almost) over-the-top synth lines mimic and (almost)... More >>

• 'Mr. Saturday Night' w/ Anthony Naples

  published April 11, 2012

  Maybe it was inevitable: Having spent a few years putting on Brooklyn’s best house-centric parties, residents Eamon Harkin and Justin Carter... More >>

• 'The Bunker/Unsound' w/ Monolake+Ital

  published April 11, 2012

  Ableton Live developer and sound design professor Robert Henke is one of experimental techno’s great underground heroes: As Monolake he... More >>

• Luciano+Ernesto Ferreyra

  published April 11, 2012

  He doesn’t strive for quite the psychedelic heights that seduce Chile’s better-known experimental minimalist, Villalobos, but keeping... More >>

• 'Let's Play House' w/ Tiger & Woods

  published April 11, 2012

  Disco-editing duo Tiger & Woods are willfully, woefully anonymous—about the only thing we know about them beyond the future-boogie... More >>

• 'Turrbotax' w/ Brackles+Slava

  published April 11, 2012

  Nottingham’s Brackles is among the generation of producers who turned dubstep away from the heaviness that threatened to overwhelm it, into... More >>