Long livestreams don’t lie The way we consume electronic music has radically changed over the past ten years. Back in the days of Be-At TV or DanceTrippin, you could watch entire sets from your couch, sometimes four or five hours straight. The experience wasn’t clean: shaky cameras, uneven video quality, but the essence was there. […]
DJs: Credit Isn’t Optional An hour of digging will never outweigh the hundreds of hours spent in the studio by those who actually make the music. “Track ID?” has almost become a refrain under DJ videos: a kind of ritual where the audience demands, in the name of curiosity and memory, what should already be […]
Everyone should DJ, not everyone should be paid for it DJing has become an everyday gesture. With a basic controller, a few hours of tutorials, and a playlist, anyone can now call themselves a DJ. That’s a good thing: mixing is a way of sharing a part of yourself, of showcasing your influences, of creating […]
MusicToo at PEW: between prevention, sacrifice, and silence This debrief will be a little different. We are missing some figures (those shared by Domitille Raveau from Consentis) and some sociological insights (those from Alice Laurent-Camena). We’ll wait for the official video to do a proper recap. Here, we are mostly sharing our own reflections on […]
Is hard techno the new EDM? And why it keeps denying the far-right in its parties Yesterday at the PEW (Paris electronic week), the conference on hard techno ended up spiraling a bit and left us worried. Voices were raised, and the atmosphere turned tense. I’m going to tell you about it. To clarify: tomorrow […]
Sound Flowers: a poetic counterpoint to AI in music Paris-based studio Tones Garden has just launched Sound Flowers, a new iPhone app designed to rethink how we make music. Instead of sticking to traditional linear sequencers, the app introduces a rotating step sequencer, a circular playground where rhythms and melodies sprout in loops rather than […]
Safer nightlife: toolkit or marketing move? Resident Advisor et Good Night Out have just launched a toolkit (available in FR/EN/PT/DE/ES) for promoters, collectives, and event organizers. It covers everything from defining sexual violence to briefing security staff, setting up chill-out spaces, encouraging reporting, and harm reduction around drugs and alcohol. On paper, it’s thorough, practical, […]
Why DJs should save us from the comfort of playlists Starting something new is rarely simple. Opening a book without yet knowing its characters, diving into a TV series with the fear of wasting your time, even picking a new restaurant: each time there’s a quiet resistance. Not a heroic struggle, but a subtle heaviness, […]
