TRON Legacy Remixed

The announcement that Daft Punk was going to release a full remix album with some of the leading DJs in the techno scene caused lots of excitement. I was especially happy because while the Tron soundtrack was great ambient music (as any soundtrack should be) it certainly wasn’t the danceable Daft Punk sound that we…

Week of Electro Part 4: Boys Noize

Half way through the week! Today we take a look at Boys Noize, a really cool minimal-electro DJ. Hailing from Germany he can expect to be compared to the legendary group Kraftwerk, but he invites the comparison. With his combination of minimalistic style, use of vocoders/computer generated speech, and general German feel, I would go…

Wolfgang Gartner

With a badass name like that you’d think he was German, but no Gartner hails from California. The best way to describe his brand of Electro-House would be a mix of Deadmau5 and Boys Noize. Thats probably why theres so much conflict between Deadmau5 fans and Gartner fans (I think they’re both amazing). While a…