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• Attitude Adjustments  April 2008

  Junkie XL Embraces the Devils in the Details

• 8 In Tha Chamber  January 2008

  RZA and the Wu-Tang Clan Are Back with a Dream Team of Collaborators for The 8 Diagrams.

• Q Reveals the Science of Uberzone’s Breakbeat Synthesis  October 2007

  You can’t break down the history of West Coast electronic music without calling out Uberzone. The one-man show by someone known only as Q (named after the methodical James Bond gadgeteer) was the lynchpin in a breakbeat genus ...

• Kid Beyond  July 2007

  Way back when, a young Andrew Chaikin was in a rather successful a cappella group called The House Jacks, who, after a small bidding war, signed a deal with then hip-hop heavyweight Tommy Boy Records in 1994. Needless to say, the label ...

• Cornelius  July 2007

  “Listening to this album depends on a person’s mood at the time,” says Keigo Oyamada, the Japanese punk-pop experimentalist known better as Cornelius. “The sound of the album changes depending on what a person’s situation is and when ...

• Mice Parade  July 2007

  Anyone who’s relocated and reassembled their studio space knows the fountain of creativity that flows from having new acoustics and potentially a bigger, better means of tracking their music. For Adam Pierce, the multi-instrumentalist ...

• Amon Tobin  June 2007

  Since his first release on Ninja Tune nearly 10 years ago, Amon Tobin has continually elevated the art of sample-based production, forging a darkened downtempo hybrid that draws heavily from drum ’n’ bass programming, jazz improvisation, ...