The votes are in! RA's annual poll kicks off today with our top ten compilations of the year, as voted by RA contributors. But first our resident mix freak Stéphane Girard defends the honour of his beloved format.
2007 saw three names—Raresh, Rhadoo and Petre Inspirescu—emerge as the brightest young things in minimal techno. Ronan Fitzgerald travels to Bucharest to track them down.
Meet Guillaume Coutu Dumont: African nomad, king of the Montréal techno scene, leader of the band Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts...er, hang on. Todd Burns gets the skinny.
Three years down the track and Donnacha Costello is finally releasing his classic Color Series vinyls on CD. Ronan Fitzgerald talks to the maverick Irish producer about how he spent 2004.
"I like my music very fruity. Lots of percussion, lots of silly effects," explains Todd Terje. "But I still need that dubbiness and spaciousness. It's a strange combination."
He set up Plus 8, he founded Beatport, he made one of the first CDs using Final Scratch. No, not Richie Hawtin. RA checks in with Canada's unsung dance pioneer John Acquaviva.
If you're long in the tooth, you’ll remember Ben Watt as one half of the jazz/orchestral pop duo Everything But The Girl, which he formed with Tracey Thorn back in 1982.
Magda in a nutshell: born in Poland, grew up in Detroit, resident in Berlin and now an in demand DJ who seems to spend every weekend on a different continent.
Who do you think is number one on the Beatport prog charts in the first week of 2007? 16Bit Lolitas from Holland? Charlie May vs. Sasha from England? Nope. Top of the pops is Florida native Thomas Penton.