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The international phenomenon of house music owes its existence to the basement clubs of 1980’s Chicago, but many Chicagoans are unaware of their city’s underground legacy…

Ghosts of Techno: Ghostly International from Ghostly International on Vimeo.

UR speaks their mind…

July 12, 1979. The Chicago White Sox were scheduled to the play the Detroit Tigers in a doubleheader at Comiskey Park. Admission was a mere $0.98 and a disco record…

Bassline Baseline is a video essay that investigates the invention, failure and subsequent resurrection of the mythic Roland TB-303 Bass Line music machine in the last two decades of the 20th century. The dead-panned ‘documentary’ attempts to explore how and why creative tools fail and how increasingly more options, parameters or intermediaries devised during a [...]

I’ve just come to the point where if I had to compare between making some music and having someone dance or listen to it, which was more important, it would be listening to it. And I think that the how I’m approaching music now, my goal is to put the music in more of a journey, it really takes the listeners mind on a journey. And I realised that one way to be able to achieve that is basically to make it so interesting and unique that it’s not something that I’m saying, it’s something that’s between the person that’s making it and the person that’s listening to it. It’s like the sun in the sky, it has nothing to do with me or you, but it’s just there. And it’s very important, but it’s doing something while we’re doing something else. It’s a third aspect to the way music has always been.