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Oct17

12 Thing To Do At Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE)

Now in it’s 15th year, Amsterdam Dance Event has grown into one of the world’s premier electronic music gatherings. With top DJs playing in dozens of clubs each night, and a daytime program that’s actually interesting enough to attend, ADE has gained enough status in the past few years to be considered a rightful rival to Miami’s annual Winter Music Conference.

With Holland’s globally renowned mainstream dance acts mingling with Berlin’s biggest underground techno practitioners and America’s dance music veterans, it’s hard to be sure where to best spend you time. Check out our list of top things to do at ADE after the jump, and save yourself some time in the que. …MORE

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Oct11

Modeselektor Exclusive Mix (Podcast)

Modeselektor

Exclusive Mix


This week’s podcast comes from Berlin’s biggest electronic crossoever act, Modeselektor. The duo spent much of the summer touring America as part of the inagural Identity Festival, which brought all stripes of electronic music to the nation’s secondary markets. And how did this pair—who met in the heady ’90s heyday of Berlin’s techno renaissance—relate to the candy-colored kids of middle America? Quite well, as their mix of techno, breaks, hip-hop, crunk and indietronic (thanks to guest vocals by folks like Thom Yorke) won over the dancing trancing masses.

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Sep06

Berlin Festival Preview

With it’s facinating 20th century history and and 21st century reputation as a serious party destination, pretty much every week in Berlin is music week. But Berlin Music Week raises the stakes higher, with dozens of events popping off between now and the weekend. The biggest is undoubtedly Berlin Festival, which crashes the massive Templehoff airport (the site of the infamous Berlin Airlift) this Friday and Saturday evening before moving to Arena Club in nearby Kreuzberg for the sort of all-night party the city is legendary for.

Here’s the five acts we plan not to miss:


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Jun27

DOWNLOAD Apparat :: “Black Water” (MP3)

Even in his earliest techno recording, one could always here a melodic sensibility in the music of Sascha Ring (aka Apparat) that went beyond that of his IDM contemporaries. “Black Water,” the first song off of Ring’s upcoming fourth album, The Devil’s Walk, shows just how far that proclivity has come. …MORE

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Jun23

Sonar 2011 Barcelona

International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art 

URB spent another wonderful weekend in the amazing city of Barcelona for the annual Sonar Electronic Music Festival. And like year’s past, the spot on music programming combined with the wonderful Spanish city and always up-for-it European crowd to make Sonar a must-experience destination for music heads.

Here’s some of our top moments.

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