Piotr Orlov

"De Natte Cel" is Dutch for "the wet cell," local architects' slang for bathroom. In the track that Seth Troxler and Tom Trago (a.k.a. T&T Sound Factory) recorded exclusively for Troxler's DJ-Kicks mix, the "Natte Cel" in question was an oversized shower room in the basement ...

The demo version of Sylvester's "I Need Somebody To Love Tonight" you are about to hit "play" on is an instrumental. The lack of lyrics may not seem much of a loss since the song, released on the Bay Area disco superstar's 1979 album Stars, doesn't actually feature many words ...

The dance music that moves us in these waning days of summer often does so in minuscule ways. Maybe it has something to do with the merciless mercury levels, but a good portion of our Recommended Dose mix for August doesn't require the flailing of arms and legs. Your brain, ...

Few producers of classic techno and house in the U.S. have Santiago Salazar's pedigree, experience or breadth of perspective, yet remain so utterly under-recognized. Having begun his DJ career in East Los Angeles in the early '90s, Salazar decamped for Detroit in the early '00s to join what is ...

"What the hell kind of word is 'Sapokanikan'?"

When parsing the layers of lyrical meaning in Joanna Newsom's new track wasn't intriguing enough, there is first the matter of the title's origin. "Sapokanikan" was the name of a Native American, Lenape village situated in lower Manhattan pre Dutch arrival, approximately ...

Columbia House (actually, the company that has owned Columbia House since 2012) filed for bankruptcy this week, which will mean a great deal to those who were music lovers in the 1980s and '90s, and probably close to nothing to listeners under the age of 30. Columbia House was a ...

While the dub album has long been en vogue in Jamaican reggae — and in the disco — it's seemingly disappeared from the modern music industry model. Not so in the mid-Nineties and the early Aughts, when a string of genre-unbound outliers — full-lengths such as Mad Professor v. Massive ...

It's a fool's errand to shorthand the diverse well of techno and house energy at the heart of Tom Demac's "The Shuttle Awaits," the latest in a flurry of singles the North Wales-reared, Manchester-hardened Londoner's been dropping for Aus and Hypercolour the past few years. His music clicks ...

Piotr Orlov shook off the holiday hangover and caught dance legends Derrick May and Francois Kevorkian.

Todd Edwards and his garage sound came out of Bloomfield, New Jersey in the 1990s, yet another part of (the greater) New York house music's golden age.

Though his story reads like a nice stroll through a few of late 20th century's most potent musical subcultures, the reason forty-something Brit Harvey Bassett (a.k.a. DJ Harvey) is honored with legend status by today's disco hipsters rests less on where he's been, than on what he's brought back.