Back in the mid-’80s, Ross Allen was properly schooled in music. Homework came down the airwaves – the funk, hip-hop and early electronic broadcasts of a local station in Kent, just southeast of ...

Tony Dawsey is the guy that people like DJ Premier and Jay-Z (and many, many others) look to when they need perfect sound for their records. You could spend hours with this super-humble New York ...

The man behind the project of the same name, Steve Spacek grew up in the churches and raves of South London. In this talk at the 2005 RBMA in Seattle, he details the many different influences that ...

Terre Thaemlitz is Comatonse’s ambassador of sound and scale. As an artist, she has been versing the masses on what “diverse” means in a 20-year career of near-continual invention and reinvention, ...

Derrick May is a true living legend. As one-third of the Belleville Three, along with his school friends Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson, he helped create what became Detroit techno – a movement that ...

Since 2010, RBMA’s newspaper the Daily Note has celebrated top quality music journalism in print. Produced initially for RBMA editions in London (2010) and New York (2013), the Daily Note newspapers ...

Indie dance don and acid house shapeshifter Andrew Weatherall has been around more blocks than there are in Brooklyn. As remixer extraordinaire, he made sure Primal Scream’s “Loaded” was the ...

Kerri Chandler is known and respected as one of the original creators of New Jersey’s deep house sound. His basslines have rocked the set of every discerning house DJ over the course of the last 15 ...

For many young indie music fans making their way through the “alternative” section of their local record store in the mid-’90s, it was the music of Stereolab, and in particular the voice of chanteuse ...

Bay Area ambient pioneer Robert Rich began building his own synthesizer at the age of 13, around the same time he became interested in avant-garde and minimal composition. By the time he got to ...

Carsten Nicolai, AKA Alva Noto, is a man who deals in sound and vision. With his label Raster-Noton he’s forged a minimal aesthetic and a conceptual approach to his art that fits his eerie electronica ...

You’ll have to look at the small print on records to find the name of Russell Elevado, but be assured he’s there, on some of the most innovative soul records of the ’90s and ’00s. As engineer, ...