The WHITE MUSIC boss, producer and DJ talks his hip-hop roots, music in Germany, his inspiration, and more.

Sebastian Mullaert is probably most famous for his recent success with his Minilogue alias, releasing the albums Animals & Blomma on Cocoon Recordings. For the past few years, he’s been touring heavily around the globe both as a live performer…

Suman Sridhar is among a handful of artists and performers who have left a lasting impression on India’s fledgling independent music scene. Raised with a foundation in the traditional and classical performing arts, Sridhar has forayed into contemporary music and theatre, sessions’ recordings for feature films, sound design and performance art. She co-founded the contemporary music duo Sridhar/Thayil, which Rolling Stone India magazine called “two of the most uninhibited people that ever came together to play with music.” Sridhar’s new works seek the intersection of mediums as a means to break form — improvised and staged experiments as a political, poetic and psychological end. Ahead of her performance this week with DJ Uri and saxophonist Pawan, she spoke to us about art, politics, gay songs and how a visit to Berlin proved to be a turning point in her career.

Deadbeat is Scott Monteith, an adopted Montrealer who has been releasing his own special blend of dub laden, minimal electronics since 2000 for labels such as Cynosure, Intr_version, Revolver, and Scape. Monteith has performed at some of the world’s most respected festivals, including Barcelona’s Sonar, Berlin’s Transmediale, and Montreal’s Mutek festival.

East Berliner Carsten Aermes aka Phon.O (or the boy with the dot in his name) is back in Bombay this Friday to play at Eden Festival. Following his blow out shows in the city and New Delhi in April last year, Phon.O’s dubby, genre-flipping sets have already won him several fans across the country. Bhavishyavani Futures Soundz cornered the Berlin producer and DJ to find out what’s in store for clubbers at Blue Frog when he plays there…

  Just when you think you have her figured, Maayan Nidam is the kind of artist that will switch up on you and charge off in a whole new direction. From her roots in Tel Aviv to settling in Berlin,…

We had the privilege of having a few words with Heartthrob before his performance this Sunday the 15th at the Aurus Sundown.

San Francisco Bay Area native Marc Barrite created the DJ/production alias Dave Aju as a vehicle for his unique take on electronic music. Working at his own pace, Dave Aju has come to be known as a reliable source for fresh…

Cesar Merveille has long had an appetite for art, jazz, fine wines and good times, and his musical palate is equally refined. Cesar traverses styles from house and techno to Latin and tribal funk: From his uplifting ‘Chocopop Jazz’ track…

Guillaume Coutu Dumonts was born in Montreal and he’s toured around Senegal with the contemporary jazz collective [iks]. He’s studied both latin and classical percussion. He’s played percussion for a live funk band – and when he wasn’t doing any of that, he was playing with the boundaries of electronic music from DJ consoles across the world.

One time proprietor of the infamous Atlas Records shop in Soho, London over a decade ago, Pete Herbert divides his time these days either behind the wheels of steel at clubs and parties around the globe or in the studio…

  Rule (or suggestion) #1: Don’t call the songs ‘tracks’. Made up of Damian Van de Sande, Clement Zemstov and Jonathan Illel, dOP draws from a crazy grab-bag of influences to generate the buzzingest, craziest, most debauched party nights this…

Mike Shannon started working himself to the center of the “over-the-top freak show” that was Canada’s electronic music scene at the age of 15. “I was a tiny little guy that hadn’t really hit puberty still,” he says, “but somehow…

If Paris’s Rex Club is a Temple to electronica, then D’Julz must be among the very highest of its priests. For the last 15 years, D’Julz has brought Paris’ beat devotees what must be among the longest running club nights in the world: Bass Culture.

“Small rooms with big sound and crazy electronic music playing” – Arjun Vagale is taking India’s electronic scene back to basics. Each year, Vagale plays 100 shows across Asia and Europe; he’s appeared alongside heavyweights like Apparat, Sasha, Fatboy Slim,…

  “I’ve washed dishes, cut vegetables in a vegan restaurant, worn a sandwich board, dug ditches, done demolition, and changed light bulbs (really, in office towers, neon bulbs), wandered around cubicles on drywall stilts, cleaned blinds and toilets, DJed rock…

  Touring worldwide, ranking in the top 20 live acts and top 50 tracks of the year (both according to RA), dropping a major EP release – all in all, 2011 wasn’t a bad year for Mathew Jonson. It’s been…