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University Professor Claims Listening to Techno Can Make You Smarter

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If you have an arduous physics exam coming up? Are you looking to pass the bar in the next coming months? You may be in luck if you’re a fan of underground electronic music.

According to Professor Peter Dale of Manchester Metropolitan University, adding techno to your studying routine can increase your chances of getting improved academic results. In fact, Dale believes that techno should be incorporated in the classroom teaching approach as a means of revolutionizing education.

Perhaps listening to the latest recorded set from Awakenings, Time Warp or Movement Detroit festivals in the classroom will one day be an accepted method of improving student results. We already know of plenty of accredited universities teaching DJ and production classes, but according to Dale it’s about using the right music for the students in his classes, which he believes is likely to be techno (or other electronic music) in today’s world.

For a lot of these kids, they’ve grown up with this music – their aunties, brothers and friends are into it, too. And their parents were probably ravers in the heyday of “acid house”

What do you think? Can techno really improve student results?

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Vancouver’s JGarrett Returns to SubSensory with Five Thunderous Techno Cuts Entitled “Leverage”

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Vancouver-based producer and performing artist JGarrett has been heavily involved in the techno scene for nearly twenty-five years now. In 2012 he started the Subspec Music imprint which became a home for many of his productions along with labels such as Perc Trax, Gobsmacked, Decoy and Dirty Minds.

JGarrett’s heavy hitting, industrial productions have picked up support from techno giants such as Dax J, Dave Clarke, Electric Indigo, Mark Broom and Kyle Geiger, in addition to gaining him sets all over North America. Leverage sees JGarrett return to SubSensory for his latest EP on the imprint following the likes of Sergio Vilas, Dmux and label owner JAK.

‘Unsupported Fulcrum’ gets things rolling with roaring modulations, shimmering kicks and energetic grooves before ‘Leverage’ offers up stabbing melodies, driving synth swells and tantalising tones. Partisan, the new moniker of Mick Finucan, who has releases on ARTS, Decoy and Subspec, provides an uncompromising techno remix of ‘Leverage’ through shaky drums, haunting oscillations and popping swirls.

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Global Vibe Radio 161 Feat. PØLI

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For this week’s Global Vibe Radio episode we welcome Italian-born and Barcelona-based PØLI, Producer, Co-Founder and DJ resident of HEX Barcelona and HEX Recordings.

In this studio mix, PØLI demonstrates his unique musical style: a mix of mental, disturbing melodies and powerful techno. The name “PØLI” comes from the polygon, a geometric figure with multiple sides that represents the eclecticism of his music. Despite his more-than-evident techno stamp, he is not a purist and his sets always carry different influences including House, Detroit, Dance, Dub, Trance and ’80s music.

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Why Defining Your Genre Matters

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In this day and age, we all want to be classified as unique: we all want to sound like nothing and nobody else, something that nobody has ever heard before. Unfortunately, that is proving to be increasingly more difficult. While we can easily place our music into a specific category, with Beatport recently releasing the Afro House and the Melodic and Leftfield House & Techno categories, there now exist more genres of electronic music than ever before.

Many may argue that music is music and shouldn’t be categorized or defined into one genre but then the same argument poses true to all electronic music being classified as EDM. Although EDM may stand for Electronic Dance Music, we all know that the acronym EDM no longer defines all Electronic Dance Music. If one was to walk into a record store and ask for EDM and then the clerk handed them an Acid House record, they would most likely not be satisfied with that selection.

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Premiere: Andres Gil Contribues Two Tracks To Latest Devotion Records EP

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Four years after it was born and since then building an incredible reputation, Barcelona’s Devotion Records proceeds to the next step with a vinyl release series – Devotion Records Limited.

First instalment comes with 3 original tracks by label leader Lucas Freire, Kosovo’s greatest techno export Vegim and Colombia’s heavyweight champion Andres Gil. The record gets completed with a sensational remix by the rapidly growing talent Dykkon on Andres Gil’s original piece!

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In Interview with Subjected

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Vault Series founder Subjected released his sophomore album entitled Mother on his Subjected Systems label featuring ten ambient, leftfield and techno cuts this March.

An essential figure within Berlin’s techno scene, Subjected has released on ARTS, the enigmatic STOOR and his very own Vault Series. Subjected Systems is a newer project which has so far hosted two releases, one from Transient X4 and another collaborative effort between Subjected and Andrejko.

The label showcases a post-industrial era, that keeps ties to the underground scene that gave birth to it but signals its occupation of a different realm than its predecessor. Subjected now returns with his second album for the label’s third release. Entitled Mother, the longplayer came to fruition after Subjected became a father himself – inspired by processing the changes that were not only happening around him, but to his partner and a new life.

We took the opportunity to speak to Martin, as he is known to friends and family, to talk about the labels, the release of Mother and more.

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Secret Cinema Shares 5 Of His Favorite Records, Ever

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A key figure on the Dutch scene since 1991. An international headlining artist known for his sets in Berghain, Space Ibiza, Womb Tokio, Watergate, his frequent Elrow gigs or headlining every major festival in the Netherlands. Gem Records label boss responsible for moving the careers of Egbert, Enrico Sangiuliano and Reinier Zonneveld forward. Steady producer of countless essential techno classics for over 25 years. One of the most original and down to earth pioneers of electronic music on the planet. All legitimate ways to describe Jeroen Verheij a.k.a. Secret Cinema.

Looking back on his career with releases on Gem, EC, Drumcode and Cocoon that defined the sound of eras for many clubbers of several generations and headlining stages across the globe Secret Cinema still feels he must accomplish more. “It’s funny, but after 25 years I feel I still haven’t reached my goal. Slowly but surely, I am still growing towards it. I always feel I need to prove myself. But maybe that is the driving force I need to keep going. It’s always been that way really. Balance is of the essence”.

We asked him to look back at the countless records he has played through his long and illustrious career and share 5 of his favorite records, ever.

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Premiere: Setaoc Mass Provides Remix for SLV’s “Berlin. A Portrait In Music” Album on Soma Records

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SLV’s Berlin. A Portrait In Music album on Soma receives a string of remixes from Setaoc Mass, Stanislav Tolkachev, Conforce, as well as a VIP mix from SLV himself.

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Global Vibe Radio 158 Feat. Dorian Gray

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The 158th episode of Global Vibe Radio sees us travel to Italy, welcoming Dorian Gray for his debut on our channel.

Fascinated by astronomy, symbolism and ancient cultures, Dorian’s creations offers listeners an introspective journey driven by meticulous ambient pads, hypnotizing rhythms and smart acidic loops.

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Raimond Ford: My Favorite ’90s Techno Tracks

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Raimond Ford is back after 20 years of absence from the scene with a fantastic new musical story to tell across ten tracks of avant-garde deep techno. Together with the D-EX collective and Racket Knight, Raimond Ford has been one of the most successful techno alter egos of Luca Tavaglione aka djlukas, a Swiss artist from the nineties who played all the major raves of that era.

Under his various aliases he has released on Planet Rhythm Rec TouchTone/AudioRec, Spectra Records and many others, with legends like Carl Cox often dropping his tunes. His Robot Can’t EP explores the notion that robots will probably replace human beings in certain activities or functions and “tries to describe the personal feelings of the artists when one day he woke up in a surreal world between darkness and light, running against the unknown with little fragments of memory captured through the eyes of a robot.”

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