If the laid-back beats of ambient techno have got you inspired to create, then arming yourself with the basics doesn’t have to be a daunting procedure. Creating a genre-angled template within your DAW ...

The whole concept behind the beat-side of the ambient techno genre, is in providing a relatively forthright and driving groove while utilising sounds which are slightly calmer than the heavier drum ...

Detroit’s underground dance events of the ’90s are justly storied — but one of the decade’s most consistently attended and long-term impactful was small, insider-heavy, and not intended for dancing at ...

One of the most important figures in the electronic music realm, both in and behind the scene, Wolfgang Voigt has released more than 150 albums under dozens of aliases since the 1990s, while also ...

The Orb, which plays Neumos on Wednesday (Oct. 26), has done something few acts can: enjoy a long, fruitful career making strange electronic music. Alex Paterson, The Orb’s longest-tenured member, ...

As he prowled through gallery after gallery at the Museum of Modern Art, with each passing minute Wolfgang Voigt was becoming visibly agitated. The minimal techno legend and Kompakt label co-founder ...

With most of the circumstances under which I would listen to pop music no longer available to me—going somewhere on the bus, hanging with friends—my musical tastes have gravitated back toward ambient, ...

Nineties heads know Chicago’s Jamie Hodge for his leftfield productions on Plus 8 and Source. Sifting through his old DATs, Demdike Stare came up with a grip of vintage ambient-techno abstractions.