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Orchestrating epiphanies

Lalla Land: Orchestrating epiphanies

Toronto-based pianist and composer John Kameel Farah stunned the world with the release of his achingly emotive and infinitely intricate sophomore album Unfolding earlier this year. Drawing on influences from ...Read more →

Beat the heat

Lalla Land: Beat the heat

Though the weather is great today, I elected to cocoon in my stuffy apartment and write this highly informative column, buzzed on coffee and vigorously enraged by a spectacle I ...Read more →

Shifting waveforms

Lalla Land: Shifting waveforms

When I started this job eight years ago, young people still bought compact discs. They also recorded their favourite radio shows and mixes on audio cassettes. They bought amplifiers, speakers ...Read more →

Dim lights, big city

Lalla Land: Dim lights, big city

It’s been a wet, tense summer and our nightlife has responded in kind. Steamy, sweaty hotspots feature veteran DJs slinging therapeutic grooves for a stress-crazed public desperately primed for dance ...Read more →

Dropping long-range Mutek

Lalla Land: Dropping long-range Mutek

Reporting from a remote outpost in the south of France, the dark urban sounds of techno and dubstep seem more than a world away. It’s hard to envision the appeal ...Read more →

Applied Science

Lalla Land: Applied Science

Number one hits on the U.K. dance charts, three critically acclaimed full-length albums and 15 years of non-stop touring and producing have not dulled the flame for Total Science. DJing ...Read more →

Make it funky

Lalla Land: Make it funky

Hard work and a positive attitude go a long way, especially when you’re hawking the freshest newest wares in town, upstart promoters E.S.L. have discovered. Interest continues to grow around ...Read more →

After the gold rush

Lalla Land: After the gold rush

Mutant offspring of dub and techno are ravaging the landscape, raping your children’s ears at half-speed, doing the slow motion Bigfoot shuffle on dark dance floors where disembowelled bass bins ...Read more →

Us and them

Lalla Land: Us and them

These hard economic times have made for plenty of cancelled, postponed and rescheduled club events, closed-down clubs and amended budgets. The independent, the countercultural and the unprofitable get stomped by ...Read more →

Not floggers of horses

Lalla Land: Not floggers of horses

Whether Metallica, Britney Spears or EPMD, musicians of late are finding substantial success by returning to their roots. In the electronic music world, no genre is more ripe for revitalization ...Read more →

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