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July 11, 2012 – He may be called Oneman, but his tastes are legion: dubstep, hip-hop, grime, U.K. funky, garage, all tussling and tumbling over one another.

July 6, 2012 – Coming back from vacation means catching up on promos, collecting all the mail-order packages that arrived in my absence, and, why not, dropping whatever remaining cash I have in record shops around town. Serves me right for leaving town precisely when the summer release schedule is hitting its peak — not to mention Joy Orbison finally dropping "Ellipsis," one of the most eagerly awaited tunes of the past year.

July 5, 2012 – The new mixtape from Portugal's DJ Marfox is called "Distortion Ass Mix," but take the title with a grain of salt. The gluteal bit is self-explanatory: Marfox plays kuduro, an Angolan-Portuguese style of dance music that moves with the hypnotic, rotary motion of a KitchenAid churning dough; it might be the waist-windingest music I've ever heard.

July 5, 2012 – The electronic-music scene, perhaps startled by its recent, convulsive growth, finds itself taking stock. Two new compilations attempt to survey the tangled histories of electronic and dance music, to very different ends. EMI's Electrospective draws an undulating line from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Tangerine Dream through synth pop, Daft Punk and on to David Guetta and the Swedish House Mafia.

June 29, 2012 – Did the temperature of electronic dance music hit 92 degrees this week or something? Because people sure did get irritable. As usual, we can thank Deadmau5 for getting folks all riled up — this time, with a post entitled "We All Hit Play" which asserted that EDM's big-leaguers, himself included, aren't really doing that much onstage.

June 26, 2012 – One of the great things about Detroit techno is the way it has spawned sister-city scenes across the world. Berlin and Amsterdam are the most notable, but Vienna also has been an outpost for Motor City styles, especially when it comes to twitchy, live-wire electro.