CONTROL VOLTAGE

March 14, 2012 – For a minute there, just after the turn of the millennium, Cologne's Areal label felt like the freshest outfit in dance music: irreverent, a little bit lo-fi, with the bullish bearing of a happy drunk.

March 13, 2012 – LCD Soundsystem drummer Pat Mahoney can disco.

March 13, 2012 – The Montreal producer d'Eon likes to keep listeners on their toes. "I kind of look like a metalhead, or a junkie, or a hippie or whatever, none of which I am," he told Dummy magazine last year.

March 9, 2012 – There's no real theme to this week's Friday Five — just a selection of records I picked up on vinyl last week that I'm eager to share. Actually, maybe that is a sort of theme, after all.

March 7, 2012 – "The rumours were circulating for a while, but we didn't want to make a statement until we were absolutely sure they were true," wrote a representative from Amsterdam's Rush Hour label, which reissued Lewis’ 1982 album Mandré 4, on Facebook today.

March 7, 2012 – It took me awhile to come around to Nina Kraviz' recent single, "Ghetto Kraviz," but I'm starting to think it's one of the more compelling club tracks of early 2012. A little context: Kraviz is a rising producer and DJ from Moscow who broke on the international scene in 2009, with tracks for Radio Slave's REKIDS, DJ Jus-Ed's Underground Quality, and Efdemin's Naïf.