CONTROL VOLTAGE

December 4, 2012 – It's hard to believe, but Youngstar's seminal grime anthem "Pulse X" is ten years old this year. This means that grime, once dance music's enfant terrible, is now officially old school.

November 28, 2012 – Barcelona's Sónar festival today announced the cities and dates for five separate events taking place in the first half of 2013, including the 20th-anniversary edition of the festival in its home base in Barcelona, where Kraftwerk will present a new 3D show.In February, Sónar travels to Reykjavik, Iceland, for the first time with a two-night event including James Blake, Squarepusher, Modeselektor, Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto, and oth

November 21, 2012 – I never expected to find myself standing in a rehearsal space owned by Rammstein, but here I am, weaving my way through mountains of flight cases, dodging cables and determined-looking roadies beneath an enormous black skull-and-crossbones flag. Which is kind of funny, because it's a skull that I've traveled to the outskirts of Berlin to see.Not a real skull, of course.

November 16, 2012 – It's been a sad week in electronic music. On Monday, London's Martin Dawson died, 10 days after suffering an aneurysm in his studio.

November 15, 2012 – Damon Krukowski's sobering analysis of how little recording artists make from streaming their music under current royalty rates — to wit, he says that his former band, Galaxie 500, would need to rack up 13 million streams to make the same profit they did selling just 1,000 7-inches, back in 1988 — has generated plenty of reactions, both positive and negative.

November 13, 2012 – "Some of you will be surprised, but yes, like you I'm a House head," confesses Pedro Winter, a.k.a. Busy P, explaining the unexpectedly rootsy turn that his Ed Banger label has taken with its latest release. Ed Banger is best known, of course, for the louche, super-charged electro mayhem favored by label mainstays Justice and their Parisian pals.