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  Control Voltage's Friday Five: Confused House, Caustic Bass, and Secret Circuitry

  February 1, 2013 – So, apparently, a bunch of EDM industry bigwigs have founded something they're calling the Association for Electronic Music (AFEM), which they announced at MIDEM this week.We can all breathe a sigh of relief because, seriously, I'm not sure how much longer electronic music might have survived without a coordinated effort between Live Nation, William Morris Endeavor, Creative Artists Agency, Sony, Atlantic, and other such grassroots outf …
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  Control Voltage's Friday Five: Joakim and Kindness Are Everyone

  January 25, 2013 – Putting together this week's roundup got a lot harder once I heard the news about DJ Koze's new album, Amygdala, a 78-minute opus featuring contributions from Caribou, Apparat, and Matthew Dear, and described as the German producer's Sgt. Pepper. Setting it aside until I finished writing this column has been difficult, to say the least, and I'm narrowly resisting the impulse to live-tweet it right here. …
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  Control Voltage's Friday Five: Adult Raving with Montreal's Grown Folk

  January 18, 2013 – After a few weeks of loosely themed columns, this week's Friday Five goes back to the grab-bag approach. Out of the untold hours of promos, purchases, and SoundCloud surfing that constitute my listening every week, these five records jumped out. …
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  Control Voltage's Friday Five: Lo-Def Jams

  January 11, 2013 – I still remember the day I first heard Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy, in a record store in Portland, Oregon. It was 1985, I was 14 years old, and I had never heard music that sounded simultaneously so sweet and so fucked-up. I asked the clerk if the store's speakers were broken. …
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  Control Voltage's Friday Five: LPs to Hear Before Year's End

  December 7, 2012 – Woe be to the artist who releases an album in late November or, worse, December. With critics and retailers hell-bent on year-end recaps those end-of-year albums tend to evaporate into a discursive void. To that end, today's column covers five new or recent albums that were at risk of disappearing into the virtual recesses of my own iTunes playlists. …
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  Control Voltage's Friday Five: Remembering Pete Namlook

  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. …
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  Control Voltage's Friday Five: Unsound Festival in Review

  November 9, 2012 – There was no shortage of highlights at last month's Unsound festival in Krakow; across eight days and nights of performances from nearly 100 artists, though, a lot of the details quickly dissolved into the foggy outline of the festival as a whole. As in recent years, certain themes predominated. …
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  Control Voltage's Friday Five: At the Fringes of the Fringes

  October 26, 2012 – Scott Wilson has a new column on Juno Plus devoted to "outsider dance," in which he suggests that the margins of dance music are moving steadily outwards. …
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  Control Voltage's Friday Five: Keep It Simple, Charlie Brown

  October 12, 2012 – I rarely have explicit themes in mind for the Friday Five when I begin putting together each column, but they still have a way of gathering in the margins. This week is all about classically-minded house and techno—big surprise, given that underground dance music is deep in the throes of a retro fetish. …
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  Control Voltage's Friday Five: Ricardo Villalobos, Robert Hood, & More Albums Worth Your Time

  September 28, 2012 – There's nothing like four days of crappy hotel internet to drive home the fact that the music industry churns out way too much product these days. Talk about glut: After four days offline, it took me five or six hours to download, unzip, and file all the promos that had arrived in the meantime. And that's just the administrative part: I still haven't listened to squat, beyond deciding which bits will never merit a second airing. …
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