May 22, 2013 – The guy who's trying (again!) to sell his Boards of Canada RSD 12-inch on eBay says that he wants to use the proceeds to finance a move abroad, so it's ironic that Boards of Canada's promotional campaign for Tomorrow's Harvest now moves abroad. At a few minutes after midnight, local time, passersby in Tokyo's Shibuya neighborhood were treated to — well, it's hard to say, exactly, because for those of us watching via the cryptically titled Ustream channel, "Unofficial Boards of Canada Shibuya UST," it just looked like a whole lot of blurring lights on an LED screen affixed to a building.

May 21, 2013 – "Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments," Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter recently told the New York Times, explaining the philosophy that led the duo to work with session musicians for Random Access Memories. "Within a computer, everything is sterile — there’s no sound, there’s no air. It’s totally code. Like with computer-generated effects in movies, you can create wonders. But it’s really hard to create emotion."Hard, maybe, but certainly not impossible: That much is clear from a video of Four Tet's recent lecture at the Red Bull Music Academy in New York, in which the British producer walks students through his live setup. Granted, Four Tet (Kieran Hebden) uses very little in the way of computer-generated sound, and he doesn't limit himself to just a laptop and MIDI controller, like so many "live" electronic acts do.

May 19, 2013 – Daft Punk's list of collaborators has been a key component of the campaign for their new album, Random Access Memories, but it was updated with a tragic footnote this week. Romanthony, a New Jersey house producer, DJ, and singer made famous worldwide by his appearance on Daft Punk's 2000 single "One More Time," has died of complications of kidney disease, his family confirmed to SPIN. He was 45.According to Chicago's 5 Magazine, news of his death first emerged early last week when Daone Remmidy, a singer (a.k.a. Eve Angel) who collaborated with Romanthony (Anthony Moore) on a string of singles in the mid-1990s, reported his passing on Facebook. Early Sunday morning, Moore's sister Mellony Moore confirmed his death in a Facebook post: "My baby brother ROMANTHONY aka Anthony Moore passed away 7 May 2013 at his home in Austin TX. Our family is shocked with grief.

May 17, 2013 – Ibiza's Circoloco is well known as one of the island's wildest parties, with a musical policy focused squarely on underground house and techno of a Continental bent (and "bent" pretty much sums up the vibe, as well).

May 16, 2013 – A gilded age requires platinum perks. And as the superrich plan to get their rave on this weekend, they may be asking themselves, WWGD (What Would Gatsby Do)?Well, for one thing, he wouldn't just sit there staring at a paltry green light at the end of Daisy's dock. Bo-ring! Throw her parties? So bourgeois. No, he would take her to a carnival, a carnival full of electric lights and electronic music — an Electric Daisy Carnival, if you will.

May 16, 2013 – Various Artists Acid Arab Collections EP01 (Versatile) "We don't paste oriental sounds on occidental beats, we want to embody both cultures without pretending to reinvent oriental music or fooling ourselves by believing we're inventing Eastern dance music." That's the Parisian DJs Guido Minisky and Hervé Carvalho explaining their new project Acid Arab, which is exactly what it sounds like: A fusion of acid house and Arabic music. It's a risky proposition, especially coming from two dudes who profess to "have fallen in love with this music after a trip to Tunisia." But at least Minisky and Carvalho are refreshingly circumspect about their cultural tourism.

May 9, 2013 – Michael Mayer, Mantasy Remixe 2 (Kompakt) A good seven months since the release of Michael Mayer's Mantasy, do we really need new remixes of it? As it turns out, we do. Agoria, Robag Wruhme, and Will Saul and October's reinterpretations are wildly divergent — from each other, and from the source material. You could almost call them counterintuitive. Saul and October take the Moroder-flavored "Mantasy," whose defining feature is its robo-disco bass line, and refashion it into a cosmic techno epic with virtually no audible bass line whatsoever, just aching pads and clattering woodblocks underpinned by subsonic swells.

May 8, 2013 – If you follow the Twitter feed of NASA's Johnson Space Center, you'll know that Skrillex has been spending the afternoon at the space agency's facilities in Houston, Texas. What has he been doing there? Oh, the usual: taking a virtual-reality spacewalk, meeting astronaut Mike Massimino, eating space food in the Astronaut Food Lab (which looks suspiciously like a conference room, but hey, budgets are tight), even driving rovers and going on board the freaking space shuttle. (No, we're not envious. Not even a little.) We hope that Skrillex has been paying attention to his guided tour, because he's been live-tweeting the whole thing, from the world's biggest indoor pool to what looks like the world's biggest tea strainer, which we can only imagine would come in handy if they ever do find water on Mars.Why is he there?

May 7, 2013 – Peter Rauhofer, a former resident at New York's Roxy nightclub and a popular DJ on the circuit party scene, died of a brain tumor today, according to an announcement made on his official Facebook page. In April, Rauhofer had been diagnosed with the tumor after suffering a seizure, and just yesterday his team had announced that, owing to his health, he would not be performing at his fourth annual WORK party during Pride Week at New York's Roseland Ballroom on June 29.Rauhofer, a native Austrian, was the founder of the Star 69 label, and he was a go-to remixer for club updates of pop hits; his discography includes remixes for Madonna, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Kylie Minogue, Depeche Mode, Cher — he won a Grammy in 2000 for his rework of "Believe" — and dozens more artists of their ilk.

May 6, 2013 – After living in hotels for the past decade, Skrillex seems to be settling into his newfound digs in Los Angeles quite nicely. He recently posted a Vine video documenting his recently completed home studio, but that's just the beginning. In a conversation with Summit Series' Jeff Rosenthal at last month's IMS Engage conference in Los Angeles, Sonny Moore revealed that he recently purchased an 11,000-square-foot building in Chinatown where he is building a studio for "in-the-box producers" like himself — that is, traveling laptoppers who could benefit from a high-tech home base for plugging in and jamming out.But, rather than constructing an industry hit factory, his vision sounds a lot more like Warhol's Factory — a multi-disciplinary creative hub where collision and collaboration are at the root of everything. "There's nothing in L.A. that's like that for our generation," said Skrillex.