Jeff Mills, one of Detroit’s finest techno DJs, will be spinning at Santos Party House in New York City on Wednesday, September 3. In 2004, I interviewed Mills upon the release of his “Exhibitionist” CD/DVD. Here’s how it all went down.
Run of the Mills
Techno giant Jeff Mills puts the [...]
Jumbo thoughts
Inside Karl Hyde’s head David Schneider
Sometimes, Karl Hyde just doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
No, it’s not that Hyde is off his head. Far from it. Even as a disembodied voice over a telephone line, Underworld’s lyricist/vocalist is a current of creativity, a whirlpool of [...]
Monsoon
New review David Schneider
This splendid, hip French-Indian fusion restaurant is designed with a distinctly erotic eye. Sensual global and tribal house throbs from speakers; silk curtains, jet-black columns and deep red fabrics drip luxuriantly above a glowing floor and curvaceous bar. And, if you are still dumb to the signals, go [...]
A version of this was published as a DJ listing preview in Newcity. –>
“So who’s this guy you’ve dragged me in here to see?”
“Eddie Halliwell. He’s supposed to be absolutely enormous in London right now.”
I expected more cack-handed, commercial-oriented trance.
“What does he spin?”
“UK Hard House.”
And then, O my brothers, did I get gleefully bludgeoned by [...]
SASHA (airdrawndagger)
You know you’re massive when you’re breaking through your own backlash. Sasha, who first got hooked on house at the Hacienda in 1987, virtually created the genre of UK progressive house with partner-in-crime and global heavyweight John Digweed. But as their residency at New York’s Twilo ended with the club’s collapse in 2001, the [...]
Herbivore heaven
Grazing at Shawn McClain’s new Green Zebra
David Schneider
I am an unrepentant carnivore, heir to the sins of the flesh. Around the familial dinner table, “sucking the marrow out of life” wasn’t Transcendentalist philosophy, but practical instruction. I can actually feel my canines descend slightly when contemplating [...]
umbo thoughts
Inside Karl Hyde’s head David Schneider
Sometimes, Karl Hyde just doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
No, it’s not that Hyde is off his head. Far from it. Even as a disembodied voice over a telephone line, Underworld’s lyricist/vocalist is a current of creativity, a whirlpool [...]
A different brew
Tea for the testosterone set David Schneider
In America, it’s expected that whenever a proper gentleman wishes to have a tea party, he’ll gear up in Native American face-paint and chuck the stuff into the nearest harbor. Real men drink Bud Light and watch football on a [...]
Sensuous Chicago: Taste
Taste(less) David Schneider
A cheese platter ate my relationship.
For our first date, I took her to Mossant, one of those classy bistro joints, and fèted her on herb- and cognac-roasted chicken. She reciprocated by flooring it out to the suburbs and parking it at [...]
New club
Syn David Schneider
Rush Street may have an identity crisis on its hands with the advent of Syn, the new lounge/discotheque that recently opened below Jilly’s. Syn refuses the brashness of the Gold Coast–its true milieu is late seventies New York, the underground New York of cool seductiveness, [...]
Underworld overwhelming
An in-depth interview with vocalist Karl Hyde
David Schneider
For the last fifteen years, Underworld’s celestial chords, jackhammer beats and fragmented, stream-of-consciousness lyrics have lifted electronic music beyond numb thumpings, into a gritty and sublime realm few other dance acts have approached. From 1994’s [...]
Hema’s Kitchen
New review
David Schneider
Miss Whiplash, you’ve met your match. And she’s not carrying a switch; she’s wearing a sari.
Hema (pronounced with a short “e,” like henna) is the world’s least conspicuous dominatrix. She’s a plump five-foot-nothing, and presides over her packed Little India restaurant, [...]
