Pitchfork - Forkcast — Journalist and hip-hop writer Dave Tompkins' history of the vocoder, How To Wreck a Nice Beach, is definitely a worthwhile read according to our own Tom Breihan, who referenced the book in his Playlist review of Big Boi's BNM'd "Shutterbugg" a while ... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — Looking for something to soundtrack your BBQ this holiday weekend? Try this mix from German techno whiz Rex the Dog, recorded at London venue the Old Blue Last earlier this month and featuring cuts from Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder, New Order, and more... more info

Guardian Music — To Paul Morley's left, eighties Chicago dance DJ Marshall Jefferson. To his right, Orlando from up-and-coming producers Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. Can Morley find the middle-ground? On my left, Marshall Jefferson, who, what with one thing an... more info

Pop Justice — The always incredible Rex The Dog has posted online a DJ mix recorded at a recent thing he did in London. We think you will like it QUITE A LOT. This is the mix. That was the mix. Tracklist: 1 Yazoo - Situation 2 Kraftwerk - Home C... more info

Guardian Music — The singer's field recordings for the National Trust are the most radical, forward-thinking music of the yearRock and pop music, and assorted mutant sub-genres, is so everyday, so available, so not as special as it once was before it became so much a... more info

Guardian Music — City Hall, HullThose who say dance music is faceless never told Canadian electro producer Joel Zimmerman, aka Deadmau5 ("dead mouse"). When he appears here inside a giant DJ booth structure wearing a huge mouse's head, people are unsure whether to st... more info

Totally Fuzzy — LD said... The Adios Lounge Deconstructing Johnny Ryall http://www.adioslounge.com S.F.P. said... New update at "BAISTOPHE": VAC #043 VARIOUS ARTISTS "HIGHWAY 61 RE-REVISITED" First of what will hopefully become a long series, Highway 61 Re-revisit... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — Stockholm duo Pallers, whose music is described as "dance music for the lazy, the blazers, and for the slightly depressed", will release their newest single, "The Kiss", May 26 on the venerable Swedish label Labrador. The song's synth and drum inter... more info

Guardian Music — Cult video-maker Chris Cunningham unveils his ambitious live show to Sean O'HaganChris Cunningham is almost 40 but he looks uncannily like a teenager. He is tall and stick-thin, with the unhealthy pallor of a bedroom recluse. In the squat-like sittin... more info

Guardian Music — Could Ten Ragas To A Disco beat, recorded by the leader of an Indian wedding band in 1982, be the first ever acid house record? Louis Pattison investigatesCharanjit Singh doubtless stood out as unusual in the Hindi film industry of the 1960s and 70s.... more info