XLR8R — Longstanding and immensely influential Detroit techno producer Jeff Mills announced today that he has collaborated with Japanese astronaut Mamoru Mohri on a double LP inspired by Mohri's first trip to space in 1992 aboard the Endeavour space shu... more info

XLR8R — For what will likely be XLR8R's final festival-oriented field trip during 2012, we hopped across the Atlantic last week to check out Club to Club Alfa Romeo MiTo, a long-running music festival based in Turin, Italy and lovingly referred to by th... more info

XLR8R — The Italian music and arts festival Club to Club will kick off its twelfth year next month in Turin, with performances by the likes of Flying Lotus, Jeff Mills, SBTRKT, Scuba, Marcel Dettmann (pictured above), Actress, Disclosure, Ital, Kode9, Lone, ... more info

XLR8R — The bounty of Press Play runneth over this Friday, as we've stuffed it to the brim with heaps of streaming audio, downloads, and videos from a viable smorgasbord of DJs and producers. You can watch the iconic Jeff Mills perform live with a Paris... more info

XLR8R — It seems like most techno veterans hail from either Detroit or Berlin. Granted, the key word there is "most," as Ben Sims calls London home and has been dropping records and making his mark in the techno world since the late '90s. Apart from his... more info

XLR8R — Derrick May, Juan Atkins, Terrence Parker, Jeff Mills, Eddie Fowlkes, and several members of the Underground Resistance crew (pictured above) will be appearing at the seventh annual Backpack Festival in Detroit. Co-presented by UR, the event's o... more info

XLR8R — Montreal is just too fucking cute. Honestly, the word picturesque doesn't do justice to this place. It's like a charming wonderland with vintage architecture, cute food, urban greenery (so many trees!), great music, fashionable people, and ... more info

XLR8R — If you've been following XLR8R's coverage for any real stretch of time, you've likely noticed that we've got a thing for Canadian electronic music festival MUTEK, and we're treating 2012's proceedings (going down from Ma... more info

Detroit Free Press — Movement Electronic Music Festival: with Lil' Louis, Public Enemy, Jeff Mills, Claude VonStroke, SBTRKT, many more, May 26-28. Hart Plaza. $45 each day or $80 advance for all 3 days. www.movement.us. more info

Guardian Music — R&S Records' new bass and techno prodigy empties the contents of his psychic record bagThe track I'll be opening my next DJ set with Levon Vincent: Revs/Cost I always play at least three or four Levon Vincent tracks in every set. I really like openin... more info