The year 2021 held a lot of surprises in store, not always positive ones, for everyone and a lot of those had an impact on the electronic music scene and the people, the artists involved.
TOP100 of 2021
DJ CHARTS Holly Lester [Duality Trax]
She has the magic touch for meaningful music, not only when it comes to her own label Duality Trax, which was launched in 2020, but also when putting those records on the 1210s.
EXCLUSIVE All Is Well & Martin Iveson ‘Cosmos (Telephones Subspace Remix)’ [Internasjonal]
For Internasjonal's latest release two scene mainstays teamed up – namely UK-legend Martin Iveson, also known under his Atjazz moniker, and Canadian House pioneer Fred Everything under his All Is Well alias.
INTERVIEW Paramida
Known for her vibrant sets and ingenious music selection, one finds Paramida rather out of her element, but though she isn’t crate digging or ravishing sonic technicolor all over black-clad Berlin clubbers, the Love On The Rocks label head, Rinse FM radio show host and Panorama Bar resident seems to be doing just fine.
ART:CAST #101 & INTERVIEW Matisa
Fashion-icon? Music-nerd? Both! Matisa has always combined her passion for fashion with that of music leading into releases on Optimo and Biologic.
TOP50 of 2020
As 2020 comes to an end the Torture the Artist team sat down together to compile the end of the year chart that represents, of course, a personal preferences and what the site and its members musically stand for.
ART:CAST SPECIAL by Das Komplex
Music architect Marcin Lukaszewicz, widely known under his Das Komplex moniker, designed the latest edition of the art:cast special series.
ART:CAST SPECIAL & INTERVIEW Juan MacLean
He enjoys the freedom of having the time to focus on his music – these days he even has more than last year and last year was already a strong one in Juan MacLean's career in terms of producing music.
ART:CAST SPECIAL by Alex Kassian
Better keep an eye on Berlin-based producer Alex Kassian, who is set to jump on Paramida's Love On The Rocks label rooster to release his (label) debut EP.
EXCLUSIVE RSS Disco ‘Lunar Fling (Das Komplex Remix)’ [Mireia Records]
After a first set of remixes of RSS Disco's track Lunar Fling, which were released in December 2019 on Mireia, a second round of different musical approaches to the track is rung in just in time of the new decade.
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