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No Reservations
Satoshi Tomiie is among a growing legion of globetrotting DJs who are blurring the lines between dance floor genres.
Revered DJ/producer Satoshi Tomiie hails from Japan and calls New York City home. However, he hasn’t spent much time in either place during the past year. “My summer tour kicked off in May, and I was on the road nonstop until September,” explains Tomiie, talking from a hotel room in Buenos Aires. “I didn’t go back to New York at all. After the tour was over, I left two weeks later for another couple of months. I don’t spend time in one particular place; I keep moving. It’s difficult for me to stay in one place because I love what I’m doing.”
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Features
Whip it good
After a series of false starts in other bands, the members of Manchester’s The Whip finally realize their dance-rock dreams. Since ...
No Reservations
Satoshi Tomiie is among a growing legion of globetrotting DJs who are blurring the lines between dance floor genres. Revered DJ/producer ...
Q&A with Anders Ilar
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The End’s Happy Ending
London’s The End calls it quits on their own terms after 13 magical years. By the time you read this, London’s ...
Music Reviews
Röyksopp / Junior (Virgin) Norway’s best export (sorry, A-ha) returns from their sophomore slump with a posse of popular lady friends and a pleasing set of atmospheric dance-pop.
Röyksopp’s best quality—their buoyant happiness—is also what threatened to capsize their last disc, 2005’s The Understanding, which was too radio-friendly for many fans of their sublime debut. One gets the sense, looking [...]
Gear Reviews
Julian Casablancas, Santogold, Pharrell Williams / “My Drive Thru” If the John Varvatos product tie-in was taking the “Chucks” away from the streets, this song, as part of a promo campaign for the iconic sneakers, seeks to appeal to those who don’t see themselves affiliated with any one particular musical genre or scene. The Michael Jackson-esque falsetto of N.E.R.D’s Pharrell Williams flows perfectly over [...]
DVD Reviews
Rennie Pilgrem Recalls His Halcyon Days Rennie Pilgrem’s TCR label pioneered the genre known as new school breaks while serving as a vehicle for productions by Pilgrem, B.L.I.M., Arthur Baker and Koma & Bones. As the label turns 15, Pilgrem recalls what it was like running an indie label in the previous century.
The sampler was king: It made home recording possible [...]
Year in Review: 2007
Fourth Annual Big 10 Albums of the Year 2007 was a year in which record sales bottomed out and DJs were granted backstage passes to the mainstream. So you’ll have to forgive us if our ten best albums of the year seem a bit, um, mainstream? We swear, we were on to this first.
1. M.I.A. / Kala (XL Recordings/Interscope)
With the world falling to [...]
