Electronic/Dance archive
Watch KCRW Presents: TOKiMONSTA KCRW
June 18, 2013 – Watch the Los Angeles producer perform "Go With It" live in the KCRW studio with vocalist MNDR. KCRW
Watch Guest DJ: Daft Punk On The Music That Inspired 'Random Access Memories'
June 17, 2013 – The duo talk about their latest album and share songs by other artists who've inspired them.
Watch Boards Of Canada Tap A Devout Following To Push New Album
June 12, 2013 – By leaking details of its new release in code, the electronic duo worked the press game backwards.
Watch How To Cover A Dance Track
June 3, 2013 – Dance music tends to be a groove medium, not a song medium, but there's a growing trend in covers.
Read First Listen: Gold Panda, 'Half Of Where You Live'
June 2, 2013 – On his second album, British electronic music producer Derwin Panda gets out and explores the world.
Watch Bonobo: A Smoldering Take On 'First Fires' KEXP
June 1, 2013 – Watch English singer Szjerdene inject new life into the downtempo producer's sexy single. KEXP
Listen Jamie Lidell On World Cafe WXPN
May 31, 2013 – The British producer, singer and "one-man human funk tornado" performs songs from his latest album. WXPN
Read First Listen: Thundercat, 'Apocalypse'
May 26, 2013 – Thundercat's Stephen Bruner digs into astral soul music that's often both funky and heartbreaking.
Read First Listen: Jon Hopkins, 'Immunity'
May 26, 2013 – For Hopkins, beauty and beats are free to commingle in ways that move — in every sense of the word.
Watch It's A Process: Mount Kimbie On Making Their New Album
May 24, 2013 – The British duo struggled, broke through and got by with a little help from its friends.
Watch James Blake, Live In Concert
May 23, 2013 – Watch the singer perform 90 minutes of intense, riveting, emotional music, live in Washington, D.C.
Read First Listen: Mount Kimbie, 'Cold Spring Fault Less Youth'
May 19, 2013 – The British beat-makers shed their electronics in pursuit of a sound designed to translate live.
Read First Listen: Tricky, 'False Idols'
May 19, 2013 – Tricky's best album since the mid-'90s, False Idols is one of 2013's biggest surprises so far.
Listen Listen To Laurel Halo's 'Sex Mission'
May 17, 2013 – The title may sound explicit, but the new techno track by Laurel Halo keeps things at a simmer.
Watch Daft Punk On 'The Soul That A Musician Can Bring'
May 16, 2013 – Hear the elusive electronic duo in conversation with All Things Considered's Audie Cornish.