Articles by Alan Ranta

Electric Sex Panther

Phillips Backyard Weekender, Victoria BC, July 20

PUBLISHED Jul 21, 2018

Victoria's evolving R&B/soul collective Electric Sex Panther presented as a six-piece band between keys, drums, bass, guitar and two saxoph...

Too Many Zooz

Phillips Backyard Weekender, Victoria BC, July 20

PUBLISHED Jul 21, 2018

You got the sense, watching New York City's Too Many Zooz, that their practices at home have pretty much the same energy as their festival...

Keys N Krates

Phillips Backyard Weekender, Victoria BC, July 20

PUBLISHED Jul 21, 2018

The excitement was clearly buzzing through the crowd for Toronto's Juno-winning EDM trio Keys N Krates, composed of drummer Adam Tune, keyb...

Minimal Violence Find Home, Community and Inspiration in Vancouver's Deep Blue

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2018

Just a stone's throw from the gentrification hub that is Vancouver's Olympic Village, there's a place you might not notice as you drive by....

Minimal Violence

"MVX" / "U41A"

PUBLISHED May 30, 2018

Sacred Sound Club mainstays Ashlee Lúk and Lida Pawliuk sure hit the ground running with their Minimal Violence project. Having been select...

Odd Nosdam

"Vapes"

PUBLISHED May 29, 2018

Few producers are as creatively prolific as Anticon co-founder David P. Madson, famously known as Odd Nosdam. For proof, his upcoming effor...

Drinks

Hippo Lite

PUBLISHED Apr 19, 2018

Tim Presley and Cate Le Bon should probably stop working together. On their own terms, they're equally brilliant — Presley is the man behin...

Christina Vantzou Explores Liquid Time-Space on 'No. 4'

PUBLISHED Apr 6, 2018

Belgium-based orchestral ambient composer-director Christina Vantzou grew up in a pre-internet age, when music that you were exposed to was...