Articles by Alan Ranta

Saltillo

Monocyte

PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2012

With a name like Menton J. Matthews III (aka menton3), Saltillo sounds like you would imagine. This Chicago, IL producer paints aural pictu...

Secret Chiefs 3

Rickshaw, Vancouver BC February 10

PUBLISHED Feb 13, 2012

Strolling out on stage two hours after the doors opened, San Francisco's Secret Chiefs 3 looked like a cult. Everyone wore dark hooded robe...

DJ Food

The Search Engine

PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2012

After a thousand sweet Solid Steel mixes and podcasts, The Search Engine delivers a fatal blow to disappointment from high expectations. Th...

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra

Rickshaw, Vancouver BC February 2

PUBLISHED Feb 3, 2012

Efrim Menuck is not the best singer. The lead guitarist's oral tone is somewhere between a warble, a wail, a whine and a moan. Yet, in the...

Pepe Deluxé

Queen of the Wave

PUBLISHED Jan 31, 2012

This is the kind of album that comes along once a generation, a groundbreaking, game-changing work of art that forces all others to re-eval...

Plug

Back On Time

PUBLISHED Jan 30, 2012

Luke Vibert is one of the world's most prolific and quirkiest EDM producers, and since 1993, he's been releasing albums under a handful of...

Whitehorse / Cameron Latimer

Rio Theatre, Vancouver BC January 20

PUBLISHED Jan 22, 2012

There's a lot of puppy left in Cameron Latimer, the 30-year-old singer-songwriter from Ladysmith, BC. Performing songs from a songbook that...

Vancouver's Hedspin Comes Out Victorious at Red Bull THRE3STYLE World Finals

PUBLISHED Dec 19, 2011

With DJ Premier, Pete Rock, DJ Dopey and Skratch Bastid among the judges, Canadian DJ Hedspin (aka Hedley Tuscano) took home the belt as th...