Articles by Joshua Ostroff

Sully

Bright Lights

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2002

The bright lights have not been so kind to Sully. Since transplanting to Toronto several years ago, the ex-Ottawa band has undergone some e...

Infected Mushroom

B.P. Empire

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2002

Goa trance is an acquired taste; the polar opposite of the Euro trance that dominated clubs a while back. It is dark, gritty and seriously...

Jakob the Baker

Goodnight My Andromeda

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2002

Sequestered in a small dark room on Salt Spring Island, Jakob the Baker (aka Andrew Power) has produced the ultimate antidote to sensory de...

DJ Teebee

Through the Eyes of a Scorpion

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2002

I've always found it curious that artists from cold climates (say, Björk or Sigur Rós) tend to produce music that is inherently chilly. Nor...

Various

American Gigalo

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2002

"You know Frank Sinatra?" laughs Miss Kitten. "He's dead, ha-ha!" It's that type of twisted cheerfulness that permeates American Gigalo, a...

Trance

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2001

Though itself an offshoot of techno, over the past decade trance has become one of dance music's base genres. Long the favoured whipping bo...

Anabolic Frolic

Happy 2b Hardcore Chapter 6: The Final Chapter

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2001

Toronto's own candy man, Anabolic Frolic, brings the madness back one last time for this sixth edition of his guilty pleasure Happy 2b Hard...

Jesus Jones

London

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2001

It's probably their fault. After skyrocketing to global fame off "Right Here, Right Now," a single that both literally and musically captur...