Articles by Martin Turenne
Teeny-bop Goes Clickno-Pop
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Northwest Florida wraps itself tightly around the Gulf of Mexico, populations hugging the coastline, the shore's white sand beaches distrac...
Rising In the West
Vancouver Hip-hops Renaissance
PUBLISHED Dec 20, 2007
"Vancouver is not part of Canada. So wrote British Columbia novelist Douglas Coupland in City Of Glass, a turn-of-the-millennium photograp...
Reggaeton Exchange Program
Island Sounds Outfox Colonials
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
You could call it cultural opportunism or you could call it a cynical marketing manoeuvre and you'd be right on both counts but when th...
Sliding Down The Surface
Electro-clash: Your 15 Minutes Are Up
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
Ed Upton is pissed off. You'd expect the producer, best known for his work as the electro-popping DMX Krew, to be delighted at this year's...
Del The Funky Homosapien
Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver BC - January 19
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
Best known to pop fans as the MC behind the Gorillaz and Deltron 3030 albums, the Bay Area's Del the Funky Homosapien took to the Commodore...
Morcheeba
Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver BC - February 4, 2003
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
With their smoky bass grooves, echo chamber accents and wink-wink moniker, Britain's Morcheeba has traditionally been lumped in with Bristo...
Adam F vs. DJ Craze
Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver BC - March 6, 2003
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
Billed as Vancouver's biggest drum & bass event of the year, this gig was brought low by that scourge of all multi-turntable performances:...
Schaffel Beat Resuscitates Techno
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
Whatever happened to paradise? For a brief time in the mid-90s, it seemed as if rave culture had usurped the music industry's top-down bus...
