"Vancouver is not part of Canada. So wrote British Columbia novelist Douglas Coupland in City Of Glass, a turn-of-the-millennium photograph...
Articles By Martin Turenne
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FeaturesRising In the West Vancouver Hip-hops Renaissance Published Dec 20, 2007
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FeaturesHow To Do Your Taxes Income Tax Blues Published Jan 01, 2006
As duties go, filing your tax return probably ranks somewhere just north of getting a root canal on the list of things you most look forward...
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FeaturesSliding Down The Surface Electro-clash: Your 15 Minutes Are Up Published Jan 01, 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 d...
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FeaturesMichael Mayer Works Alone Published Jan 01, 2006
When last we spoke, Michael Mayer was looking forward to the construction of new recording studios in the basement of his Kompakt headquarte...
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FeaturesDizzee Rascal Demands Respect Published Jan 01, 2006
Dial up Dizzee Rascal when his phone's turned off and you'll be greeted by the first few bars of Clipse's "Hot Damn," in which Pharrell Will...
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FeaturesThe Unbearable Whiteness Of Being Indie Published Jan 01, 2006
It's all there in black and white. In early October, the American record industry reached a milestone: for the first time in its history, ev...
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FeaturesHe Ain't Pretty, He's Kid 606 Published Jan 01, 2006
For as long as he can remember, Miguel Depedro (aka Kid 606) has been an outcast. The technoist's mistrust of musical scenes reaches back to...
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FeaturesSmoking Out the Locals Tobacco Funded Shows Outspend Home Grown Efforts Published Jan 01, 2006
Tobacco kills so say doctors, and so say a growing number of artists, concert promoters and club owners across Canada. What most concerns...
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FeaturesReggaeton Exchange Program Island Sounds Outfox Colonials Published Jan 01, 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 the...
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FeaturesThe Search for Middleground New Producers Heal the Backpack/Benz Divide Published Jan 01, 2006
When he took office in 1997, British Prime Minister Tony Blair prophesised the dawn of "third way" politics, placing himself in the middle o...
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ReviewsMorcheeba Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver BC - February 4, 2003 Published Jan 01, 2006
With their smoky bass grooves, echo chamber accents and wink-wink moniker, Britain's Morcheeba has traditionally been lumped in with Bristol...
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ReviewsFour Tet / Boom Bip Sonar, Vancouver BC - June 3, 2003 Published Jan 01, 2006
The recorded output of England's Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet) and America's Bryan Hollon (aka Boom Bip) has always seemed a bit too polite....
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FeaturesThe Sweet and Lowdown of PJ Harvey Published Jan 01, 2006
Demonic. Perverse. Toxic. Morose. Brooding. Violent. If the press is to be believed, Polly Jean Harvey is all of the above, a latter-day wit...
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FeaturesThe World Comes Around to Basement Jaxx Published Jan 01, 2006
Felix Buxton may not be a vengeful sort, but he sure likes having the last laugh. Earlier this year, British house producers Justin Harris a...
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FeaturesPut Your Back In It Brazil Brings the Baile Funk Published Jan 01, 2006
After years spent sermonising about the ill effects of globalization, progressive media outlets must begin to unearth those stories that tes...
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FeaturesInto the Mystic Avant-folk Shapes A New Future Published Jan 01, 2006
When Harry Smith released his epochal Anthology Of American Folk Music in 1952, the box bore an engraving of a single-stringed instrument be...
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ReviewsDel The Funky Homosapien Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver BC - January 19 Published Jan 01, 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'...
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FeaturesSchaffel Beat Resuscitates Techno Published Jan 01, 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 busi...
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ReviewsAdam F vs. DJ Craze Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver BC - March 6, 2003 Published Jan 01, 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: t...
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FeaturesBuilding A Mystery The Folk Noir of Daniel Lanois Published Jun 01, 2005
I'm parked in my parents' driveway, the windows rolled down, listening. It's almost 11 o'clock on a Saturday night, and I'd rather not go in...