Articles by Martin Turenne

Michael Mayer Works Alone

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

When last we spoke, Michael Mayer was looking forward to the construction of new recording studios in the basement of his Kompakt headquart...

Dizzee Rascal Demands Respect

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 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 Wil...

Put Your Back In It

Brazil Brings the Baile Funk

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

After years spent sermonising about the ill effects of globalization, progressive media outlets must begin to unearth those stories that te...

How To Do Your Taxes

Income Tax Blues

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 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 forwar...

Building A Mystery

The Folk Noir of Daniel Lanois

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 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 i...

Point of View: Drum & Bass About Face

PUBLISHED May 1, 2005

Remember drum & bass? Unless you're a hardcore junglist, that genre probably hasn't crossed your mind since you traded in your copy of Repr...

Dance Music's Détente

Peace Breaks Out Between Intellectual and Instinctive

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005

There's this song I can't get out of my head, a song about clubs, a song about losing yourself in the groove, a song that suggests dance mu...

Partners in Grime

UK Hip-hop Thrives On Its Own

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

Mercury Prize-winner or not, Dizzee Rascal will probably never find much of an audience in North America — not outside hipster anglophile c...