Articles by Martin Turenne

The Year That Never Was

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2003

The year 2002 didn't really happen. Honest. Looking back on 12 months dominated by retro-minded musicians, it seems more like a photocopy o...

Marcus Visionary

The Drink, Vancouver BC - January 8

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2003

Spinning tunes as funky as anything deep house can muster, Toronto junglist Marcus Visionary sprinkled in enough bangers to please even the...

Epsilonlab

AudioVideoTherapy

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2003

Montreal is truly on some next shit. Nowhere is the city's progressive artistry more evident than in the work of Epsilonlab, a collective o...

True Colours

With Increasing White Presence, Hip-hop Is Singing the Blues

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2003

Mike Ladd has seen the future - and the future is now. The slam poet turned English professor turned experimental MC is calling from the bi...

Real Time

How Mainstream Hip-Hop Lapped the Underground

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2002

Since hip-hop broke wide in the mid-‘80s, the form's sonic evolution has typically progressed from the bottom up. The underground has tradi...

242.Pilots

Live in Bruxelles

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2002

Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco's new book, Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer (Harvard Press), contains a quote t...

Rising In the West

Vancouver Hip-hop's Renaissance

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2002

"Vancouver is not part of Canada." So wrote British Columbia novelist Douglas Coupland in City Of Glass, a turn-of-the-millennium photograp...