Author Archives: LouiseBrailey

We’re guessing that most of the people who follow Alpha-ville’s podcast series will know Roly Porter predominantly through his previous dubstep project Vex’d. As Vex’d, Porter and his creative partner, Jamie Teasdale forged brutalist, edificial bass music that, for a period, seemed to contain the essence of what dubstep would become. If it ultimately didn’t, [...]

Like many young people, Christian Löffler, first heard the alien sounds of electronic music through the radio. Previously, his listening habits had been strictly non-electronic but tuning into these specialist DJs who spun IDM and drum’n’bass had a transformative effect on what the music he wanted to make. Growing up in Greifswald, a university town [...]