I’m kicking off this year’s edition of “Coachella: GET PSYCHED” with an audio rebuttal to DJ / producer Diplo — who you may know as the beats / music guy behind early work from artists like MIA and Santigold. According to Pitchfork, upon seeing this year’s lineup, Diplo remarked via Twitter, “maybe im just throwing [...]
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Each and every year, my wife and I and a big group of close friends shove our adulthood into a closet, pack up our cars, and head out to Indio, Calif. for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Annual Festival — Coachella, for short — the biggest and best respected music festival in North America. [...]
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off: An Interview with Underworld
Posted: November 15, 1999 by Sean Flinn in Interviews, MusicTags: coachella, dance music, darren emerson, Electronic Music, karl hyde, rick smith, tomato, underworld
Verbal sparring with Rick Smith of Underworld at Coachella 1999 The middle of an interview with Rick Smith of Underworld is probably no time start wondering about the pronunciation differences between Brits and Americans. Yet, here I was, baking in the Indio, Calif. heat at the Coachella Valley Festival of Music and Arts, puzzling over [...]
Anonymous No Longer: An Interview with Ritchie Hawtin
Posted: November 15, 1999 by Sean Flinn in Interviews, MusicTags: coachella, Electronic Music, Mute Records, Plastikman, Plus 8, ritchie hawtin
[Note: This interview originally appeared on the now-defunct music portal, RadioSpy.com] “The name is familiar,” reads Richie Hawtin’s bio … and yet, no one I’ve queried has ever heard of him or any of his more ubiquitous aliases: Plastikman and FUSE. Odd for an artist who has DJed to crowds larger than many rock bands [...]
Rising Swiftly to the Surface: An Interview with Moby
Posted: November 15, 1999 by Sean Flinn in Interviews, MusicTags: coachella, Electronic Music, moby, Mute Records
True story — a confession, if you will: Prior to interviewing Moby, I knew very little about the man. I mean, I’ve read the occasional article about him, knew he was a born-again Christian, a descendant of Herman Melville (hence his moniker) and a vegetarian. I knew as well that he made electronic music but [...]
