It was 3pm when we got word that Dan Deacon wanted to hang out with Motherboard. We'd just finished shooting giant telescopes in West Virginia (_shhh_ spoilers!) but we knew it would be worth it to make the 5 hour trek to Baltimore to check in on Dea…
M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel, the duo / couple behind the experimental electronic group Matmos, moved from San Francisco to Baltimore a few years back, where they've assembled an army of vintage synths and soundmaking ephemera into a psychedelic cast…
This week is host to the 173rd anniversary of the first test of the telegraph, which was one of the biggest communications breakthroughs in human history. On January 6, 1938, Samuel Morse first successfully sent out some bleeps and bloops in Morristo…
If you've seen his car or his flamethrower, you know that Evan Glodell is pretty good at turning hunks of metal into roaring, fire-breathing, machines. The same is true of _Bellflower_, the apocalyptic mumblecore buddy / desert-romance movie he direc…
The video game pioneer Richard Garriott resides in a castle-like mansion outside of Austin, Texas, that would be the fantasy dwelling for any grown-up kid.
Genre-bending iconoclasts, Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti changed electronic music forever with Throbbing Gristle. They continued their love affair with music, gear and each other over the next 30-odd years with their mind-blowing, ahead-of-the-c…
While Nigeria's 401 scammers may have written the book on West African internet fraud, their shtick looks like Compuserve compared to what's going on in Ghana. Unsatisfied with the meager winnings from emailing thousands of random Westerners in hopes…
We visit John Foxx deep in the darkest depths of Shoreditch, East London, at the studio of his latest collaborator, Benge to wax nostalgic about Ultravox and get a closer look at the studio the bore _Interplay_, the latest album by John Foxx and the
There's no one quite like our mate Andy Jenkinson, aka Ceephax, aka Ceephax Acid Crew. He's one of the last great D.I.Y masters working in electronic music and he's a full-on modern day renaissance man, who still uses the same old school tools (remem…
When post-shoegaze magician - the peerless electronic wunderkind - Ulrich Schnauss invited us to his apartment in London, he specified it would have to be at night due to his predilection for 'nocturnal' activities. What a way to set the scene.
