WAXED Magazine

A conversation with Serokolo No. 7 on Mapanta, Ceremony, and the sound that left the village. Read more...

Suzanne Ciani has been famous three separate times, to three audiences that barely know the others exist: the Buchla pioneer who made the Coca-Cola pop-and-pour, the Grammy-nominated new age star,... Read more...

Gabber: The Insult Rotterdam Decided to Wear

A word that meant "friend" for three hundred years became an Amsterdam insult. That is until Rotterdam pressed it onto vinyl and dared the world to play it. Read more...

Ron Hardy: Where Acid House Begins

No interview. No archive. No replacement. The story of Ron Hardy, the Muzic Box, and the night acid house was born on a cassette tape. Read more...

Boards of Canada: The Brothers Who Broadcast From Somewhere Else

Boards of Canada — Forty years of records, a decade of silence, and a VHS tape that arrived in the mail with seven hexagons and no return address. Read more...

Hiroko Okuda And The Preset Nobody Heard

How a rock rhythm programmed by a reggae-obsessed Japanese engineer in her first week at Casio became the bassline that forced reggae into the digital age — and how a... Read more...

Joe Meek: The Producer Britain Forgot

He was fired, dismissed as difficult, and died broke at thirty-seven. Four decades later, NME named him the greatest record producer of all time — ahead of George Martin, Phil... Read more...

Best Record Stores in NYC for Electronic Music

This guide highlights record stores across New York with strong selections of electronic music — including house, techno, ambient and experimental vinyl. Read more...

15 Essential Mixtapes from the 90's

Highlighting 15 tapes from the era that defined electronic music. Read more...