Techno
Every Kazi Magazine story tagged Techno: news, features and digital covers in one place.
- Peggy Gou Built a Global House Sound Then Let It Eat Her Whole
Nanana has 400 million streams and Peggy Gou sold out Drumsheds in October, but I Hear You sounds like someone trying to remember what made them dangerous in the first place.
- Len Faki and the Berghain Credibility Problem
Twenty years into his residency at the world's most name-checked techno room, Len Faki is still building tracks from scratch with sequencers and sample libraries while everyone else trades on the venue's mystique without understanding what made it matter.
- Objekt and the Scale Problem Nobody Wants to Solve
TJ Hertz launched a new label in October, reissued Ganzfeld with three remixes, and played another year of Freerotation and Dekmantel. The Berlin producer who won't scale might be the only one still doing it right.
- Sama Abdulhadi and the Platform She Already Earned
Ten years into her career, the Palestinian producer is still being introduced as if Boiler Room discovered her. The underground didn't give her a platform. She built one.
- Charlotte de Witte Built a Fortress When the Clubs Wanted a Bridge
Her self-titled debut album and KNTXT empire prove Belgian techno's most visible face has chosen purity over evolution. The question is whether 20,000 in Genoa's public square means she's right, or just loud enough that it doesn't matter yet.
- Amelie Lens Has Perfected the Formula. Now What?
With debut album AURA and EXHALE residencies selling out rooms from Ibiza to Drumsheds, the Belgian producer has become techno's most reliable name. But reliability in club music is not always a compliment.
- Bicep Built a Label Instead of Making Another Album
The Belfast duo went from blog-era tastemakers to arena headliners, then launched CHROMA and started curating instead of creating. Ten releases in eighteen months, none of them theirs.