Speaking in Code (2009)

Speaking in Code is a documentary about electronic music, particularly techno narrated through the lens of people who speak in codes and demand a different kind of understanding out of their...

Films

BOOKS

What We Started (2017)

What We Started stages two actors in the electronic dance music scene as its protagonists: the young DJ and producer Martin Garrix and the legendary techno and house DJ...

Modulations (1998)

Modulations is a highly engaging documentary that presents the history and evolution of electronic music in the 20th century. The narrative of the film slightly follows a genre-focused structure...

Elektro Moskva (2013)

Once upon a time in Russia, a Revolution happened. Actually, a ghost had been creeping around for quite a while. The ghost of Communism. Lenin proposed a simple formula:...

Kvadrat (2013)

Kvadrat explores the daily life of a Russian techno DJ, Andrey Pushkarev. Shot in Switzerland, France, Hungary, Romania, and Russia, it unfolds like a...

The Rise of the Synths (2019)

A talking-head documentary with the people from the Synthwave scene. Several composers and enthusiasts from different countries narrate their journey around Synthwave as a...

Paris/Berlin: 20 Years of Underground Techno (2012)

The movie, Paris/Berlin: 20 Years of Underground Techno, traces the trajectory of the underground techno movement in Berlin and Paris. It is comprised of...

Elektro Moskva (2013)

Once upon a time in Russia, a Revolution happened. Actually, a ghost had been creeping around for quite a while. The ghost of Communism....

I Was There When House Took Over the World (2017)

A documentary about the early days of House music. It has interviews with the first DJs and club owners in Chicago. Initiating in a...

Kvadrat (2013)

Kvadrat explores the daily life of a Russian techno DJ, Andrey Pushkarev. Shot in Switzerland, France, Hungary, Romania, and Russia, it unfolds like a...

Music and Technology: A Very Short Introduction | Book by Katz

Katz, M. (2022). Music and technology: A very short introduction. Oxford University Press. — Katz traces the relationship between music and technology from ancient times until...

Symphony of Now (2018)

Music production is done by Frank Wiedeman (from Âme). The film comprises “5 Acts”, as in the original “Berlin: Symphony of a Great City”. Each...

Coming to Berlin: Global Journeys into an Electronic Music & Club Culture Capital by Hanford (2022)

Paul Hanford’s book, Coming to Berlin is a collection of portraits of various figures from the electronic music scene of Berlin. It gives an...

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