German techno meets Canadiana

From a Vancouver Sun feature on Montreal-based indie-folk artist Rae Spoon, who has incorporated a number of electro influences - among them Kraftwerk, The Knife and Crystal Castles - on his new album Love Is A Hunter. It's the result, he says, of an extended stay in Germany.

"I was explaining to one of my friends over there what folk music was ... and, very seriously, he told me that folk music in Germany was techno. It really changed my perspective ... People my age in Germany will more likely try their hand at DJing than learn how to play guitar ... I was interested to see how I could bring the skills required in folk music and the idea of songwriting and then add electronic music elements and bring them together."

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The Dance Beat: News from Vancouver's Electro Scene



The Vancouver Sun's Francois Marchand reports that "something big is bubbling" in the city's underground electro scene:

If you paid attention to what was happening in the music blogosphere in 2010, three names from Vancouver's electro scene kept being repeated over and over again, and not just in the 604 area. Party duo Humans, chilly electropopster Teen Daze and grimy noisemaker Babe Rainbow put out three EPs that knocked us out, each in their own special way, and 2011 could prove to be the year where the loop is looped and their names truly become household. How and why could Vancouver's electro bubble finally burst?

Full story here.