Movement is the most important electronic music festival in the United States, carrying with it a long and storied history and presenting a stacked lineup year after year. The 2017 bill had its share of international talent, but the thing that sticks in the mind...
Resident Advisor compiles a list of the five key performances at this year's Movement Festival in Detroit. Next to heroes as Larry Heard and Terrence Dixon, our own Sterac takes a spot within the top 5. Read the whole Resident Advisor article here....
Some things are just too good to be hidden from view. That’s certainly the case with Things To Think About, the first album from Dutch electronic music legend Steve Rachmad’s lesser-known Sterac Electronics project. Rachmad first rose to prominence in the late 1990s, spearheading a surge...
In light of his upcoming LP on their label, Voyage Direct invited Sterac Electronics for this month’s instalment of Voyage Direct Radio. Label head Tom Trago joined him for this special two-hours show. Find it here....
Berlin-based blog The Raving Spoon nominated Steve Rachmad as one of their favorite DJs. Find the Facebook post here....
Steve Rachmad steps up next to rework Andrea Oliva's "Vermona" under his own name first of all, delivering a smoothly unfolding six and a half minutes of raw bass stabs and upfront percussion before the latter stages introduce the original’s eerie synth lines. Then to complete...
The first of two tracks on this new EP is entitled ‘Sabre Song’ – a stomping, illuminating cut straight out of the Rachmad school of Detroit-influenced techno. D’Julz heard Steve play the track at Womb in Tokyo and had to sign it on the spot....
Flying under his STERAC Electronics alias, Amsterdam legend Steve Rachmad provides an exclusive mix of stellar 80's disco tunes. Hardly needing introduction, Steve has been responsible for classics such as the essential '95 release 'Secret Life of Machines', and has worked under labels like Klockworks,...
Berlin-based Ralf Schmidt had a run of melodic, hardware-focused EPs via his own Aleph Music circa 2010 and 2011, before releasing his 2013 album Offseason Traveller and largely going quiet. Last year, however, he reappeared with an EP on Maeve, and now he's making the jump...
Winter of 2015 is here and Drumcode continues to release the hottest new tracks that make waves within the techno community. Releasing tracks from artists such as Adam Beyer, Alan Fitzpatrick, Joseph Capriati, Maceo Plex, Luigi Madonna, Ida Engberg, Joel Mull, Sam Paganini, Harvey McKay...