Some 100 people on Saturday gathered for a Halloween-themed algorave in the Mission District. Photo by Yujie Zhou, Oct. 28, 2023. Some 100 people gathered for a Halloween-themed dance party in the ...

Welcome to Scene Report where we highlight significant, underground scenes and subcultures across the globe. Picture this: You walk into a club and see someone in front of a computer. Behind this ...

“I go to meetings and events now, and ask if people know what algorave is. They go ‘Yeah!’. Like wow — six years ago…” says Antonio Roberts, before tailing off into a bemused chuckle that indicates ...

I never thought I’d be caught in the middle of an argument about coding languages at an EDM concert, but there I was. The room full of musical nerds quietly bobbing their heads to glitchy electronic ...

As part of the Guardian’s underground music series, we asked readers where they thought we should be looking for weird scenes. We’ll round up the best suggestions next week to close out the series, ...

Sarah Davis, aka DJ_Dave. Sarah Davis, better known in the music community as DJ_Dave, has only been live coding music for about two years, but the skills have launched a career. That’s right — when ...

The idea behind Algorave, an art and dance party this Sunday night in Bushwick, is to create music while programming in real time in front of an audience. Algoraves seem to be an exercise of live ...

Algorave lies at the intersection of electronic music and geek cultureA small group of coders are reinventing the live music performance scene by putting computer ...

In the back room of a bar in the South London suburb of New Cross, there’s a revolution happening. Or maybe it’s not so much a revolution as a de-volution, a rolling back to the backend of music ...

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