Conversations — with musicians and technologists, composers and record-company executives, legends and upstarts, analog turncoats and self-publishing entrepreneurs.
Note: The software by which Disquiet.com is published was upgraded on July 26, 2007. As a result, many past interviews have yet to be ported to the new site. They will be back up shortly. Those interview subjects include, in roughly reverse chronological order: DJ Krush, Amon Tobin, Future Sound of London, Twine’s Chad Mossholder, Michael Bentley (founder of Foundry Records), Sam Rosenthal (founder of Projekt Records), Todd Hyman (founder of Carpark Records), Console’s Martin Gretschmann, Bogdan Raczynski, Randy Greif, Patrick Carpenter (of DJ Food), Coldcut’s Matt Black, and the heads of the record labels Asphodel, Extreme and Moonshine.
Composer Elise Kermani talks about revisiting "retro" multimedia performance art; getting young, desk-bound technophiles to move; and remixing Vivaldi by accident.
Touring in support of his seventh full-length album, The Message at the Depth, DJ Krush talks about musical abstraction and geopolitical anxiety.
Moscow-based composer Artemiy Artemiev, head of Electroshock Records, talks about coming of age underneath a piano and the watchful ear of the Soviet secret service.
On his 2002 album, Out from Out Where, Amon Tobin leaves his native Brazil behind for the silver screens of India.
Innovative American composer/performer Greg Davis on pastoral technology and the education of an electronic musician.
Andreas Tilliander, who appears on the Mille Plateaux label's third Clicks & Cuts collection, talks about the hip-hop heart of experimental electronic music.
The ubiquitous turntablist named DJ Logic is the Moby of the musicians' union.
When Thorsten Sideboard founded 8bitrecs.com, an online label consisting entirely of free MP3 files, his role model wasn't Matador Records or Def Jam — it was a computer database.
Koji Asano, a prolific Japanese electro-acoustician at home in Barcelona, talks about the life of an itinerant self-publisher.
Before embarking on a 2001 tour of the United States, Squarepusher talked about the personal challenges of making challenging music.