Athens, Georgia is a town often associated with the indie-pop melodies of REM, but it also happens to be home to one of techno’s most promising new talents.

REM may be the biggest musical export of Athens, Georgia, but over the last decade Stewart Walker has been putting the town on the electronic music map with his deeply hypnotic techno productions.

Since its inception almost ten years ago, Lost - run by Steve Bicknell and partner Sheree Rashit - has become one of the longest running and globally influential events in the techno calendar, pioneering the deep percussive sound from which much of the music within today’s scene derives.

The very title of Sketchie's debut, Rain By High Lantern, casts light upon his whole project. Picture, if you can, a lantern held high on a...

Proprietor of Noodles, the ‘Stupidest Recording Organisation in The World’, Si Begg is one of dance music's most idiosyncratic movers and shakers. Overload caught up with the much sought-after producer prior to the release of the Noodles compilation, The Death Of Cool Part 2.

With his armoury of bagpipes, Burberry, Michael Jackson samples and plenty of noise, anarchic Brightonion Shitmat gives us an insight into his...

Laurent Fintoni takes a deep breath and dives into the world of bass operator Paul Rose, aka Scuba, the man behind the ever-evolving Hotflush label.

When SCSI-9 created Digital Russian for Berlin's Force Tracks, the album won them comparison to Metro Area among others. Overload spoke to Anton Kubikov and Maxim Milyutenko in 2003 about their debut LP and life in Russia.

Vernon Crane meets enigmatic Argentinian renaissance woman, Rosario Blefari.

Robert Hood's seminal works on Axis and M-Plant paved the way for the wave of muscular minimalism that flooded techno clubs during the late nineties. As Surgeon once remarked, 'When Hood released his pivotal Minimal Nation EP in 1993, it was like a bomb went off'. In a rare interview back in 2001, John Osselaer spoke with the Detroit don for Overload Media.

Ratboy Pimp got on the blower to Autechre's Rob Brown to find out more about their curation of the All Tomorrows Parties event in April 2003.

Fresh from a trip to France, where, along with colleague John Aquaviva, he introduced Final Scratch digital DJ technology to the world, Richie Hawtin unplugs from the machine to interface with Overload Media.

Gavin Weale tracks down DJ, producer and Innerzone Orchestra collaborator Matt Chicoine, aka Recloose, in his Detroit apartment.

Clocking in as one of 2000's finest electronic albums, Photek's Solaris met with as much suprise as it did critical acclaim. Rupert Parkes takes stock of his junglistic success and tells Paul Gannaway why the future’s brighter than ever.

Mention 'tribal techno' and it won't be long before the name Oliver Ho crops up — a man whose benchmark nineties productions made him a leader in the field, a position he retains to this day. Yet his artistic agenda has always been much broader, as Overload discovered during this interview back in 2000.

Mystical sounds outta '70s California and a hefty homage to Captain Beefheart are just two of the delights encountered by Martin Longley during a two-night stint at NYC's Knitting Factory.