If you want a part-time lover, listen to Stevie Wonder. If you want a private dancer, groove to Tina Turner. If you want "music without a whole lot of stylistic baggage," you better check out Autechre. As mischievous lads in Manchester, England, Sean Booth and Rob Brown bonded over a cheap synthe

Dark, Hi-tech, Intense, Machinistic, Melancholy

Jean Epstein had a theory. The star of his theory was the machine -- an anti-hero, a character the audience loved to hate. Epstein recognized the machine as an extension of humans, who manipulate objects, but magnificently immortal. A filmmaker, Epstein cast the camera, his own personal extension, in

Clever, Hallucinatory, Intense, Machinistic, Manic, Surrealist film

Kraftwerk's reclusiveness is notorious. They've turned down all offers to work with big names-- not David Bowie, not Elton John, nor Michael Jackson neither. They've never re-mixed the work of another artist. They hold the reins over production tightly, to the point of self-management. They haven't e

Hypnotic, Industrial, Kinetic, Machinistic, Pioneering

Shinichirō Watanabe (渡辺 信一郎) is a Japanese anime director and writer. He is most well-known for the television anime series Cowboy Bebop. Watanabe is noted for blending together multiple genres, such as in Cowboy Bebop, where classic cowboy western mixes with 1940s/1950s New York City f

Anime & manga, Atmospheric, Fantastic, Hi-tech, Machinistic, Technology