Articles by Joshua Ostroff

Video Game Invasion: The History Of A Global Obsession

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

Despite gaming's current omnipresence, the media has failed so often in giving the form its due that it seemed unlikely the Game Show Netwo...

Ada

Blondie

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

Like the late Rodney Dangerfield, female singers in the electronic field too often get no respect — tending to appear either as disembodied...

Bleep

Datenbergau

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

Despite the Teutonic title — Datenbergau means data mining in German — Bleep is not the latest minimal full-length from the Fatherland. Tho...

Infected Mushroom

IM the Supervisor

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

Psy-trance is a style purpose-built for a specific situation — an outdoor day-glo fest that’s usually more pounding at ten a.m. than it was...

Massive Attack

Danny The Dog

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

Presaging next year’s highly-anticipated Luc Besson/Jet Li martial-arts collaboration Danny the Dog (which will go by the decidedly lamer t...

Mama Said Knock You Out

VIDEO GAME

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

Talk about a beat-down. Def Jam: Fight For New York, a beefed-up version of last year’s Def Jam Vendetta, takes your favourite rappers out...

The Faint

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

Their music may sound like it was birthed in Brooklyn, but this synth-rock quintet hails from the hills of Omaha, Nebraska. No matter, thei...

Märtini Brös

Love the Machines

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

Robots might be sci-fi figures over here, but in Germany they’re folk heroes — and I’m not just talking about Kraftwerk. From the sounds of...