Henry Ivry

Toronto

Infrastructure, ecology, techno, pugs丨Reading and teaching @UofGCritStudies Bylines @ResidentAdvisor @Beatport @Bandcamp丨Promos hlivry(a)https://t.co/3PuilLK6UH

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The UK's most important avant-garde music festival is in a Maryhill community hall

6 days ago | glasgowbell.co.uk | Henry Ivry

I wish I could say that it was love at first sight for me and Counterflows, Glasgow’s longest running experimental music festival. But it had been a week since I’d left the glass and chrome of Toronto’s condo skyline behind when I first walked into Maryhill’s Community Central Hall in March 2022, to check out what a friend insisted was the most important and exciting experimental event in the UK. How acclaimed could it be, I wondered? I’d never heard of it.
Remembering Horst Weidenmüller, !K7 Founder and Electronic Visionary

2 weeks ago | daily.bandcamp.com | Henry Ivry

LISTS Remembering Horst Weidenmüller, !K7 Founder and Electronic Visionary By Henry Ivry · April 28, 2025 !K7 founder Horst Weidenmüller was a hero of underground music. In 2025, when the idea of “underground music” is often co-opted by PR companies and brands, the term may feel meaningless.
Ploy - It's Later Than You Think · Album Review ⟋ RA

1 month ago | ra.co | Henry Ivry

An electric ode to staying out too late. There's a track here called "Stinky," which tells you all you need to know. The Berlin producer makes a globally-minded club EP with an exacting ear for rhythm and pacing. How do you follow "Ramos?" With something even crazier. A wonky club cut with an unforgettable breakdown. Ineffable music from an essential UK label. Hessle Audio's most thought-provoking release of the year. UK beat science on Batu's excellent label.
Two Underground Stars Imagine a Dank, Dubby Baltimore

2 months ago | hearingthings.co | Henry Ivry

A friend recently sent me a list of her favorite records of 2024 with the disclaimer, "Basically I listened to Valentina Magaletti all year." While she was being hyperbolic (sort of), I understood what she meant. Magaletti, the London-based drummer and producer, may be the hardest working musician in experimental music.
The Track ID debate: is tracklist secrecy ever justified?

Feb 12, 2025 | djmag.com | Henry Ivry

It's 10:30am on a Sunday in 2014. I’m swaying to a pad-heavy house track delivered by Texan DJ Willie Burns as the morning light glistens through the faux-stained glass that looks over the open air dancefloor of the now-shuttered club, Griessmuehle. It’s that magical time in Berlin when the crowd is transitioning from the late night crew to the fresh-faced punters gearing up for the day.
Where to Start With Tempa, The Label That Invented Dubstep

Jan 8, 2025 | daily.bandcamp.com | Henry Ivry

LABEL PROFILE Where to Start With Tempa, The Label That Invented Dubstep By Henry Ivry · January 08, 2025 It’s hard to overstate just how important the British label Tempa has been in the rise of bass-forward UK club music. Originally founded by Neil Jolliffe in 2000, the label was a key part of an insurgent movement pushing a darker strand of UK garage. That genre—shorthanded UKG—had taken over the charts in Britain, becoming a bit too glossy and poppy in the process.
Dub Techno, Club’s Weediest Genre, Rises Again

Dec 12, 2024 | hearingthings.co | Henry Ivry

When clubs began opening back up after COVID lockdowns, it made complete sense that the mantra in music circles seemed to be: Harder. Faster. Poppier. After months of livestreams and thinkpieces about the healing powers of ambient music, losing your shit to a jungle flip of Ciara was medicinal. At first, it was trance and progressive house that captured the zeitgeist, but even the sugar highs of those genres soon began to taste like flat Diet Pepsi compared to Eurodance, hard house, and gabber.
What Is the Infrastructure of Critique?

Aug 13, 2024 | publicbooks.org | Henry Ivry

From to the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, we live in a moment of infrastructural collapse. Large-scale public works projects have been privatized, meaning that the systems of circulation that enable day-to-day life—from pipelines to data clouds, drinking water to education—are crumbling at increasingly accelerated rates. Now is “a scene shaped by the infrastructural breakdown of modernist practices,” writes Lauren Berlant.
Recognise: Daisy Moon

Aug 7, 2024 | djmag.com | Henry Ivry

Credit: Paul Samuel WhiteThe word “community” has become something of a clubland cliché in recent times, but for Bristol’s Daisy Moon, it’s been the guiding principle for her life in music. Whether she’s DJing at local haunt Strange Brew or at Love International festival, releasing music on labels like Peach Discs, Rhythm Section and CURL, promoting parties, or tutoring aspiring artists through the Mix Nights programme, she imbues everything she does with that unifying, collective feeling.
The Sound Of: Love On The Rocks

Jun 27, 2024 | djmag.com | Henry Ivry

“If it looks like there is a line connecting everything I’ve done, there isn’t,” producer, DJ, and label boss Paramida tells us, laughing. “I have no idea what I’m doing and have just learned by doing it.” She’s recounting the history of her vaunted label, Love On The Rocks, which celebrates its 10th anniversary later this year. As she explains it, just about everything related to the label is a happy accident. The name?