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Grandma Techno Captures Detroit's Rave Culture

76-year-old Patricia Lay-Dorsey AKA Grandma Techno has been taking photos at Movement festival in Detroit since 2005. We talk with her about her new photo book and how today's dance music culture mirrors the ‘60s.
THUMP Specials
9:53

DJ JAZ and the Church of Episco-Disco

In the first episode of THUMP Profiles, THUMP travels to JAZ's home in Charleston, South Carolina to catch a sermon behind the altar (and the decks), firsthand.
Autobiographies
6:57

Jai Wolf on His Rise to Fame and Sharing a Stage with Skrillex

In this episode of Autobiographies, VICE sits down with the electronic musician Jai Wolf.
THUMP Shorts
1:48

Dancing vs. The State: How Mayor Giuliani Decimated 90s Clubbing in NYC

Veteran nightlife critic Michael Musto on how New York club culture fought back against mayor Rudy Giuliani.
THUMP Specials
10:55

Moby - Porcelain (Visual Memoir)

From one of the most interesting and iconic musicians of our time, a piercingly tender, funny and harrowing account of the path from suburban poverty and alienation to a life of beauty, squalor and unlikely success out of the NYC club scene.
Autobiographies
9:08

Venus X Wants to Party the Pain Away

The Brooklyn-based DJ talks about the benefits and challenges that come with being a female "free agent" in the electronic-music world.
THUMP Sessions / Clip
13:30

THUMP Sessions: Floating Points - Silhouettes (I, II & III) LIVE

Floating Points performed Silhouettes (I, II, & III) live with eleven friends from the YouTube Space New York.
THUMP Specials
49:53

Thump Sessions: Floating Points LIVE

Working with Pablo Barquin and Anna Diaz, Hamill Industries, to develop light drawings to accompany his most recent album, Elaenia, watch Floating Points and ten friends perform live from the YouTube Space NY.
SUB.Culture / Clip
9:05

Celebrating MANANA in the City of Music

We head to present-day Santiago de Cuba, where MANANA festival took place back in May, to see how dance music’s path through the decades has resulted in the scene’s most vibrant moment.
SUB.Culture / Clip
10:03

The DJ's Who Turned Cuba's Economic Turmoil Into a Movement

In the economically devastated early 90s, DJs like D'Joy de Cuba, Wichy de Vedado, and DJ Jigüe, found catharsis in a new community of parties, clubs, and sounds.
SUB.Culture / Clip
9:04

Meet the Pioneers Who Inspired Cuba's Dance Music Scene

In the early 1960s, oscillators, Moog synths, and dusty old tapes helped to cultivate an electroacoustic movement in Cuban music.
SUB.Culture / Clip
1:40

SUB.Culture: Cuba

We delve into how a group of pioneering musicians in the early 1960s created an electroacoustic movement that coupled modern equipment with more traditional Cuban styles.
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