Jacob Arnold portrait

I cover underground electronic music, from Detroit techno and Chicago house to British IDM and Berlin dub. I launched my own Webzine, Gridface, March 26, 1996. Since then I have posted over 450 reviews and features. I have interviewed a number of artists, including Stephen Hitchell, Bvdub, Monolake, Funckarma, and Kettel. In 2007, I posted dispatches from the Detroit Electronic Music Festival. More recently, I started a series of interviews with important figures in the early Chicago house music scene.

I have also been published in Igloo Magazine, Armchair DJ, and Stereo88.com. Earplug and Resident Advisor have noted several of my articles. In the late nineties, I hosted a radio show called TechHop in Ithaca, NY. Playlists are archived here.