A full-time party monster, Winston Mann is also an insect neuroscientist based in the center of Germany and has written for Columbia’s Current magazine and 48 Hills covering the underground, and sometimes dystopian, Electronic music scene in San Francisco. He’s also written extensively for his own passions, including macabre poetry and short stories to which magazines like the New Yorker have responded with, “Unfortunately, we cannot publish this now.”
Techno is something that Winston Mann experiences with near religious fervor, a place to find community and likemindedness where it is not otherwise available. He loves the open-minded nature and total freedom of the space, the way it is able to embrace every community at once. Mann writes about any and all music he finds interesting, from weird modular synthesis experiments to chill, evocative House, to Hardcore and borderline gabber Techno.
Writing for Dirty Epic has provided, on top of a great rationale for hours of weekly crate-digging, a unique opportunity to commune deeply with the global Techno community. Hearing feedback from artists, giving a platform to upcoming talent, getting the opportunity to think deeply about the most instinctual and vital, in his own opinion, genre of music in existence has been extremely fun and educational, bridging his two great loves of writing and music. And the other people who work here are pretty cool too.
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