Ep. 24 - Drumcell

How Drumcell Helped Turn Los Angeles Into A Global Techno Capital
How the Droid Behavior co-founder built a scene from scratch. For
all its reputation as a rave and EDM capital, Los Angeles never had
much resembling an international techno scene until Drumcell and
his Droid Behavior posse started throwing event in the early 2000s.
For 16 years, the LA-born producer Moe Espinosa and his partners
Vidal and Vangelis Vargas (who produce techno as Raíz) made
bringing techno to Tinsel Town their life's mission. And it worked,
with LA now hosting multiple techno events every weekend, while the
Droid Behavior crew tour their brand of decidedly non-West Coast
sounding techno around the world. Espinosa sat down with Rave
Curious at the Vice studios by the beach in Venice, over an hour's
drive from his end of East Los Angeles, to talk about what it took
to build a scene from scratch, about this inspiration he took from
Detroit and Chicago, and about the endless flights back and forth
to Europe while keeping what he built at home alive.