In electronic music, style matters more than all else. Performers who work with computers and other digital gadgets often use the same tools; they draw from the same sources; and they fall within a ...

UK producer Simon Green, who works under the moniker of Bonobo, is an artist tailor-made for KCRW. He is a master of downtempo, silky-smooth trip-hop, a sound that the station has savored for decades.

It's been almost three years since the release of Bonobo's masterful, mould-breaking 'Black Sands'. Now, in 2013, he stands ready to take things up yet another notch. 'The North Borders' is a long ...