Approaching the gates of GALA, London’s first full-capacity, outdoor dance music festival since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, a familiar feeling emerges. As muffled...
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Face coverings will be required inside and attendees must leave their contact details for test and trace
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Los Angeles’ Sha Sha Kimbo debuts on John Frusciante and Aura T-09’s Evar Records with the ‘Total Chaos’ EP, featuring remixes from Lyzza, Machinegirl and...
Los Angeles DJ, producer and Planet Bliss Records founder Sha Sha Kimbo will release her new EP via John Frusciante and Aura T-09’s Evar Records...
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Watford’s Tommy Rawson is up next on Red Rack’em’s Bergerac label with three cuts of lush broken beats and deep house grooves. Hear ‘Sound Crazy’...
Watford DJ and producer Tommy Rawson will release a new EP via Red Rack’em’s Bergerac label this week.
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GALA, London’s first outdoor dance music festival in over 16 months, took place in Peckham Rye Park last weekend. With exceptional programming and an emphasis...
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Chicago-born, New York-based footwork artist DJ Manny channels the hyper-personal, R&B-influenced sound of his new Planet Mu album ‘Signals In My Head’ in his masterful...
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The grime MC will appear in Croydon Magistrates' Court in September
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Selected students will receive £20,000 to cover tuition fees and maintenance costs as part of the initiative
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The track has been released through her own Young Art Records label
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The trial will allow 2,000 PCR-tested clubbers to visit six selected venues across a full weekend
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NKC debuts on Tzusing’s Sea Cucumber label with an EP inspired by trip-hop and alt-rock club edits. Hear the ferocious title track, a collab with...
Even The Strong founder NKC will release a new EP, 'Beams', via Tzusing’s Sea Cucumber label this month.
Marking the second release on the Malaysian-Chinese...