"I perhaps could have been a bit more cautious,” Aluna Francis — sitting in her downtown LA home, sunglasses perched upon her braided blue coif...
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Houghton, Hide & Seek, We Out Here...
Bound for hell in a homemade vessel the UK may be, but at least this month gives us plenty of opportunities to go out dancing. ...
Should dance music be organic and 'real'? Should it fuck, the more synthetic the better says our resident ranter...
Time was, in the '80s and '90s when dance music was so massively marginalised by mainstream culture (yeah, so what’s new?) that trying to get...
LBS, Circus, Egg, London
Laurent Garnier's last-ever London Live Booth Session (LBS) at Egg is one way to warm up a bitter winter evening...
The United Kingdom of rave returns
House is still topping the UK charts; the EDM beast is mutating and consuming every thing in its path. Never before has there been so...
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Aluna Francis’s life has been one of discovery — of uncovering truths about herself, about society, and about the fundamental ways in which the dance music industry fails people. The Wales-born, LA-based music maker, formerly of AlunaGeorge and now working as a solo artist, tells Bruce Tantum how she’s putting the knowledge she’s gained into practice via the new Noir Fever festival
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To celebrate 15 years of French label Ed Banger, we chart the history of the seminal Busy P-fronted imprint via 15 key records...
Words: ANDREW RAFTER
In the fickle world of dance music where trends come and go like the tide, a label that manages to remain relevant without compromising its initial vision...
Croatia's original UK dance fest
With Croatia the choice destination for discerning dance heads looking for a holiday with decent music, we head to The Garden Festival, where it all started...
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Moving effortlessly through a range of tempos and flavours, the NYC-based, Lagos-raised DJ Akanbi demonstrates his party-starting sound with a live recording from New Year’s Day at Nowadays, and speaks to Michael McKinney about the evolution of his GROOVY GROOVY events, and taking the dancefloor somewhere new with his anything-goes approach
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In the small city of Braga in northwest Portugal, Semibreve’s ninth edition finds pioneers of electronic music playing alongside contemporary innovators. With dazzling live sets...
There are over 30 churches in Braga, a small historic city in northwest Portugal. Walking through its cobbled streets, their ringing bells are often heard...
With Miller Genuine Draft
Tell us in one sentence who you are and where are you from?
"I’m Scorsi, a producer and music aficionado from São Paulo, Brazil."
Where...
Can ravers propel old hardcore hit to the top of the UK charts?
Christmas is often a time of naff records and cringeworthy sentimentality, but in recent years — since the advent of downloads — there have been...
The biggest tunes on the underground this month
Five tunes you need in your box
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On Cue is our newly relaunched flagship mix series, celebrating the pivotal DJs and producers whose influence has shaped the world of electronic music, both...
When we decided to relaunch our flagship mix series, one artist remained at the top of our hit list to kick things off from the...
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When Mason first released ‘Exceeder’ in 2005 it was a B-side. But its fuzzy bassline and gated trancey notes garnered a legion of fans, and it became a key building block in the pre-EDM electro-house scene. 17 years later, he shares its story
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Chicago's Hieroglyphic Being records one hour of fuzzy-and-jazzy live techno for the On Cue mix series, and speaks to Lauren Martin about surviving as an...