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Intacto label co-founder and Amsterdam techno stalwart Shinedoe steps up with a incendiary hour of propulsive grooves and swerving soundscapes. We catch up with her...
Since 2004, Amsterdam’s Shinedoe has been at the forefront of the city’s techno scene and beyond, both as co-founder of the Intacto label with 2000...
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New York’s Kindergarten Records has become an essential outpost for hard-to-define, easy-to-dance-to club music in just two short years. Alongside a mix from its catalogue, founder Ma Sha tells Sophie McNulty how friendship and a sense of fun are at the heart of the imprint
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When the Covid-19 pandemic cleared Dutch producer, DJ and label boss Martyn’s diary, he turned his attention to others: starting his own mentoring programme for...
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On Cue is our flagship mix series, celebrating the pivotal DJs and producers whose influence has shaped the world of electronic music, both in their...
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Artistic crews in Miami are working to create fun, diverse parties, away from the city's gaudy beach clubs. Jaime Sloane meets four groups of rave...
Dubstep original will never turn his back on the sound that made him
As you’ve doubtless heard, dubstep is dead in the water. Cursed with a lethal mix of commercial success, mass popularity, a huge internet presence, countless sold out raves, the scene is, as any fool can tell, totally knackered. Somebody needs to pause and tell Skream this quick, because from where he’s standing, the world has never looked better. Currently on a short solo tour of the States, the man who describes himself as having “dubstep as my blood group” has been gleefully pushing the boundaries of the sound, chopping up half speed snare smashes and bully boy basslines with taut explosions of house, disco and techno, knowing full well that rather than destroying the scene he loves, he’s blowing it wide open.
Cheeky Bubblers incoming...
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Kenny mix it? Yes he can!
Born and bred in Leeds, British producer and DJ Billy Kenny has been kicking up a storm...
Boom Jinx shares his heart and soul in a bare-it-all interview
Boom Jinx has created a crown jewel. It’s been nine years in the making and along the way, the enigmatic artist has managed to ga...
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A stalwart of the UK’s dance music community for over 30 years, DJ Billy Nasty was a pioneer of '90s progressive house before launching his techno and electro labels, Tortured and Electrix. A true vinyl devotee, he now runs the Vinyl Curtain record shop in Brighton. Harold Heath meets him in his home town to talk mix CDs, underground dance music history, running labels and the enduring importance of vinyl DJing
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As the UK looks toward the end of lockdown and the reopening of clubs and festivals, Giulia Bottaro speaks to nightlife workers from different parts...
We talk to the idiosyncratic producer ahead of his new album for FlyLo's label
A visual artist as well as a musician, Mtendere Mandowa knows there are always different ways of looking at things. In fact, it’s only recently...
Why are masks so popular in dance music?
“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.” FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil...
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It’s back. America's most important electronic music gathering is returning to South Beach in Miami. The Winter Music Conference 2013 (and its wider nomenclature Miami Music Week) will be host to the industry's hot shots — the DJs, producers, promoters and label owners pulling the strings of this international emporium we call dance music — their arms (and minds) wide open to another onslaught of Miami madness.
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Nova made history last year when she became the first grime artist to win Scottish Album of the Year. An MC who wears her heart...
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Ahead of his first ever shows as pioneering Detroit electro unit Cybotron, techno innovator Juan Atkins tells us why he’s revisiting his past — and...
Juan Atkins has always been, in his own words, “a music lover”. Growing up in Detroit, he would treat his parents’ dinner parties as an...