When Damon Albarn’s Gorillaz loped onto the scene with their self-titled debut album in 2001, this virtual band looked like it might be the future...
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A FEW WORDS FROM CLAPTONE...
“What time is it and where am I?” These are questions I find myself asking repeatedly lately. Yesterday, I flew...
Deviation carnival afterparties
It’s hard to believe that at the time of writing, it’s that moment you realise summer (what summer?) is officially coming to a close, marked...
Alan Walker is only 20, but this EDM DJ/ producer and video gamer already has millions of fans for his YouTube channel and a global...
Alan Walker's story is as remarkable as his name is not. British by birth but based in Norway since he was two, he's still only...
Beatboxer incorporates Twitter suggestions into show
One man beatbox band Beardyman sets off on his first solo tour on 28th April with a head of ideas, a bag full of gizmos...
The Dre Beat Pro Headphones come with a “bling” price tag, but do they represent the real beat on the street?
In terms of musical franchises, Dr. Dre seems to have hit payday gold with his Beats by Dre headphones and laptop range. But are these...
A catch up with the garage don
Even though you've been producing remixes consistently for many people you've been under the radar for a while. Is the new single 'Gotta Have It'...
Gorillaz’ 2001 self-titled debut laid the foundations for Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s animated outfit. With a rotating cast of collaborators and a genre-merging style...
Berlin’s techno superstar Paul Kalkbrenner is back with a new LP that pays tribute to the city’s halcyon early rave days. We find out more...
Berlin is a city that’s always maintained an uneasy relationship with celebrity culture. It was here that David Bowie went to get away from the...
House cat Huxley clinches the producer prize after a stellar debut album...
It is fitting that Huxley has been made to wait for our coveted Best Producer award until this year. You could argue that the Tring...
London's longest-serving Techno night, Lost.
As one half of Basic Channel, Mark Ernestus has one of the most influential back catalogues in electronic music. And just as Basic Channel releases were as eagerly anticipated as Santa dropping down the chimney with a sack of white labels for the techno cognoscenti during the 1990s, so Ernestus’ rare DJ appearances are almost as mythical an event. Or to put it another way, if you were to book him, you probably wouldn’t stick him in a back bar at the end of the night.
Charging through big rooms
This year the British Breakthrough DJ award has gone to a producer. Actually, that might have been how we saw Funkagenda a few years ago...
It’s the fifth song by the late Swedish artist to surpass the milestone
New world order
Glastonbury isn't a festival, it's a settlement. Twice the size of Bath, it's more like a refugee camp for society's arty and most liberal than...
From CBGB and the last days of disco to formative era house music and hip hop
Run-DMC, Grandmaster Flash, Larry Levan and more feature in a new exhibition on early ‘80s New York music, which opened Friday 11th June.
Held at...