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We talk to the production wiz
Rhys Adams – groove hound DJ extraordinaire and reggae-obsessed producer – makes up half of reggaecentric beat fiends Yes King alongside Mark Rae. Bringing his...
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In this regular feature, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their Bandcamp...
News
The London grassroots music and arts venue was forced to close this past weekend as all Old Paradise Yard small businesses were evicted to make way for planned new offices
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Invasive phone searches of suspected unlicensed event organisers could be allowed under the new motion by new far-right prime minister Giorgia Meloni
Efdemin is one of Berlin's most pioneering and different techno and deep house DJ/producers, we talk about his new album
Efdemin, to the uninitiated, is two things: a true DJ's DJ and an artist whose productions have exemplified a strain of the German ambient and...
German trance legend Paul van Dyk, former winner of our Top 100 DJs poll, is in back-to-back meetings about his ‘Politics of Dancing 3’ album...
Three years in the making and brought to fruition in a different way to the previous two, it’s a worthy addition to PvD’s impressive discography...
All the best bits for your producer pals and loved ones...
What do you buy the producer who has it all? That is, of course, a trick question – no producer ever has it all. There’s...
It might officially be part of the United States, but Hawaii's Asylum club exists in a magical world of its own...
Hawaii may be America's 50th state but anyone who's been there will agree that it feels like a distant refuge from the US mainland. Two...
Is Novation's new Launchpad controller - designed for Ableton Live - the space age kit we've been waiting for?
Everyone will be familiar with Ableton's Live production software, that many also use for DJing, but up until now, there haven't been any real dedicated...
Wacom’s Nextbeat 1000 all-in-one DJing device is out to totally transform how DJs work the crowd. But will it please, or is it just a...
Wacom are not your usual DJ kit manufacturer. In fact they are one of the leading lights in the computer tablet and touchpad market so...
Tech
The Berlin synth conference wrapped last week. Here's the best of what was announced...
Berlin's Superbooth conference – founded by the synth sorcerers Schneider's Buero – has gone from strength to strength over the past few years, growing from...
Tech
The company’s first rotary mixer costs €3,799 and features a Rupert Neve Designs transformer
Detroit legend speaks out
Robert Hood was a member of Underground Resistance, the legendary militant visionary techno collective from Detroit. After leaving UR in the early 1990s, Robert pioneered a minimalist form of techno — along with Daniel Bell, Richie Hawtin etc — in reaction to the increasingly hardcore “too ravey” twists and turns that techno was taking.
A match made in heaven
It takes two to tango, and that’s exactly what Serato and Pioneer are doing here. Serato users have even more reasons to be cheerful with...
Pioneer’s new Rekord Box software delivers the goods...
Rekord Box is Pioneer’s digital answer to the vinyl cases that DJs used to lug around. In the fabulous old days of records, there would...