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DJ Mag dons a fancy helmet and attempts to throw shapes to the sounds of Peggy Gou and Artwork at a rave in the world’s...

Have you ever listened to music underwater? What about at the bottom of the deepest diving pool on earth? What would that be like? Well...

All aboard...

Amsterdam is getting a new club with a very unique setting: noorderschip, housed within a 50-meter-long, old pirate radio boat.

The 300-capacity noorderschip, which has...

From back-to-back travel and navigating unknown places, to the thrill of peak time raving and the low of the next day, touring DJs lead lives...

My previous DJing career took me all over the world in the early ’00s. Back then, I would always go to the after party —...

Over 20 DJs will perform across the weekend

Swedish House Mafia and Carl Cox are among the names locked for BBC Radio 1's 70-hour Dance Weekend.

Taking place across the dates that Radio...

Four days of nonstop techno in Berlin...

There’s an 87-hour techno rave taking place in a former mill in Berlin this weekend in celebration of the seventh anniversary of nightlife hotspot Griessmühle...

Various pieces of artwork for Bronski Beat's 'Smalltown Boy'

Released on 25th May 1984, ‘Smalltown Boy’ launched the gay synth-pop band Bronski Beat into the charts and onto dancefloors with its glorious synths, hi-NRG production and Jimmy Somerville’s soaring falsetto, which sang a story of rejection, pain and escape. Here, with the help of musicians, its iconic video's director and others, Bailey Slater explores how, four decades on, it remains an unflinching anthem of queer liberation

When you think of the voices that defined a generation, the 1980s had plenty of options. From Sade and Sinead O’Connor to George Michael and...

How X-Press 2’s ‘Lazy’

Released in 2002, a dream collaboration between UK house heroes X-Press 2 and Talking Heads' David Byrne, ‘Lazy’ lit up clubs and the pop charts alike. Here, Dave Jenkins talks to the group’s Ashley Beedle, Rocky and Diesel about how the track transcended generations and genres to become a timeless hit

“Who even writes a bloody dance tune called ‘Lazy’?” laughs Ashley Beedle. Fellow X-Press 2 founders Rocky and Diesel chime in with the chuckles, as...

This month's most vital label

Who’s behind it?
Peter Gyselaers, aka Break 3000 and part of the Dirt Crew, is the dude currently running the label. “In 2004 we started...

Stream Wankelmut's 'My Head is a Jungle' (MK Remix)

Back in January, the almost rudely monikered Wankelmut and vocalist Emma-Louise released the odd, entrancing, disco house of 'My Head Is a Jungle' on Berlin's...

The house aficionado returns with some dynamite

Russ Yallop has steadily ascended himself as one of the frontrunners in the next generation of house music. With releases on legendary imprints like Crosstown...

Tragic passing of Peter Harris

Peter Harris – the man behind seminal rave/house music label Kickin' Music - has tragically died after a long battle with cancer. He passed away...

Top events planned at WMC

This week in Miami, Florida, Pacha NYC are throwing a series of spectacular parties for the Winter Music Conference, featuring an array of the world's...

BBC 4 on 19th February at 10pm...

Daft Punk documentary 'Daft Punk Unchained' will finally be broadcast in the UK on BBC 4 on February 19th at 10pm. 

Daft Punk Unchained, directed...

Leeds two-man posse peer into the past

I used to try and mix things like Tori Amos 'Professional Widow' into the soundtrack from Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence. God knows what I was thinking!

Erol Alkan, Pete Tong and more in...Carlisle!

Radio One’s Big Weekend is coming to Carlisle and the excitement is spilling over into the city’s premier club night Uber, who are putting together...