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Dance festival releases official statement
One of the UK’s foremost dance music festivals, Glade, has been cancelled for 2010. Organisers have cited near-impossible police conditions as the reason behind their...
A guide to dance music's pre-rave past...
We've drafted in Greg Wilson, the former electro-funk pioneer, nowadays a leading figure in the global disco/re-edits movement and respected commentator on dance music and...
A guide to dance music's pre-rave past...
We've drafted in Greg Wilson, the former electro-funk pioneer, nowadays a leading figure in the global disco/re-edits movement and respected commentator on dance music and...
With Miller Genuine Draft
This year’s Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) will go down in history. Last month over 350,000 dance music fans and industry players converged on the Dutch...
The EP is out today
Nyege Nyege Tapes have released a two-track EP from Julien Hairon, AKA Judgitzu.
After spending over five years recording found sounds and musicians in Asia...
Dub’s influence on dance music stretches back from the earliest shoots of acid house...
“When it comes to music, it’s a small world,” says dub maestro Mad Professor, fresh from a month-long tour of Australia.
“Just take that tune...
The works of Suzanne Ciani, Delia Derbyshire, Laurie Spiegel, Pauline Oliveros and more are explored in the documentary
A documentary about electronic music's female pioneers is set to premiere next month.
Titled Sisters with Transistors, the documentary is scheduled to premiere at The...
Out on Oliver Huntemann's Senso Sounds soon...
dubspeeka is a man who likes his basslines as thick and raw as his kicks. The Bristol based DJ-producer, elusive as he may be, is...
A guide to dance music's pre-rave past...
We've drafted in Greg Wilson, the former electro-funk pioneer, nowadays a leading figure in the global disco/re-edits movement and respected commentator on dance music and...
MCs Hakim and Swordman also appear on the Ugandan imprint's first vinyl LP
Hakuna Kulala has announced the debut album from Don Zilla and Elvin Brandhi,'Headroof', with the pair releasing under the shared moniker Villaelvin.
The LP marks...
Win tickets to opening weekend of new dance charity
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life is a new charity based around the motto ‘unity, community and serious fun’ whose aim is to raise...
Why is shuffling being mocked and banned?
I’m going to tell you a little story about dancing — this is a dance music mag, after all. It’s 1991. I’m deep in some ramshackle Northern warehouse rave. I’m at one with the universe, have just had my sixth life-changing conversation of the evening and am now busy chatting with my fourth new best friend in the last hour.
Nile Rodgers is the man behind Chic and countless disco classics and mega hits. Always moving with the times and updating his classic guitar licks...
In late 1976, a guitarist named Nile Rodgers and a bass player named Bernard Edwards bribed an elevator operator $10 to keep quiet about an after-hours...
With Miller Genuine Draft
Dance music is an exciting place to be right now. The clubs are packed, the music is rocking and new artists are breaking through all...