It’s the Thursday before Notting Hill Carnival and Linett Kamala, board director of Europe’s biggest street party, is weaving through the streets of Kilburn. Her...
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The original electro sound has been seeping back onto dancefloors, whether in the sets of DJs like Helena Hauff and Nina Kraviz or mix-comps by...
Electro inspires a fervid following. The genre is a bubbling underground scene populated by dedicated labels, DJs and diverse producers, scattered across the world, and...
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Sound systems have driven the development of music in the UK, powered by hard work, passion and innovation. But preserving UK sound system culture, its knowledge and history, while also pushing it forward, is no easy task today. Ria Hylton traces its path through ska and reggae at blues dances in West Indian households, to soul, boogie, hip-hop and house in ’80s warehouses and at the Notting Hill Carnival, to nationwide tours and global popularity, and finds out how initiatives like the Sound System Futures Programme are seeking to secure its future
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More than a decade of campaigning and lobbying could bring more protection from gentrification and development
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Theo Kottis
Theo Theo Theo!
If you haven't seen Theo Kottis' name about town yet, it won't be long until you do. Picked for Groovefest...
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The event will conclude with an all-female DJ takeover
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Velocity Press will publish Ben Murphy's examination of the way field recordings fold the natural world into electronic music this May
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Hard techno stalwart Rebekah links up with Malke for a new dancefloor punisher on the second instalment of her ‘Go Hard or Go Hardcore Vol.1’ compilation series
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The new collective, called Support The Sound, sees DVS1’s Aslice platform partner with Dekmantel, Wire Festival, Bassiani, Womb Tokyo and more
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The iconic festival stage returns at this year’s FLY Open Air
Fake Blood talks to the press for the first time about his new album
DJ Mag quizzed him about his hip-hop roots, graffiti, EDM and his burgeoning soundtrack work for a famous cult horror movie...
Here's the biggest tracks from Leeds' favourite festival...
Come the end of September, even the most robust, diehard ravers reluctantly accept that the UK festival season has finally run its course. Up North...
Just Jack, Bristol
Remember a time when Bristol wasn’t part of the Holy Grail with London and Berlin as a triumvirate of electronic cool? No, us neither, but that was the case around seven years ago, with the glowing embers of a once great d&b scene the only thing to really be keeping the city on the map at all.
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The four-track release drops two months after the original 13-track album
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The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From fiery percussive club music and techno to celestial synths and deep...