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Dialled In announces Manara, Arthi, PXSSY PALACE, more
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Dialled In announces Manara, Arthi, PXSSY PALACE, more for Manchester festival

The all-dayer will mark Dialled In's first festival outside London

Dialled In has dropped the first names for its upcoming Manchester festival. The multi-genre all-dayer, slated for 20th July at MIAMOS (The Nia Centre), will...

Music will return to TikTok as platform reaches licensing agreement with Universal
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Music will return to TikTok as platform reaches licensing agreement with Universal

The new deal also addresses the issue of generative AI in music

Music owned by Universal Music Group will return to TikTok following a licensing agreement reached between the label and the app. UMG (Universal Music Group)...

Fatboy Slim DJs tiny venue Hot Box fundraiser: “Anything I can do to help”
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Fatboy Slim DJs tiny venue Hot Box fundraiser: “Anything I can do to help”

Norman Cook lent his star power to support the struggling Chelmsford venue with a sold-out rare intimate gig last week

Fatboy Slim played a rare intimate gig last week as part of the effort to save Essex venue Hot Box from closure. Norman Cook headlined...

Classic trance database collects 150,000 tracks from 1988 to 2009
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150,000 classic trance tracks from 1988 to 2009 collected in new database

Creator Koncz Dávid is confident that the database has been compiled with at least 90% accuracy

A new database collecting 150,000 classic trance tracks has gone online. The comprehensive spreadsheet, which uses vinyl releases as a reference, was created with the...

Selections: SPFDJ
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Selections: SPFDJ

In this series, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, SPFDJ spotlights hard, fast and hallucinatory techno

SPFDJ’S ascent in the years prior to the Covid pandemic was as hard and fast as the music she plays. From becoming a Herrensauna resident...

LWE reveals next season of events will be last at Tobacco Dock
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LWE reveals next season of events will be last at Tobacco Dock

After almost nine years of events at the venue, LWE's "last dance" at Tobacco Dock will take place in October

LWE has announced that it will no longer be throwing parties at London's Tobacco Dock, bringing a nine-year partnership between the promoter and the Wapping...

Northern Ireland's Free The Night campaign launches nightlife survey
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Northern Ireland's Free The Night campaign launches nightlife survey

It's hoped that the not-for-profit organisation's survey will help advocate for more progressive licensing policies

Northern Ireland-based nightlife advocacy organisation Free The Night has launched a new nationwide survey on the nightlife industry. It's hoped that information shared via the...

Matter of Fact
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New vinyl pressing plant for independent labels opens in Germany

Matter of Fact employs carbon-neutral shipping and FSC-certified sleeves

A new vinyl pressing plant aimed at grassroots music and indie labels has opened in northeast Germany. The founders of Matter of Fact, which has...

Compilation of the Month: Anthony Naples + DJ Python ‘Air Texture VIII’
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Compilation of the Month: Anthony Naples + DJ Python ‘Air Texture VIII’

New York’s Anthony Naples and DJ Python curate a collection of introspective electronic music for a new generation in the latest edition of Air Texture’s celebrated series

Inspired by ‘90s series and labels, such as ‘Excursions In Ambience’ and Instinct Ambient, and their 2000s successors, like Kompakt’s ‘Pop Ambient’, James Healy’s Air...

Selections: Aquarian
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Selections: Aquarian

In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, Aquarian spotlights broken techno, fluorescent rave sounds, electro, juke and more

Like a fine wine, Berlin-based Canadian Aquarian’s music is only improving with time. While his early ‘10s productions for UNO were nothing to sniff at...

Only 13% of UK festival headliners in 2022 are women, study finds
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Only 13% of UK festival headliners in 2022 are women, study finds

BBC Newsbeat's new gender-focused study of UK festival line-ups finds that little has changed since 2017

A new study of UK festivals by BBC Newsbeat has found that only 13% of 2022's headliners are women. A gender-focused analysis of 50 UK...

Vangelis, Blade Runner composer and synth pioneer, dies, aged 79
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Vangelis, Blade Runner composer and synth pioneer, dies, aged 79

The legendary Greek musician also soundtracked films such as Chariots Of Fire and Alexander

Greek composer and synth pioneer Vangelis died this week at the age of 79. A report by the Associated Press confirmed the news, though his...

Travis Scott pledges almost $5million to event safety initiative following Astroworld crisis
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Travis Scott pledges almost $5million to event safety initiative following Astroworld crisis

"I will always honour the victims of the Astroworld tragedy who remain in my heart forever," he's said of the initiative

Travis Scott has announced a new initiative, Project HEAL, following last November's Astroworld crowd crush tragedy. Described as a "multi-tier, longterm series of community-focused philanthropy...

Pioneering jungle and drum & bass MC Skibadee dies, aged 54
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Pioneering jungle and drum & bass MC Skibadee dies, aged 47

The news was confirmed via his social media

Skibadee – the pioneering jungle and drum & bass MC who worked with Shy FX, Dillinja and lots more during his career – has died...
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Fashion | Brand Focus: The Fandango Club

In this month’s Brand Focus, we speak to underground music platform and clothing company, The Fandango Club, about its garden-party beginnings and developing for the...

Back in 2014, Harry Nurse found himself immersed in London’s underground dance music scene. Captivated and intoxicated by the capital’s clubbing culture, Nurse wanted in...