If ever there was a name suited to 2022’s summer of record temperatures it’s TIBASKO, aka Hertfordshire-based duo Ken Petalcorin and Andy Bowden. Hailing from...
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Get acquainted with TIBASKO, the fast-rising UK duo producing festival-ready dance anthems tipped by Pete Tong, Jon Hopkins and more
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Girls Don’t Sync are booting down barriers in dance music with their unrivalled energy and community-building ethos. Right off the back of their massive sold-out show at KOKO in London, and ahead of their sold-out headline show at The Warehouse Project in Manchester, they chat to Sophie Walker about creating a welcoming dancefloor, keeping things fresh, and inspiring others to follow their dreams.
Buzzin' hardcore classic 'Bus It' by Blapps Posse was a riotous, sampladelic mish-mash of hip-house and rave. DJ Mag talks to its key originators, Aston...
DJ Mag's tunes of the year
2014 was the year house heads reignited their love for melody. While shufflers continued to go wild for garage, a new generation have reared their...
The latest reworking of the dance music archive?
Two decades after they first inspired the establishment to try and legislate against dance music, the breakbeats that fuelled jungle and hardcore have found new life at the hands of producers who were in nappies when 'Terminator' was first released. But what’s behind this latest reworking of the dance music archive?
The Shogun Audio don is on fire
I've just asked Thomas Green, aka Rockwell, one of d&b's hottest producers and DJs of 2013, who is No.1 on his wish list of collaborators. He's thinking about it. I ponder which jungle/d&b legend he's going to opt for. “Ian Mackaye,” he says. Nods affirmatively. “Definitely. I'm obsessed with Fugazi and Minor Threat. It's my first love in music — hardcore punk, I love Black Flag and Henry Rollins as well — in fact I went to see his spoken word show a few weeks ago. Ian MacKaye I think probably wouldn't be very into the kind of music I'd make so the results would be... interesting. But, yeah, I would love to work with him.” Of course, such genre-bending surprise should be of NO surprise to anyone who's properly listened to Rockwell.
We sat down with Groove Armada's Andy Cato...
Groove Armada's Andy Cato looks back on the life behind his new 'Times & Places' album for R&S' Apollo imprint — a musical travelogue of his time touring the globe...
We chat to the Dublin-born Hoya:Hoya resident to learn more about his penchant for the vocal, love of New York dance music — and the...
Freshly signed to Rinse with a massive tune set to run dancefloors and radios this spring, and with huge tracks for Kerri Chandler's Madtech doing the rounds, Krystal Klear's disco-informed house is more in vogue than ever
Andy Cato looks back on the life behind his new 'Times & Places' album
"They were so much better when they first started," is the cry of dyed-in-the-wool hipsters over the world. But in the case of Groove Armada, the...
A Basement, a Red Light District and a Feeling
DJ Mag hit the Amsterdam Dance Event where the Dutch spirit of libertarianism has helped turn it's DJs, producers and clubs into a world beating force...
Can Pioneer’s DJM-2000 stake its claim to the throne as the ultimate DJ club mixer? DJmag puts it to the test...
Pioneer’s newest bad boy has definitely been causing a stir since it first came to light. The DJM-2000 is their all-singing, all-dancing stab at the...
Remixer of choice and Best of British nominee Ewan Pearson spills the beans on his successful career to date and his new 'Fabric' CD.
You've moved from the UK to Berlin. How is life over there?
"Very good, yep. It's a very vibrant and exciting place to live, but...
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'Lioness' is set to appear on trio's second album, the follow-up to 2022's 'Paradise Again'
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To coincide with its release, he's also shared a new video for album cut 'Beauty & The Beast II'