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Miss Bee is the honeysweet go-to house vocalist of the moment

An extraordinary amount of hype has accumulated quite the patriotic stir across social media platforms in the last few weeks and it’s present on punters' faces tonight. In a nutshell, anticipation and excitement don’t quite cut it — the air of emotion seething from this gargantuan queue is incredulous.

Every now and then, a plug-in just slips under the radar. Released last year, Sugar Bytes' Cyclop came recommended by the likes of Skrillex and Boys Noize, to name just a couple of heavyweight users. But those endorsements were likely to deter as many producers as they attracted (and with the same level of conviction), so perhaps it's understandably taken a while for producers in other genres to catch on.

So following a slight lull in proceedings between Ultra Week One, and WMC proper, yesterday marked the start of the biggest parties in the lead...

What can you expect from a house night in the Middle East? Ask anyone to comment or hazard a guess and their response is likely to involve a number of presumptions: undeniably commercial names, inaccessible hotel nightclubs, painfully overpriced drinks.

MixHell, the Brazilian electro outfit started by Iggor Cavalera — the former drummer in tribal funk-metal muthas Sepultura — and his wife Laima Leyton, are back with a new album. Signed to Boys Noize Records, 'Space' sees them explore a more organic live electro sound, aided in no small part by the expert live bass guitar-playing of former studio cohort Max Blum, who has now become a full member of the live act.

Somewhat of an unsung hero in house and techno circles, Ian Pooley has been producing and releasing tracks for over 20 years. The German DJ/producer, born Ian Pinnekamp and hailing from Mainz near Frankfurt, differs from many of his fellow contemporary countrymen, however, by leaning more towards the house music side of the 4/4 spectrum.

Don't get DJ Mag wrong, there's been a long tradition of the remix as a credibility boost in the music industry. Back in the day, from the late '80s and the first crossover of house music onwards, dire popstrels of the ilk of Simply Red and the Spice Girls (or rather their record companies) would be queuing up for a taste of authentic dance flavour, getting cool names to remix their tracks in order to boost sales of 12”s.

He might be able to knock out badass tunes, but Bristol boy Eats Everything is, in his heart, a DJ first and foremost (or husband if his new wife is reading!). What’s more, the man born Daniel Pearce has been doing it for exactly 20 years now, having gotten his first decks for Christmas back in 1992.

We catch up with progRAM's bass-mad trio Chroma and look forward to 2013

Stateside “EDM” kids a tad confused, take note: it doesn't get more “dubstep” than Caspa. Known to his mum as Gary McCann, he...

It's easy to forget in this age of relentless hype that DJs didn't just start mixing house with broken beats following the moment some bright...

2010 was the year that things changed for Kieran Hebden. Once the undisputed poster boy for the leftfield electronic scene, he flipped expectations in January...