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Courtesy announces debut release with ambient trance EP, ‘Night Journeys’

The Copenhagen artist has also confirmed a series of live shows in Berlin, London, Amsterdam, and the Danish capital

Courtesy has announced her debut EP release, 'Night Journeys'. An ambient trance outing spread over four tracks, the EP will be released on 25th March...

His anthemic tracks for Innervisions, Life and Death and his own BOSO label dominated club sets in 2014, and even made the UK Top 10...

“I'm a straight guy,” says Ten Walls, aka Lithuanian producer Marijus Adomaitis, also known as Mario Basanov, as he fixes his gaze directly across the...

Why are masks so popular in dance music?

“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”
 FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil...

Ahead of his first ever shows as pioneering Detroit electro unit Cybotron, techno innovator Juan Atkins tells us why he’s revisiting his past — and...

Juan Atkins has always been, in his own words, “a music lover”. Growing up in Detroit, he would treat his parents’ dinner parties as an...

We decided to find out where their sound comes from — and what rattles their cages...

In 2011, a run of hand-stamped white labels announced the arrival of yet-another anonymous techno project. Going by the name Dense & Pika, the unit...

Photo of NikNak beneath a blue, pink and purple spotlight

Turntablist NikNak has a unique style, cutting and scratching field recordings and samples into ambient tracks — but her latest album finds her leaning into the dance music you might hear in one of her club sets. Ben Murphy speaks to her about Afrofuturist sci-fi, trip-hop, pop, and why she loves found sounds

DJ, turntablist and producer NikNak approaches the decks differently. The Leeds-based artist’s debut album, ‘Bashi’, released in 2020, found her using turntables to manipulate field...

Jungle pioneer M-Beat made some of the genre’s biggest chart hits, but disappeared from the industry in 1996. Having gone through hardships and been widely...

Some folk just exude music as if it’s pouring out of their skin. Their eyes spark up when they chat about beats. They can’t be...

Our monthly label showcase, The Sound Of, puts the focus on the imprints we love; outlets that are championing new artists, dropping key releases and...

“We’ve always liked the term ‘mutant’,” write Daniele Guerrini and Francesco Birsa Alessandri when asked to describe the abstract sounds of their label, Haunter Records...

The immersive Lincolnshire festival continues to come of age

Lost Village has quietly grown to become one of the UK's most cherished boutique festivals. Its setting in the Lincolnshire woodlands are some of the...

The Berlin synth conference wrapped last week. Here's the best of what was announced...

Berlin's Superbooth conference – founded by the synth sorcerers Schneider's Buero – has gone from strength to strength over the past few years, growing from...

Different music from the Diffrent Music boss...

Dexta joins our Fresh Kicks series with a signature blend of highly eclectic bass music.

Head honcho of Diffrent Music — y'know, the one with...

With Miller Genuine Draft

Get to know the Canadian DJs representing in this year’s Top 100 DJs poll. A diverse mix of artists, who reflect the thriving Canadian scene...

With Miller Genuine Draft

Sónar Festival in Barcelona is one of the finest events in the dance music calendar, as concerned about the leftfield and forward-thinking innovation as it...

Let your roller coaster of emotions be felt via this love and heartbreak playlist...

WORDS: Dani Deahl

Love’s a complicated feeling, you know? There can be butterflies, jealousy, adrenaline-pumping highs and crushing lows. Anyone who says that love is...

Egyptian trance duo delight local fans with historic, one-off show... 

Something magical happened at the Pyramids on Friday, Sept. 11; Egyptian trance legends Aly & Fila played the biggest show of their lives at the...