It’s 1999, and across the UK, countless car stereos and home systems are pumping out the planet-sized synth riffs of big-room trance. Tracks by Paul...
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This the part we talk all things tech with some major players at the forefront of the electronic dance music scene. Now running solo, Alessandro...
What was the first bit of kit that you bought?
“First peace of kit was my Nord Lead 4. At the time I didn’t now...
Scarlett Pimpernel!
Read up on Focusrite’s new Scarlett Studio package and start your own musical revolution, as we offer one reader a chance to win this complete budget studio set-up…
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With the release of its first edition – 'For The Mind, Body and Soul' – via Telstar Records in early 1999, the ‘Euphoria’ mix compilation series quickly became one of the most popular and prolific of its kind, launching the big-room oriented trance, progressive and hard house sounds of clubland into the CD drives of thousands. 25 years later, Harold Heath looks back on its legacy, and on how its balance of clever commercial marketing and authentic live energy enshrined ‘Euphoria’ in UK dance music history
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First released in 2012, Donato Dozzy and Neel’s groundbreaking self-titled album as Voices From The Lake changed the landscape of ambient techno, and set a new course for minimalist electronic music. Rob McCallum learns how the ripple effects of its legacy are still being felt like a pulsating torrent today
Paranoid London are on a mission to bring back the rawness of old house, with their skeletal acid tracks and Chicago-influenced beats. We head to...
Francesca Lombardo may have a background in classical, but it’s as a techno and house DJ that she tours the world. Ahead of her debut...
First thrown into the global spotlight in 2011 as Crosstown Rebels’ “first lady”, Francesca Lombardo has, over the last seven years, confirmed her standing in...
French electro team Justice are preparing for a full-scale assault on the USA. The hottest production team on Earth, they're going all out to win...
It was in 2005 that a new sound first exploded into our eardrums. Appearing on then little-known Parisian record label Ed Banger, when the sonic...
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Panic on the streets, or mass protests with Massive Attack’s 3D, moors ablaze and a distressed David Attenborough. The less said about the world...
Scottish dance pioneers Finitribe reboot
Finitribe started off as an experimental guitar band in the mid-'80s but they soon embraced electronic music and sample culture and set up their own Finiflex label.
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The drum & bass pioneer talks us through ten tracks on his new ‘Drum & Bass Life’ comp
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Ben Cardew revisits Richie Hawtin’s acidic masterpiece, 1993's ‘Sheet One’, perhaps the most definitive example of Roland’s TB-303 synthesizer ever released in the album format
The TB-303 is one of the most iconic sounds in electronic music; a kind of acidic, alien howl that immediately places the listener in the...
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Formidable DJ/producer/promoter Katie Rex steps up with a fierce mix of hammering electro and techno. We catch up with the Brooklyn mainstay to discuss her...
Katie Rex describes herself as a “sound enthusiast and friend of dogs”, so she’s already a winner in our books.
Over the past four years...
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The Dancehall star was sentenced to life in prison in 2014 for the murder of an associate
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Larry Heard and Robert Owens win legal case against Trax Records, regain ownership of early releases
The copyright has been returned to the Chicago duo after a decades-long battle