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A stalwart of the UK’s dance music community for over 30 years, DJ Billy Nasty was a pioneer of '90s progressive house before launching his techno and electro labels, Tortured and Electrix. A true vinyl devotee, he now runs the Vinyl Curtain record shop in Brighton. Harold Heath meets him in his home town to talk mix CDs, underground dance music history, running labels and the enduring importance of vinyl DJing

The dance music history of East Anglia is rich, multi-layered and messy  — and little documented. Matt Anniss chats to some of the scene’s longstanding figureheads about the region’s airfield parties, seaside throwdowns and forgotten clubs, discovering a vital but rarely discussed stage in the UK’s rave evolution

On his debut album, 'What I Breathe', Aussie-born, London-based DJ and producer Mall Grab marks a new creative chapter in his journey, far from the lo-fi house sound that shot him into the spotlight in 2015. Filled with grime and jungle influences, tracks featuring Novelist, D Double E, Nia Archives and Turnstile's Brendan Yates, as well as his own vocals, it's his most ambitious work to date. Here, Kristan Caryl chats to him about ADHD, being an outsider, dogs, style, hardcore and more

1st May 1994 was the first big London protest against the looming Criminal Justice Bill, the piece of legislation that first proscribed a genre of music — rave music, “wholly or predominantly categorised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats” — in law. Despite widespread demonstrations at what was seen as draconian power-grabs by the UK authorities, the Bill became law later in 1994. Here, Harold Heath looks back at the reaction from the dance music community at the time, and the Act’s lasting impact on the rave scene today