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The budget remake is about to enter production...
Behringer is to start mass producing its clone of Sequential Circuits’ Pro-One synthesiser.
Going on sale at a price of $299, the company announces its...
It has been said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and if that's the case, David Bowie has it sorted.
Following on from Bowies 60th birthday and Rapster's success with the 'Exit Music' album, which featured adventurous new covers of Radiohead's back catalogue, !K7 decided...
A guide to dance music's pre-rave past...
We've drafted in Greg Wilson, the former electro-funk pioneer, nowadays a leading figure in the global disco/re-edits movement and respected commentator on dance music and...
Mark Archer of the classic rave duo picks his biggest rave-era bangers ahead of his performance at Field Maneuvers festival later this month...
Mark Archer is a true acid house hero.
Producing music and releasing records since 1988, he was the driving force behind early rave pioneers Altern-8...
Just one example of the Fake Documentary Realism that guided production techniques
In order to achieve the highest level of realism and authenticity, a sound engineer opted to "swallow" a microphone in a bid to help perfect...
The vintage synth is reborn on the RolandCloud...
Roland has added its iconic 1980’s synth, the D-50, to its digital subscription service. Access to the RolandCloud is only $19.95 ($US) per month.
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Tom Cruise, legal highs & classic Chicago sounds
Dori Oskowitz has been announced as the director of a new, as-yet-untitled independent film about the ecstasy-fuelled rave movement in Dallas, Texas, during the mid-1980s. ...
This new 96-page book, Beyond Heaven: Chicago House Party Flyers From 1983-1989, documents the rise of Chicago house using classic posters and artwork from the...
There’s a glory to whacking open a thick paperback cover of raised black title design, of a typical hand-drawn skyline and musical quavers, atop a...
Tommie Sunshine writes a tribute to the Godfather of House, Frankie Knuckles
Francis Nicholls was born January 1955 in The Bronx, New York. But Frankie Knuckles, as we came to know him, was born in March 1977...
Ishkur’s Guide To Electronic Music was originally created in 1999...
The cult classic website, Iskhur's Guide to Electronic Music, has (finally) been given an update.
First launched in 1999, the domain maps out the links...
With a host of monikers and diverse productions to his name, DJ Pierre has driven the development of dance and is still at the forefront...
Phuture, Pfantasia, Phantasy Club, Photon Inc, Audio Clash, Darkman, Doomsday, P-Ditty, The Don… all past aliases for Nathaniel Pierre Jones, better known as DJ Pierre, the man credited with kickstarting a movement in 1987 with ‘Acid Tracks'. Although a seismic claim to fame, this happened over a quarter century ago, most recently reactivated on Terry Farley's monumental 'Acid Rain' box-set. But, since then, Pierre has continued to chart one of the most idiosyncratic paths in house music, undyingly committed to developing new sonic mutants to send crowds bananas on his punishing schedule of globe-trotting DJ gigs.
Underworld are nothing short of a British institution. Alongside contemporaries like The Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy and Orbital, they’re one of a handful of acts...
He's hoping to fight back against the "unauthorised exploitation" of his music
A Guy Called Gerald is planning to take action over the alleged "unauthorised exploitation" of his music by UK label Rham Records.
Last month...
The act are set to play their first shows outside the US in over 20 years...
Inner City, the act founded by Kevin Saunderson, will tour Europe as part of a 30th anniversary tour. It’s the first time Inner City have...
Delgado’s role in shaping a sound which has gone on to influence countless electronic artists can’t be overstated
DAF's Gabriel Delgado-López, better known simply as Gabi Delgado, has passed away at age 61. The news was announced by his DAF partner Robert Görl...