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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...

Iconic scene from vampire film series to be recreated at this year’s convention.

An event at Comic Con will recreate the iconic opening scene of the first Wesley Snipes-staring vampire film ‘Blade’.

In the intro sequence to the...

DJ W!LD's top 10 most influential tracks

Brought up on disco, funk and hip-hop in Dijon in eastern France, DJ W!ld took his name from the seminal 1983 hip-hop documentary Wild Style...

Acid house don Eddie Richards takes 10...

Eddie Richards is one of acid house's principal pioneers. A hugely important figure, he started out DJing in the early 1980s when he and a...

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His distinctive work on the 1988 single helped break acid house into the mainstream...

It was a sad weekend for London clubland as news came through that acid house face Gary Haisman had passed away. Haisman was the distinctive...

The podcast will be available soon

The story of rave and ecstasy in the UK has been explored in a new BBC Podcast.

The podcast, entitled Ecstasy: The Battle of Rave...

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Kraftwerk’s nostalgia trick

Baltimore's Dukeyman has passed away

The news was first shared on social media over the weekend

Dukeyman, the pioneering Baltimore-born producer, club DJ and sound engineer born Ronald Hall, has died. The news was confirmed on Saturday (18th February) in a...

His collective, Injury Reserve, released their debut album in 2019

Hip hop MC Jordan Groggs has died, aged 32.

Jordan Groggs, also known as Stepa J. Groggs, was a member of Arizona hip-hop trio, Injury...

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The project was originally shelved in 1998

Massive Attack will release Mad Professor's dub versions of their third studio album, 'Mezzanine'.

The album, originally released in 1998, featured hits like the title...

The posthumous release comes via 1985 Music... 

Razat — the Portuguese bass producer, who sadly died last year — has a posthumous release coming via Alix Perez's 1985 Music.

Real name Baltazar Gallego, Razat...

Celebrating Blackburn’s legendary acid house rave scene of the late '80s and early '90s

The new online archive celebrating Blackburn’s acid house rave scene of the late '80s and early '90s that we reported on last week (16th April)...