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DJ Harvey conveys the hedonistic spirit of Pikes Ibiza in the ecstatic third edition of Mercury Rising compilation series
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Ireland is renowned the world over as a great place to party and their club scene does not disappoint. While there has been a spate...
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With an hour of shimmering ambience and razor sharp club clubs, Chevel shakes up the Fresh Kicks series
“A guy on Twitter sent me a trap beat made with my burp sample,” says Chevel. “I loved it.”
The gift wasn’t unprompted. In December...
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Frenzied and futuristic, Aquarian and Deapmash push the frontiers of techno, electro and jungle in their Fresh Kicks mix
As AQXDM, Berlin-based New Yorker Aquarian and Caen’s Deapmash, make music that sounds like its been plucked from another dimension. Drinking deep from the wells...
Less a secret, more a yearly celebration of hedonism and childishness, this year's Secret Garden Party proves why it is one of the UK's most...
Heading along the winding countryside roads of Abbots Ripton, after stocking up on Strongbow at the nearby Tesco, Gardeners like ourselves meet playful signs... 'Imagination...
Drum & bass MC eases out 'Mid Mic Crisis' on Marcus Intalex's label
MC DRS first got into MCing when he rocked up to a rave where Marcus Intalex was playing near Manchester, and asked for a go...
A-Trak talks about the tracks that helped define his sound
From winning the DMC World DJ Championships aged just 15, to rocking club and festival dancefloors worldwide, both solo and as part of Duck Sauce...
The knob-free touch controller from Livid
It's impossible to review any kind of DJ or studio controller without chucking in a few ‘Inbetweeners’-style knob-gags, so you can imagine my distress when this reviewer first unwrapped Livid's Base, an entirely touch-sensitive USB MIDI controller. Were they so desperate to be taken seriously that they'd deprive a lonely studio soul of his one puerile release? Actually no, there's a very good reason to go knob-free. Join me on a session of tender touching to find out...
Commercial dance and rap don't fit
EDM doesn't need rappers legitimising its stadium-sized stasis and banality
Acid techno don's most influential records
Poland-born Babicz moved to Germany when he was seven, and began making acid-inspired techno music under the name Rob Acid in the early '90s.
The on-the-road diary of the world's top DJs treading the globe
Showcasing fresh house cuts from Hot Since 82, Eats Everything and Shadow Child (among others), Jaymo and Andy George's 'Moda Black Vol. 1' revealed the duo's interest in darker, more demure sounds of the house spectrum when it landed last summer.
LBS, Circus, Egg, London
Laurent Garnier's last-ever London Live Booth Session (LBS) at Egg is one way to warm up a bitter winter evening...
And all new Push Controller
Not one but two reasons for Ableton users to be cheerful have been announced from the company’s German headquarters in the form of Live 9 along with a rather intriguing controller called Push. Not content with just improving their hugely popular Live software, for their latest incarnation, Ableton have also found the time to get teamed up with Akai to create a new Push controller specifically to control Ableton. It looks like they might have created the perfect Ableton controller in the process.
Montreal's annual Mutek festival is a sensory experience all of its own
Mutek is not Movement in Montreal. Nor is it Coachella in Canada. In fact, it’s unlike any other festival you know. So too...