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1989 acid house rave VR experience planned for Coventry City of Culture

A journey from poster-filled bedroom and pirate radio studio to warehouse venue and police headquarters

An acid house rave VR experience with a 1989-theme has been unveiled as part of the City of Culture programme for Coventry, England, this year...

DJ Emily Dust speaks to key figures in the city’s scene to discuss its future

A new documentary on BBC Radio 4 explores the current state of Berlin’s underground club culture, and the work of those dedicated to its future...

Birmingham City Council budget cuts arts and culture

The authority must plug a £300 million deficit and sell £1.25 billion in assets 

Cultural institutions in Birmingham are facing major cuts to funding following a draft budget document published earlier this week by the City Council, which effectively...

Richie Hawtin, Sven Vath, PvD, Carl Cox and more in the German city’s prime...

Berlin in the 90s was a special place for a then-emergent electronic music culture, and specifically (although not exclusively) techno. 

The city had been reunited in...

A programme of high-profile events is now promised, alongside investment to improve and expand existing infrastructure

Belfast has been awarded the title UNESCO City of Music, making the Northern Irish capital the third UK location to be honoured with the accolade...

Berlin techno added to UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list

More than a decade of campaigning and lobbying could bring more protection from gentrification and development 

Berlin techno has been awarded UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) status in what has been described by the city's Clubcommission as "another milestone" for the...

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Sound systems have driven the development of music in the UK, powered by hard work, passion and innovation. But preserving UK sound system culture, its knowledge and history, while also pushing it forward, is no easy task today. Ria Hylton traces its path through ska and reggae at blues dances in West Indian households, to soul, boogie, hip-hop and house in ’80s warehouses and at the Notting Hill Carnival, to nationwide tours and global popularity, and finds out how initiatives like the Sound System Futures Programme are seeking to secure its future 

It’s the Thursday before Notting Hill Carnival and Linett Kamala, board director of Europe’s biggest street party, is weaving through the streets of Kilburn. Her...

Foamo and RackNRuin unite as under new alias

Quite often it’s more fun with two people in the studio. You can bounce ideas off one another, give instant feedback, crack jokes and generally have more of a jolly old knees-up. This is what the two notable producers involved in Gorgon City — house bod Foamo and RackNRuin from future jungle/breaks — have found since hooking up together a year or so ago.

Premiere: Zombies In Miami ‘The City Of Love’

Zombies In Miami debut on Parisian label Motordiscs with two cuts of nocturnal Italo house and disco, supplemented by a remix from Barnt

Zombies in Miami will release a new EP, ‘The City Of Love’, on Parisian label Motordiscs next month. Listen to the title track below. The...

The raw street beats of Flosstradamus to hit London’s SW4 fest...

It all started for the duo when they put on their own parties in their native Chicago under the Get Outta The Hood banner.

There's a new techno sound echoing from the post-industrial streets of one of the UK's biggest conurbations. Influenced by Berlin and Detroit, Manchester's young producers...



Our personal geography is one of the formative things about us. Our immediate surroundings and the people that surround us are our most important influencers...

Lukas Wigflex and the team behind his eponymous party brand have offered the people of Nottingham countless opportunities to let loose over the past decade...

“The first few events were all just a bit of fun. We just wanted to hear the music we liked that wasn’t being played in...

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The Warehouse Project returned for its final year at its “spiritual home” of Store Street last weekend. DJ Mag’s deputy digital editor Rob McCallum looks...

The UK club scene has changed hugely since the mid-noughties. The End is gone. As are The Cross, Turnmills, The Arches, Sankeys and countless more...

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Featuring Colin Benders, Honey Dijon, Hyperaktivist, Luke Slater, Octo Octa and more

The organisers of Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) have shared a new mini-documentary celebrating “the intrinsic value of club culture, electronic music, raving, and all the...