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Toolroom trax
From now until February Mark is going to be working on his artist album, having already produced for Underworld and Faithless. It’s an exciting, credible project aimed at touring main stages.
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
Scuba (stage) diving!
The Hotflush boss swapped the grimy innards of basement clubs for the cavernous realms of The Forum for his latest live show...
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.
One of the most anticipated events of the Ibiza season
Space Ibiza offers a spectacle few can rival no matter the occasion, but it's its closing party that's most explosive. The opener might be the culmination of eight months out the game, but the last day at the office is the product of six months of accumulated party joy; the last big blow-out before the autumn months settle in and the Ibiza season winds down for yet another year.
Chat with Kyle Hall + massive Eastern Electrics giveaway
As if Eastern Electrics Festival Afterparty wasn’t already as crammed as a Central Line train during rush hour – albeit one full of sweaty, whooping...
WORLDWIDE APPEAL: Label owner, producer, Radio One and club DJ, dance music ambassador: Gilles has done it all. And he’s still doing it...
“Representing British club culture is an important part of what I’ve always done,” says Radio One DJ Gilles Peterson. “At the moment I play almost...
Erick Morillo launches 'Subliminal Invasion' double CD
While Robbie William’s fame and fortune meant he really did start believing in UFOs (putting him in the same bracket as such enquiring minds as...
@ Plastic People: 25 March
Down grimy Curtain Road, there's a massive queue leading up to a dingy little door bookended by two huge bouncers. This is Plastic People, the...
The Bird’s The Word - Acid house and breaks hero Annie was the first lady to push dance music on Radio 1 — and she’s...
“Working in radio is like phoning up your mate and playing a piece of music down the phone to them,” says Annie Nightingale MBE, radio...
Stalking Through The Shadows - Ninja Tune: 20 years young and fresher than ever
“It’s amazing, blimey, gosh, insert amazement, shock and awe!” smiles Ninja Tune’s Jonathan More, on the news that the imprint has nabbed the public vote...
Amsterdam becomes the world hotbed for dance music professionals and party people alike this month, as the ADE rolls into town...
Small but perfectly formed, Amsterdam is a constant hive of creative activity, a fertile breeding ground for new music and sounds. But this month the...