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Raw beats and sub-low rumbles mixed with sugary melodies are DJ Q's calling card.

Ten years ago, DJ Q released his first 12”, 'Love Like This'. The track was a bassline stomper, a grimy slab of sub-low and brutal...

The Labour Party's Shadow Business Secretary is also a sometime house/garage DJ too...

Chuka Umunna is one of the highest profile young politicians in the UK. But did you know that he's also a part-time DJ, these days...

Black and white photo of Stevie Cox wearing a denim jacket outside in a street

Stevie Cox returns to Remmah Records with a double helping of melodic d&b inspired by Japanese-style role-playing games

Stevie Cox will release her new EP, ‘Jecht Shot’, later this week via Remmah Records. Have an exclusive first listen to the title track below...

Inside the UK Afro house renaissance

The Afro house sound is an ever-growing presence in UK dance music, with new labels, club-nights and a dedicated radio station springing up. Alongside a mix from Mr Silk, Ria Hylton explores the sound’s history, and speaks to some of the scene’s key players about forging strong connections with their growing audiences, and their aim to nurture a unique UK Afro house identity

Afro house is steeped in the percussive materials of South Africa’s townships. For decades, its polyrhythms played out on traditional African instruments — bongos, congas...

Revolutionising home listening

DJs are at heart music lovers. Dedicating your life to sharing and mixing a superior taste in tunes suggests a serious passion for sound. Most...

The seminal tracks that changed dance music forever

As was the case in many towns and cities in the UK in the late '80s, a sizeable portion of the youth of Stafford were infected with the rave bug. More or less equidistant between London and Manchester in the West Midlands (18 miles south of Stoke-on-Trent, 16 miles north of Wolverhampton), Stafford became notable for spawning two of the rave scene’s most successful acts – Altern8 and Bizarre Inc. And then, later, Chicken Lips too.


Sully celebrates the infinite potential of the breakbeat in his thrilling On Cue mix, and chats to Oskar Jeff about his new release on 2...

Conducta is helping to spearhead the new wave of UK garage. His on-point productions, genre-traversing DJ sets and Kiwi Rekords label have made him a...

Speaking with British DJ, producer and label-head Conducta, 26, you’d be forgiven for thinking he was a seasoned music industry veteran with decades behind him...

Mute! was started in 2011 as an illegal rave in Bolton by two lads...

Contrary to its namesake, Mute! is making noise. Started in 2011 as an illegal rave in Bolton by two lads with the same goal, now...

Pioneer wants their new DDJ ERGO controller to take us high, but will it reach the sky?

Pioneer have taken a cheeky sidestep into the controller market with two tidy products that remain true to Pioneer’s ethos of easily recognisable kit. Users...

Enigmatic breakcore and dark ambient innovator Christoph De Babalon delivers 150 minutes of engulfing atmospheres and harrowing rhythms in our first Podcast mix of 2019...

Few artists submerge you in darkness in quite the same way as Christoph De Babalon. With engulfing ambience, depth-charge bass drones and hyperventilating breakcore and...

Disco Halal don and DJ/producer supreme Moscoman steps up for our latest podcast, delivering an hour of intoxicating rhythm, swerving melody and psychedelic sensibility.

Belfast legend and The Night Institute resident Timmy Stewart (T-Bone, Black Bones) steps up with a mix of eclectic rhythm, supercharged industrial flare and timeless...

Northern Ireland’s clubbing scene has quietly been of one of Europe’s most dedicated and prolific of the past two decades. As some of the scene’s...

House kings the Rhythm Masters return...

One of the biggest UK house music partnerships of the 1990s and early noughties, the Rhythm Masters return to the fold this month with their...

Fatboy Slim & Eats Everything’s pop-up rave in Bristol shut down due to overcrowding

After police forced the party to switch location, a decision was made to pull the entire event just over one hour after it started

A free pop-up event in Bristol featuring Fatboy Slim and Eats Everything was shut down last night, Wednesday 12th October, due to overcrowding and concern...