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Best of British 2015, educated by Point Blank

OTHER NOMINATIONS
ROMARE ‘PROJECTIONS'
LHF ‘FOR THE THRONE'
ROISIN MURPHY 'HAIRLESS TOYS'
BENJAMIN DAMAGE 'OBSIDIAN'

THE REVENGE IS SWEET!
Glaswegian DJ/producer Graeme Clark has triumphed...

Influenced by emerging electronic techniques and the rave scene, industrial outfit Coil's third album 'Love's Secret Domain' is full of trippy, drug-fuelled dichotomies and collaborations...

“I remember thinking, ‘What the fuck have we made?’” Danny Hyde says of Coil’s ‘Love’s Secret Domain’ — known as ‘LSD’ — which turns 30...

From '3 Feet High & Rising' to 'AOI: Bionix'

De La Soul's full back catalogue will land on streaming services this year. 

The US hip hop trio — Trugoy, Maseo and Posdnuos — made...

The dog in the clip also once flew a plane, apparently... 

The Chemical Brothers have shared behind the scenes footage revealing how the video to their track 'We've Got To Try' was made. 

Taken from their...

The CruCast collective has injected new life into bassline, playing massive venues, touring the world, and spreading positivity. As the major players tell DJ Mag...

Six PM Saturday: a cold winter night in Rotherhithe. Londoners mooch around their south-of-the-river suburb, families settle down for a cosy night in front of...

The stream will also feature interviews and tributes from Chuck D, LL Cool J, and Ice T

Eric B. & Rakim have announced a livestream performance of their 1990 album, 'Let the Rhythm Hit ’Em'.

The American duo, who produced records during...

Something’s happening on the peripheries of jazz, but what do we call it? Alanna Henry delves in to find out

In the UK, new experimental sounds born from the jazz tradition are transforming the live experience. Fusing with mainstream genres like grime, hip-hop and reggae...

"Guys shouldn’t be really going up there putting catalogue against catalogue"

Ice Cube has said he’s not interested in taking part in Timbaland and Swizz Beatz's VERZUZ rap battle series.

The legendary rapper and actor, who...

MOTOMAMI Los Santos will preview new music from Rosalía's next album

Arca and Rosalía are teaming up to host a radio station on a forthcoming update of Grand Theft Auto.

GTA Online: The Contract will include...

Black-owned music organisations, radio stations and record labels are helping to create vital platforms for Black producers and DJs who’ve been held back by systemic...

Though all genres of Black music have been subjected to exclusion, commodification and whitewashing, Black ownership in music varies. While rap and hip-hop are largely...

When the Covid-19 pandemic cleared Dutch producer, DJ and label boss Martyn’s diary, he turned his attention to others: starting his own mentoring programme for...

Martyn has spent the last 25 years making electronic music, but the Dutch artist still remembers his earliest days keenly. “I started in drum &...

How Nookie's 'Gonna Be Alright (Cloud 9 Remix)’ album artwork over grey background

Nookie’s ‘Gonna Be Alright’ dropped as hardcore was morphing into jungle at the beginning of the 1990s. It lit up the raves and set Nookie up for a production career with Reinforced, Metalheadz, Moving Shadow and other key labels as the decade unfolded. Ben Murphy learns its story and speaks to Nookie about how, as the ‘20s roar into action, he is charged up all over again
 

“Just Close Your Eyes And Dream With Me / You’ll Hear The Sound Of Music” Instantly recognisable thanks to its vocal hook, Nookie’s classic tune...

Waveform Transmission vol. 1

Released on Tresor in 1992, Jeff Mills' debut LP ‘Waveform Transmission Vol. 1’ is a record that stands for repetition and filth, forged from wrought steel and imbued with scuffed-up funk. Here, 30 years after its release, Ben Cardew takes a deep dive into the sound, origins and legacy of an album that birthed a new breed of techno 

Listen to a lot of older techno today and it sounds rather restrained. Brilliant, yes, and futuristic too, yet largely soft and melodic compared to...

COURSES, SOFTWARE DEALS, FREEBIES & MORE

For this video, Point Blank caught up with DJ, producer and performer, GRiZ, to talk about how he performs live with instruments during his DJ...

Crossing over to practically every genre, DJ and dancefloor in 2005, ‘Rej’ is an evergreen classic. Ahead of the 100th release on Innervisions,  Âme discuss...

Few tracks capture the exciting crux and flux of mid-2000s house and techno quite as succinctly as Âme’s ‘Rej’. A palpitating journeyman beacon flashing urgently...