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“My first-ever DJ gig was in 1979, but my first house gig was for Pushca — the rave thing in the ‘90s. It was somewhere in west London. I went to one of the raves and they had this chill-out room that was playing a cassette tape that was just going round and round and round.

“It was Ibiza, 1998, and I had spent several days ligging behind the decks with the world’s best DJs desperately trying to figure out how they did it, but no-one showed the least bit of interest in letting me have a bash on the wheels of steel until Edinburgh’s Voodoo Club offered me a gig out of the blue. I took a flight there.

“My first gig was in 1994 at a squatted Salvation Army building opposite Hackney Town Hall on Mare Street. The building was called The Spiky Thing With Curves due to some of the sculptures on display, alongside a cafe and several rooms for bands and DJs. I had a selection of acid house/early hardcore vinyl, mostly acquired from the local Record & Tape Exchange.

“Everyone wants to call dance music EDM these days but I call that shit that’s popular — you know, the cheesy stuff — I call it PDM,” says New York DJ Dennis Ferrer.
“That stuff everyone is going on about, it’s pop dance music. I take offence when someone calls my shit 'EDM' and lumps it in with all the crap. What I do is what I’ve always done, and I don’t like someone calling it anything else.”

Sandbox Festival 2017, taking place in El Gouna, Egypt from 4th-6th May, will host Âme, Butch, The Mole and Mike Servito amongst...

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Enlisting...

Alesso has shared a new track, titled ‘Move Like That’, as a free download on his SoundCloud account.

The track, which you can download below...

The Chicago house don is back at it. Gene Farris just dropped his latest LP, 'In The Screen', on Green Velvet's Relief Records and...

Previously finding that studio je ne sais croix on collaborative release, “Apocalypse 2014,” Arno Cost and Norman Doray hook up once again, this time to...

London-based producer and DJ T.Williams has had a belter of year. Having cut his teeth in grime, garage and jungle, it’s from the ever-morphing world...

Nike have released a trainer inspired by electronic music. 

Following the launch of music inspired trainers, including the vinyl-inspired Air Max 90s and the Berlin...