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Our monthly label showcase, The Sound Of, puts the focus on the imprints we love; outlets that are championing new artists, dropping key releases and...

“100% Silk has always been about feeling over functionality,” says Britt Brown, who founded the Los Angeles label in 2011 with Amanda Brown. “The music...

 

DJ Shadow's debut album, 'Endtroducing.....', released via UK label Mo'Wax Records in 1996, presented abstract, instrumental hip hop as a worthy deviation from the...

Mo’Wax was undoubtedly one of the most important British record labels of the 1990s, showcasing a kind of retro futuristic approach to art, where aesthetic...

Artists will also be stopped from playing "vulgar, obscene or banned songs"

Wireless Festival performers will not be allowed to swear or wear "offensive" clothing as strict new licensing laws are enforced on the London event for...

Pioneer’s new Rekord Box software delivers the goods...

Rekord Box is Pioneer’s digital answer to the vinyl cases that DJs used to lug around. In the fabulous old days of records, there would...

Kansas-born, Brooklyn-based Beckwith is breaking through with a fresh house sound founded on bulbous bass and crisp melodies. We find out how he's one of...

“I am from the Midwest, the real Midwest, like Kansas. Remember Dorothy and the Wizard? Well that’s where I am from.” Beckwith grew up so...

The survey was conducted by Pirate Studios

70% of DJs had to retrain during the coronavirus pandemic, a study has revealed.

Pirate Studios — now rebranded simply as Pirate — is a...

The second-hand market continues to grow...

Vinyl's resurgence could be much bigger than we first thought, as industry figures don't count used-record sales.

According to new US data revealed by Forbes...

Dublin’s darkmavis and sohotsospicy team up for an explosive new EP on Talamh Records. Hear the storming Jersey Club-inspired opener, ‘Glorified’, now

Dublin’s darkmavis and Thrust Collective co-founder sohotsospicy will release a new collaborative EP, ‘sodarksospicy’, this month. 

The EP is set for release on darkmavis’ new...

Ahead of a new tour and album, the visionary Manchester crew recall the making and impact of their acid house classic...

Graham Massey and Andy Barker take their places at a table in the first floor restaurant at Manchester arts institution HOME, just a stone’s throw away...

Our monthly label showcase, The Sound Of, puts the focus on the imprints we love; outlets that are championing new artists, dropping key releases and...

Launched in 2010 while he was working at A1 Records in NYC, Ron Morelli’s L.I.E.S. — or Long Island Electrical Systems — label has proven itself...

We meet the British-born, LA-based producer, DJ and producer to find out about the music that inspires him, his evolving record label and making the...

Exciting material is coming thick and fast from TEED, via his newly revived Nice Age label. “The next stuff is going to be a bit...

Just Jack, Bristol

Remember a time when Bristol wasn’t part of the Holy Grail with London and Berlin as a triumvirate of electronic cool? No, us neither, but that was the case around seven years ago, with the glowing embers of a once great d&b scene the only thing to really be keeping the city on the map at all.

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.


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One of the most eagerly awaited albums of the year is imminent via BBE. JOHN MORALES' 'The M&M Mixes' is a wonderfully nostalgic...

Claimant, Casey Dienel, has filed to stop proceedings

Skrillex's 'Sorry' lawsuit has been dropped, with the claimant, White Hinterland— AKA singer Casey Dienel— filing papers to stop the legal action. 

Dienel had stated that...