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Ben UFO, The Black Madonna, Noncompliant, and more have shared vocal support for #DJsForPalestine...

Members of the global dance music community, from DJs and producers to industry professionals and fans have shown solidarity across social media in support for...

Meet the DJ and vocalist to watch in 2015

21-year-old UK native, Harrison’s strengths lie in his uniqueness. As both a vocalist and DJ his stage performances combine both talents for a new...

Baltra shares new single, ‘Tell Me’: Listen

It's the Philadelphia-born, New York-based artist's first new solo music in a year

Baltra is back with his first new solo music in a year. Listen to 'Tell Me' below. The Philadelphia-born, New York-based artist says the garage...

Banoffee Pies Records’ reissue series returns with a collection of unearthed cuts from London breaks, jungle and downtempo duo, Euphonic. Har ‘Space In My Soul...

Banoffee Pies Records will release the latest instalment in its reissue series with a collection of unearthed cuts from London’s Euphonic. 

Euphonic, the duo of...

New 'Shake/Oscillator EP' out now

Releasing a new EP, holding down residencies at Pacha NYC and Paris Social Club, spinning on a cruise ship and teaching yoga on the beach...

history-of-bassline

From its beginnings in Yorkshire clubs to becoming a nationwide dance music phenomenon and chart success, the bassline sound has survived and thrived, despite the efforts of the police and club licensing authorities. Matt Anniss charts its rise, fall, resurgence and influence on a new generation of DJs, producers and ravers

A quarter of a century ago, a record slipped out on Rumour Records that would change the course of UK dance music history. Created by...

A techno DJ has made history by producing an album as an integral part of a computer game. The record contains hidden messages and clues...

Ever since Pacman's yellow smiley head starting eating spiders, electronic music and computer games have gone hand-in-hand.

But for the first time in history an...

The seminal tracks that changed dance forever

As a teenage boy, music-obsessed Kris Needs ran the fanclub of '70s bluesy-glam band Mott the Hoople before becoming immersed in the London punk scene...

Recording techniques for artists on any budget revealed by Los Angeles producer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist, Justin Taylor Phillips, aka Crywolf

One never knows when or where creativity is going to strike. Limiting creation to the studio is confining - you really want to be able...

A guide to dance music's pre-rave past...

We've drafted in Greg Wilson, the former electro-funk pioneer, nowadays a leading figure in the global disco/re-edits movement and respected commentator on dance music and...

One of the giants behind the scenes in hip-hop, NYC based <B>Stretch Armstrong</B> is a living legend.

With the Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito radio show in the early nineties, he was responsible for breaking many of the genre's biggest stars: the Notorious...

Photo of T.williams posing in a white t-shirt and blue baseball cap

Over the past two decades, West London DJ and producer T.Williams has worn many hats, from his roots in grime and jungle through to spells in garage and soulful melodic house. His recently released debut album, ‘Raves Of Future Past’, finds him freed from all limitations, and pays tribute to this wide-ranging career. Here, Ben Murphy speaks to him about writing songs versus bangers, the freedom of expression of the early 2000s era, and how he made his classic track ‘Heartbeat’ with Terri Walker

“That cross-section between a banger instrumental and a nicely crafted song was always something that I really enjoyed,” says T.Williams, reflecting on the kind of...

Carl Craig, DJ Shadow, Blondie and more...

Making her break as part of Shy FX's Digital Soundboy crew — the first ever Digital Soundgirl — after she relocated from Canada to London...

The biggest tunes on the underground this month

A lot of water has travelled under the bridge since Art Department delivered 'Without You' on Crosstown Rebels in 2011. Tech house and deep house are still getting chewed up and spat out, with DJs dropping newly evolved forms of the sound as quickly as it's found its way into the charts and been picked up by stadium-filling titans such as Tiësto.