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DJ Leisureware standing in an alley looking at the sky, wearing a raincoat and alien print tshirt

Leisureware “puts the lairy in Balearic” in his blissed-out, two-hour Fresh Kicks mix, and chats to Eoin Murray about “low intervention” DJing and The Occasional Feel-Good party and Soho Radio show

“Much like makers of trendy natural wine, I’ve adopted the ‘low intervention’ principle,” says William Smith, more appropriately known as the London-based DJ Leisureware. “While...

In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their Bandcamp collections...

There’s nothing quite like an Eris Drew DJ set. To see her play is to watch a true expert at work; her technical prowess is...

 In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their Bandcamp collections...

In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their Bandcamp collections...

New documentary on Tanzania's high-speed electronic sound singeli launches fundraiser

Nyege Nyege Tapes is involved in the project

A new documentary on the Tanzanian high-tempo electronic music sound of singeli is in the works. 'Singeli Movement: Greed For Speed' is a project from...

The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From high-velocity techno and house to psychedelic jazz and d&b, here's March...

Zakia is a DJ with a taste for transcendent sounds. On her Saturday morning NTS radio show, Questing, she draws from a broad selection of...

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Sound systems have driven the development of music in the UK, powered by hard work, passion and innovation. But preserving UK sound system culture, its knowledge and history, while also pushing it forward, is no easy task today. Ria Hylton traces its path through ska and reggae at blues dances in West Indian households, to soul, boogie, hip-hop and house in ’80s warehouses and at the Notting Hill Carnival, to nationwide tours and global popularity, and finds out how initiatives like the Sound System Futures Programme are seeking to secure its future 

It’s the Thursday before Notting Hill Carnival and Linett Kamala, board director of Europe’s biggest street party, is weaving through the streets of Kilburn. Her...

Jaye Ward, Honey Dijon, JD Samson, Mandidextrous and DJ Sprinkles talk gender identity, safe spaces, privilege and the power of the internet...

Words: JOE ROBERTS // Pics: JEF McMAHAN, COMATONSE RECORDINGS

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“Trans is so hot right now,” chuckles Jaye Ward, the Hackney-based DJ whose lineage of...

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They join two other women in coming forward with allegations against the DJ and producer

Content warning: This article contains information relating to sexual abuse

Two further people have come forward to make allegations of sexual abuse against DJ and...

The UK government announced the new restrictions yesterday (22nd September)

The Music Venue Trust (MVT) has responded to the UK government's new coronavirus restrictions, calling for a furlough extension and continued support for grassroots music...

Fabulous and flamboyant as ever, Róisín Murphy is in the middle of releasing a series of four 12-inch singles that she’s worked on with house...

The track that reminds you of your childhood...
“I would say that it’s ‘Ticket To Ride’. My mum had a record collection which she didn’t...

Having just dropped his debut album ‘Anxious’, the German dub-techno maestro gives us an insight into the tracks that helped him to define his sound... 

Mike Bierbach, aka Rødhåd, grew up on the outskirts of Berlin and cut his clubbing teeth at late ‘90s Berlin institutions like Ostgut and Casino...

B. Traits is bringing some bass to your face, Ibiza! We talk about her summer plans...

Tell us a bit about growing up in Canada…
I’m from a really small town in the countryside on the west side of Canada, about...

A round up of the best tracks this month...

Homeboy - 'Kaprije EP'
House is OK

Think the best beats in Croatia are the imported kind heard at the festivals that dominate the islands...

This month's essential tunes

Making his name with bass-injected techno on Hotflush and Hemlock, Guy Andrews has turned the drama dial to 11 with this fresh EP for 2020 Vision offshoot Fina.