“I’m finally home.” Those three words are among the first that the South African DJ and producer Palesa Desiree Shilabje utters when DJ Mag catches...
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Just one example of the Fake Documentary Realism that guided production techniques
In order to achieve the highest level of realism and authenticity, a sound engineer opted to "swallow" a microphone in a bid to help perfect...
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Mark Archer of the classic rave duo picks his biggest rave-era bangers ahead of his performance at Field Maneuvers festival later this month...
Mark Archer is a true acid house hero.
Producing music and releasing records since 1988, he was the driving force behind early rave pioneers Altern-8...
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Soaring ascents, the kind that can take an artist from obscurity to stardom in what seems to be the blink of an eye, don’t occur often, in dance music or elsewhere – those who are lucky enough to have that experience often disappear just as quickly. But there’s little chance of a quick fade for South Africa’s Palesa Desiree Shilabje, the DJ and producer known to the world as DESIREE, who in just a few short years has proved to be one of the international festival circuit’s most exciting new stars. Here, Bruce Tantum hears her story, and about how her evolution through music has been as organic as they come
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SHM activity is seemingly “loading”...
Axwell Λ Ingrosso dropped a new track, titled ‘Dancing Alone’, last week (29th June).
The duo have now used a billboard advertising the release...
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When it comes to competitions, Point Blank always come through. Hot on the heels of their recent Register & Win competition, the music school has...
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The trio have big plans apparently...
Steve Angello's manager Scooter Braun has declared the trio's comeback show at last weekend's Ultra Miami just "the beginning”.
Braun has shared an image via...
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The trio are due to go on tour next year...
Steve Angello has teased a new track, and with a Swedish House Mafia tour on the horizon for 2019, some are speculating that it could...
“It’s my intention to pull the subject into electronic music"...
Jeff Mills reckons science fiction and the themes around futurism and how the human race might react to alien life could shape the dance music...
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You're never too big for the book...
Stormzy has launched a publishing imprint alongside Penguin Random House called #Merky Books.
Revealing the move via Instagram the grime star, who headlined last weekend’s...
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The trio shared the first new single in almost a decade earlier this week
Swedish House Mafia joined Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 earlier this week to chat about their return single, ‘It Gets Better’.
The trio shared...
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The book’s original soundtrack by A Guy Called Gerald will also be released on vinyl for the first time
A 1989 novel set in the London underground acid house scene, Trip City, is set to be republished this year by Velocity Press.
The cult...
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When Mason first released ‘Exceeder’ in 2005 it was a B-side. But its fuzzy bassline and gated trancey notes garnered a legion of fans, and it became a key building block in the pre-EDM electro-house scene. 17 years later, he shares its story
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"I never dreamt that when we launched this record label that we would receive hundreds of demos in only six weeks," co-founder Laila Mckenzie said
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When it was released in 1995, ‘Boulevard’ consummated the union between house music and jazz, whilst clearing the path for a wave of French house...
‘Boulevard’, the 1995 debut album from Parisian producer Ludovic Navarre — aka St Germain — was by no means the first time jazz had mixed with house. Larry...
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He was part of the crew across a number of ships at sea when the virus hit
A DJ was stuck on a cruise ship for nearly three months due to coronavirus restrictions
Caio Saldanha, a Brazilian DJ, signed up to work...