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Above & Beyond’s latest delivery is an acoustic gem fit for a queen

The artist’s green room in London’s Royal Albert Hall doesn’t quite match the scale of grandeur its main arena boasts. But for the talent fortunate...

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.

Green Valley in Brazil experienced a double disaster last year. First came the COVID-19 pandemic, then the venue itself was destroyed in June by a...

At the start of 2020, everything was looking great for Green Valley. The Brazilian venue, which is more like a festival experience, had been voted...

As a show of solidarity to support the artists and labels impacted through the global pandemic, we are launching a weekly roundup of the most...

The global pandemic of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has had a devastating impact on our scene, leading to the cancellation of countless club nights and...

As dance music’s top-heavy, tour-focused infrastructure crumbles, people across the industry are wondering how new revenue streams can emerge to support artists during and after...

It’s been four months since COVID-19 sent dancers into deep freeze. With no sign of a vaccine, the suspicion is that clubs will stay closed...

Press photo of TDJ posing looking away from the camera, bathed in red light and wearing a blue and red bra-style top

Get acquainted with TDJ, the Montreal-born artist bringing trance-driven eclecticism to her DJs sets and EPs

There’s a bold, unexpected beauty to TDJ’s repertoire, so it feels appropriate that we’d catch the Canadian artist smack in the middle of a sudden...

Photo of Aletha in a metallic blue-grey Jersey standing next to a wooden wall

With a mix of minimal thumpers, trippy techno and deep, driving acid, Manchester’s Aletha steps up for the Fresh Kicks series, and speaks to Claire Francis about the formative influence of multi-genre festivals like Dimensions, her CITRIC party, and more

There’s something thrillingly addictive about Aletha’s sets. It’s partly due to the Manchester DJ’s propensity for zingy acid and electro cuts, but it’s also the...

A crowd facing the DJ booth in Hï Ibiza's main room

The Ibiza superclub tops our readers' poll of the world's best clubs for the first time

Hï Ibiza has been voted the World’s No.1 Club in this year’s Top 100 Clubs poll. Top 100 Clubs is a celebration of the world’s...

Selections: Gabrielle Kwarteng

In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, Panorama Bar regular Gabrielle Kwarteng spotlights jacking and enchanting house tracks for the dancefloor

If you’ve been to Berghain’s Panorama Bar recently, there’s a good chance you’ve danced to a DJ set from Gabrielle Kwarteng. The New York-born, Berlin-based...

 Priori by Kane Ocean

Montréal’s NAFF Recordings co-founder Priori records a mix of deep, spaced-out house and techno for the Fresh Kicks series, and speaks to Sophie McNulty about collaborating, discovering dance music in his teens and pushing electronic sounds to into new, weird places

“Sharing ideas with other people made me progress way faster,” explains Priori of his collaborative process. The Montréal-based producer — real name: Francis Latreille —...

In this month’s Brand Focus, we speak to Chris Howell-Jones about DiscoTees — the clothing line inspired by the rich heritage and club culture of...

On his first trip to Ibiza in ’89, Chris Howell-Jones heard whispers of a once legendary after-party at a venue called Glory’s. The club had...

In our latest gaming column, State of Play, Cherie Hu asks: have concert promoters been irrevocably cut out of the in-game concert boom by game...

As this column has covered extensively, 2020 was a watershed year for in-game concerts, from Travis Scott, Steve Aoki and Dillon Francis in Fortnite to...

Defected's Where Love Lives documentary is a moving journey through self-acceptance, expression and the power of community

Starting life as a way of supporting the artists and labels impacted through the coronavirus pandemic, as well as releases supporting other causes and initiatives...

The pandemic of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has had a devastating impact on our scene, leading to the cancellation of countless club nights and festivals...

In our new regular feature, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share recent additions to their...

Record stores and clubs around the world are shut, and opportunities to find new music out in the wild have been ripped from under our...