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From the Minimoog to the Roland TR-808...

Some of the most important innovations in electronic music came about by mistake. Whether it be the way that Roland's TR-808 and then the TR-909...

It's the 62nd best-selling vinyl record of the 2010s

It's offical: Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories' is the best-selling dance music album on vinyl this decade.

Recently revealed to be the best-selling album on...

We premiere the Berliners latest, 'Music Is Therapy', over a quick chinwag...

DJ T. has a wealth of experience in electronic music as both a journalist (he used to edit Groove Magazine between 1989 and 2004) and...

Buy Music Club update allows you to listen to playlists with continuous playback

"And in case you're thinking, 'Wait, does that mean Buy Music Club is basically a streaming platform now?' DEFINITELY NOT."

Buy Music Club has updated its player to now let you listen to playlists seamlessly. The platform, run by Avalon Emerson, Jason Fellows and Shawn...

When the Covid-19 pandemic cleared Dutch producer, DJ and label boss Martyn’s diary, he turned his attention to others: starting his own mentoring programme for...

Martyn has spent the last 25 years making electronic music, but the Dutch artist still remembers his earliest days keenly. “I started in drum &...

Welsh music feature

Since electronic music’s early days, Wales has produced incredible artists, but is often overlooked in its history. Here, Dave Jenkins celebrates the unsung heroes of the scene and meets a new generation putting their national identity at the forefront of their music

Croeso i Gymru, a land rich with music history. Home to the oldest festival of music and culture in Europe (the Eisteddfod, 1176), Marconi’s first...

Influenced by emerging electronic techniques and the rave scene, industrial outfit Coil's third album 'Love's Secret Domain' is full of trippy, drug-fuelled dichotomies and collaborations...

“I remember thinking, ‘What the fuck have we made?’” Danny Hyde says of Coil’s ‘Love’s Secret Domain’ — known as ‘LSD’ — which turns 30...

FREE PLUGINS, SOUNDS AND ONLINE COURSES

Music’s power to seduce the minds of young people is well documented. Since Rock n Roll’s halcyon days in the 1950s and 1960s it is...

Delia Derbyshire: The Myths & The Legendary Tapes will premiere as part of London Film Festival

A new feature length film about electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire will premiere online next week as part of the BFI London Film Festival. 

Delia...

FREE PLUGINS, SOUNDS AND ONLINE COURSES

Following on from the first video a few weeks back, we return to the guest music industry masterclass given by Nick Halkes at Point Blank...

With the rise of Shazam, The Identification of Music Group and "Track ID?" culture, some DJs have become increasingly protective of the music they play...

Imagine it. You’re at a party in your mate’s back garden, all your friends are there, spirits are high, the sun’s just setting, your tins...

Released 20 years ago, Basement Jaxx's 'Rooty' is a paean to the adaptable power of house music, a ferocious mixture of musical styles kept in...

‘Rooty’, Basement Jaxx’s second album, was the moment when the London duo conquered pop in the name of UK house music; the apex of the...

Castlemorton 1992: photographing the Illegal rave that changed UK dance music forever

2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the biggest and the most infamous illegal rave that ever took place: Castlemorton – a week-long, 20,000-person party deemed so anarchistic that it shook Middle England to its core. Here, photographer Alan Lodge tells his story of capturing a week changed UK dance music forever

It started on a particularly sunny bank holiday weekend, on the 22nd May 1992. A ramshackle convoy of vehicles, which served as the rag-tag homes...

Music Venues Trust revealed the results of the survey in The Guardian last week

A survey from Music Venues Trust has found only 36% of British gig-goers feel safe returning to live music events.

As part of the Save...

In November, people from across the globe arrive in Hungary’s historic and hedonistic capital, Budapest, for three days of performances from a truly global bill...

You’re playing Miller Music Amplified in Budapest. Why are events like this important? 

“It’s always exciting to discover the new music these events let you...