Exalted among the many musical innovations that Jamaica has given the world is the dubplate. An acetate pressing of unreleased music, produced especially for DJs...
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You might think that the UK festival scene is over-saturated, and in many senses it is with more choice than ever for the seasoned cider...
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If Brighton is known as ‘London by sea’ for its preponderance of big city hipsters drawn by the thriving music scene, relaxed atmosphere and proximity...
Stanton’s new M.207 mixer caters for the scratch DJs and turntablists out there.
Stanton is a household name among DJs, but it has been a while since they took a foray into the scratch mixer market. Well, all...
Kam’s new CD player is the real deal minus the big bucks price-tag
Kam's KCD400 MP3 CD player is clearly aimed at those of us who aren't members of the Saudi Royal Family or superstar DJs, and are...
Fine Tuning: The 'weirdos' win out
With their restlessly futuristic vision, the records released on the Hyperdub label are as bleeding edge as it's possible to be without ending up in...
Fabric Freshner: Ten-years-young and better than ever
Generally, clubs, much like the latest trendy mobile phone or up-to-the-second arch crack-bang-whizz computer, are characterised by an inherent obsolescence. It is, after all, the...
The Second Coming: the finest d&b seduction
'Breakthrough' producers of the year Instra:Mental may be, yet Damon Kirkham and Alex Green are no overnight success story. For the first records bearing the...
The UK's biggest dance music show is just around the corner with shedloads of confirmed attractions...
With only a week to go, news is still flooding in fast about DJ Live - the UK's top-class dance music industry exhibition.
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Bulgaria is to host the first South East European Music Exhibition in May. It represents a new dawn for the region's burgeoning dance scene.
Dance music continues to develop rapidly all over the world, but if there's one place where it's developing faster than most it's in South East...
Ministry Of Sound opened its first Minibar at the end of March in Harrogate, north England. It marks the beginning of a revolution for Britain's...
Is it a bar? Is it a club? Is it a spaceship?
Most of Minibar's invited guests were scratching their heads last night as to...
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Nile Rodgers is the man behind Chic and countless disco classics and mega hits. Always moving with the times and updating his classic guitar licks...
In late 1976, a guitarist named Nile Rodgers and a bass player named Bernard Edwards bribed an elevator operator $10 to keep quiet about an after-hours...
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In the early ‘90s, dubplates, exclusive early pressings of unreleased music, fuelled the buzz around DJs in the emergent jungle scene. In an excerpt from...
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While clubs have been closed during the pandemic, there has been an abundance of excellent dance music documentaries to fill the void left by their...
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With its high-energy beats, infectious dance routines and community ethos, Jersey club has become a global phenomenon. Tice Cin reports from New Jersey on some of the people pushing the sound forwards, the special moments they create, and their hopes for the future of the music