"I perhaps could have been a bit more cautious,” Aluna Francis — sitting in her downtown LA home, sunglasses perched upon her braided blue coif...
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Abode is the Sunday party at Studio 338 getting London clubbers out the house...
Launched in September with Dyed Soundorom, Audiofly and wAFF, Abode is Studio338's new party, bringing big-scale daytime raving back to London. Rather than bringing after-hours...
Jackmaster takes a break from heading up Numbers to talk touring, disco naps and his affinity for micro pigs...
It was a decade ago when Jackmaster founded Glasgow club night Numbers, forging a party ready collective of like-minded talent whose ranks helped launch the...
We got speaking to Kate Simko, Solomun, Nick Curly, Huxley and Will Saul about how they deal with the ups, the downs, the delays, the...
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Kate Simko
Chicago house heiress Kate Simko has toured as a DJ and with a live show, and explains how life on...
Pasquale Rotella discusses his ceaseless effort, which has in-turn redefined the word “Insomniac”
Pasquale Rotella has 20 minutes to spare. The live music tycoon and founder of Insomniac Events, one of dance music’s most powerful brands - encompassing...
Freestyle Universal Vibes for everyone!
THE brainchild of DJ/producer Paddy Freeform, Universal Vibes is a multi-tentacled music project that reaches into all spheres of the dance music world. Beginning in...
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Aluna Francis’s life has been one of discovery — of uncovering truths about herself, about society, and about the fundamental ways in which the dance music industry fails people. The Wales-born, LA-based music maker, formerly of AlunaGeorge and now working as a solo artist, tells Bruce Tantum how she’s putting the knowledge she’s gained into practice via the new Noir Fever festival
Om Unit aka Jim Coles discusses his genre defying label Cosmic Bridge and their brilliant new compilation 'Cosmology'
Journalists and musicians tend to chase genres like toddlers do pigeons. It’s often a dizzying and frantic flap around in circles. So when history screams...
100 years of electronic music
In March 1913 Luigi Russolo, the Italian futurist, stormed out of a classical concert in Milan and published an open letter demanding a new form of modern music.
Here's what happened...
Kristian Nairn trots down a staircase, on his way to the stage, and waves excitedly to a full house of loyal patrons at ExchangeLA in...
From the New Jersey underground to a global sound
As New Jersey house music continues to undergo a resurgence in the UK, a new alternative manifestation of the sound is rapidly becoming a sensation...
With a strong underground scene, and new parties popping up every week, London it seems, is still the capital of clubland.
Despite the emergence of new clubbing hotspots around the world, London is still the best place on Earth to hear new dance music.
In 2006...
Ibiza, expectations and compromise...
Maya Jane Coles is one of the UK's biggest tech house stars. But as she explains on the eve of the release of her debut album and a load of DJ dates in Ibiza, she's staying true to her vision and choosing to release her music independently. We talk collaborators, DJing on the White Isle, and refusing to dilute her sound...
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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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From its beginnings in Yorkshire clubs to becoming a nationwide dance music phenomenon and chart success, the bassline sound has survived and thrived, despite the efforts of the police and club licensing authorities. Matt Anniss charts its rise, fall, resurgence and influence on a new generation of DJs, producers and ravers
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Granular synthesis might require a slightly unconventional approach but it’s capable of extremely complex and unique tones. When it comes to sound design, it can...