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GIDEÖN soundtracks contemporary dance performance, Man[Or]God
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GIDEÖN soundtracks contemporary dance performance, Man[Or]God

The new show will debut at London's Cannon Factory this weekend

Block9 co-founder, DJ and musician GIDEÖN, aka Gideon Berger, has been enlisted to produce the score for a new theatre production by dance artist Mavin...
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Cloud DJing finally comes to CDJs — here’s why it matters

Pioneer DJ’s new CloudDirectPlay ushers in a new era for DJing

Pioneer DJ announced a new firmware update for their flagship CDJ3000 player last week, called CloudDirectPlay. The new feature lets users access files stored in...

MARTIN GARRIX: ANIMAL ATTRACTION

We hook up with the Dutch teenage hotshot ahead of an appearance at Ultra in Miami...

Across the world right now are thousands of 17-year-old kids dreaming of making it big in the gold rush days of EDM, dance music's biggest...
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Jamz Supernova: a shining star of British radio

Jamz Supernova is spearheading the next generation of radio DJs with her residencies on BBC Radio 1Xtra and Selector Radio. While equally at home behind...

It’s an uncomfortable fact of the situation that some people have had a good pandemic. The rhythm of our daily lives has been disturbed, maybe...
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Solid Gold: How Gorillaz' self-titled debut ushered in a new era of pop music

Gorillaz’ 2001 self-titled debut laid the foundations for Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s animated outfit. With a rotating cast of collaborators and a genre-merging style...

When Damon Albarn’s Gorillaz loped onto the scene with their self-titled debut album in 2001, this virtual band looked like it might be the future...

Donna Summer I Feel Love GRAMMY Hall of Fame 2024
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Donna Summer, Lauryn Hill, De La Soul inducted into GRAMMY Hall Of Fame

The first additions to the list since 2021 also included Buena Vista Social Club and Guns N' Roses

This year's inductees into the GRAMMY Hall of Fame have been announced, with landmark disco and hip-hop releases getting the nod. To qualify for consideration...

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Premiere: Dj Yirvin ‘Ya Yahoo (Siu Mata & Amor Satyr Remix)’

Parisian duo Siu Mata & Amor Satyr put a full-pelt percussive spin on Venezuelan hard fusion pioneer Dj Yirvin’s ‘Ya Yahoo’

A new anthology album featuring tracks from pioneering Venezuelan artist Dj Yirvin will be released on the ACA label this week. Listen to a remix...

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Premiere: Carré ‘Cute Mad’

Fast At Work co-founder and resident Carré swerves across an eclectic and hypnotic spectrum of high-BPM sounds on the inaugural label release, ‘Soft Fascination’

Carré will release a new EP, ‘Soft Fascination’, via Fast At Work later this week. Have an exclusive first listen to ‘Cute Mad’ below. Breaking...

Dance music is the UK's second most popular genre, BPI reveals
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Dance music is the UK's second most popular genre, BPI reveals

The genre has accounted for about 25% of weekly top 10 singles this year

Dance music is now the UK's second most popular genre according to new analysis shared by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Data shared by the...

Jägermeister hosts “ICECOLD Supermarket” party with Michael Dapaah, DJ Majestic, Molly Collins more
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Jägermeister hosts “ICECOLD Supermarket” party with Michael Dapaah, DJ Majestic, Molly Collins more

“Iceland wouldn’t let us have a rave in their supermarket, so we made our own.”

Jägermeister hosted an “ICECOLD Supermarket” party in London last week. Between Thursday 13th and Friday 14th October, the doors of The ICECOLD Supermarket opened on...

Peach by Marta Michalak
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Peach launches new label, Psychic Readings, with ‘Fortune One’ EP

Listen to 'Eclipse' now

Peach is launching a label, Psychic Readings. The first EP on the imprint, 'Fortune One', will be released on 26th October. You can listen to...

Legendary DJ Tony De Vit to be honoured with blue plaque at site of former Birmingham club Custard Factory
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Legendary DJ Tony De Vit to be honoured with blue plaque at Birmingham's Custard Factory studios

He's the first UK DJ ever to receive a blue plaque

Tony De Vit will be honoured with a blue plaque memorial at the site of Birmingham's Custard Factory studios next month. The unveiling ceremony, which...

An AI-powered virtual rapper, FN MEKA, has been signed to Capitol Records
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An AI-powered virtual rapper, FN MEKA, has been signed to Capitol Records

The "robot rapper" has more than 10 million followers on TikTok and has already released his first major label single

Capitol Records has signed an AI-powered virtual rapper named FN MEKA. He's already released his first single for the major label called 'Florida Water'; listen...

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Student designs synthesiser inspired by the abacus, Abacusynth

It can be used to "explore the building blocks of audio synthesis", with a free Ableton Live plugin now available 

A university student has designed a new synthesiser for their thesis, inspired by the mathematical abacus. Dubbed Abacusynth, the project is the work of Elias...

Dorothy Classic Hip Hop Stamp Collection
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Classic hip-hop albums celebrated on new stamp card-style print

LPs from Gang Starr, Cypress Hill, BDP, Run D.M.C., Queen Latifah and Lauryn Hill all feature

A new stamp card-style print has been released paying tribute to 40 hip-hop albums, tracing the genre back to its early-1980s roots and celebrating its...