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“Acid house at its inception was in some quarters totally misunderstood. The term 'Acid' came from Chicago — Ron Hardy, DJ Pierre, Farley, Adonis, Knuckles...

“Acid house wasn’t a British term to describe the music. Initially, the American producers coined the term and created the music. We embraced the...

We review the recent London gig of the infamous hip-hop DJ/producer

Not many events can claim to attract such high profiles as Four Tet, The 2 Bears and Thom Yorke on the same night. However, when...

This issue's hottest four names in dance music


Mikix The Cat
Parisian electro riot starter…

A self-declared “bass bandit puttin’ suckas in fear,” Paris’ Mikix The Cat has been busy putting France’s club...

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Premiere: Kiara Scuro & Timothy Clerkin ‘Lola's Acid’

London’s GODDEZZ label returns with a 16-track compilation of blissed-out breaks, trance and acid rave jams

London label GODDEZZ will release a new compilation, ‘RE​:​DREAM’, this month. Listen to Kiara Scuro & Timothy Clerkin’s ‘Lola's Acid’ below. The 16 track compilation...

The Synergy Project aims to trash any stereotypes of clubbing.

Instead, they turn it into an experience of self awareness and communal celebration. DJs, musicians, VJs, performers, artists, NGOs, charities and creative multimedia organizations from...

Photo of Zequenx wearing a black dress and heavy jewellery against an orange background

Indian label Qilla Records celebrates its 100th release with a compilation of hyperactive rave hybrids from across the globe. Listen to Zequenx’s acid-tinged contribution, ‘Retrograde’, now

Indian label Qilla Records is celebrating 100 releases with new compilation, ‘Chakravyūh’, out next week. Have an exclusive first listen to Zequenx’s contribution, ‘Retrograde’, below...

NTS Radio announces Tottenham goalie Alfie Whiteman, DEEP MEDi, gyrofield, more residencies

The station has an impressive squad confirmed for the coming season 

NTS Radio has announced a number of new residents for spring and summer 2024. Dubstep pioneer Mala's DEEP MEDi Musik, Miami-based producer Nick León, and...

Brooklyn's underground electronic duo Blondes are back with a new album, laced with dark techno tones and hypnotic psychedelic edges. With all eyes on NYC...

When various music circles started buzzing in early 2010 about a Brooklyn duo that fused elements of the American jam-band aesthetic with ecstatic trance, we approached with due caution. Fast-forward over the past three years and, what could have potentially gone so wrong has gone so right.

DJ Leisureware standing in an alley looking at the sky, wearing a raincoat and alien print tshirt

Leisureware “puts the lairy in Balearic” in his blissed-out, two-hour Fresh Kicks mix, and chats to Eoin Murray about “low intervention” DJing and The Occasional Feel-Good party and Soho Radio show

“Much like makers of trendy natural wine, I’ve adopted the ‘low intervention’ principle,” says William Smith, more appropriately known as the London-based DJ Leisureware. “While...

With frenzied breaks, high-speed hardcore and sizzling 160 sonics, FFF takes the Fresh Kicks mix series by storm

In FastTracker 2 — a popular, though now discontinued ‘90s DAW — there was code which automatically took the user to the highest possible bpm...

Coachella celebrated its 20th anniversary this year with back-to-back weekends of sounds from the world’s best musicians and DJs. The 2019 roster of talent...

Coachella had more than enough on offer for dance music fans this year. Major names like RÜFÜS DU SOL and Gorgon City brought brimming crowds...

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BROTHERS IN RHYTHM
As they continue to innovate and rock some choice festival crowds, The Chems beat...

Drum & bass sound designer readies debut album

Rather than pretending that he used to sneak into Metalheadz nights at the Blue Note in London aged 11, drum & bass sound designer Rockwell...

A trained jazz musician, bandleader and DJ, Emma-Jean Thackray couldn’t find a home for herself and her music in more established jazz spaces, so she...

A couple of hours into a conversation that has already covered Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Parliament-Funkadelic, Emma-Jean Thackray brings up Marcelo Bielsa, the eccentric...