‘Ey ey ba day ba wadladie day’ The opening lyrics to SL2’s ‘On A Ragga Tip’ immediately come up when you type its title into...
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Win tickets to 14th October face off
Things will be getting big, phat AND heavy on Thursday 14th October for the second year of the Red Bull Music Academy Culture Clash at...
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Lifting the vocals from Jah Screechy’s reggae standard 'Walk & Skank’, SL2’s‘On A Ragga Tip’ surfed the hardcore rave wave at the turn of the 1990s before crossing over to bring breakbeats and bass into the pop charts. The track has transcended genres and styles to stand alone as an enduring dance classic. Joe Roberts calls up Slipmatt, aka Matt Nelson — the ’S’ in SL2 — to learn its story
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Prepare to get nostalgic...
A website offers the chance to delve into a "living history" of the mid '90s rave scene.
Rave Archive is a dedicated online hub that...
We speak with an associate of the 'Rave Six' regarding their charges
At the end of May during the bank holiday, some people threw a party. No big deal, just a few thousand people dancing next to...
GlobalGathering launches its 2012 campaign
Back in Shakespeare country at Long Marston Airfield, Stratford Upon Avon, on Friday 27th and Saturday 28th July, GlobalGathering once again scour the planet...
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The Kerala-born, Oxford-based producer explores the complexities of “third culture” identity across seven-tracks of jazz-influenced electronics and UKG
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Sound systems have driven the development of music in the UK, powered by hard work, passion and innovation. But preserving UK sound system culture, its knowledge and history, while also pushing it forward, is no easy task today. Ria Hylton traces its path through ska and reggae at blues dances in West Indian households, to soul, boogie, hip-hop and house in ’80s warehouses and at the Notting Hill Carnival, to nationwide tours and global popularity, and finds out how initiatives like the Sound System Futures Programme are seeking to secure its future
US supermarket giant Wal-Mart are embroiled in a legal dispute over the acid house smiley face image, that they want to trademark.
US supermarket giant Wal-Mart is involved in a legal dispute over the acid house smiley face image, which it wants to trademark.
A Frenchman who...
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Sound System Outernational's eighth event tackles themes of "continuities and disruptions" this 5th November
Time for a history lesson
Memory is a crazy thing. Psychology suggests that huge chunks of our memory are false constructs, whopping great brain porkies designed to bolster up whatever zany truths we’ve decided to believe about the world. Say, for example, that you think of yourself as a virile, dancefloor dominating master of the decks, a near mythical hybrid of Julio Bashmore, Sasha and Larry Levan.
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FLASHBACK celebrates the legendary acid house raves of the late '80s and early '90s
A new online archive will celebrate Blackburn’s acid house rave scene of the late '80s / early '90s.
FLASHBACK is a new online archive comprising...
Submit your Latin mixes to win a Fiesta Nights DJ residency
La Tasca’s Fiesta Nights DJ competition is in full swing! You have been submitting your latin-inspired mixes for a chance to be featured on this...
Glowsticks at the ready: Resist are about to drop the first volume in a new series of compilations.
Entitled 'Sex Drums, Rock 'N' Rave' - out 30th July - which of course focuses on the nu-rave, rocked-up dance music currently dominating the dancefloors...