It’s just gone midnight and the dancefloor at Mossy’s, a two-floor nightclub above the Harbour Inn in Lowestoft, is heaving with life. Andrew ‘Richie’ Riches...
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Bank Holiday hoedown in Leeds
Despite weather reports not looking too bright for May’s first bank holiday, the excitement ahead of Back to Basics Saturday afternoon offering to Leeds’ three...
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...
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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The festival will take place in a town called Mai Chau
There’s a festival with raves in a cave in Vietnam next month.
Club Savage, in Vietnam's capital city of Hanoi, has announced plans for a...
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The collective’s first issue documents queer and POC stories in dance music history
Rave Scout Cookies is set to release its first handbook.
A nostalgic package of stories to tell "fellow ravers around a campfire, at your favorite...
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The dance music history of East Anglia is rich, multi-layered and messy — and little documented. Matt Anniss chats to some of the scene’s longstanding figureheads about the region’s airfield parties, seaside throwdowns and forgotten clubs, discovering a vital but rarely discussed stage in the UK’s rave evolution
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Washington D.C.’s Black Rave Culture return with 12-tracks of genre-jumping dance music
Secret Solstice fest is just the tip of the iceberg...
Iceland is famous for many things, not the least of which are its breathtaking, otherworldly landscapes and steady stream of musical exports. Dance music aficionados...
Listen to an exclusive track from the AVOTRE producer's new LP
Hamburg born, Berlin based jackin’ house and techno talent Sidney Charles has just released his new album entitled ‘House Lessons’ through AVOTRE; a label he...
DJs' negative publicity campaigns and Twitter beefs are getting on our resident ranter's wick...
Hey bird brains! You know what really gets on my wick? What really fucking winds me up? DJs, producers, artists (I use the term loosely)...
Should dance music be organic and 'real'? Should it fuck, the more synthetic the better says our resident ranter...
Time was, in the '80s and '90s when dance music was so massively marginalised by mainstream culture (yeah, so what’s new?) that trying to get...
More and more women are taking to the decks. But there are some sexist idiots who can't get their heads round it...
Man approaches decks. “Alright love,” he says. Although my heart sinks, I smile politely and say hello back, hoping he’s not going to try and...
When did dance get so damned elitist?
“In the beginning, there was Jack, and Jack had a groove… One day Jack declared, "Let there be HOUSE!" and house music was born. And, you see, no one man owns house because house music is a universal language, spoken and understood by all... Jack is the one that can bring nations of all Jackers together under one house. You may be black, you may be white; you may be Jew or Gentile. It don't make a difference in OUR House.”
The problem? Too many DJs...
Slowly and surreptitiously over the course of the last decades, a plague has infested and infected club land. It’s a disease that has eaten away at the core art of the DJ and at the very dynamics of almost any club night you care to attend.
Commercial dance and rap don't fit
EDM doesn't need rappers legitimising its stadium-sized stasis and banality