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Kraftwerk’s nostalgia trick

Ageing or raging?

It’s time for fading '90s producers to stop hyping their own records with snotty attacks on EDM and focus on writing some decent tunes…

Vinyl may be back, but is the picture really so rosy for records?

I’m sure you’ve heard the great news — vinyl is back, baby: back on the shelves, back in our collective conscious, back in the clubs. Everyone and their mother’s brother is now walking around like the cat who's got the cream, because they are true collectors, true music heads, true audiophiles and their addiction to black crack has finally been vindicated.

Why is shuffling being mocked and banned?

I’m going to tell you a little story about dancing — this is a dance music mag, after all. It’s 1991. I’m deep in some ramshackle Northern warehouse rave. I’m at one with the universe, have just had my sixth life-changing conversation of the evening and am now busy chatting with my fourth new best friend in the last hour.

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“Money can’t buy you love,” sang The Beatles, although most people do want to be loved. This is especially true of a lot of top-flight DJs, narcissists at the best of times, who feel all at sea if they aren’t constantly getting reassurance about how great they are — and popular.

Is nothing original anymore?

There are so many nonsensical phrases that people love blindly bandying about. You know the ones, the proverbial drivel that people throw around in states of cod-philosophical self-approbation, even if it actually makes about as much sense as Joey Barton’s Twitter feed.

Crosstown Rebels announce global tour

It seems like only yesterday that Crosstown Rebels popped up on the global scene, yet a decade has passed since their first release. In that time Damian Lazarus' imprint has branched out into events, a TV series and even a Mayan festival in Mexico.

We Love... nears its finale

Despite being ravaged by fire and a huge police drugs crack-down, Ibiza continues to enthral clubbers the world over.

Entering its final month of...

The clubs that changed dance music forever<BR>

“Forget ’88 to ’90. Acid house had died by then... this was a new phase,” recalls drum & bass don Fabio on his legendary residency...

One of the most respected and established scratch samplers just got an update.

Plug the new TTM 56S into any socket around the world, and connect turntables or CDs to all of the inputs by flicking a switch....

Stunning little touches give the Rane Empath mixer technical and creative freedom. Absolutely packed with FX loop options and great for scratch DJs too.

Stunning little touches give the Rane Empath mixer technical and creative freedom. Absolutely packed with FX loop options and great for scratch DJs too.

He said he is "very dissapointed" in "The Scene"

Dave Clarke has spoken out against DJs playing parties during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Taking to Facebook to post the statement, the Brighton-born, Amsterdam-based techno DJ...

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Serving up everything from psytrance and hardstyle to deep house, disco and techno 

Berlin’s Rave the Planet parade has announced the official afterparties involved with this year's free event, which takes place in the city on Saturday 9th...

Album of the Month: Rema ‘Rave & Roses’

Bangers are the order of the day on young Nigerian pop star Rema’s debut album, ‘Rave & Roses’

Rema has won the race for the perfect audio signature. Forget “Cardo got wings”, forget “I love Chris Rich”, forget “Mustard on the beat, hoe”...

During the early '90s the word 'rave' conjured up images of the era's legendary acid house parties. 30 years on — hijacked by the tabloid...

During the ‘90s, the term ‘rave’ became a buzzword in the tabloid press. And it’s happened again in 2020. So much so that they write...