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Marshall Jefferson is suing Kanye West over alleged unauthorised use of 'Move Your Body' sample

"Getting done by another artist, a Black artist, a fellow Chicagoan, without acknowledgment is disappointing"

Marshall Jefferson is suing Kanye West over the use of a sample of the former's 1986 Chicago house classic 'Move Your Body'. In a lawsuit...

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To celebrate the release of Apple’s Logic Pro X 10.5, Point Blank are creating a number of tutorial videos which explore the update’s new features...

Photo of colourful lights and a large crowd at Simple Things 2024

Returning to the city after a five-year hiatus, Simple Things delivers a 10th anniversary programme that celebrates Bristol’s vibrant music scene whilst welcoming a kaleidoscope of international sounds into the fold. DJ Mag’s Olivia Stock reports back

There’s always been a certain irony to Simple Things, in that, there’s nothing really simple about the Bristol festival at all. Its line-up sprawls across...

185,000 tapes were sold during the year

Cassette sales in the UK increased by 19% last year.

According to official figures shared by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) this week, over 185,000 cassette...

The group announced their split last week

Daft Punk collectibles sales have soared following the duo's split.

Just one week after Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo AKA Daft Punk announced that they were ...

A staggering increase of 9.7% from last year...

Global music sales topped $19 billion in 2018, according to the latest IFPI Global Music Report.

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry released its...

The famous DJ software has set its sights on the studio...

Mixed in Key: Studio Edition is a new piece of software to help producers and musicians find out the key of any sound or sample...

The El Guitone nightclub has subsequently been shut down...

Dax J has been forced to close his Facebook account due to the number of death threats he received after playing a track with a...

Compilation of the Month: Anthony Naples + DJ Python ‘Air Texture VIII’

New York’s Anthony Naples and DJ Python curate a collection of introspective electronic music for a new generation in the latest edition of Air Texture’s celebrated series

Inspired by ‘90s series and labels, such as ‘Excursions In Ambience’ and Instinct Ambient, and their 2000s successors, like Kompakt’s ‘Pop Ambient’, James Healy’s Air...

The legendary artist started making electronic music on homemade instruments in the 1960s

Simeon Coxe, co-founder of pioneering electronic music duo Silver Apples, has died. 

The legendary musician passed away on 8th September in Fairhope, Alabama, according to...

Vinyl sales have risen 33.72% from 2019

Sales in physical music have skyrocketed amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to online music marketplace Discogs.

In their 2020 mid-year report, the website - which...

4.3 million vinyl LPs were sold in the UK in 2019 

Vinyl sales in the UK hit a record high last year, according to the British Phonographic Industry. 

The BPI's study found that 4.3 million vinyl LPs...

The second-hand market continues to grow...

Vinyl's resurgence could be much bigger than we first thought, as industry figures don't count used-record sales.

According to new US data revealed by Forbes...

There were 25,000 sales of his songs on Friday...

Since the tragic news broke that Swedish DJ Avicii had passed away aged 28 on Friday 20th April, sales of his music have increased 6000%...

Sales are booming in the U.K., and worldwide...

Vinyl's very real revival as a music format is continuing, according to new figures from the British Phonographic Industry.

Over the last decade, sales of...