In mid-August of last year, scenes from an electronic music festival at a water-park in Wuhan, China were beaming across the internet. The photos and...
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After intensive, early lockdowns, China's events industry is gradually returning to pre-pandemic levels, with safety measures in place. Bruce Tantum speaks to a selection of DJs...
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Electronic maverick Squarepusher’s new album finds him breaking his own rules, and drawing from the past for inspiration — but being him, it’s no simple nostalgia exercise. DJ...
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Progressive house champion Cristoph shows us round his Newcastle haunts, and tells us how his friends and family, and the patronage of Eric Prydz, have...
Eight years in, and the house kid from Bordeaux is all grown up...
It’s hard to believe that Hugues ‘Bobmo’ Rey has been firing out leftfield dancefloor bombs for nearly a decade. Bursting onto a French scene that...
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Dallas has long been a hub of razor sharp electro, but its history is lesser known than that of Chicago or Detroit. Here, Ben Murphy...
Dallas, Texas is an unlikely nerve centre of electro music. The city’s small but tight knit cabal of producers and DJs have been releasing essential...
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This evergreen breakbeat hardcore missive influenced the likes of The Prodigy and the whole of the early UK rave scene. Ben Murphy charts its story...
“I saw that record go from street level and get bigger and bigger, and there was no video for it, no promotion, nothing,” says Renegade Soundwave’s Danny...
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Simon Baker was a successful DJ/producer who had releases on labels such as Kompakt, Cocoon and Last Night On Earth. But then he developed tinnitus, and...
I had what you could call a dream career. From resident DJ at Leeds’ legendary Mint Club to headlining parties around the world and releasing...
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Having become a staple of the Planet Mu roster, Jlin’s experimental sonics have seen her captivate club-goers and festival crowds around the globe. Now the US...
"I’m sorry that this is rambled as shit, I’m in the middle of running around and getting ready to go to Whole Foods for my...
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When Gerd Janson was looking for someone to mix a Running Back compilation to mark 15 years of his quality imprint, he asked a master if he...
The summer of 1981, Brooklyn-born DJ Tony Humphries would compile extended ‘mastermixes’ of the hottest records coming out of (mostly) New York and Chicago for...
A guide to dance music's pre-rave past...
We've drafted in Greg Wilson, the former electro-funk pioneer, nowadays a leading figure in the global disco/re-edits movement and respected commentator on dance music and...
A guide to dance music's pre-rave past...
We've drafted in Greg Wilson, the former electro-funk pioneer, nowadays a leading figure in the global disco/re-edits movement and respected commentator on dance music and...
We take a look back at the news of 2015 through the prism of the international dance music scene. It's been quite a year!
January is a notoriously slow month in clubland — a time when gym memberships take priority over all-nighters and pennies are scraped together. Many top...
Counting down the best of DJ 'WTF' moments in 2014
2014: the year of click bait articles and cheesy EDM news everyone loved to hate. From Art Department dissing Laidback Luke to Michelle Obama turning...
For their second album, Hamburg's disco-sampling duo Session Victim decamped to San Francisco and discovered a new way of working with analogue synths, drum machines...
It's great dance music is so big now that your mum hums Disclosure. What isn't so great is that because dance music is so popular...