Search

Results for: The Matrix

News

Bristol station SWU.fm is shutting down, citing rising costs and energy bills

The platform launched in 2020, and hosted Love Saves The Day, Conducta, Addison Groove, LCY, DJ Die and We Out Here, among others

Bristol's independent electronic music station, SWU.FM, has announced it will cease operations and close as a result of rising costs and soaring energy bills. The...

News

New York’s King Street Sounds label relaunched by Armada Music

The legendary imprint is the latest in a string of acquisitions by the label's investment arm

New York house music label King Street Sounds is being relaunched through Armada Music's investment arm. Home to an expansive and influential catalogue of independently-released...

News

Clubs and promoters using Festicket predict huge losses as company falls into administration

Motion Bristol have issued a statement outlining outstanding payments in excess of £300,000

Clubs and promoters using the Festicket ticketing platform are predicting considerable losses after officials recommended the company enter administration. The business, which claimed to be...

WMC Thursday 22 March

30. Remix Hotel Logic Tuition

For the fifth year running, the National Hotel on Collins Avenue will be transformed into the 'Remix Hotel' – a...

STEFFI: KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

Dutch DJ/producer is one of Berlin club Panorama Bar's most celebrated residents. Her deep knowledge of dance music's past keeps her one step ahead of...

Programmed and mixed by Steffi, Panorama Bar’s latest mix CD makes it feels like the series is complete. The Dutch DJ/producer’s passion for music is rooted in her deep knowledge of electronic music, which transcends genres and lazy descriptions.

Features

These are this week’s Bandcamp essentials (7th August)

Starting life as a way of supporting the artists and labels impacted through the coronavirus pandemic, as well as releases supporting other causes and initiatives...

The pandemic of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has had a devastating impact on our scene, leading to the cancellation of countless club nights and festivals...

Q&A: MILLER SOUNDCLASH FINALIST ANKLETAP

With Miller Genuine Draft

Over the next few weeks we’ll be profiling the Miller SoundClash finalists; getting to know the DJs who will be flying to Las Vegas...

News

Homicide investigation launched into rapper Chris Kaba’s death

The Metropolitan Police officer who killed the member of drill group 67 has since been suspended

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has launched a homicide investigation into the death of London rapper Chris Kaba after being shot by an...

Tech

Black Friday Deals for DJs and Producers 2019

It's that time again! Many years ago someone decided the day after thanksgiving was a good time to do some shopping, and now we get...

Music

Selections: SVBKVLT

In this regular feature, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their Bandcamp...

Clubs around the world are shut, and opportunities to find new music out in the wild have been ripped from under our feet as a...

Features

10 music documentaries to watch online

While clubs have been closed during the pandemic, there has been an abundance of excellent dance music documentaries to fill the void left by their...

Whether celebrating individuals and movements that helped shaped where dance music culture is today, or commemorating everything coronavirus took from us in spring 2020, the...

Features

Solid Gold: How Prince's iconic album 'Purple Rain' influenced electronic music

DJ Mag’s Solid Gold series revisits and examines the ongoing influence of seminal albums throughout history. Here, DJ Mag's Digital Tech Editor Declan McGlynn examines how Prince's...

As the chorus for ‘Purple Rain’ rang out of First Avenue in downtown Minneapolis on a humid August evening in 1983, no one sang along...

News

Keep Hush shares findings from community-led clubbing survey, U Going Out?

The UK promoters point to six key findings relating to people's clubbing habits in 2022

UK promoters Keep Hush have shared the findings from their community-led clubbing survey, U Going Out? The survey was launched in May, in response to...

News

Kendrick Lamar closes Glastonbury headline set with “Godspeed for women’s rights” chant: Watch

The Californian rapper hit out at the US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade

Kendrick Lamar closed his headline Glastonbury set with an emotionally charged chant for women's right, days after the US Supreme Court made the decision to...

News

UK’s first regular drug checking service set to launch this month in Bristol

Award-winning organisation The Loop is partnering with the local authority, Bristol Drugs Project, and People's Republic of Stokes Croft in a huge step forward for harm reduction in Britain

The UK's first regular drug checking service is launching in Bristol this month, delivered by non-profit harm reduction specialists The Loop in a new partnership...