Amapiano (also known as ipiano or ’piano) began in the streets of Gauteng, South Africa, in the early 2010s. The now world-conquering sound is a...
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New York's Electric Zoo festival
Go ape and swing into action! Electric Zoo, a two-day outdoor dance music extravaganza at New York City’s Randall’s Island Park, takes place on 5th...
Footwork don Kuhn introduces Astro Nautico crew
“My background is sort of all over the map,” says New York-based artist Kuhn, aka Bennett Kuhn, whose sophomore 'Kings EP' is out now on Civil Music.
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Amapiano has become a world-conquering genre since emerging in South Africa over a decade ago, with the sound mutating in recent years to solidify its place as an embedded dance music culture. Here, Shiba Melissa Mazaza asks: who are the South African artists carrying the torch for amapiano right now?
Fake Blood talks to the press for the first time about his new album
DJ Mag quizzed him about his hip-hop roots, graffiti, EDM and his burgeoning soundtrack work for a famous cult horror movie...
The New York house icon keeps things un-censored...
Armand van Helden didn’t hold back when offering his perspective on the current expectations within DJ culture: “It’s all a no-brainer. They don’t have to...
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The LA artist's second album was developed from an artist residency in London
Sound Factory legend talks voguing, Madonna and his European tour
Across Paris, London and New York, the sound of ballroom is again infiltrating every area of dance music, from Vaggio's 'Don't You Want Some More'...
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Durban’s DJ Lag is a pioneer of the world-conquering South African dance music genre, gqom. He’s toured the world and worked with superstars, but he’s...
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Berlin’s Cinthie is responsible for some of the most sought-after deep house records of the moment. In between her hectic schedule of label management, running...
Let’s put things into perspective — a lot can happen in 12 months. Try launching a new label, a vinyl store and building a new...
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Sheffield's Cabaret Voltaire were way, way ahead of their time.
Neil Kulkarni talks to founder Richard H Kirk about apathy, necessity and house music...
Weatherall-produced psychedelic drone dudes Fuck Buttons
Ben Power and Andy Hung used to skateboard together as teenagers in Worcester, and when they met up again in Bristol they started making music...
Already a staple sound of Ibiza at DC-10 and Parisian clubs like Concrete and Rex, French house is now truly going global...
It’s August 2013 and the trio of Dan Ghenacia, Dyed Soundorom and Shonky are coming to the close of an eight-hour showcase of their trademark...
According to Republic Records’ Wendy Goldstein...
Daft Punk and The Weeknd are reportedly in the studio together — and we couldn’t be more excited.
A few weeks ago The Weeknd posted...
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The release coincided with Earth Day and Brazilian Indigenous People's Day, and followed a concert in Brasilia with an audience of one million