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Worldwide FM and Gilles Peterson launch grassroots music funding initiative

Studio Monkey Shoulder will put a £10,000 investment into one community project

Gilles Peterson and Worldwide FM have partnered with Monkey Shoulder Whiskey to set up a new music initiative which is designed to empower and celebrate...

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Now that they’ve shared the initial info for their official Point Blank Los Angeles launch event taking place on Thursday, February 19th 2015, PB...

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Groundbreaking report on gender disparity in UK dance music published by Jaguar Foundation

The report uses quantitative data from radio airplay and streaming as well as roundtable discussions with key figures

A groundbreaking report on gender disparity has been published by the Jaguar Foundation. Out today (3rd August), ‘Progressing Gender Representation in UK Dance Music' was...

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DJ Mag checks out Critical at Tectonic Plates Vol.3 Launch, Fabric London

What a line-up! Not for those of closed minds, faint hearts, disregarding ears! Tonight is most certainly a line-up for the heads. Each and every...

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Daft Punk session drummer claims unreleased album exists: “I’m told they’re working on it”

The successor to ‘Random Access Memories’ was supposedly recorded and shelved in 2018

A former Daft Punk collaborator has revealed that the duo are allegedly sitting on an unreleased album that would have served as the follow-up to...

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Recognise: Debit

On her new album for Modern Love, Mexican-American producer, DJ and audio engineer Delia Beatriz, aka Debit, combines ancient Mayan wind instruments with machine learning. Ahead of its release, she records a “pre-hispanic to post/transhispanic ambient mix” for the Recognise series, and speaks to Eoin Murray about DJing for Azaelia Banks, her desire to contribute to the canon of electronic music, and making ambient music that goes beyond “beautiful”

Delia Beatriz stands at a unique intersection in electronic music. As Debit, the Monterrey, Mexico-born, New York-based producer, DJ, audio engineer and live artist has...

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Ibibio Sound Machine: positive electricity

London’s Ibibio Sound Machine are back with their fourth album ‘Electricity’. Produced by Hot Chip, the release is more electronic than ever, but retains their classic Afro funk energy. Ben Murphy speaks to vocalist and songwriter Eno Williams and co-founder/saxophonist Max Grunhard about expanding their sound, mixing English and Ibibio lyrics, and the endless joys of playing live

"We started a lot of the songs not knowing what was happening, not knowing where the world was really going,” Eno Williams says, talking about...

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Grammys 2024: Skrillex, Flowdan, Fred again..'s 'Rumble' wins Best Dance/Electronic Recording

Flowdan has become the first UK MC to win a Grammy

Skrillex and Fred again..'s 2023 collaboration with Flowdan, 'Rumble', has won Best Electronic/Dance Recording at the 66th Grammy Awards. The trio's track was named the...

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Rewiring electronic sound with Suzanne Ciani and Rian Treanor

At Portugal’s Semibreve festival, we sat down with Suzanne Ciani, a pioneer of electronic music and modular synthesis, and dance music disruptor Rian Treanor, who...

As electronic music evolves, its web becomes trickier to trace. As historical strands reach outward and merge, creating new sounds, performance styles and scenes, the...

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Honey Dijon details new album, ‘Black Girl Magic’

The long-anticipated album arrives via Classic Music Company in November

Honey Dijon has shared the details of her forthcoming album, ‘Black Girl Magic’, which will be released via Classic Music Company on 18th November. The...

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Bicep share new video for ‘Water (feat. Clara La San)’: Watch

The video for the single was directed by 'Severance'’s Aoife McArdle

Bicep have shared a new video for their single 'Water (feat. Clara La San)', which is embedded below. The video has been directed by Belfast...

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Aphex Twin releases free “sample mashing” app, Samplebrain

"What if you could sing a silly tune and rebuild it from classical music files? You can do this with Samplebrain"

Aphex Twin has released a free “sample mashing” app called Samplebrain. The open-source sound design software works by chopping samples up into a "brain" of...