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Make Future Bass Chord Arps Like ODESZA & Flume

In this tutorial, Point Blank LA’s Everett Pearson shows how you can make a future bass-style chord arp synth in Ableton Live like ODESZA and...

The results for 2019’s Top 100 DJs poll have been announced

Skrillex has won the Highest Bass award in this year’s DJ Mag Top 100 DJs poll. The Los Angeles artist has held his position at...

In the early ‘90s, dubplates, exclusive early pressings of unreleased music, fuelled the buzz around DJs in the emergent jungle scene. In an excerpt from...

Exalted among the many musical innovations that Jamaica has given the world is the dubplate. An acetate pressing of unreleased music, produced especially for DJs...

Nicole Moudaber is the techno queen with a rock & roll attitude. She’s the fast-driving petrolhead who’s as at home behind the wheel as she...

Nicole Moudaber is hooked on adrenaline. As a DJ, producer, label owner and promoter, she’s created a huge fan-base thanks to a constant schedule of parties...

Compilation of the Month: Various Artists ‘Touching Bass presents: Soon Come’

Errol, Alex Rita and Sammseed of Touching Bass curate a collection of deep, jazzy grooves for hazy days and cosmic club nights, celebrating the London movement’s soul and versatility 

Founded in 2014, Touching Bass overlapped with the peerless Plastic People for about a year before the latter was forced to close. It was enough...

Goldie will also be interviewed by Gilles Peterson at the Rio Cinema following the screening

Drum & bass label Metalheadz will celebrate its 25th anniversary with an exclusive screening of Talkin' Headz: The Metalheadz Documentary with Commune in London next...

When Dax J made worldwide headlines last year for dropping an Islamic call to prayer sample during his set in Tunisia, it looked for a minute...

'Public indecency and offending public morality'. Before April last year, those words probably meant about as much to Dax J as his name did to...

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Sound systems have driven the development of music in the UK, powered by hard work, passion and innovation. But preserving UK sound system culture, its knowledge and history, while also pushing it forward, is no easy task today. Ria Hylton traces its path through ska and reggae at blues dances in West Indian households, to soul, boogie, hip-hop and house in ’80s warehouses and at the Notting Hill Carnival, to nationwide tours and global popularity, and finds out how initiatives like the Sound System Futures Programme are seeking to secure its future 

It’s the Thursday before Notting Hill Carnival and Linett Kamala, board director of Europe’s biggest street party, is weaving through the streets of Kilburn. Her...

As we enter a new decade, the ways in which we define electronic music styles are rapidly changing. Chal Ravens explores the etymological evolution of...

Bickering over genre definitions is a time-honoured tradition in dance music. One of the weirder etymological developments of recent years is the changing meaning of...

Despite being largely ignored by the west, Moscow has had a rich bass scene for over a decade. After reaching an impasse in 2015 as...

Moscow’s bass scene has a long and trend-setting history, although it’s not had much attention in the west. A number of the city’s promoters have...

MC Duke, UK hip-hop and hardcore pioneer, dies

Goldie, Slipmatt, Chuck D and others have paid tribute to the late artist

Pioneering UK hip-hop and hardcore figure MC Duke, real name Kashif Adham, has died. News of his passing was confirmed this week by Suburban Base...

Errol and Alex Rita's Touching Bass announces 22-track compilation, 'Soon Come'

The release is split between music suited to day and night moods

South London label and collective Touching Bass is releasing a new 22-track compilation this summer, called 'Soon Come'. The release is the first compilation on...

Sharam and Dubfire's first UK gig together since 2008

One of the big stories of the year in international dance music circles has been the reunion of Deep Dish – Sharam and Dubfire.

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As venues begin to reopen in England, there are also a plethora of electronic music event spaces launching. Martin Guttridge-Hewitt spotlights 10 new UK clubs...

The last 16 months couldn’t have been worse for music venues. As Covid-19 arrived on British shores last March, scenes and businesses descended into turmoil...

Tickets on sale Friday 5th May...

Now that Gorillaz collaboration-heavy album 'Humanz' is finally out, the world's most successful virtual band fronted by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett have announced an...