It now sounds like a DJ mix of the most widely-known Italo disco classics, but when it was released in 1999, I-F’s ‘Mixed Up In...
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Italo disco is everywhere again. But what does Italo even mean today, and is it at risk of being diluted into a catch-all term for anything with an '80s disco sparkle? Joe Roberts dives into the genre's history, and chats to some of its new devotees and longstanding champions about its ever-evolving sound
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DJ Mag has chosen as the Future Star for this year’s awards presentations. After a hectic 2022, her star looks set to shine even brighter next year and in many more years to come
Signed to Digital Soundboy, stepping into Annie Mac’s shoes, and getting ready for a crazy summer of festival appearances, B.Traits explains how a Canadian country...
In the music industry there are two types of meteoric rise. One is a scary, Susan Boyle-shaped process, where the basking lizard kings of pop pluck an unknown, polish them dumb, tell them what their new name, hairstyle and personality is, and thrust them mercilessly into the light, there to cavort for our pleasure.
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...
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Get acquainted with TIBASKO, the fast-rising UK duo producing festival-ready dance anthems tipped by Pete Tong, Jon Hopkins and more
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Established by the founders of the original Love Parade, crews from Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, UK and Ukraine are all involved, with over 200 artists.
We got speaking to Kate Simko, Solomun, Nick Curly, Huxley and Will Saul about how they deal with the ups, the downs, the delays, the...
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Kate Simko
Chicago house heiress Kate Simko has toured as a DJ and with a live show, and explains how life on...
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Experimental artist, DJ and PAN affiliate Flora Yin-Wong delivers an hour of warped club sounds and cutting-edge bass manoeuvres as part of our Fresh Kicks...
Flora Yin-Wong’s fusion of experimental electronics with organic sounds is an absorbing one. A multi-disciplinary producer and DJ, the London artist has, in a relatively...
Forget its divided history, Northern Ireland’s capital is very much unified in its approach to clubbing...
“I’ve never seen an atmosphere like it, never seen such madness in a crowd. Any time I dropped a new record it felt like a...
Bushwacka goes solo and becomes Just Be
One of the most enduring DJ/producer partnerships is winding down, and Matthew B, aka Bushwacka, has announced that he is going solo. Although he will still play some gigs with old mucker Layo, Matthew has effectively branched out on his own now with a new pseudonym – Just B
It may be bonkers, but happy hardcore is one of the most popular sounds in dance music, and 2006 looks like it could be the...
You may think it sounds like marbles rattling inside a metal dustbin, but nothing it seems will be able to stop the happy hardcore juggernaut...
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After years in the UK underground as solo artists, brothers Tom and Ed Russell, formerly known as Truss and Tessela, have made huge strides as a duo in recent years as Overmono. Lauren Martin learns how they’ve built a sound and A/V live show that taps into UK dance music legacies, all while staying true to themselves
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T2 was only 18 when he dropped ‘Heartbroken’: a sweet, infectious bassline tune that rocketed to No. 2 in the charts in 2007. Owing...
With summer's subterranean smash tune ‘Jack’ signed to a major and chart success beckoning, Ben Westbeech, aka Breach, tells us how he’s heading for the...
Pop music has always run from the sublime to the irredeemable. The charts have rotated from gold to grot since the dawn of the Hit Parade, and the model doesn’t look likely to change anytime soon. So whilst there are always dark periods when commercial radio is little more than a cemetery of tired ideas, dug up and forced to fandango one more time, every now and then a new generation of musicians kick down the door, reset the rules, and party ‘til the lights come on.
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We spotlight 10 sets at Ultra at the tail-end of Miami Music Week that you definitely cannot skip