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DJs are at heart music lovers. Dedicating your life to sharing and mixing a superior taste in tunes suggests a serious passion for sound. Most...

In 2012 Dusky wowed you, us and everyone else with the ubiquitous floor killer that was 'Flo Jam'. Without letting up the pressure for a...

When it comes to running a club, finding a niche is one of the most important things you can do. Proof of that comes in...

Michael Woods is no regular dance music artist. He is classically trained, describes playing the piano as being ‘as natural as speaking English’ and puts...

When it comes to running a club, finding a niche is one of the most important things you can do. Proof of that comes in every city across the country, where both illicit and intimate gatherings in dirty hovels can co-exist with shiny and parochial puke-dens where Danny Dyer is the low-light of any month. When it comes to Leeds’ clubbing landscape, though, had you have asked but three months ago what the city was missing, the answer from this correspondent would have been: nothing.

Voting has now closed for Top 100 DJs 2013 and in the build up to the results announcement on October 19th, we are besieged by speculation, rumour and excitement about this year's results.

DJ technology is moving forward at an incredible pace and is changing everything around us including the way people play music and how DJs bring those tunes to the masses.

One thing Guy Gerber is known for is style. Chic, slick, dapper... call him what you will. More important is this guy’s ability to make masterful music.

Bloody Beetroots are a band that don’t rely on one specific genre to get their point across spanning a wide range of influences that touches on electronic chaos

He lives on the outskirts of Stockholm, Sweden. His studio is just a hop, skip and jump away in the city, or in the summertime he can take a chilled cycle jaunt through the park to get there. Every day is a day in the studio for John, where he’ll be doing what he does in a superlative fashion, producing and remixing the kind of lustrous tech house, trance-tinged music he’s known for, and in recent years has been nominated for – that’ll be a US Grammy and a BRIT award.


“Sometimes it does feel like a waste paying two rents but I’m happy to have the flexibility,” says Lee Foss, the DJ who still splits his life between London and LA, despite spending most of his life on the road. Having recently hit the UK charts with ‘Benediction’ as part of Hot Natured, Hot Creations, the label he runs with partner Jamie Jones, continues to consolidate its position — and live up to its name — as one of the world’s hottest house labels.

Krakow’s abandoned Hotel Forum defines communist design, invoking Orwellian futures via a rejection of humanist aesthetics. Instead it boasts a brutish, unforgiving concrete designperfectly suited to 1984's dictatorial ministries.

It is always tough for a debut festival to make its mark, and live to tell the tale. With events springing up quicker than a...

Just when you thought it was safe to visit the tumbling hillsides, straw-munching horses and fresh-water streams of Norfolk's countryside for a quiet weekend, Glade...