If anyone is going to be searingly candid about real life in the music business, it's Sepehr Alimagham Tabari. With his four-year-old label Shaytoon Records...
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Mad Decent boss focusing on Major Lazer...
Diplo has announced he will be taking a break from his Jack Ü collaborative project with Skillex for the foreseeable future.
In an interview with...
Iconic Singapore club under threat of closure
Earlier this week, we told you that one of Asia’s finest, and most popular nightclubs - Zouk - was under threat of closure.
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Rumours are circulating around the 20th anniversary of the ultra-popular device
Apple’s iPod Touch is rumoured to be making a comeback, 20 years after the iPod was first launched in 2001. In a tweet by MacRumours.com...
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The future for audiophiles...
‘High Definition Vinyl’ might be here as soon as 2019, according to Austrian startup Rebeat Innovation, which claims it could have units shpiping by next...
Acting Premier Troy Grant says legislation could change if an official review recommends it...
New South Wales’ acting premier Troy Grant has indicated that Sydney’s 1:30am lockout law could be pushed back to 3am, if an official review recommends...
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Fast-rising Portuguese DJ/producer Violet delivers a mesmerising, propulsive remix of east London outfit Black Gold Buffalo’s ‘Lay It Down’...
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The robots are in hot demand...
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'Birdstar' is from their 'Dubnobasswithmyheadman' period
Underworld have just revealed a 20-year old demo from their 'Dubnobasswithmyheadman' period.
'Birdstar' feels like vintage Underworld, and some of the track's elements were subsequently...
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The return of the Angel!
Dave is resolutely BACK — but where has he been?
DJ Mag spends seven blissed out days at at the last ever instalment of The Garden Festival, but is it really the end?
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With his Shaytoon Records label, Sepehr has built a platform for underground techno and electronic music from the Iranian diaspora. But the versatile New York-based producer and DJ fights oversimplified categorisations and pigeonholing at every turn, extracting influence from obscure ‘90s rave records as much as Persian mythology. Alongside a 90-minute On Cue mix demonstrating this sound, he tells Marke Bieschke about his Flower Storm project with Kasra V, the influence of Silent Servant, and his grunge-influenced new band
Bank Holiday hoedown in Leeds
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Raves over the last May Bank Holiday weekend reportedly drove the local wildlife nuts...
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Should dance music be organic and 'real'? Should it fuck, the more synthetic the better says our resident ranter...
Time was, in the '80s and '90s when dance music was so massively marginalised by mainstream culture (yeah, so what’s new?) that trying to get...