A year after the death of Avicii, and his suicide continues to stand as a symbol for the failings of the electronic music industry to...
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It first happened at a media dinner about five years ago. I was sandwiched rather uncomfortably between two older international journalists — one from Amsterdam...
With Marc Romboy, Jules Buckley, Max Richter, Carl Craig and more...
At first glance, we’re led to believe that the worlds of classical and electronic music are galaxies apart. But there are more parallels and crossovers...
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For 20 years, Simon Dunmore's Defected has been dedicated to the finest in house music, from its label and numerous associated imprints, to its events...
“I’m a collector of labels. My ambition was for people to have a Defected rack in their collections in the same way they'd have a...
No Limitations - James Blake’s Neon Future Funk
“If anyone is hating on it, it’s evident they’re not really behind me as an artist, they’re just behind certain releases. That’s not necessarily unexpected...
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I want my Club MTV...
MTV UK recently launched a new “electronic dance music” channel called Club MTV. Introduced last month, the new channel replaced the MTV Dance network on...
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Avicii’s death last year shocked the dance community and laid bare the serious problems surrounding mental health in the music industry. Now, his father Klas has set up...
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Girls Don’t Sync are booting down barriers in dance music with their unrivalled energy and community-building ethos. Right off the back of their massive sold-out show at KOKO in London, and ahead of their sold-out headline show at The Warehouse Project in Manchester, they chat to Sophie Walker about creating a welcoming dancefloor, keeping things fresh, and inspiring others to follow their dreams.
Carl Loben & Charlotte Cijffers breakdown this month's female-focused mag...
Whether we like to admit it or not, sexism is an ongoing theme in dance music’s history.
Even a cursory glance at the stats reveals...
With Miller Genuine Draft
The remix is an essential part of dance music tradition. Whether it is creating live edits in front of a crowd or preparing bootlegs to...
With Miller Genuine Draft
What do the next twelve months have in store for dance music?
Make sure you are 2017-ready with our month by month guide to the...
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The guest-packed LP features 21 Savage, Tinashe, Stefflon Don, Pusha T, Offset, Busta Rhymes and many more
From the London Remix Festival
Dance music producers have always used samples, but it's increasingly hard to find some good original sample sources to use. The fact that an original artist can take a sizeable chunk of your track's royalties if it's successful and detected, and that sample packs can lead to everyone using the same sounds means that producers need to start going one step further to keep originality in their productions.
Viral video mashes up the world's best club scenes.
Ever wondered what would happen if you combined the most iconic nightclub scenes into one short movie? Well that’s exactly what director Antonio Maria Da...
Ageing or raging?
It’s time for fading '90s producers to stop hyping their own records with snotty attacks on EDM and focus on writing some decent tunes…
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The festival will take place across three English cities, as well as locations in Scotland, Australia, Canada, USA and the Netherlands
A festival, focused on raising money for charities that deal with homelessness, is set to take place this December.
Beats For Beds will spread across...