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“Forget ’88 to ’90. Acid house had died by then... this was a new phase,” recalls drum & bass don Fabio on his legendary residency...

The BFI – or British Film Institute – have teamed up with Noise of Art Recordings for a series of special new audio-visual projects. Combining...

An Oakland Ghost Ship fire relief benefit will take placed in Berlin at Musik & Frieden this Friday, 16th December 2016 from 11PM to...

Global nightlife brand, Miller Genuine Draft, have had a phenomenal twelve months in electronic music!

As long time partners of DJ Mag, and sponsors of...

“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”
 FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil...

Two decades after they first inspired the establishment to try and legislate against dance music, the breakbeats that fuelled jungle and hardcore have found new life at the hands of producers who were in nappies when 'Terminator' was first released. But what’s behind this latest reworking of the dance music archive?

As was the case in many towns and cities in the UK in the late '80s, a sizeable portion of the youth of Stafford were infected with the rave bug. More or less equidistant between London and Manchester in the West Midlands (18 miles south of Stoke-on-Trent, 16 miles north of Wolverhampton), Stafford became notable for spawning two of the rave scene’s most successful acts – Altern8 and Bizarre Inc. And then, later, Chicken Lips too.


On the eve of his latest 'Metal Dance' compilation, Trevor Jackson explains dark sounds are nothing new in dance...

“We loved electronic sounds, really,” adds Phil. “With synthesisers it was like, ‘What made that sound?’ It was that sort of search – for electronic sounds and drum machines.”



Andy Cato met Tom Findlay through mutual friends after they both left college in the mid-‘90s. Andy was making trance and was in a couple of bands, while Tom was from more of a rare groove background, DJing in Manchester clubs when he was a student.

Layo & Bushwacka! were a popular tech house duo before Millennium time, but after they released ‘Love Story’ in 2002 they totally went supernova. They met at the legendary central London nightclub The End, where Bushwacka!, aka Matthew Benjamin, was a resident DJ and Layo Paskin was co-owner (with Mr C). 



X-Press 2 were one of the principal house acts in the early '90s, rocking the floors with cuts like post-hardcore progressive house cut 'Muzik Xpress' — with its memorable “Music, music, music” refrain — and the cowbell-tastic 'London Xpress'. The trio of acid house originals — Rocky, Diesel and Ashley Beedle — went their separate ways for a while in the late '90s, before coming back together just before the Millennium.

Loco Dice 'Seeing Through Shadows' (m_nus)

In the mid-noughties, techno was at a crossroads. Sidelined by the glamour of electroclash, the booming bass riddims of...

It’s a competitive game – dance music. Millions of people are striving to break through but only a select few ever make it to the...

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Where do old ravers go when the serotonin runs dry and the lights of the lasers lose their sparkle? If you're...