It’s the Thursday before Notting Hill Carnival and Linett Kamala, board director of Europe’s biggest street party, is weaving through the streets of Kilburn. Her...
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DJ Mag Ibiza joined the pair at their Ibiza villa...
Often derided by electronic music purists as little more than disposable pop, EDM is the love-it-or-loathe sound that’s got the whole music industry talking...
Sankeys Ibiza is looking more powerful than ever this season...
Four nights from last season at Sankeys Ibiza carry over from last summer. After opening with SANKEYS AWAKENS (20th/21st May), Steve Lawler's...
From savng his pennies as a teenager in Germany to becoming Berlin's star of techno and soul, Fritz Kalkbrenner opens up about his plight...
“I’d work from six in the morning until 10 in the evening, in February, up to your waist in cold water in those rubber...
New world order
Glastonbury isn't a festival, it's a settlement. Twice the size of Bath, it's more like a refugee camp for society's arty and most liberal than...
Detroit's annual Movement Festival has evolved into a mecca for unity, love and hope
words: ORESTES BENITEZ/JOE ROBERTS
Movement Electronic Music Festival in Detroit is venerated as an event for those who feed on the sound of techno, a...
Willie Burns is the New York house producer everyone's raving about...
Willie Burns comes from the fringes. The US producer’s releases for Trilogy Tapes, L.I.E.S, Crème and Rush Hour have seen his left-of-centre house, techno and...
We chat to infamous breakbeat duo Stanton Warriors about their seminal mix/comp, 'Stanton Sessions Vol 1'
Mark Yardley and Dominic Butler, aka the Stanton Warriors, met at the Fifty First State garage label/studio complex in London in the mid-1990s, although they...
We interview Jim Tang about the return
To readers of a certain age, and those who know their UK rave history, the name Dreamscape will evoke memories of a transitional period between...
Fresh Swedish duo are taking over
we got a sense for who Rebecca and Fiona really are as not only artists, producers, and DJs; but as human beings and best friends - amazingly down-to-earth girls who hail from Sweden and love electronic dance music just as much as their fans.
We catch up with the boys from Ram
This week we have been speaking to Bristol based Drum & Bass dons Loadstar, you may already be familiar with their solo works as Xample...
Way Out West's Jody Wisternoff and Nick Warren put the new Denon DNS3700 CD decks through their paces...
Bristol’s progressive house heroes Way Out West, famed for club classics like ‘The Gift’, are back with a fresh new album ‘We Love Machine’ and...
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Sound systems have driven the development of music in the UK, powered by hard work, passion and innovation. But preserving UK sound system culture, its knowledge and history, while also pushing it forward, is no easy task today. Ria Hylton traces its path through ska and reggae at blues dances in West Indian households, to soul, boogie, hip-hop and house in ’80s warehouses and at the Notting Hill Carnival, to nationwide tours and global popularity, and finds out how initiatives like the Sound System Futures Programme are seeking to secure its future
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Caught between the demands of being an internationally-renowned performer and his desire for a quiet life, Australian producer Flume found balance upon returning to his homeland. Amongst nature, and with a restored sense of wellbeing, he completed his most ambitious album to date, 'Palaces'. Megan Venzin learns its story
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Detroit's DJ Minx has been championing the electronic sounds of her hometown since day one, but has flown under the radar for much of her...
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With a carefully curated line-up of adventurous electronic music, Semibreve Festival’s 12th edition delights in the interplay between hyper-detailed electronics and dancefloor-focused beats