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Caterina Barbieri performing the Theatro Circo at Semibreve Festival

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

The late, great Peter Rehberg, musician and founder of the experimental electronic music label Editions Mego once said: “If you want to make something noisy...

Photo of Piezo lying on a pile of bags of soil wearing a black t-shirt, white hate and sunglasses

Milan-based producer and DJ Piezo has spent the past decade refining his meticulously mutated strain of club music, with releases appearing on lauded labels such as Wisdom Teeth and Nervous Horizon. Alongside a head-spinning Recognise mix, he tells Christian Eede about his early days in the Italian freetekno rave scene, formative years in Bristol, and the global sound palette of his Ansia label’s latest compilation

On the face of it, Luca Mucci’s gateway into the world of underground electronic music was like many others’ – discovering Aphex Twin and Autechre...

The cover of Vikter Duplaix's DJ-Kicks record

In 2002, Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and DJ Viktor Duplaix debuted his entry for K7! Records DJ-Kicks series, blending some of the best broken beat of the era. Here, Ben Cardew explores the compilation's lasting legacy
 

There aren’t enough musicians like Vikter Duplaix. Maybe there never were. Duplaix, a singer-songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and DJ from Philadelphia, dresses like a blasted supernova...

Having trained as a classical pianist as a child in Turkey, before becoming a successful techno artist in Berlin, Nene H has been on a...

Gorillaz’ 2001 self-titled debut laid the foundations for Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s animated outfit. With a rotating cast of collaborators and a genre-merging style...

When Damon Albarn’s Gorillaz loped onto the scene with their self-titled debut album in 2001, this virtual band looked like it might be the future...

Nine essential documentaries, focused on the classic '80s and '90s hip-hop that laid the foundation for rappers to build a world-conquering movement

Hip-hop has been with us for almost half a century. In that time it’s touched almost every aspect of society, influencing everything from fashion to...

Raves and Riots is an exhibition of Vinca Petersen’s work, currently showing at the Edel Assanti gallery in central London. Bringing together a collection of...

“I left home at 17 and moved into a squat in London,” Vinca Petersen tells DJ Mag during a private view of Raves and Riots...

Green Valley in Brazil experienced a double disaster last year. First came the COVID-19 pandemic, then the venue itself was destroyed in June by a...

At the start of 2020, everything was looking great for Green Valley. The Brazilian venue, which is more like a festival experience, had been voted...

Leon Vynehall sculpts a mix of experimental sounds, smoky house and peak-time techno for the On Cue series, and speaks to Ray Philp about finding...

Ibiza Past is the Instagram account we all need in 2020

If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s never take things for granted. While many murmurs rumbled on in recent times around how Ibiza has lost...

The Magic City has a long history of homegrown styles that demand attention. Chief amongst these is Miami bass: a rough and tough blend of electro, hip-hop...

“An 808, heavy sub-bass and a snare that isn't shy. Sometimes a really dirty vocal.” These are the key ingredients of any Miami bass track...

One of Uganda's most vital talents, Kampire has been breaking onto the global scene thanks to her electrifying, rhythmic DJ sets and activism. Ahead of...

There is a unifying force at the heart of Kampire Bahana’s work. For several years now, the Ugandan DJ and writer has been at the...

Danger Mouse & Black Thought: cheating the system

Although it features guests like A$AP Rocky, Run The Jewels and Raekwon, the best moments on Danger Mouse and The Roots legend Black Thought's new LP are in its filmic rhymes, woozy psychedelic loops, soul snippets and jazz and blues rhythms. Here, Ben Murphy speaks to them about their long-awaited collaboration

Hip-hop is ingrained in the work of American musician and producer Danger Mouse. Though he’s made records with Beck, Karen O, Gorillaz, Michael Kiwanuka, Adele...

Holding court with one of the UK’s most innovative electronic duos...

“Everything around you is so cluttered. If you go online and look at social media, it’s this big bombardment of stuff. I really wanted to...