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Premiere: Sister Zo ‘Afraid 2 Make a Move’

Sister Zo stitches UK funky, two-step and techno with a personal touch on her debut EP for Martyn and Jeroen Erosie's 3024 label

Sister Zo will release her new EP, ‘Freak Shift’, via Jeroen Erosie's 3024 label this week. Listen to ‘Afraid 2 Make a Move’ below. The...

Authorities and harm prevention groups lock horns over testing...

Australian authorities have warned that any groups partaking in New South Wales’ first ever pill testing program could face “a lot of legal jeopardy” if...

He had been battling cancer

British-born, Berlin-based DJ/producer and writer Jonty Skrufff has passed away. 

The news was shared by his partner and fellow Berlin DJ Fidelity Kastrow in a...

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We shine a well-deserved light on Jimpster's imprint...

They're aren't many labels as solid and reliable as Jamie 'Jimpster' Odell's Freerange. A UK motherlode for lush deep house grooves, this imprints modus operandi...

Four/fours have dominated dancefloors for over a decade now, Neil Landstrumm, however, is one producer uninterested in the stylistic trends that tend to dictate clubland.

 

Since dropping staple tunes like 'Sniff and Destroy' during the mid-'90s, Landstrumm has been more bothered about subverting convention than complying with it, taking...

Asbo Kid: the dynamic duo of former Elastica and EMF members

There's a sense in which 'indie-dance' was a gateway into dance music for a slew of indie kids back in the 1990s. Perhaps not so much via Britpop stalwarts Elastica, but dance-pop five-piece EMF were certainly responsible for converting their fair share of da yoof of the time, especially via their worldwide mega-smash 'Unbelievable' that dropped at the height of the Madchester era in 1990.

This issue's hottest four names in dance music


Mikix The Cat
Parisian electro riot starter…

A self-declared “bass bandit puttin’ suckas in fear,” Paris’ Mikix The Cat has been busy putting France’s club...

Tony De Vit DJing. He's wearing an orange sweater with his left harm held high over his head, with a big smile on his face.

The film explores how De Vit helped to catalyse the hard house sound in the '90s

A documentary about hard house trailblazer Tony De Vit is due to be screened in London this month. Directed by Stuart Pollitt, Don't Ever Stop...

Object Blue's debut EP on Tobago Tracks is an assertion of presence unlike any we've heard so far this year – In her Fresh Kicks...

Object Blue's debut EP 'Do you plan to end a siege?' opens with a spoken passage, translated to read as an assertion of liberation, of...

jordan

It's a self-described "tribute to the north" and the sounds they heard growing up around Doncaster and Sheffield

I. JORDAN has shared a new single 'Round N Round'. Listen to it below. The latest track by the London-based DJ and producer (real name...

Evolution of UK electronic music, ‘from Doctor Who to acid house’, explored in new book

Dream Machines will trace the evolution of electronic music in the UK, from its avant-garde, post-WW2 beginnings to the dance music of today

A new book authored by Matthew Collin will explore the evolution UK electronic music through the 20th century. Dream Machines: Electronic Music in Britain From...

We pick out 10 of the best books inspired by the early days of acid house

“Those were good days in Edinburgh, in 1990,” says author and screenwriter Trevor Miller, who wrote the acid house culture’s first novel, published in...

Armin celebrates his fifth Top 100 win in Vegas at Marquee

For the first time in 2012, the Top 100 DJs. Awards took its big-roomed bombast across the Atlantic to the US, spanning multiple time zones and multiple parties, whilst championing the people’s choice for No.1.

Andy Butlers musical box of delights

Since the “EDM” beast started to roam, much like the all-consuming blob in that ‘50s B-movie, house music has undergone reconstruction — a re-branding process...