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The idea of a footwork concept album might seem at odds with the stuttering functionality of its Chicago roots, but then Machinedrum, aka US-born Travis Stewart, has always used its 170bpm tempo as a template for more otherworldly experiments.

Three of Chicago's most respected DJs, they're repping real house music harder than ever in an age of commercialisation and corporate EDM. Touring together as Back to Back to Back, we thought it was time to pick their brains about their Chicago beginnings, the switch to digital, the US dance boom — and where they're at now...

Whoever said that travel broadens the mind probably wasn't thinking of times like this, but it's certainly stretching any previous conceptions of what outdoor clubbing...

Cruising over the Brooklyn Bridge away from Manhattan’s lofty skyscrapers and towards his home in Williamsburg, Larry Tee and his entourage are discussing an important...

 As a crusader for social justice, Germany’s Monika Kruse brings much more than techno to the global dancefloor. From Munich to Miami, her mission...

“I hear things in pieces.” 
Kerri Chandler is on the phone in his studio, talking about how he processes music after thirty-plus years in the...

If you thought 2012 was a fine vintage for speaker-cracking sounds, get a load of these lot. They're some of the cats who'll be making the dancefloor an intoxicating place to be this year. Serving up everything from deep disco vibes to subterranean bass darkness, these are the DJ/producers destined to make a splash in 2013...