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Overmono remix The Streets’ ‘Turn The Page’: Listen

Dark garage drama and junglist snares transform a classic

Overmono have remixed The Streets' 'Turn The Page'. You can listen to the track below. Set to land in July, pre-orders are available now through...

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Premiere: DJ IC, DJ Jim Mastershine & Idd Aziz ‘Meremeta (Echo Deep Dub Mix)’

Johannesburg's Echo Deep crafts a rolling, percussive remix of the forthcoming Afro house cut ‘Meremeta’

DJ IC, DJ Jim Mastershine and Idd Aziz will release their new collaborative single, ‘Meremeta’, this month via Sneja Recordings alongside a collection of remixes...

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Violet announces new album and poetry book, 'Transparências', on Rádio Quântica

The free, 10-track album is inspired by the works of composers such as Delia Derbyshire and Wendy Carlos

Violet has revealed details of her forthcoming third album, 'Transparencias'. Stream three tracks from the album below. The Lisbon-based DJ and producer will digitally release...

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DJ Mag China Awards 2022 winners announced

A global celebration of China’s electronic music scene

The winners from the second edition of the DJ Mag China Awards have been announced. You can see the full breakdown by category below. Following...

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Are plugin subscriptions good for producers?

As subscription models have begun to make their way into our DAWs, we look at the three different models for using plugins — outright ownership, continual rent, and rent-to-own. Here, Declan McGlynn asks: are subscription models better for producers? And are we heading towards an even heavier onslaught of abundance over efficiency?

Subscriptions are everywhere, whether we like them or not. In fact, a report ominously titled The End of Ownership in 2020 said that 78% of...

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Thousands attend illegal rave at former airfield in Cornwall

The gathering was organised to celebrate the 30th anniversary of notorious UK free party Castlemorton

Thousands of people travelled from all over the UK last weekend for an illegal rave in an old airfield that lasted three days. According to...

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Synth legend Dave Smith dies, aged 72

He designed the first-ever programmable poly synth the Prophet-5 and co-invented MIDI

Dave Smith, founder of Sequential Instruments, which created the Prophet-5 among other influential synths, and the co-inventor of the MIDI protocol still in use today...

Fresh Kicks 54: Atella

Rising Nowegian duo drop some cosmic disco...

Atella blend synth-heavy disco, bubbling house and dreamy techno for an totally cosmic edition of our Fresh Kicks mix series.

The Norwegian duo first caught...

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AI Futures: how artificial intelligence will change music

Artificial intelligence is at the heart of a fundamental shift in music’s role in our lives, and for electronic music, the transition will be seismic...

For most people, artificial intelligence brings to mind a futuristic, sci-fi scenario of autonomous robots or machines capable of making their own decisions, and more...

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How Stardust’s ‘Music Sounds Better With You’ inadvertently changed the face of house music

Almost exactly 21 years after its release, Stardust’s ‘Music Sounds Better With You’ is getting the re-release treatment. Bruce Tantum explores the legacy of one...

This feature was originally published in 2019.It wasn’t meant to be a hit. It wasn’t even planned to be released. But when Alain Quême, a...

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Paul van Dyk: 'no compensation or apology' from A State Of Trance event company since near-fatal stage fall

The German trance DJ also claims the ALDA event company “tried to block the insurance to pay for my medical bills”

Paul van Dyk claims he has received none of the court-ordered financial compensation from the ALDA event company following his near-fatal stage fall at A...

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How LTJ Bukem's 'Logical Progression' expressed his unique vision for drum & bass

Mixing elements of jazz and ambient with drum & bass, LTJ Bukem’s now-classic 1996 release via Good Looking Records was a statement of intent, and remains one of the genre's most fulfilling and impactful releases to this day

For many music fans in the 1990s, their immersion into jungle and drum & bass started not with Goldie’s celebrated ‘Timeless’ or Roni Size /...

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Legendary Midlands club night Godskitchen announces 25th anniversary party

It returns from a six-year hiatus with a line-up featuring Paul van Dyk, Ferry Corsten and more

Iconic Midlands club night Godskitchen has revealed plans to celebrate its 25th anniversary later this year. Taking place on 17th December, the club night will...

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92-track drum & bass compilation, ‘FLOODLIGHT’, is raising funds for Pakistan’s flood victims

Dom & Roland, Etherwood, Digital, London Elektricity and many more have contributed

A 92-track compilation of new and original drum & bass tracks is being released to raise money for the people of Pakistan, where flooding described...

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Bonobo shares new single and video, ‘ATK’: Watch

The track started life as an edit of Atakora Manu’s ‘Dada'

Bonobo has shared a new single and video, 'ATK', which is out now on his Outlier label in partnership with Ninja Tune. You can watch...