It’s just gone midnight and the dancefloor at Mossy’s, a two-floor nightclub above the Harbour Inn in Lowestoft, is heaving with life. Andrew ‘Richie’ Riches...
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Vinyl may be back, but is the picture really so rosy for records?
I’m sure you’ve heard the great news — vinyl is back, baby: back on the shelves, back in our collective conscious, back in the clubs. Everyone and their mother’s brother is now walking around like the cat who's got the cream, because they are true collectors, true music heads, true audiophiles and their addiction to black crack has finally been vindicated.
Listen to an exclusive track from the AVOTRE producer's new LP
Hamburg born, Berlin based jackin’ house and techno talent Sidney Charles has just released his new album entitled ‘House Lessons’ through AVOTRE; a label he...
Crosstown Rebels announce global tour
It seems like only yesterday that Crosstown Rebels popped up on the global scene, yet a decade has passed since their first release. In that time Damian Lazarus' imprint has branched out into events, a TV series and even a Mayan festival in Mexico.
Commercial dance and rap don't fit
EDM doesn't need rappers legitimising its stadium-sized stasis and banality
The problem? Too many DJs...
Slowly and surreptitiously over the course of the last decades, a plague has infested and infected club land. It’s a disease that has eaten away at the core art of the DJ and at the very dynamics of almost any club night you care to attend.
Should dance music be organic and 'real'? Should it fuck, the more synthetic the better says our resident ranter...
Time was, in the '80s and '90s when dance music was so massively marginalised by mainstream culture (yeah, so what’s new?) that trying to get...
Secret Solstice fest is just the tip of the iceberg...
Iceland is famous for many things, not the least of which are its breathtaking, otherworldly landscapes and steady stream of musical exports. Dance music aficionados...
Ageing or raging?
It’s time for fading '90s producers to stop hyping their own records with snotty attacks on EDM and focus on writing some decent tunes…
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The dance music history of East Anglia is rich, multi-layered and messy — and little documented. Matt Anniss chats to some of the scene’s longstanding figureheads about the region’s airfield parties, seaside throwdowns and forgotten clubs, discovering a vital but rarely discussed stage in the UK’s rave evolution
Buying Views
“Money can’t buy you love,” sang The Beatles, although most people do want to be loved. This is especially true of a lot of top-flight DJs, narcissists at the best of times, who feel all at sea if they aren’t constantly getting reassurance about how great they are — and popular.
More and more women are taking to the decks. But there are some sexist idiots who can't get their heads round it...
Man approaches decks. “Alright love,” he says. Although my heart sinks, I smile politely and say hello back, hoping he’s not going to try and...
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Washington D.C.’s Black Rave Culture return with 12-tracks of genre-jumping dance music
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The London MC and legendary broadcaster recently collaborated on a one-off musical special of Planet Earth
London MC Dave has spoken about his experience working on the same project as David Attenborough, praising the legendary broadcaster and natural historian for his...
The clubs that changed dance music forever<BR>
“Forget ’88 to ’90. Acid house had died by then... this was a new phase,” recalls drum & bass don Fabio on his legendary residency...