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Mixed up in The Hague

It's impossible to overstate The Hague's impact on dance music. In the early '90s, this small city in northern Holland crafted a bastardised version of the sounds bubbling out of Detroit, a ravey mash of jacking house and techno that, at the time, sounded almost impossibly futuristic.

Nastia talks Ibiza, BURN residency and what it really takes to make it as an international touring DJ...

Nastia's journey began in the Ukraine where she was born into a “normal” family, with no musical education. Fast forward to 2018 and she’s one...

UK labels are expecting to earn more from vinyl than CDs for the first time in three decades

Vinyl sales contributed £86.5 million to the UK’s recorded music revenue in 2020, a new report from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has revealed. 

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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...

The shop is promising better returns for artists and rights holders

A new specialist dubstep record store, 140 Plates, has launched online. 

Established by Pieter Grauwels, the face behind the highly respected DUPLOC label and the...

Including grime, garage, bassline and more... 

Beatport has added three 'new' bass genres to its online pages. The move is part of a wider effort to try and clean up the...

Cinthie announces !K7 DJ-Kicks mix, shares new track: Listen

Tracks by Paul Johnson, Logic 1000, Anna Wall, Boo Williams, and Terrence Parker all feature

Cinthie is the latest DJ to contribute to !K7's critically lauded DJ-Kicks mix series, with the next instalment set to arrive on Friday 1st April...

The Ghost record van closes

After seven years of service the tracks-on-wheels service is no more, and all stock must go

Berlin-based mobile record store van The Ghost has closed, with the eponymous DJ duo that sold vinyl from the 1975 Mercedes 407d finding buyers for...

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...

SF artist chats to us about his debut album 'Mating Call'

Nick Monaco grew up just north of San Francisco in a town called Santa Rosa. “It's sort of a slow-going artsy alternative town in the...

London's Rat Records to reopen under new name and management

In addition to being a record shop, it will also open as a small events venue

The site of former London record shop Rat Records is to be taken over as a new record store under different management. The shop will...

Worldwide FM and Gilles Peterson launch grassroots music funding initiative

Studio Monkey Shoulder will put a £10,000 investment into one community project

Gilles Peterson and Worldwide FM have partnered with Monkey Shoulder Whiskey to set up a new music initiative which is designed to empower and celebrate...

We found out about Purple Disco Machines most influential tracks...

German producer Tino Piontek aka Purple Disco Machine lives in Dresden, a small, quiet city a couple of hours away from Berlin. 

“It's really beautiful...

We found out about Purple Disco Machines most influential tracks...

German producer Tino Piontek aka Purple Disco Machine lives in Dresden, a small, quiet city a couple of hours away from Berlin. 

“It's really beautiful...

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Mixing booming West Coast hip-hop 808s, squelchy funk, sizzlingly sexually charged R&B and deep house, Boston's Soul Clap (aka Eli Goldstein and Charles Levin)...