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Stockholm-based percussive house dazzler Art Alfie celebrates the launch of his new Velvet Pony label with an exclusive, energised mix and talks fatherhood, production and...
Since 2012, Oscar Wedren AKA Art Alfie has featured on almost 30 releases. With tracks on labels like Kornél Kovács, Petter Nordkvist and Axel Boman’s...
When it comes to trance, few DJs can hold a candle to Paul van Dyk. One of the genre’s true superstars and a bonafide legend...
From humble beginnings in East Germany, Van Dyk came of age when the Berlin wall fell, a dramatic moment that would have a lasting impact...
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Orbital’s eponymous debut album, also known as The Green Album, was released via FFRR in 1991. As part of our Solid Gold series, Ben...
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The Tidy Boys and their label Tidy Trax epitomised the early ‘00s hard house scene, at one point selling a million records a year. As...
Saul talks about his new album, collaborations and a hatred of pirates.
Anonymity’s quite the fashion these days. Hand-stamped white labels from big-name producers emerge every week, with press releases proclaiming artists free from the shackles of fame, whose metaphorical masks let them experiment with sounds bereft of preconception. Which is all well and good when you’re knocking out short-run 12”s of faceless techno.
Funk-dripped drum & bass head plays us his most inspiring tracks
Always that most steadfastly independent genre, today drum & bass is splintered into a panoply of micro camps. In one corner, the giant, fizzy-pop electro chords and high fructose rushes of labels like Hospital; in another, the clipped, dark minimalism and sub bass caverns of its most underground soldiers, the Critical crew.
The Northampton-based DJ/Producer emerges from the dark, cold techno depths into warmer, more colourful territory under his new Veyg alias...
For over a decade now, Tom Dicicco has been gradually carving a reputation as a DJ/producer of deep, dark and atmospheric techno. The Northampton-based artist’s...
Raw beats and sub-low rumbles mixed with sugary melodies are DJ Q's calling card.
Ten years ago, DJ Q released his first 12”, 'Love Like This'. The track was a bassline stomper, a grimy slab of sub-low and brutal...
There's a new techno sound echoing from the post-industrial streets of one of the UK's biggest conurbations. Influenced by Berlin and Detroit, Manchester's young producers...
Our personal geography is one of the formative things about us. Our immediate surroundings and the people that surround us are our most important influencers...
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Ahead of a new tour and album, the visionary Manchester crew recall the making and impact of their acid house classic...
Graham Massey and Andy Barker take their places at a table in the first floor restaurant at Manchester arts institution HOME, just a stone’s throw away...
An in-depth talk with the Hyperdub main man about his new album with Spaceape, 'Black Sun'...
With their new album ‘Black Sun’, Hyperdub’s Kode9 & the Spaceape have left tired genre pigeonholes behind, switched up their sound and conjured a bright...
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The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From hyperactive gabber and intricate breakbeat science to thundering techno and gentle...
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Working for free is rife among producers and engineers, with 77% having worked for free in the last 12 months alone. But is it just...
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Dallas has long been a hub of razor sharp electro, but its history is lesser known than that of Chicago or Detroit. Here, Ben Murphy...
Dallas, Texas is an unlikely nerve centre of electro music. The city’s small but tight knit cabal of producers and DJs have been releasing essential...
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The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From forward-thinking and experimental techno to bracing house and bass, here's June...
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Rave is a full-time occupation for TITIA van Beckum. The Amsterdam DJ has rapidly risen up the ranks thanks to her DJ sets, which...