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We take a look at Loopmasters’ newest sample library

Loopmasters turn to Bristol’s freshest bass-meisters Ross, Dan and Rob — also known as the Mediks — to deliver this slice of drum and bass...

The tour will follow on from the upcoming release of new album 'Spiral'

Rezz has confirmed plans for a tour across North America, starting early next year.

The run of shows, which will be in support of forthcoming...

The second track taken from his ninth album, 'Guiding Light'

Paul van Dyk has announced a new single, 'Duality', which is set to drop this Friday, 14th February, via Vandit. 

The track is the second...

'Love, Sex and Water' is his first new music of 2018...

Armin Van Buuren has announced his first new music of the year. The new track, entitled ‘Sex, Love and Water’ will be released this Friday...

DJ Lag and Mr Nation Thingz link up for new video, 'Hade Boss': Watch

K.C. Driller features on the South African stars' recent hit, which now has a visual directed by Vice Drey

DJ Lag has teamed up with Mr Nation Thingz on the new music video for their 'Hade Boss' single. Watch the clip below. The South...

New York's Electric Zoo festival

Go ape and swing into action! Electric Zoo, a two-day outdoor dance music extravaganza at New York City’s Randall’s Island Park, takes place on 5th...

Live 10 is dropping on Feb 6th – here’s why you should be excited...

Ableton Live 10 was announced late last year, but it’s only been the last few days that mere mortal users have been able to get...

Wild Rumpus is just that: an insanely fun, out-of-control party on wax...

The brainchild of DJ Cosmo (Colleen Murphy) the Boston-born, New York raised, London dwelling disco / house music legend, and infamous leftfield guitarist Gary Lucas, who's played with Captain Beefheart, Lou Reed and Jeff Buckley, they make the kind of funky psychedelic rhythms that can only emanate from maverick minds. First single 'Musical Blaze Up' traverses the dub country route, while new cut 'Purple Somersault' is a bizarre and brilliant collision between cranked Kraut-rock drums, wigged surf guitar and scratchy funk. DJmag beckoned Murphy away from her surf board for a minute to talk names, grooves, and grand plans…

So why the name Wild Rumpus?!

"It's from a children's book called 'Where the Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak which I loved as a kid and which I read to my daughter. There is a great part of the story where the little boy and his monster friends are about to have a manic dance party underneath a full moon and it says, 'And now let the wild rumpus start'. It just had to be used."

It seems to be quite an unusual hook up, between you Cosmo, and Gary Lucas. How did you come to be working together?

"Gary and I have been friends for nearly 20 years and have talked about working together for ages. I used to do a few different radio shows on WNYU in NYC and had him up when he was relaunching his solo career in the late '80s. As most people in the UK know me for being a 'dance' DJ, many may think it is quite an unusual collaboration. However, most people don't know that I was first and foremost a rock chick and founded the first psychedelic / progressive rock show on my radio station and I was a huge Captain Beefheart fan before house music even existed!"

You seem to have a diverse taste - one minute dubbed out beats and rhymes, the next Krautrock surf music... Is there a grand Wild Rumpus plan?

"Wild Rumpus is about fusing different styles but in a way that works. It's also about having fun and being irreverent. And finally it's about being different. I spend a few hours at the record store and find that 99% of the music to which I am subjected to is derivative. It's so boring. Gary and I both have musically diverse backgrounds and we are able to use our musical heritage in a unique way. This is all music we love!"

What's a 'Purple Somersault'?

"It's a 'term' my daughter came up with. Her favourite colour is purple and 'purple' has also become an adjective that means something that is 'the best'. She likes being flipped upside down and would ask us to help her do an orange somersault, a black somersault (very sinister), a yellow somersault (happy!), etc. But the best was always the 'Purple Somersault'. Also, as this is a surf tune, the somersault refers to the somersaults one does underwater after a wipe-out."

Is there an album in the works? What can we expect?

"There is an album in the works. We have a lot of Gary's guitar tracks that we have recorded and now it's up to me to put it all together so I have quite a job in front of me. Gary is the most original guitarist and can do anything. When we're in the studio it's just so easy but the problem comes with the editing and arranging as sometimes there is almost too much! All I can say about the album is that it will be diverse but always psychedelic and soulful."

What's next for Wild Rumpus?

"Right now we're getting our live show, The Wild Rumpus Experience, together for the summer. We have performed in some wild places including India and are hoping to for some of the UK festivals. We work with visual artist Rob Rainbow who works with The Light Surgeons and Nitin Sawhney amongst others and have also worked with percussionists and a poi fire dancer! We have a show that reaches people on many dimensions so the visual element is really important. We just want to do something that is a bit different."

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IK Multimedia are giving away their Oberheim OBX-a synth, the Syntronik OXa, for free. All you've got to do to get the epic sound library that...

Kate Bush says 'Running Up That Hill' "given a whole new lease of life" thanks to Stranger Things

The 1985 single has shot back up the UK charts thanks to its recent use in the latest season of the Netflix series

Kate Bush has shared a rare public statement after her 1985 single 'Running Up That Hill' re-entered the UK singles chart following its recent use...

Akai’s APC20 hardware controller proves less is more...

Ever since Ableton became popular with the masses and started to pop up in cooler studios and DJ boxes across the planet, the arms race...

The track has been shared alongside visuals filmed in London

Faithless have shared their first new single in 10 years.

Entitled 'This Feeling', the uplifting house anthem from Faithless features Suli Breaks and Nathan Ball...

It's coming via R&S Records...

Lone is back with a new single that you can listen to by calling a special hotline right now!

Titled 'Backtail Was Heavy', the track...

Aphex Twin

"What if you could sing a silly tune and rebuild it from classical music files? You can do this with Samplebrain"

Aphex Twin has released a free “sample mashing” app called Samplebrain. The open-source sound design software works by chopping samples up into a "brain" of...

Bass Face

Loopmasters' 'Patchworx Dubstep Bass' is a collection of bass sounds for use with Logic’s ES2 soft synth.