When, after a series of near misses, Jazzie B and DJ Mag finally connect, Jazzie’s in a taxi heading for a video shoot. “I’m not...
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The Brooklyn artist has been making music for decades, but only started to enjoy recognition in the past six years
Fred P is the underground DJ/producer from Brooklyn who's become synonymous with the real deep house sound purveyed by labels like Underground Quality and Strength. With a new album out now, we seek out the enigmatic house head to learn more about what make him tick...
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With the end of an era that came with the announcement that Technics were no longer making their undisputed industry standard turntables, the SL1200 and SL1210, a death knell rang. Finally, after so many years, all DJs have come to the realisation that vinyl is dead, right?
The Bird’s The Word - Acid house and breaks hero Annie was the first lady to push dance music on Radio 1 — and she’s...
“Working in radio is like phoning up your mate and playing a piece of music down the phone to them,” says Annie Nightingale MBE, radio...
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Radio 1’s hard dance champion Kutski puts Korg’s new do-it-all unit, the Kaossilator Pro through its paces...
Korg have been one of the most reputable companies in the electronic music scene since pioneering the keyboard market as far back as the ’60s...
Stanton’s new M.207 mixer caters for the scratch DJs and turntablists out there.
Stanton is a household name among DJs, but it has been a while since they took a foray into the scratch mixer market. Well, all...
The UK's biggest dance music show is just around the corner with shedloads of confirmed attractions...
With only a week to go, news is still flooding in fast about DJ Live - the UK's top-class dance music industry exhibition.
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Soul II Soul helped give Black British music and UK club sounds a truly unique identity. Collective founder Jazzie B talks about their ground-breaking debut, ‘Fairplay’, and traces his journey from London soundsystem culture to global star with Ben Osborne
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Julia Toppin selects 10 essential documentaries that paint a portrait of 30 years of jungle drum & bass, charting the stories of its origins to...
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Audio-visual artists have always played a vital role in shaping the distinctive aesthetic identity of electronic music. In the evolution of analogue slide projectors to...
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Ploy demonstrates his percussive, pulse-racing and sub-bass-shaking sound for the Recognise mix series, and speaks to Katie Thomas about gradually finding his groove on imprints like L.I.E.S, Hessle Audio and Timedance, and his new label and party, Deaf Test
Beardyman is turning music making into a sport with his One Album An Hour show...
He's a funny sort of bloke, is Beardyman. Quite literally; a career founded on quick wit, and what he describes as the “inherently silly” art...
Sound Factory legend talks voguing, Madonna and his European tour
Across Paris, London and New York, the sound of ballroom is again infiltrating every area of dance music, from Vaggio's 'Don't You Want Some More'...
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In the small city of Braga in northwest Portugal, Semibreve’s ninth edition finds pioneers of electronic music playing alongside contemporary innovators. With dazzling live sets...
There are over 30 churches in Braga, a small historic city in northwest Portugal. Walking through its cobbled streets, their ringing bells are often heard...
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The Minimal Wave boss digs deep to pick 10 industrial, post-punk and new wave cuts that mean the most to her...
Though best known for her label Minimal Wave, founded in 2005, and specialising in rare synth wave from the ‘80s, it's surprising that New Yorker...