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Key music publicist taken ill

DJ Mag was saddened to hear that Sonia Akow from Push Promotions, also one half of Botchit & Scarper act SOTO, has been taken into hospital with leukemia. A London benefit gig is being organised to help Sonia out financially as she struggles to fight off the condition.

Atomic Hooligan man mixes cuts from Sonia SOTO bass benefit comp

Former GLR producer returns on Distinctive

Initially releasing on LTJ Bukem’s drum & bass label Good Looking in the mid-90s, ILs — aka beatsmith Ilian Walker — went on to release...

Top names support benefit gig and charity album

A load of top names from the world of beats and bass music are lending their support to a benefit gig this weekend (Saturday 14...

Eastern Europeans rewarded at 12th international Breakspoll event

The 12th international Breakspoll awards ceremony was dominated by eastern Europeans at a rocking event on Saturday night in London. Lady Waks from Russia...

T-Power leaves drum & bass behind for downtempo opus 'The Lazy Nine'

Marc Royal has had a prodigious history in breakbeat music. His early work was in hardcore before he made his name as T-Power in drum...

Support popular dance music publicist

As we regrettably stated earlier this year, Push PR music publicist — and one half of the Botchit & Scarper act SOTO — Sonia...

Bass music pioneer comes boomin back atcha

One of the most recognizable figures in bass music, Darin McFadyen – aka FreQ Nasty – has been out of the spotlight in Europe and...

Jurassik brings the gully monster breaks

Jurassik, aka Ben Child, first got into dance music in the late '90s via jungle/drum & bass. “Anything with a skippy sampled break, really,” he...

Acid house hero and dancehall spitter is back and firin'!

One of the most distinctive voices in UK electronic music, Feral Is Kinky is the latest persona for MC Kinky, aka Cantankerous, aka Feral, aka The Infidel — or Caron Geary to her sister.

Breaks fiends Atomic Hooligan are back with a bold, hip-hop heavy, rock swaggered LP and boy do they mean business!

After smashing it with their genre-mocking, rock heavy 2005 LP 'We Are Are', Matt Welch and Terry Ryan have come out all guns blazing...

Ed Rush & Optical are still big in the game. They may have gone through fatherhood and other projects individually, but when they come together...

Spend any amount of time with Ed Rush, be it five minutes or five hours, and he won’t stop talking — and not for one...

Loftgroover

Rising to notoriety in the ’90s with his hardcore techno DJ sets, Loftgroover had a huge following, before the pressures of popularity led him to withdraw from the scene. 30 years later, he’s back and rejuvenated as a d&b DJ. Holly Dicker learns his story

One of the UK’s greatest living DJs never intended to be a DJ. For Loftgroover, the music itself was enough. “DJing didn’t appeal to me,”...

Close up shot of Wreckno with fishnet gloves and colourful butterflies in their hair

Brandon Wisniski has refused to let anyone stifle their “batshit crazy dream” of becoming a pop culture icon. Now, as Megan Venzin discovers, the queer rapper and producer known as Wreckno is breaking boundaries and fostering inclusive spaces so others like them can reach the stars

What can’t Barbie do? Since hitting shelves in 1959, the polymer-based, pop culture icon has donned the uniforms of a pilot, astronaut, presidential candidate, and...

Apollonia are the gods of groovy, stripped-back underground house music. The French trio — consisting of Dan Ghenacia, Shonky and Dyed Soundorom — have been...

It’s late May 2017 in Ibiza, and the end of a long week of opening parties on the island. Shortly after Apollonia close the terrace...