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DiY sound system

Throughout the ’90s, the DiY Sound System put on countless free events, ran a recording studio and two record labels, and took their hedonistic parties around the world. Here, Harold Heath speaks to co-founder Harry Harrison about his new book, Dreaming in Yellow: The Story of the DiY Sound System, and the collective's trailblazing legacy in the free party movement

The origins of DiY Sound System date back to a mid-‘80s England that was a very different place to how it is in 2022. In...

Raves and Riots is an exhibition of Vinca Petersen’s work, currently showing at the Edel Assanti gallery in central London. Bringing together a collection of...

“I left home at 17 and moved into a squat in London,” Vinca Petersen tells DJ Mag during a private view of Raves and Riots...

DIY collective

A Kickstarter campaign has been launched to help the documentary get released

A new documentary exploring the history of the UK’s Free Party Movement is in the works.


Free Party: A Folk History is a chronicle of...

DJ Mag delves into the history of dance culture’s Woodstock...

In 1992 there was a festival in the UK that changed the course of dance music history. A culmination of the acid house explosion, it...

Movement’s 2105 edition underlined all that is unique and alluring about Detroit, while pointing to the potential pitfalls of the festival straying too far from...

 

There’s something about Detroit that gets under your skin.

A mystery wrapped inside an enigma, to borrow a saying, it’s both what you expect...

The movement is explored via Mattia Zoppellaro photos

   

A new book documents Europe's free party scene.

Taking in 1997 to 2005, Dirty Dancing is Italian photographer Mattia Zoppellaro's self-described "homage to the iconic faces...

Navigate Detroit’s Movement like a veteran

Detroit's Movement Electronic Music Festival (formerly DEMF), one of the best underground techno and electronic music festivals in the US, is just a month away...

Dirty Dancing is Italian photographer Mattia Zoppellaro's self-described homage to the scene

A new book documenting the European rave scene from 1997 to 2005 is available now.

Dirty Dancing, published via electronic label Klasse Wrecks and Berlin...

Gideön is hosting a marathon shindig at Soho Radio to protest Donald Trump’s UK Visit in July...

Gideön is organising a 12-hour marathon protest party at Soho Radio on Friday 13th July, the day US president Donald Trump is visiting the UK...

Drawing from dub, jazz and field recordings, the debut album from rRoxymore finds her upturning the orthodoxies of dance music to create something fresh

The cover art for rRoxymore’s debut album ‘Face To Phase’ depicts an earthly scene tinged with the surreal. Against a black backdrop, flamingos, tropical fauna...

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A Darker Electricity is out next year through Velocity Press

The cofounder of UK rave soundsystem Spiral Tribe is writing a book about the '90s free party scene. Written by visual artist Mark Angelo Harrison...

Award-winning radio presenter and proponent of the diversity-focused Radio Silence movement, Kay-Lee Golding, explores the lack of Black representation in mainstream UK radio

In 2020, you would think that radio would be diverse and full of opportunities. But unfortunately, you would be wrong. The UK radio industry really...

Nab a free download of ‘Day to Die’ from High Rankin’s new EP...

Groaning, grizzling dubstep sounds swamped with fast-paced gurgling synths and hi-hats is what High Rankin does best. And moustaches. And comedy spoofs, among other things...

‘90s rave crew Spiral Tribe’s live duo R-Zac reissue 1993 album of Free Party anthems: Listen

"These tracks represent the pivoting point between the music we recorded with Spiral Tribe in the UK, and what was to come," said the duo

‘90s rave crew Spiral Tribe’s live duo R-Zac have reissued their 1993 album of 'free party' anthems, 'Trailer Trax'. On July 8th, the UK production...

Dead Prez give us a free remix from M1's side project, AP2P + M1 interview

AP2P (All Power to the People) is the collaboration between M1-Dead Prez and Italian producer Bonnot. Like Dead Prez, AP2P specialize in socially conscious hip-hop...