A new Afrobeats and amapiano documentary is available to watch now via Afro Nation festival. Afro Nation: A Movement features talking heads such as Burna...
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The trio’s fourth album, ‘Music Is The Weapon’, is out this month
Major Lazer have shared a new track, ‘QueLoQue', featuring vocals from American-Chilean singer, Paloma Mami.
It's the latest work to come from the trio's forthcoming...
Kamo Mphela, Mr JazziQ and Vigro Deep also feature, with two tunes from DBN Gogo
NTS has announced a new amapiano compilation, showcasing new music from the prominent South African subcultural scene. 'Amapiano Now' will land on 23rd July.
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We host the VIP area with secret DJ sets from headliners
Last year's GlobalGathering was the best we have been to. The GG crew trawled their long-standing home of Long Marston Airfield in Stratford-Upon-Avon and unearthed...
Crossing between electronic music and the arts, Sonar is regarded as one of the best festivals on the planet. Taking place 19th – 21st June...
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1. Sonar was created by three people - Sergio Caballero, Ricard Robles and Enric Palau. Sergio and Enric were musicians in a band called...
The short film explores the mainstream rise of Afrobeats and the formation of the Afrobeats Charts
In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their Bandcamp collections...
MCs were often maligned in the early days of drum & bass, but nowadays it's pretty much universally accepted that a renegade mic-spitter is a...
“There is no other music in the world where an MC stands on the stage for an hour and continuously sprays lyrics with such clarity and power over so many frequencies,” Eksman, one of the d&b scene's foremost MCs, tells DJ Mag. “The life and evolution of the drum & bass MC has grown from strength to strength over the years, and I have no doubt that down the line many more great things are in store for the future generation of MCs in our music.” Undoubtedly so. The role of the drum and bass MC has steadily progressed simultaneously with the scene it resides in, although in the early days MCs experienced negativity from some DJs. But the MC has fought for its corner, and now overwhelmingly basks in the same golden glory as the DJ.
NTS Radio, Shannen SP and Joe Cotch compile essential tracks that capture the unique and unifying sound of amapiano, South Africa’s world-conquering dance music style
Japan is producing some of the world’s most vital techno, though its roots go way back to the late 1970s. We talk to some of...
Since the end of World War II, Western culture has loomed large over everyday life in Japan. The decades since have brought about a wide...