If songwriting and arrangement were as valued as sonic innovation in the history of dance music, then Chicago vocal house group Ten City would be...
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With support from the likes of Ben UFO and Joy Orbison, Warlock AKA Hooverian Blur’s ‘Old Gold’ on Sneaker Social Club is a triptych of...
Warlock returns for his third outing as Hooverian Blur this month on Sneaker Social Club.
The London-based, Rag & Bone Records founder steps up with...
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Ben Cardew revisits the rich sampling and undiluted fun of the Beasties’ cult classic second album
'Paul's Boutique', Beastie Boys’ second album, is the sound of unrestrained musical joy; an adventure playground bouncy castle fart-joke of a record where boundary-pushing, world-building...
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Ben Cardew revisits Richie Hawtin’s acidic masterpiece, 1993's ‘Sheet One’, perhaps the most definitive example of Roland’s TB-303 synthesizer ever released in the album format
The TB-303 is one of the most iconic sounds in electronic music; a kind of acidic, alien howl that immediately places the listener in the...
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DJ Mag's new Solid Gold series revisists and examines the ongoing significance and influence of electronic albums throughout history. In this first edition, Ben Cardew...
Motorbass were the gently beating heart of French dance music in the 1990s, the duo’s octopus arms encircling everything positive that would come to pass...
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DJ Mag’s Solid Gold series revisits and examines the ongoing influence of seminal albums throughout history. Here, DJ Mag's Digital Tech Editor Declan McGlynn examines how Prince's...
As the chorus for ‘Purple Rain’ rang out of First Avenue in downtown Minneapolis on a humid August evening in 1983, no one sang along...
Breaking industry news from the US
According to the New York Times, dance music download store Beatport has been bought by SFX Entertainment.
The figure has not been publicly revealed...
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With tracks like ‘That’s The Way Love Is’ and ‘Right Back To You,’ Ten City’s 1989 debut album, ‘Foundation,’ set the standard for what vocal...
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When it was released in 1995, ‘Boulevard’ consummated the union between house music and jazz, whilst clearing the path for a wave of French house...
‘Boulevard’, the 1995 debut album from Parisian producer Ludovic Navarre — aka St Germain — was by no means the first time jazz had mixed with house. Larry...
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Experimental, accomplished and downright epic, Marc Mac and Dego McFarlane’s 1998 classic served as a blueprint for the divine future possibilities of drum & bass music
1998 was a landmark, if slightly troubling, time for drum & bass. It was a year of shifting styles, sprawling albums, and new sub genres, one that saw...
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Ben Cardew revisits Björk’s ‘Debut’ album which encompasses elements of rave, jazz, pop and so much more to explore how it laid the groundwork for...
If the world Björk inhabits on ‘Debut’ sounds a little every-day for such an extraordinary star, its because Björk made it so. Of course, the concept...
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DJ Mag's Solid Gold series revisits and examines the ongoing significance and influence of electronic albums throughout history. In this edition, Ben Cardew discusses how Leftfield's...
Bastardisation has long been at the heart of the British musical soul. The Beatles had it, tying up US R&B into wonderful new forms in...
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DJ Shadow's debut album, 'Endtroducing.....', released via UK label Mo'Wax Records in 1996, presented abstract, instrumental hip hop as a worthy deviation from the...
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Rupert Parkes’ razor-sharp 1997 debut remains one of the crowning achievements of drum & bass. DJ Mag explores how this groundbreaking album used intricate programming...
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DJ Mag’s Solid Gold series revisits and examines the ongoing significance and influence of inspiring electronic albums throughout history