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Blank Mind announes 90s breakbeat hardcore compilation

The compilation will feature eight tracks that were released between 1991 and 1994

A new compilation on UK label Blank Mind shines a light on '90s breakbeat hardcore tracks. Slated for release on 25th March, ‘Lost Paradise: Blissed...

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Breakbot’s music career spans an extensive list of remix credits longer than your arm, combining French flair with a discerning ear for creating well-crafted pop-style dance tracks that have a definite musical song-based architecture. This means ‘By Your Side’ as an album sits nicely on the dancefloor, but also has a radio-friendly character that makes listening to Breakbot’s long-awaited debut an aural pleasure.

Greeted with both derision and delight from the outset, the cartoonish covers and soundtrack of happy hardcore’s defining, and to some damning, Bonkers series were...

“Bonkers, light in the head; slightly drunk. Perhaps from bonk, a blow or punch on the bonce or head.” It's a word whose origins come...

‘Maya’ will be released on Venetian Snares' Timesig label

Red Hot Chili Peppers’ John Frusciante is releasing a new album inspired by breakbeat, hardcore and jungle.

Titled ‘Maya’, the album will be released on...

In DJ Mag's April music columns, Joe Roberts, Carl Loben, Shiba Melissa Mazaza and Layla Marino spotlight topical sounds from around the world

Joe Roberts asks, will the resurgence of rave provide the soundtrack to a post-COVID summer of love?“It looks like old skool raves will be the...

How Nookie's 'Gonna Be Alright (Cloud 9 Remix)’ album artwork over grey background

Nookie’s ‘Gonna Be Alright’ dropped as hardcore was morphing into jungle at the beginning of the 1990s. It lit up the raves and set Nookie up for a production career with Reinforced, Metalheadz, Moving Shadow and other key labels as the decade unfolded. Ben Murphy learns its story and speaks to Nookie about how, as the ‘20s roar into action, he is charged up all over again
 

“Just Close Your Eyes And Dream With Me / You’ll Hear The Sound Of Music” Instantly recognisable thanks to its vocal hook, Nookie’s classic tune...

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...

D&B community mourns the departure of one of its innovators...

Jungle/drum & bass producer Tango, aka Jamie Giltrap, has died suddenly, it has been reported. 

Tango produced a string of hardcore, jungle and drum &...

Recognise is DJ Mag's new monthly mix series, introducing artists we love that are bursting onto the global electronic music scene. This month, we speak...

"It's fun to synergise different genres that wouldn't normally be put together," says Textasy, aka Berlin based Dustin Evans. "Coming up with different combinations and...

This evergreen breakbeat hardcore missive influenced the likes of The Prodigy and the whole of the early UK rave scene. Ben Murphy charts its story...

“I saw that record go from street level and get bigger and bigger, and there was no video for it, no promotion, nothing,” says Renegade Soundwave’s Danny...

Dublin’s darkmavis & sweet philly sprinkle radiant melodies and glitter over hardcore breaks on their ‘Euphore’ EP. Hear ‘Stabbed’ now

Dublin’s darkmavis and sweet philly will release a new EP, ‘Euphore’, this week. 

The duo’s debut collaboration takes vintage breakbeat hardcore and jungle foundations and...

Seoul-based DJ and musician Liu Lee fuses eerie R&B with ‘90s techno, breaks and electroclash influences on her debut EP, ‘Jasmine’. Hear ‘Kiss Me’ now

Seoul’s Liu Lee will release her debut EP, ‘Jasmine’, via NET GALA and Danja Gunz NBDKNW label this week. You can hear the closing track, ‘Kiss...

With hi-def club sounds, hardcore techno, frenzied mash-ups and mutant EDM, Swan Meat takes the Fresh Kicks mix series to another dimension

The music that makes us feel most alive, and most like ourselves, is not always what we expect: and for Cologne-based, Washington D.C-born artist, Swan...

From: Breda, NetherlandsFor fans of: Dead Man’s chest, FFF, Sully Three tunes: ‘More Massiv’, ‘Adventures In Perception’, ‘Wish We Didn’t’

Coco Bryce may be a relatively new name to most in the UK, however he’s been plying his trade for around two decades. Hailing from...

Premiere: An Avrin ‘Plata (Sonia Calico Remix)’

London’s An Avrin returns to Scuffed Recordings with the rowdy ‘Partisan Pitstop’ EP. Hear Sonia Calico’s percussive remix of ‘Plata’ now

An Avrin will release a new EP, ‘Partisan Pitstop’, via Scuffed Recordings this Friday. The London-based producer, who last appeared on Scuffed with 2020’s ‘Clodhopper’...