It started on a particularly sunny bank holiday weekend, on the 22nd May 1992. A ramshackle convoy of vehicles, which served as the rag-tag homes...
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2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the biggest and the most infamous illegal rave that ever took place: Castlemorton – a week-long, 20,000-person party deemed so anarchistic that it shook Middle England to its core. Here, photographer Alan Lodge tells his story of capturing a week changed UK dance music forever
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...
He made up one half of DJ duo Digs & Woosh
UK free party pioneer Pete 'Woosh' Birch has died.
Birch, who was part of DJ duo Digs & Woosh, and a founding member and influential...
The promoter is often credited with helping 'invent' the dance music mix CD
An inquest has ruled the death of Fantazia co-founder Gideon Dawson as drug related.
The rave promoter is thought to have succumbed to health complications...
The gathering was organised to celebrate the 30th anniversary of notorious UK free party Castlemorton
Castlemorton, The Haçienda, Shoom and Glastonbury all get nods in Dorothy's new Road To Nowhere collection
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
Spiral Tribe were ‘90s Britain’s hardest hardcore techno crew – a travelling party troupe of anti-authoritarian acid-adventurers, and a scourge of the establishment. With co-founder Mark Harrison in the midst of writing a book on their story, and PRSPCT Recordings recently releasing a collection of classic cuts from live Tribe duo R-Zac, Harold Heath dives into their history, legacy and vow to 'Never Stop'
Iconic photos of Sade, Erykah Badu, David Bowie, John Cage and more will be on display in Manhattan this summer
We sat down with Groove Armada's Andy Cato...
Groove Armada's Andy Cato looks back on the life behind his new 'Times & Places' album for R&S' Apollo imprint — a musical travelogue of his time touring the globe...
Andy Cato looks back on the life behind his new 'Times & Places' album
"They were so much better when they first started," is the cry of dyed-in-the-wool hipsters over the world. But in the case of Groove Armada, the...
We speak with an associate of the 'Rave Six' regarding their charges
At the end of May during the bank holiday, some people threw a party. No big deal, just a few thousand people dancing next to...
A Darker Electricity is out next year through Velocity Press
Block9 has also revealed a new collaboration with Notting Hill Carnival
"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