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Photo taken from behind the DJ at a PRSPCT event. A large crowd is dancing in a warehouse space

With its label, events and booking agency, Rotterdam’s PRSPCT has brought an anarchic punk energy to dance music. Ben Hindle speaks to label artists about what makes PRSPCT such a liberating outlet, and chats to founder Gareth de Wijk, aka Thrasher, about ignoring rules, encouraging experimentation, and using your platform for good

“It’s the way you run your thing, the way you live your music, breathe it, man. That’s the punk thing... I think that PRSPCT is...

Steve Aoki Richard Orlinski 12on12 Year Zero

Steve Aoki is set to release a vinyl-only hardcore compilation with French artist Richard Orlinski. 'Year Zero' will land on 28th April, with an exclusive...

Mumdance shares entire archive

With mixes featuring DJ Die, DJ Storm, Richie Hawtin, Surgeon and Peverelist

Mumdance has shared his entire archive of releases, live mixes, radio sessions, and podcasts, to his revamped website, alongside a statement about recent battles with...

The new versions of 'Sine From Above' will "shock" fans of both artists

Lady Gaga and Elton John are working on a “hardcore drum and bass” track together, according to a source close to both artists. 

The pair collaborated...

Celebrating the legacy of the shop run by Mike De Underground, Cool Hand Flex, Uncle 22 and Randall

London's legendary De Underground record store has received a heritage plaque for contributions to 'UK hardcore, jungle and drum & bass music'. The signs, in...

In DJ Mag's March artist charts, four DJs select their top 10 tracks of the month, spanning moody jungle, '90s acid, classic reggae and dubby...

UK trio Denham Audio have entrenched themselves at the front of the new wave of breakbeat hardcore producers through a multitude of racuous cuts and...

With her supercharged rave productions and hybrid sets that pack in everything from breakbeat hardcore and donk to footwork jungle and techno, Yazzus embodies everything...

Inspired by the dusty, crunchy sound of old rave tapes, Western Lore is twisting up modern jungle with a wavy, freeform sound and equally psychedelic...

The happy hardcore, jungle and hardcore techno history podcast will be curated into the British Library Sound Archive

A podcast about '90s rave, R.O.A.R, is set to be curated into the British Library Archive.

After being launched by journalist Tom Latchem and former...

Hardcore, ambient and gabber meet electronic pop in a universe of the producer's devising 

PC Music’s Danny L Harle has announced a debut album and new interactive clubbing experience, 'Harlecore'. 

Ahead of the launch on 26th February, the single...

Starting life as a way of supporting the artists and labels impacted through the coronavirus pandemic, as well as releases supporting other causes and initiatives...

Clubs around the world are shut, and opportunities to find new music out in the wild have been ripped from under our feet as a...

Blame will release the debut release on Over/Shadow soon

Legendary UK label Moving Shadow is set to be reborn under a new collective banner, Over/Shadow, spearheaded by 2 Bad Mice.

Over/Shadow is the brain...

‘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...

Her first solo work since 2017's 'Weightless'

JASSS has announced a new EP on Whities.

'Whities 027' is the first solo work we've had from the critically acclaimed producer and DJ since her...

Hardcore legend Marc Acardipane has been remixed by Solid Blake, Perc, VTSS, and more on the new compilation that also features remastered versions of his tracks...

Marc Acardipane, known to many as the Godfather of Hardcore, is set to re-release a number of his classic works as part of a new...

One of the first legal UK mega-raves to bring dance music culture to the masses was Fantazia. With its emphasis on spending big production budgets...

By the early ’90s, dance music in the UK was already a complex beast. US house and techno cross-pollinated with synth-pop, rare groove and soundsystem...

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...

“Unfortunately the Sydney International Regatta Centre and its affiliates have withdrawn their support for the event"

Hardstyle festival Defqon.1 has been cancelled “indefinitely”, it has been announced.

The Sydney, Australia edition of the festival, organised by Q-Dance, released a statement on...

Taken from 'Borai & Denham Audio Presents: Club Glow Vol.2'...

LMajor teams up with Mani Festo this month to deliver the second edition of 'Club Glow', the mixtape series launched last year by Denham Audio...

It's the project of Italian artist Gabber Eleganza...

Italian arist Gabber Eleganza, AKA Alberto Guerrini, has launched a new mixed-media label called Never Sleep.

Placing its focus on rave and hardcore subcultures, the...