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New book, MusicQuake, celebrates influential moments in electronic music history

The extensive work is an homage to the most controversial records and performances of the past 100 years

A new book, 'MusicQuake: The Most Disruptive Moments In Music', celebrates 50 landmark albums and events that changed the face of modern music, making history...

The tech company honours the legacy of electronic music with the immersive platform

Google launched its 'Music, Makers & Machines' online multi-media exhibition last week to celebrate electronic dance music. 

Hosted by the Google Arts &...

The book takes "a retrospective look at the significance of clubs as experimental fields and protected spaces"

A new book explores the history of club culture across Africa and Europe from 1960 to 2020.

Titled Ten Cities, the new 500-page book aims to...

Celebrating Blackburn’s legendary acid house rave scene of the late '80s and early '90s

The new online archive celebrating Blackburn’s acid house rave scene of the late '80s and early '90s that we reported on last week (16th April)...

FLASHBACK celebrates the legendary acid house raves of the late '80s and early '90s

A new online archive will celebrate Blackburn’s acid house rave scene of the late '80s / early '90s.

FLASHBACK is a new online archive comprising...

Every era of British dance music has its myths and over-simplified narratives — hell, even little known local scenes have urban legends. Below, Matt Anniss...

We need to think about how we document dance music culture. It may seem odd saying this when there are so many magazines, podcasts, and...

It's been 10 years since seminal club The End closed its doors for the last time. We speak to the family members, close team, and...

“If there’s one thing to learn from rave, it’s this: you can do anything, if you do it together.” – Sheryl Garratt, Sweet Harmony –...

Ibiza - The Silent Movie will air this Friday on BBC4

After its premiere at Glastonbury, Ibiza - The Silent Movie will air this Friday on BBC4. 

Fatboy Slim soundtracked the film, which contains no...

Featuring classic rave anthems from the likes of The Prodigy, Joey Beltram, LFO, Inner City and Orbital...

The official soundtrack for forthcoming UK rave culture film 'Beats' is available to stream now.

Produced by Steven Soderbergh and directed by Brian Welsh (whose...

Exploring everything from Detroit and Berlin Techno to Israeli psytrance

Rave On: Global Adventures In Electronic Dance Music, a new book written by widely celebrated journalist Matthew Collin, documents the evolution and ever-changing culture of...

German don drops the third installment of his ‘Back To The Future’ mixtape...

Paul Kalkbrenner has dropped the third installment of his ‘Back To The Future’ mixtape, which sees the German don charting the history of techno in...

Infographic After All...

While we patiently wait for news of what Daft Punk will do next (it’s been just over three years their last LP 'Random Access Memories')...

The Belleville Three

Dance music is a hot place to be place right now. What began as an underground counter-culture has grown, over the last 25 years, into...

100 years of electronic music

In March 1913 Luigi Russolo, the Italian futurist, stormed out of a classical concert in Milan and published an open letter demanding a new form of modern music.