Manchester DJ Dave Booth has died. Dave Haslam is among those paying tribute to Dave Booth, whose career saw him play at The Haçienda, Ibiza and at Garlands in Liverpool. He was also a regular DJ at Stone Roses gigs,… Read More
Researching and learning aren’t exactly words that push excitement levels through the roof, but when they’re linked to dance music culture, it’s a completely different story. Dare we say it’s fun? Course we will, especially when it’s related to the… Read More
The Neptunes, the super producer duo comprising Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, appear to be planning something.Read this next: 25 early and rare tracks from hip hop’s best producersVerified Instagram and Twitter accounts were launched yesterday, each posting imagery of… Read More
Berlin clubs are to re-open but with strict “no dancing” rules. Sisyphos, Birgit & Bier and Rummels Bay will be opening their outdoor spaces as beer gardens that serve drinks and pizza. Music will be played but dancing will not… Read More
West Mercia Police shut down an illegal rave of around 70 people in Teflord’s Granville Country Park on Saturday evening just after 8pm, with the group of partygoers telling officers they are “sick of self-isolation”.Police said a DJ was playing… Read More
Continuing his string of releases on Local Action, Finn released an hour-long mixtape called ‘2020 Sampler’ this week with the label of new productions. This announces a series of new music that Finn will be releasing on Local Action throughout… Read More
On May 22, Tresor will release ‘The Book of Drexciya Vol. 1’, the first in a graphic novel series covering the evolution of the Afrofuturist mythology surrounding the Detroit techno duo Drexciya. The project started out as a crowdfunding campaign… Read More
Parisian producer and DJ Bambounou has put out a mix of birdsong as an antidote to lockdown stress.It’s made up of clips that Bambounou, aka Jeremy Guindo, has been collecting over the years. Some fragments are taken from recordings made… Read More
On Monday May 18 at 10pm, BBC Four will show ‘The Changin’ Times of Ike White’, a documentary that attempts to track down the elusive funk musician Ike White. In 1976, White released ‘Changin’ Times’, a funk and soul album… Read More
Last Magpie was making waves in the dance music world when he first started releasing music at the beginning of the 2010s. He released EPs with respected labels like Hypercolour and Losing Suki, before taking the decision in 2015 to… Read More