From Pedals To Plugins: A History Of Modulation Effects
The history of modulation effects is long and fascinating, stretching from the electromechanical devices of the 1940s up to our ultra-modern digital plugins.
Long Reads
Unlikely Moments In Dance Music History
Dance music and DJ history has been driven by disruptive technologies, revolutionary movements and pioneering people. We look at few…
The Revolution Will Be Digitised: 25 Years Of The MP3
The 14th July 2020 is the 25th birthday of the MP3. We spoke with artist and curator Dr John Kannenberg…
Interviews
Damian Lazarus: “Out of economic hardship and difficult times – that’s when the best art is made”
For this month’s feature interview we talked with Damian Lazarus, DJ, producer, label boss, A&R and farmer…
Laura Lewis-Paul: “The passion and the drive, that’s what keeps it going”
For the second of August’s The Business Of Music features, we speak with Laura Lewis Paul, founder and creative…
Sisters Of Murphy: Róisín Murphy & Colleen Murphy In Conversation
This month’s feature interview is with singer, songwriter and Disco-Queen Róisin Murphy who’s about to drop…
My Studio
Hugo Paris
Hugo Paris, AKA Dave Maclean from Django Django has just released ‘Music Saves The World’ in collaboration with house don…
Cora Novoa
Established Spanish DJ, producer and ‘Seeking The Velvet’ label founder Cora Novoa recently released her ‘The Hive’ EP on Vitalic…
Wehbba
He’s spent a decade and a half releasing precisely-engineered techno and electronica and he’s just dropped his…
Track By Track
Mr Beatnick
Genre-straddling UK producer Mr Beatnick released his second album, ‘Honeycomb’ in June this year. It’s an enticing journey…
Paul Cut
French DJ and producer Paul Cut released his ‘Le Bal des Douaniers’ album earlier this year, a feast of precisely…
Claude VonStroke
He’s the founder and boss of the Dirtybird label, he’s a DJ of some renown and a producer…
Show & Tell
Ooft
Glasgow’s Ali Herron (Rapture, Delusions of Grandeur and Wolf Music) has just dropped his excellent deep house and slo…
Kassian
With a new four track EP out on Heist, we spoke with UK production duo Kassian about their life outside…
Gene Farris
Leading Chicago producer Gene Farris (Relief, Toolroom, Defected, Soma) has just dropped his superb ‘Space Girl’ track on Dirtybird. We…
Top Tracks
Alinka
Alinka’s space-age techno EP ‘Control Transmission’ just dropped on Crosstown Rebels, so we got the DJ & producer…
Simina Grigoriu
With her ‘Confiscate / Elucidate’ EP dropping on her Kuukou imprint last month, we asked Simina Grigoriu about her Top Tracks…
Natasha Kitty Katt
Natasha Kitty Katt is a Scottish producer and DJ who specialises in disco flavoured house. She has put out tunes…
Q&A
Black Girl / White Girl
Black Girl / White Girl are a pair of D J/ producers from Amsterdam who’ve released on Relief, Minimal Kids…
Exos
Icelandic recording artist Arnvidur Snorrason – Exos – has just delivered his fourth studio album, ‘Indigo’, nearly 20 years after his last…
Patrick Holland
As Project Pablo, Patrick Holland put out a series of warm and fuzzy 90s-influenced house tracks over the last…
Columns
We Need To Talk About Plague Raves
As clubs in Italy and Spain close again amid rising COVID infections, Harold Heath wonders if it might be time…
Unconscious Racial Bias in the Electronic Music Scene
London’s Silverlining (aka Asad Rizvi) who is of mixed Indian and Pakistani origin, shares his experiences of the electronic…
Summer In The Hamptons
Have we, with a little help from the Chainsmokers, a Goldman Sachs CEO and a plot to hawk hand sanitiser…
Job Envy
Allan Siema
Allan Siema is an artist manager at Simple Complex Music, co-founder and publicist for music platform Fave Sounds and…
Robb McDaniels
For this month’s Job Envy feature, we spoke to the Robb McDaniels, CEO of the world’s largest online…
Ken Liu
Ken Liu is a graphic designer – “the creative department for small companies like record labels that don’t have a…
Introducing...
Sara Landry
Her ‘Sacrifice’ EP on Kraftek dropped a couple of months ago and she’s just put out a 5 track…
Raven
Raven is a DJ, producer, singer and songwriter who dropped her debut ‘Flames’ EP on Radio Slave’s Rekids label…
Rene Wise
He’s a techno producer whose releases pick up DJ support from DJs like DVS1 and Rødhåd. We…
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