Walker on the late Fiddler: a “huge inspiration of mine” Ash Walker‘s collaboration with Amp Fiddler, ‘Afronaught’, was one of the highlights of Walker’s guest-filled Astronaught album, which surfaced last May. Now label mate, not to mention legendary house DJ and producer Ron Trent has taken the track and given it his unique twist – […]
New version also features a clutch of contemporaneous extras Mike Parker’s debut album Dispatches – only previously pressed on CD on Parker’s own Geophone label – is to get its debut on vinyl some 23 years on from its original release. Described as “a blueprint for deep, hypnotic techno in the new millennium”, the album […]
Undoubtedly, one of the best things about 2023 was the return of DJ Sneak. After slowing down his output considerably after around 2013, he stopping making music altogether during 2020 for obvious pandemic-related reasons. But the Chicago-based house icon suddenly and without warning crashed the second half of 2023 with a prolific string of vinyl […]
Last updated 14 February, 2024 Auto DJ mix software DJ.Studio has just added Beatport Streaming to the list of services it works with. Beatport subscribers can log in and then access the complete Beatport catalogue to create mixes using the software’s advanced automix features, and then share them with other Beatport Streaming subscribers directly within […]
Last updated 14 February, 2024 Auto DJ mix software DJ.Studio has just added Beatport Streaming to the list of services it works with. Beatport subscribers can log in and then access the complete Beatport catalogue to create mixes using the software’s advanced automix features, and then share them with other Beatport Streaming subscribers directly within […]
Argentinian drummer, producer and LBTQ+ scenester pushes the premiere boat out Anyone who’s been following our Tips For 2024 will know exactly how hot South America is for electronic music right now, and Argentina in particular. The speedy, hard-edged techno sound of drummer turned producer Manu Calmet is definitely a tough approach for a tough […]
Russia’s Sengiley label prepares for its third birthday celebrations WHAT’S THE NAME OF YOUR LABEL, AND WHO RUNS IT? My name is Denis Kazakov and founder and curator of Sengiley Recordings WHEN & WHY DID THE LABEL START? The idea of creating a label was born as spontaneously as possible in a tour in Russia […]
The house and garage don delves back into the futuristic past What happens when lockdown hits a well known house and garage DJ and forces him to stay indoors. Well, in the case of T Williams, it led to that most joyful of activities for us vinyl lovers – a thorough reorganisation of his record […]
Out of the warehouse and into the gallery Dark basement with eye-frazzling visuals – check. Shadowy figures operating unstated musical gadgets behind a desk – check. Beats, bass and samples – check. Alcohol – hic. The ingredients, on a superficial level, are the same as a million nights we’ve spent in the capital. But even […]