| How Not to Run a Club We talk to New Order's Peter Hook about the Hacienda and catch up with guys in the know at some of London's top clubs to find out exactly what goes in... |
29/09/09 | more | |
| Circo Loco @ DC10 Line Up Circo Loco fever continues to grow, with the announcement of performers for its big October 6 come-back party. Clubbers can look forward to Timo Maas, Clive He... |
29/09/09 | more | |
| matter to Launch Free Shuttle Service It’s testament to the popularity of London super-club Matter that it recently turned 1 in a rude state of health and seemingly unaffected by the transport... |
29/09/09 | more | |
| Carl Craig @ Technique Detroit techno god Carl Craig is confirmed to headline the latest Technique shindig this weekend. The Leeds even has been running for over eight years now, pus... |
29/09/09 | more | |
| 10 Year Old Fabric Simian Mobile Disco, Terry Francis and very special guests for Fabric’s 10th birthday party Celebrated London club Fabric has revealed details of its muc... |
28/09/09 | more | |
| Underworld and Eno Collaboration Underworld team up with legendary producer Brian Eno. Dance duo Underworld have revealed that they're working on new material with super producer Brian En... |
28/09/09 | more | |
| Angry Attack at ‘Lazy’ Tag Massive Attack have hit out at rumours that instead of making music they just ‘f**k about’. The band’s Robert '3D' Del Naja is angry that the... |
28/09/09 | more | |
| DJ Handbags Felix Da Housecat and DJ Hell have locked horns over P Diddy. Chi-Town don Felix is accusing the Gigolo Records boss of plagiarism, saying that Hell pinched a ... |
28/09/09 | more | |
| Fabric Embraces Bass The London club and label is to launch a new series called Elevator Music, 'a bass-geared publishing compilation'. There's not much information on the sonic ve... |
28/09/09 | more | |
| Blog: We Kept The Faith So there I am; sangria sipping and waiting for a little sunset action at Ibiza’s favourite sunset haunt, Cafe Mambo... Anticipating that momentous daily o... |
24/09/09 | more | |
| Ministry Turns 18 1991 was the year that London's grimy south was first blessed with London's first superclub and 18 years on it's still going stronger than ever. The wealth of ... |
23/09/09 | more | |
| Get Touching Get Physical launch an iPhone Touch Mix in celebration of their 7th Anniversary. The Get Physical touch mix application comes loaded with 18 dancefloor tracks ... |
23/09/09 | more | |
| The Many Faces Of Dave Lee Essex boy Dave Lee has more aliases than a superhero convention. Somewhere down the line (and a very funky one at that) you’ve likely encountered one of ... |
22/09/09 | more | |
| Pioneering Gear Pioneer launched two new, eagerly awaited CDJ turntables, the CDJ 2000 and 900, at a special Ministry Of Sound soiree late last week. Pioneer’s CDJ 2000 ... |
22/09/09 | more | |
| UV Denim from Diesel Designer label Diesel is launching its new line of UV-activated denim this week, with a special ‘after dark’ bash at its flagship Covent Garden stor... |
22/09/09 | more | |
| Brixton House Mafia BBC Radio 1’s electro-pop sensation Kissy Sell Out and fast-rising Midlands tech-house DJ and producer Kim Fai have joined the line-up for Swedish House M... |
22/09/09 | more | |
| Credit To The Edit Veteran Manchester DJ Greg Wilson is to release a second album in the Credit To The Edit series. His first dropped in 2005, and featured classic tracks re-work... |
22/09/09 | more | |
| More names announced for Southport Weekender Southport Weekender, Europe’s unique and most loved indoor soulful music festival get ready for another massive 3 day party this coming November! Southpor... |
18/09/09 | more | |
| Darren Emerson on JBO Darren Emerson, to put it lightly, is a living legend. As a DJ, producer and ex-label boss his career, which spans 17 years, has been hugely influential. As a m... |
14/09/09 | more | |
| DC10 to open its doors for first (and last?) time this year DC10 to open its doors for first (and last?) time this year Famous Ibiza club DC10 is set to open its doors for one night only next month after a summer of fru... |
14/09/09 | more | |
| Groove Armada Offer First Single as FREE download! Groove Armada’s Andy Cato and Tom Findlay continue to plot a funky course towards the release of their new album Black Light, now confirmed as February 20... |
13/09/09 | more | |
| Disabled Clubbing... First, this month, changes to Scotland Yard’s controversial Form 696 and now new government legislation on disability discrimination which could have an e... |
13/09/09 | more | |
| Youtube Dispute 'Let the music play on' Good news for music fans in Britain. Music videos are coming back to YouTube. Google-owned YouTube and the Performing Rights Society for Music (PRS) said Thurs... |
10/09/09 | more | |
| The Truth About Amsterdam The US lays down the law on the 'cesspool of corruption' that is the Dutch capital... ... |
08/09/09 | more | |
| Form 696 At the start of this week Scotland Yard confirmed it was tweaking Form 696, the controversial paperwork it introduced last year to supposedly make London music ... |
08/09/09 | more | |
| Intec Returns Carl Cox’s legendary Intec Records label is returning to the frontline after an absence of nearly 4 years. Intec, founded by Cox in 1999, was responsible... |
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| London Freeze Festival Here’s news that’ll send shivers down your spine – and in more ways than one! Orbital have just been announced as headline act at this year&r... |
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| Bugged Out is 15 Bugged Out! has reached the ripe old age of 15, and as is customary with such events, will be throwing a big old party to celebrate. The crew will be taking ov... |
07/09/09 | more | |
| New LCD Soundsystem Album James Murphy has revealed that recording of the new LCD Soundsystem album is under way. Though Murphy had said the band had been put on hold indefinitely as re... |
07/09/09 | more | |
| Oxjam Oxfam's Oxjam music festival has been announced for later this month, with turns confirmed from Basement Jaxx and Fatboy Slim. Gigs will take place in a secret... |
07/09/09 | more | |
| Labelled: King Street In 1993, Hisa Ishioka founde BPM King Street Sounds to continue the ten year tradition of soulful-spiritual house music that the great Paradise Garage club help... |
07/09/09 | more | |
| Somebody Shoot Me! The dance music industry isn’t just about being a DJ or producer. Sometimes the music biz calls for people specialised in other crafty art forms to give t... |
03/09/09 | more | |
| Secret Clubbing It really isn’t clubland’s best kept secret. The 2009 trend for ‘secret clubbing’ is fast becoming a major night-time movement, and... |
02/09/09 | more | |
| Ministry Shooting A man was run down and decapitated outside London superclub Ministry of Sound this weekend, sparking a gunfight which left another man shot in the shoulder. Th... |
02/09/09 | more | |
| Trance Awards Voting is now under way for the fifth annual Trance Awards. Clubbers can nominate at www.tranceawards.com under categories ranging from Best DJ and Best Label ... |
02/09/09 | more | |
| Club Cheats Nightclubs are seemingly the most popular place for cheating on partners, according to new research. A poll of 3,000 adults for an opera company found that wom... |
02/09/09 | more | |
| Big Chill Comes Home Clearly loathed to call it 'a reunion', the Big Chill are presenting a mini-festival' – or club nights, as they're often known – at their venues in ... |
01/09/09 | more | |
| EP from the Massive Massive Attack will release a new EP next month. Splitting The Atom EP will drop on October 5, and is a sneak preview of the material from their forthcoming (a... |
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| Seaman the Master Dave Seaman has mixed an album for Renaissance's Masters album series. Joining the ranks of Satoshi Tomiie, James Zabiela and Hernan Cattaneo, the former Broth... |
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| Blog: Pre-Clubbing Ritual Confessions Ah the smell of bank holiday weekend! Another glorious excuse to dip into the hot-party pot and do a spot of Electronic Olympics! And with so much on offer... |
27/08/09 | more | |
| Club Facebook Ah, the old adage - clubbing will never die...certainly not if Facebook has anything to do with it. For the social networking site is driving an increasing... |
26/08/09 | more | |
| Shock Yourself Funky watchmaker G-Shock, sponsor of the inimitable Burlington Project (or Red Box) room at Ibizan superclub Space, is launching a limited edition range of chro... |
26/08/09 | more | |
| Burlectric London’s SE1 club is set to party in style when it hosts a major new night fusing music and fashion on Saturday, September 5. Burlectric, backed by the e... |
26/08/09 | more | |
| Eastern Electrics Lights Up London London's Eastern Electrics Bank Holiday blow out has confirmed sets from Damian Lazarus, Anja Schneider and Riton. The location for the two-day party has also ... |
25/08/09 | more | |
| 718 Sessions Body & Soul ledge Danny Krivit is releasing a new mix album. Out on the equally legendary Nervous Records, it's named 718 Sessions, after Krivit's New York clu... |
25/08/09 | more | |
| Filthy Fabric Filthy Dukes are next in line to release an album for FabricLive. Olly Dixon and Tim Lawton's FabricLive 48 will drop on October 12 over here, and Novembe... |
25/08/09 | more | |
| Cream's 17th Cream has announced details of its 17th birthday bash in Liverpool. As always, the even will be held at Nation, and a raft of top flight jocks will be descendi... |
25/08/09 | more | |
| Dragon76 Performs Live On Thursday August 27th, Dutch Uncle and London Miles Gallery is proud to present a live painting event with Japanese Contemporary artist, Dragon76. Dragon76 w... |
24/08/09 | more | |
| Blog: Luciano's Electronic Orchestra! Luciano has given himself- and possibly invented- the all time highest ranking of DJ superstardom... that of LIVE conductor. The Looch, as some-people-I-know-th... |
20/08/09 | more | |
| Bestival's Back After 'selling out' for the fourth year in a row a while back, there's some good news for those who missed out first time around. A limited allocation of ticket... |
18/08/09 | more | |
| 4Hero Covers 4hero are to release a new album of cover versions. But rather than Stevie Wonder or Minnie Riperton tracks, Dego and Marc Mac are presenting a collection of t... |
18/08/09 | more | |
| Twin Sets Aphex Twin has confirmed two ultra rare DJ sets. The electronic luminary has been enticed to the decks by the people behind the Warehouse Project in Manchester... |
18/08/09 | more | |
| Cox's Ibiza Friends Carl Cox will be joined by a pair of top flight jocks for his closing party at Space in Ibiza next month. As well as doing an extended closing party set indoor... |
18/08/09 | more | |
| Creamfields '09 Sell Out Camping tickets for this year's Creamfields have now sold out, so tough luck if you were hoping to spend the Bank Holiday weekend under canvas. There are,... |
18/08/09 | more | |
| Listed If you’re old enough then you might remember Kicks Like A Mule’s 1992 rave hit The Bouncer and that classic sample-chorus: ‘Your name&rsq... |
18/08/09 | more | |
| Le Grand Tube Exuberant Dutch house DJ and producer Fedde Le Grand has just launched himself onto YouTube with his own digital TV channel. www.youtube.com/feddelegrand is mo... |
18/08/09 | more | |
| Will It, Won't It? Celebrated Ibizan party, Circoloco, could permanently reopen at DC10 this October in the latest twist of a long-running legal saga with more ‘open and shu... |
18/08/09 | more | |
| Extended Future Disco DJ-about-town Sean Brosnan is set to release a follow-up to cult electronic disco comp Future Disco. Released with subtitle The Extended Future Disco Mix, the ... |
18/08/09 | more | |
| Blog: LA Guetta David Guetta’s always been angling towards (a lot) more commercial success in dance music and with the statement, “I don’t want to be credible... |
13/08/09 | more | |
| Bloom Cancelled It wasn’t many weeks ago that we highlighted the recessionary struggle music festivals up and down the UK are facing this summer. Alas, Bloom (Augus... |
10/08/09 | more | |
| Kaleidoscope of Trance Dutch DJ and producer extraordinaire Tiesto has just announced details of his eagerly awaited fifth studio, including its title, Kaleidoscope, and release date,... |
10/08/09 | more | |
| Gone Full Orbit Orbital’s Paul Hartnoll has just revealed that he and brother Phil will return to the studio to make new music after vowing, previously, that they’d... |
10/08/09 | more | |
| 24/7 Gus Gus Icelandic electronic outfit Gus Gus will release their new album next month. '24/7', their sixth album, will drop on September 14 through Cologne... |
10/08/09 | more | |
| Groovy New Material Groove Armada have confirmed that they will unveil material from their new album Black Light at the Warehouse Project in Manchester. Said Andy Cato: 'Black Lig... |
10/08/09 | more | |
| Temporary Secretary Dixon is preparing to drop a new mix album. Temporary Secretary will be unleashed on (unsuprisingly) his very own Innervisions label on October 13. And as you... |
10/08/09 | more | |
| ADE Gets Bigger More names have been added to this year's Amsterdam Dance Event, including Derrick May, Pendulum, Simian Mobile Disco and Francois K. The annual industry beano... |
10/08/09 | more | |
| Play The Building Talking Heads co-founder and X-Press 2 collaborator David Byrne will be bringing an interactive sound installation to popular London gig venue the Roundhouse, w... |
07/08/09 | more | |
| Urban Ibiza If you’re out on the White Isle this summer you might fancy a little culture between all that hedonistic butt-shaking. Urban In Ibiza is a one-off exhibi... |
07/08/09 | more | |
| Pop Killer Mr ‘Perfecto’ Paul Oakenfold has announced a few new details about his next studio album, currently under the working title Pop Killer. It will fea... |
07/08/09 | more | |
| Party Like It's 1989! Sven Vath is planning a retro night at his Ibiza residency at Amnesia to celebrate 20 years of electronic music on the island. The German techno ledge will be ... |
07/08/09 | more | |
| Blog: Support the Underdog this DJ Top 100 It’s that time of year; DJ’s Mag’s Top 100 has rolled around and it’s going to try convince us we should all be listening to Trance once... |
06/08/09 | more | |
| Big Name, Big Night Arriving at the usually tranquil setting of Victoria Park to a thumping beat and masses of colourful ravers it was clear to see that this was not going to be a ... |
06/08/09 | more | |
| Born to Party To launch the new collection 'Born' range by Ted Baker - which hits the stores Monday 17th August - the guys behind the collection are setting the ult... |
06/08/09 | more | |
| The Return of the Rollers Roller-skating to music could be back; and not just any music, but contemporary dance music. A series of eight-wheeled (that's four wheels per foot) s... |
05/08/09 | more | |
| A Pox on the Pioneers Dance music veteran Andrew Weatherall is to release his debut solo album. Though the DJ and producer has a sprawling back catalogue of original material, recor... |
03/08/09 | more | |
| Slave to the Rhythm Matt Edwards - aka Radio Slave - will be knocking up the next album in the Fabric series. Fabric 48 will be dropping on September 14. Said he: "It's a mi... |
03/08/09 | more | |
| You Need Faith Need2Soul and veteran club night Faith are joining forces for a special summer party later this month. Body & Soul alumnus Joaquin 'Joe' Claussell will be in t... |
03/08/09 | more | |
| Cox Returns for matter Birthday Dome-based club matter, owned by the fine crew behind London's Fabric, will celebrate its very first birthday next month. September 18 will see a host of top j... |
03/08/09 | more | |
| Blog: A Mongolian Mixtape Marathon If you haven’t already heard of Noise Porn, now’s the time to tune in. Ally and Gellan have been running their free music e-zine, slash blog, slash ... |
30/07/09 | more | |
| the Shapeshifters @ Global Gathering '09 Check out this interview with Simon and Max moments after finishing their set at Global Gathering 2009... ... |
29/07/09 | more | |
| Rollin' and Scratchin' Tony Vegas, one third of master beat-smiths the Scratch Perverts, had had a “phenomenally good” weekend but a “fucking exhausting one” t... |
29/07/09 | more | |
| BPM Moves to NEC Europe's largest DJ trade show, BPM, is moving to Birmingham's NEC on the first weekend in October: Saturday, 3, and Sunday, 4. First launched in 2007, the sh... |
29/07/09 | more | |
| Ibiza Rocks Your Box Xbox has announced a brand new partnership with Ibiza Rocks this summer which will see it broadcasting Ibiza Rocks music content, including gigs and backstage w... |
29/07/09 | more | |
| Audiowhores Videocast Check out the Audiowhores tour of Malaysia, Holland and Slovakia on their latest Videocast... ... |
29/07/09 | more | |
| No Ordinary Festival For as long as memory serves (which in this case only seems to span back to 2007 – a result of too many long weekends in the warm embrace of London’... |
28/07/09 | more | |
| Eddie Fires It Up Former Radio 1 resident Eddie Halliwell is back on the broadcasting beat with a brand new radio show called Fire It Up Radio. Launching this month on a network... |
27/07/09 | more | |
| Return of The Cross There were no raucous New Year’s celebrations at The Cross on January 1, 2008, for it was the legendary London nightclub’s last ever night before cl... |
27/07/09 | more | |
| Electric Zoo Line-Up A host of the world's finest electronic music talent will be descending on Randall's Island Park in New York for a two-day beano in September. Electric Zoo hap... |
27/07/09 | more | |
| Scars Revealed As well as the reported appearances from Sam Sparro, Yoko Ono and Santigold, the Brixton duo have been joined by grime MC Chipmunk, Paloma Faith, lesbian rapper... |
27/07/09 | more | |
| New Material from Daft Punk Revealed New material from Daft Punk has been unveiled on YouTube – by unwitting geeks. Designs from the new Tron film, Tron Legacy, were unveiled at the annual C... |
27/07/09 | more | |
| Warehouse Winter Manchester's Warehouse Project is back for its annual season of parties, culminating in its New Year's Eve bash. Launching on September 26, and once more at th... |
27/07/09 | more | |
| The 'Dam RoXY nightclub opened in 1987, closed tragically over a decade later, and left Amsterdam, its home city, with an epochal musical legacy. On June 21, 1999, ... |
22/07/09 | more | |
| Labelled: Great Stuff This week, we catch up with Rainer Weichhold, A&R and label manager at Great Stuff – one of the most successful labels on the dance scene. We talk music p... |
22/07/09 | more | |
| One Love David Guetta's new album will be called 'One Love', and is set to drop next month. After the Fuck Me I'm Famous originator's massive number one When Love Takes... |
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