Dance music
News: Scottish DJ/Producer – Arkley to release ep February 10th.
Rushing with the energy and euphoria of acid house and the massive early 90s mega-raves, new Scottish DJ and producer ARKLEY drops his Channel A EP on February 10th via Spirit Of Rave Records. Loaded with hypnotic 303 synth pulses, irresistible M1 keyboard stabs, uplifting gospel vocals and banging old school house rhythms, ARKLEY continues his signature reworking …
Live Review: Porij – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds. 21.9.22
If you like your music genre-defying, hard to pin down but irresistibly danceable, then last Wednesday’s sold-out crowd at Brudenell Social Club is where you should have been… Porij formed in 2019 in Manchester, a product of the Royal Northern College of Music, making beats that subsequently blossomed into a heady mix of UK garage, …
Live Review: King Kong Company – Ballykeeffe Amphitheatre, Kilkenny 13,08,2022
The giants of Irish Electronica/Dance that are King Kong Company rolled into the amphitheatre that is Ballykeeffe Amphitheatre nestled beneath some fantastic woodland and partially surrounded by a large rockface in Kilmanagh Co Kilkenny, this was always going to be a show of spectacular fashion with the band known for their stage shows and not …
Track: Nubiyan Twist release new track ‘If I Know’, feat. K.O.G.
NUBIYAN TWIST have been teasing us with a number of new singles from their forthcoming album, and the latest is “If I Know” (featuring K.O.G.). The earlier singles have been more restrained, with jazz and downtempo influences, but this one really lets loose. It’s a six-minute Afrobeat epic complete with horns, breakdown, false ending, and driven forward …
Album Review: Roisin Murphy – ‘Roisin Machine’
IN ANOTHER, more enlightened plane of existence, the world lauds Roisin Murphy as a famed cultural icon with a string of hit albums, maybe with a prime-time talk show, international fashion house and probable appointment as Culture Secretary … heck, why not make that PM too? Unfathomably, in our particular tangent of reality that hasn’t …
Track: Groove Armada are back with new album news and a track, ‘Lover 4 Now’
Dance Music Royalty Groove Armada have ended a ten year spell out of the limelight by announcing a new album, the eleven track ‘Edge of the Horizon’, out on October 2nd via BMG. In contrast to the guitars that prevailed in their last long player, the Grammy nominated ‘Black Light’, this time the band have …
NEWS: vinyl for Chemical Brothers’ ‘Got To Keep On’; museum exhibition
ATTENTION wax heads: in conjunction with The Design Museum in London, The Chemical Brothers have announced a limited edition pink vinyl 12” of the award-winning single “Got To Keep On”, the mesmerising video to which you can watch below. The museum, in Kensington, is reopening with the lead exhibition Electronic: From Kraftwerk To The Chemical …
Track: Netsky – I see the future in your eyes
One of the biggest names in dance music, Netsky, has gone back to his roots with his new single ‘I see the future in your eyes’, which is out right now on Hospital Records. Not only has he moved back to producing drum & bass, but on the tenths anniverary since he first released music …
Track: Spank Rock – The Upside EP
Out now on Boysnoize Records is the new EP from Baltimore electro / rapper Spank Rock. He might have burst on the scene with the seminal Yoyoyoyoyo album which dropped back in 2006, but since then he’s released a slew of releases, including 2008’s Bangers and Cash EP and 2011’s ‘Everything is Boring and Everyone …