house/techno news
News: Soundcrash and DJ Yoda announce Halloween night at Rich Mix, 31.10.15
This Halloween, get ready for the scariest (and possibly grooviest – do people still say groovy?) party around as Soundcloud and celebrated DJ, DJ Yoda take over the performance space Rich Mix for a monumental party, including hair-raising audio and spine-chilling visuals. As ever with Yoda, aka London turntablist Duncan Beiny, expect the unexpected – …
News: Kompakt spreads its wings to Ibiza and Glastonbury this Summer – Full details
There’s not many things that legendary label Kompakt hasn’t done, but its going about filling any gaps in its impressive CV this summer. Its almost incredulous to think that a label that has been at the forefront on electronic music for so long hasn’t held a residency in Ibiza, but not only is it true, …
News: Orbital to split after 25 years
They’ve managed to eek out eight albums, some of them amongst the most influential in electronic music, over the course of 25 years, but brothers Paul and Phil Hartnoll have decided to call time on their musical partnership. Paul in particular is wasting no time at all, announcing plans for a new album under the …
News: Sasha to play at The Button Factory, Dublin
There are very few artists capable of straddling two creative worlds whilst continuing to blaze trails in both. Welsh DJ/Producer Sasha has been at the forefront of the dance music scene pretty much since there’s been a scene to speak of. From early origins at Manchester’s The Haçienda and Shelley’s Laserdrome in Stoke-on-Trent, to world tours …
See: A Minor releases video for Thinking bout the things, plus release details
The weather is awful today. The wind is howling through the trees, my journey to work on the motorway was frankly awful as the lorries veered every time we got out into the open air as the wind hit them, and there are bins and clothes and buckets and whatever else all over the road …
Track: Julio Bashmore -Duccy, plus Tour Dates
Some people have to change names, for lots of reasons. I had an English teacher that changed her name from Miss Pratt to, actually I can’t remember, but she was still known as Miss Pratt to everyone. Making your way in the music and film world is always rather a treacherous path, but one made …
See: This Friday Alan Braxe DJ’s in London, plus new EP
It was an inauspicious start. It was a Saturday morning at a hall somewhere in the town I grew up in that was usually used by the St Johns Ambulance. But, it was a disco, and I had been invited to spin the famous wheels of steel. Well, when I say invited – the residents …
News: Unknown Festival, Croatia 10th – 14th September Announces line-up
Everyone likes a decent holiday, don’t they. Me, I love visiting places- it’s just the getting there that bothers me. You see, I’m scared of flying. Not just scared though, like properly terrified. I have to go to America sometimes, and in the weeks running up to it, I can barely sleep, become sullen and irritable, in …
News: Jaguar Skills and his Amazing Friends Tour
I used to do my homework to John Peel. There, I said it. I know it’s sort of expected for everyone involved in music just about to say that. But its true. I used to make tapes of the songs on his shows I liked, and then stop the tape if I didn’t like the …