It has been confirmed that a body found in the Amazon region of Brazil is former Mixmag editor, Dom Phillips. He was identified on dental records. Phillips served as editor of Mixmag from 1993 -1997 during the peak of dance music culture. During his time as editor, he coined the
A new streaming app, Marine Snow, has launched. Unlike other platforms, Marine Snow uses a 90-day rotation of songs, and urges users to interact with each other and the platform to access the music. Users must crack open egg-like capsules in order to unveil songs, or combine ‘shards’ to unlock
Berlin’s Gegen, a queer focussed nightlife collective and label, have released their third compilation, SPHINX. The compilation features four original techno productions from Gegen affiliated acts. Artists contributing to the compilation include Berlin’s Christian Marras, who opens the set with industrial techno track Asymmetric, and the UK’s JocFarr. The B-side
Techno icon Carl Cox has announced the release of his first album in over a decade. Electronic Generations will be released on September 16th via BMG, whom Cox has recently re-signed with. The 17 track album is the result of sets played by Cox over the course of lockdown, a
London based DJ and promoter Samantha Togni has launched a vinyl label showcasing trans, queer, non-binary, and female musicians under the Boudica name. Togni launched Boudica as a party series before transitioning to a music conference in 2020 with panel discussions and conversations around important issues in the electronic music
Barcelona festival Primevera Sound returned after a two year hiatus this past weekend. The festival, which takes place annually at Barcelona’s Parc del Fòrum, has become one of Europe’s major music events since its inception in 2001. Both the 2020 and 2021 editions of the festival were cancelled due to
Multi-instrumentalist, producer, and vocalist Moby has launched his own label. The Grammy award winner’s imprint is called always centered at night, and looks to exist as a ‘new kind of label’ in service of the creative process rather than algorithmic success. Speaking on what he refers to as the “current,
Last week, Spotify rolled out a test which allowed artists to display their NFT collections to users. According to Music Ally, some users in the Android users in the US were able to access and view NFT galleries from artists including Steve Aoki and The Wombats. Both have been ardent
New York club director and nightlife legend Steve Adelman is releasing a memoir. Titled Nocturnal Admissions, the memoir covers Adelman’s time at iconic venues such as Limelight, Tunnel, and Avalon in the late nineties and early 00’s. Adelman rose to prominence in the late 80’s as the director of Roxy,
BeatPort has acquired demo submission platform, LabelRadar. The platform will now form part of BeatPort’s Music Services division. LabelRadar was designed to streamline the demo submission process for both artists and labels. It does this by acting as a sort of middleman, presenting artists’ demos to potential labels and notifying
