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Black Coffee makes history with monumental Grammys win

Black Coffee made history at the 2022 Grammy Awards last night after winning the Best Dance / Electronic Music Album category, becoming the first African DJ to win the category and the first African DJ to win a Grammy in history. Black Coffee won for his seventh studio album, Subconsciously

Q+A: 5 Minutes with Stavroz

Meet Stavroz, the Belgium based quartet who are capturing the world’s attention one chilled single at a time. The team, made up of IJsbrand De Wilde, Gert Beazar, Maxim Helincks and Pieter De Meester, have been celebrating the return of live performances with style as they jump between the US,

DVS1 launches software that allows DJs to pay producers a cut of their fees

American DJ and producer DVS1 (Zak Khutoretsky) has launched software that aims to bridge the gap between DJ and producer income. It’s long been the case that DJ’s profit far more from the music that they play than the producers who make it. Recognising this gap, DVS1 developed Aslice. The

Roundup, April #1

From sci-fi gospel to another great Soulwax remix, we roundup our favourite releases of the week. Listen below.   Follow our Roundup Selections playlist on Spotify to stay updated on what we have on repeat.  Kelly Lee Owens – Sonic 8 On 2018’s Inner Song, Welch DJ and musician Kelly

Jeff Mills and The Zanza 22 – When The Time Is Right

We were privileged enough to speak to techno icon Jeff Mills last year, shortly before the release of his jazz inspired collaboration with Rafael Leafar, The Override Switch. The album marked a continued interest for Mills in finding the intersections between electronic music and analog instrumentation, an interest that has

Max Cooper – Unspoken Words

Max Cooper approaches music like mathematics. His background and PhD in science is likely part of this unique approach, with Cooper’s interests lying in the science of sequencing sound. The result of this obsessive investiture into the possibilities of sound design has resulted in Cooper becoming renowned for crafting a

Downtempo trio GIVVEN show true colours with latest EP

Downtempo pop trio GIVVEN have recently released their latest EP, Losing Colours which was written and recorded around the globe and features three cinematic videos filmed in Iceland. Earlier this month, we sat down for an exclusive interview with the band, in which we discussed the title track of the

Flume, Caroline Polachek – Sirens

Earlier this year, Flume announced his upcoming new album Palaces, his first since 2016, with a single featuring MAY-A. Surprisingly, the comeback single seemed to gesture at a change in direction for the Australian producer away from his signature style of post-dubstep / future-bass toward poppier waters. Say Nothing was

Q+A: 5 Minutes with sweeep

Enigmatic producer sweeep first arrived on our radar a little over 3 years ago as she released the single, ‘Realize’ accompanied by a Loneliness remix. At the time, we sat down for an exclusive interview with her in which we explored the artist’s complex production style. In the following years,

Guerilla Toss – Famously Alive

There are few bands quite like Guerilla Toss currently out there. The New York based outfit occupy a space in the rock-electronica crossover sphere that has often been traversed by groups in the past like The Naked And Famous or LCD Soundsystem, but while most art rockers these days have

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