Manchester-based independent digital record label Ostereo has taken an innovative step towards addressing the class bias when it comes to job positions in the music industry. As of this month, the label has banned candidates from including where they went to school or university in their applications. The Ostereo label
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Image: Julie Calbert David Poltrock, simply known as Poltrock, is a Belgian experimental electronic producer who is making waves with his intelligent merging of ambient, electronica, techno, house and IDM. Poltrock is no stranger to the music world, especially when it comes to writing and composing; this multi talented artist
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Interview by Arnold van der Walt “At the end of the day, everything is a remix” Daniel Deluxe, who is based in Denmark, has been a prevalent artist at the forefront of the synthwave movement. Born in Moscow, Russia, Daniel Alexandrovich started his music career in 2013 and creates his
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Written by Maya-Rose Torrão Justice have just released a new video for a single taken off their recent album ‘Woman Worldwide’ that’s guaranteed to make viewers flinch. The French electro duo worked with previous collaborator Edouard Salier on the new video, which follows a scar-faced bodybuilder in stiletto heels dancing
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Written by Maya-Rose Torrão Iconic UK electronic-rock outfit Bloc Party have just announced that a live version of their seminal 2005 debut album, ‘Silent Alarm’, will be release early next year, on February 22. This release will follow on from the band’s acclaimed 2016 album ‘Hymns’ and is their sixth
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Written by Maya-Rose Torrão Hong Perez, a former sales executive at Spotify, against the whole of Spotify as well her former boss Brian Berner in the New York Supreme Court, for discrimination, equal pay violation and defamation. Perez has accused the company of widespread discrimination against female employees in general
Written by Maya-Rose Torrão Seminal industrial electronic rock band Nine Inch Nails played their 1997 track ‘The Perfect Drug’ live for the first time ever, in Colorado at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre. The track appeared on the soundtrack for David Lynch’s 1997 film Lost Highway but has never been played in a
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Bristol drum and bass icon Daniel Kausman, known as DJ Die, has announced the release of a compilation titled ‘The Archives 1995-2000’, via his own imprint GutterFunk. The compilation is a collection of remastered and repacked tracks taken from 1995-2000, during the time that DJ Die was working with seminal
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Make Noise of Eurorack have just announced the release of a new version of the popular René dimension sequencer. While the original René model was a one-channel, two-dimensional Cartesian sequencer with limited memory, the newer model promises to bring a whole lot more to the table. The updated version is
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Written by Maya-Rose Torrão Berlin club ://about blank have cancelled an upcoming event featuring Cómeme and Room 4 Resistance (R4R), in light of R4R’s participation in the social media campaign #DJsForPalestine (you can check out our article on the movement from last week, here), coordinated by PACBI (Palestinian Campaign For The
