London’s GALA Festival has confirmed the final names set to play its 2022 edition, with will run from Thursday 2nd to Saturday 4th July at Peckham Rye Park. Spanning jazz, disco, house music, drum & bass, Afrobeat, and more, Palms Trax, anu, Hunee, DJ Harvey, are among the new additions to the already-stacked bill. Check[…]
A new book charting the rise of Afrobeats is set to be published next month by Jacaranda Books. ‘A Quick Ting On: Afrobeats’ is written by journalist, cultural curator, and author Christian Adofo, and is billed as the first chronicle of the genre, taking a deep dive into the social and cultural development of, and[…]
London venue The Drumsheds will shut permanently this month, with the final event set for Saturday 29th January 2022. The 10,000 capacity complex bows out with a rescheduled event hosted by The Hydra, NOT TO BE, originally due to take place before Christmas and postponed due to concerns around the omicron coronavirus variant. Jon Hopkins,[…]
A music-making app has been developed by doctors to help reduce the experience of brain fog in cancer patients. The app, ARMcan (Active Receptive Music for Cancer), has been put together by a team of doctors from the University of Cincinnati. As well as streaming their favourite songs, users can create their own music. Both[…]
A group who organised a “Downing Street rave” livestream have raised over £105,000 for the homeless charity, Shelter. DJ Jon Mancini organised a DJ livestream via Facebook, Twitch and Youtube on the 29th December and asked listeners to donate to the charity while tuned in. The idea for the online rave came after party organisers[…]
At First features musical, video and performance contributions from Kettly Noël and the Djiguiya Orchestra, among others. A new performance-based installation is heading to Humboldt Forum – a newly-opened museum housed in Berlin’s reconstructed Royal Palace. Entitled At First – or Am Anfang – the project was conceived by Marc Sinan, a Berlin-based composer and musician. Sinan worked[…]
This year’s ceremony was originally due to take place on 31 January in Los Angeles. The 2022 Grammy Awards will now take place on 3 April in Las Vegas, the Recording Academy and CBS have confirmed. The shift in date and location follows the recent postponement of the event’s January show, which was scheduled to[…]
Glasgow DJ and producer TAAHLIAH has unveiled a new remix for fellow Scottish artist LVRA. She’s taken on LVRA’s track ‘IN YOUR BLOOD’, the original of which came out in November, shortly after the latter was crowned the winner of the Sound of Young Scotland Award at the Scottish Album of the Year Awards 2021. You[…]
SoSure Music is this week marking what would have been Frankie Knuckles’ 67th birthday with the release of a track from the Director’s Cut project, of which he formed one-half. Around the time of Knuckles’ passing in March 2014, he and long-term studio collaborator Eric Kupper, who made up Director’s Cut together, were producing a[…]
Breaka will release his debut album next month. Titled ‘We Move’, the nine-track release will arrive via the UK producer’s self-titled label. Made on a laptop and MIDI keyboard during the winter of 2020 into 2021, among COVID-19 lockdowns, the record sees him channel various club music styles such as footwork, baile funk, UK funky, kuduro[…]
Hyperdub is preparing the release of a new EP from footwork producer DJ Hank. Spanning six tracks, ‘City Stars’ sees the Chicago-based artist channel R&B and Japanese ambient samples into the classic 160 BPM template of the footwork sound. ’80s Japanese music by artists such as Midori Takada and Mkwaju Ensemble are namechecked as influences[…]
After dropping his new album Gene Therapy – Final Chapter, Statik G has been keeping busy, unveiling one music video after the other for some of the 19 tracks listed on his album. Capturing relatable feelings through sharing real life experiences, Statik G leads the way with his powerful rapping skills in “Bad Mfs Only,”[…]
A former DJ is set to become the first skier to represent Jamaica at the Winter Olympics in Beijing next month. Over the past few years, the British-born DJ, Benjamin Alexander, had a six-year residency in Ibiza as well as playing clubs in Hong Kong and at Burning Man festival in the U.S.. He only[…]
Manchester artist Iceboy Violet has shared details of their debut mixtape, ‘The Vanity Project’. Set for release on Finn’s 2 B REAL label, the seven-track mixtape features productions from Space Afrika, aya, Slikback, Nick León and Jennifer Walton, the latter of whom worked with Iceboy Violet on lead cut ‘VANITY’. You can watch a video[…]
Chilean producer buen clima will handle the next release on Shanti Celeste and Gramrcy’s Peach Discs label. The five-track ‘Transferencia Electrónica’ EP marks the artist’s full debut on the label following an appearance on last year’s ‘Peach Pals Vol. 2’ compilation with the track ‘Techno querian lxs weonxs’. Speaking about his Peach Discs debut, buen clima,[…]
BBC News presenter Ros Atkins has shared a drum & bass DJ mix for BBC 6 Music’s Desert Island Disco All-Dayer. The journalist, who presents Outside Source on the BBC News channel and is known for his viral explainer videos on social media, recently revealed that he was a drum & bass DJ back in[…]
Kasango’s mix for DJ Mag’s Radio 1 Dance residency is available to stream on demand now. Listen to it here, or via the BBC Sounds app. South Africa’s Kasango has landed smash hits in his home country’s charts, as well as in underground parties around the world in 2021. Two of his tracks featured in[…]
The German festival returns this spring. Q3Ambientfest (Q3A) has announced the line-up and dates for its forthcoming edition, set to take place in Potsdam, Germany, on 8-10 April. Curated by Berlin-born composer duo Brueder Selke – aka Sebastian and Daniel Selke, who also release music as CEEYS – the annual festival will present three days of[…]
Vinyl sales in 2021 topped CDs in the United States for the first time in 30 years. According to data from Billboard, 38% of all album sales in the country last year were in vinyl format, accounting for over 50% of all physical album sales. This marked the first time more vinyls were sold than[…]
Canadian hip hop artist Jake Oulton takes the road less traveled by and explores life in his latest EP 11:11. Reflecting on his own life, his own journey, Jake opens up about love, acceptance, and pain, pouring out emotions that everyone can relate to. “Until The End” is one of the most powerful songs of[…]
Crossbreed has announced a new weekly party at London’s Colour Factory. The sex-positive party and label, which was nominated in the Best Club Event category at DJ Mag’s Best of British Awards 2021, will be at the Hackney Wick venue every Sunday from 13th February, running from 3pm until Midnight. The events intend to be[…]
