A new label has launched with a focus on reissuing classic and forgotten Irish electronic music from the ’90s and early ’00s. Arís’ first release comes in the form of a reissue of two tracks from Irish trio Bumble’s progressive house-inspired 1992 EP ‘West In Motion’. The ‘Banana Mix’ and ‘Hard Mix’ of the EP’s[…]
The Grammy-winning musician was best known for the 1983 hit Juicy Fruit and his work with the likes of Miles Davis and Roberta Flack. James Mtume, the prolific songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer, has died aged 76. Mtumbe’s death was confirmed by his son to Pitchfork. His cause of death remains unknown. Mtume was born James Forman[…]
Casio has been teasing a new product on its social media for a few weeks, and the final teaser shows what looks like a new keyboard or synth, accompanied by a vocoded voice sound, implying the new hardware will be some kind of synth-vocoder combo. Casio had originally shared a cryptic video just before Xmas,[…]
A solar powered statue of LL Cool J is on display in New York. Currently installed at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, the Bronze bust of the Bay Shore rapper is the work of artist Sherwin Banfield, who called it a “labor of love”. The statue — named Going Back to the Meadows — is positioned above[…]
London’s Colour Factory has announced its residents for 2022. The Hackney Wick club, in the space formerly held by Mick’s Garage, is kicking off the year with the announcement of four new residents: Ahadadream, Danielle, Mechatok and Shannen SP. Each DJ will host three events in the 1000 capacity space, bringing their own distinct areas[…]
FKA Twigs has announced a new mixtape, ‘CAPRISONGS’. After teasing new music via TikTok on 5th January, the English multidisciplinary artist announced the 17-track release on Thursday. ‘CAPRISONGS’ will be released on 14th January. In an Instagram accompanying the announcement, Twigs described the mixtape as “my journey back to myself through my amazing collaborators and[…]
Taiwanese vinyl pressing plant Mobineko is launching a new express for limited runs of 25-100 records. The Mobineko Express service promises to deliver pressings of limited releases in a four week turnaround time. The company claims it has spent the past few years designing a brand new press with the purpose of being fast and[…]
The Avicii video game will be released in a VR format later this month. After launching Avicii Invector — a video game celebrating the life and work of the late Avicii AKA Tim Bergling — globally in 2019, Hello There Games and Tim’s father, Klas Bergling, have announced the next version of the game. Titled Avicii[…]
A selection of new images of Wu-Tang Clan’s ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’ has been shared by the US government. The one-of-a-kind album was originally bought by convicted ‘pharma-bro’ Martin Shkreli in 2015. It was revealed last year that the album had been sold by the US government to the crypto group PleasrDAO for[…]
A new book of ’90s London club photos will be published later this year. The forthcoming book, While You Were Sleeping 1998-2000, is the latest project from photographer Ewen Spencer, who took photographs for club culture magazine Sleazenation in the ’90s. In total, the book compiles 111 images of London’s diverse nightlife landscape between 1998 and 2000. Speaking[…]
A new festival is set to take place in a Scottish palace this summer. Otherlands Music & Arts, the latest venture from the founders of Edinburgh’s FLY festival, is a three-day boutique camping festival at Scone Palace in Perth, Scotland – a heritage site and the home of Scotland’s Kings & Queens. Taking place from[…]
Dance music duo Disclosure has teamed up with UK audiophile hardware company MasterSounds to create some new branded vinyl accessories. The new kit includes MasterSounds famed vinyl weights featuring the Disclosure faces logo and some new slipmats with the same recognisable Disclosure branding. The weights are used to both stabilise the weight of a record,[…]
A new three-day festival is set to make its debut in Scotland this August. The event, titled Otherlands Music and Arts Festival, will take place at Scone Palace in Perthshire on 19-21 August. Otherlands was created by the founders of Edinburgh-based events crew FLY – the team behind FLY Open Air Festival. Described as a[…]
The former Crack Magazine cover star has also revealed the tracklist to his new project, Sick!. Earl Sweatshirt has released another new track from his forthcoming album Sick!. Entitled Titanic, the new song dropped today (7 January) alongside the tracklist to the project, which features contributions from Armand Hammer and Bruiser Brigade’s Zelooperz. Scroll down to check out the[…]
Bristol-based organisation Saffron has revealed details of its second annual 7 Days Of Sound event, designed to connect people of marginalised genders (trans and cis women, as well as all trans and non-binary people) in music tech. After launching in 2021, 7 Days Of Sound will return this month, with a series of workshops that will[…]
This year’s Grammy Awards ceremony has been postponed due to renewed concerns around COVID-19 in the US. The show, which was due to be the 64th edition of the annual event, had been scheduled to take place on 31st January, but The Recording Academy and broadcaster CBS have now confirmed this will not be the[…]
Hudson Mohawke has been enlisted to produce the score for an upcoming theatrical rework of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde’. The classic story has been adapted from the original novella and relocated from London to Edinburgh by Edinburgh-based filmmaker Hope Dickson Leach. Billed as a hybird version of the[…]
It lands on 14 January. FKA twigs has announced her next full-length project. Entitled CAPRISONGS, the 17-track mixtape is the long-awaited follow-up to twigs’ 2019 album MAGDALENE. The former Crack Magazine cover star unveiled the new project, its tracklist and its imminent release date on Instagram this evening (6 January). Tears in the Club – twigs’ recent link-up with[…]
Trigger warning: This article contains information relating to sexual assault and rape. Reports of sexual assault and rape in London nightlife venues reached a six-year high in 2021, according to a new report by Time Out. The report was put together by writer and previous DJ Mag contributor Chiara Wilkinson, after requesting information from the[…]
The one-off album was sold in July 2021 as part of convicted pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli’s forfeiture order. New photos have emerged of Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin album. The one-of-a-kind record was purchased by controversial pharmaceutical mogul Martin Shkreli in 2015 for $2 million. Following the sale, Shkreli – who gained notoriety for[…]
VTSS has shared a new single, ‘For Your Safety’, lifted from her forthcoming ‘Projections’ EP on Ninja Tune’s Technicolor imprint. Listen to it below. It’s the second single to be shared from the EP, following the release of ‘Trust Me’ at the end of November. The track, VTSS says, “captures the moment of a personal[…]
