15 12, 2023

Robin S. ‘Show Me Love’, the making of a timeless house anthem: Watch (DJ Mag)

By |2023-12-15T16:35:41-06:00December 15th, 2023|Classics, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ Mag, Documentary, electronic music, Entertaiment, House, House Music, House Music History, Interviews, Women|0 Comments

https://youtu.be/Tiv6WEevwbQ?si=ZTuM4urXcjHsZ1Mt   Robin S. gives us an exclusive insight into the making of her irreplicable club anthem, 'Show Me Love', three decades on from its release.   Robin S. gives us an exclusive insight into the making of her irreplicable club anthem, 'Show Me Love', three decades on from its release.   Initially shelved [...]

14 12, 2023

Independent artists need to generate 5 million streams annually to make US minimum wage, new report finds (Music Tech)

By |2023-12-14T11:54:07-06:00December 14th, 2023|Dance Music, Music News, news, producer, Report|0 Comments

  Spotify, Apple, YouTube, and Amazon generate 96 percent of income for independent artists. A new report has found that independent musicians need to generate five million streams annually to make the US federal minimum wage.   The data has been uncovered in the annual 2023 Music Economics Report for Independent Artists from music financing [...]

13 12, 2023

JOURNEY MUSIC: SOUTH AFRICA’S AFROTECH SOUND TRAVELS GLOBALLY AND TRANSPORTS SPIRITUALLY (Mixmag)

By |2023-12-13T13:14:21-06:00December 13th, 2023|Afro House, Afrobeats, Dance Music, House Music, MixMAg, South Africa|0 Comments

AfroTech is a prominent dance music style in clubs around the world — but in its country of origin the genre's future hangs in the balance. Setumo-Thebe Mohlomi reports on the need to support creativity and spirituality within South Africa's scene Waving hands reach for the sky, or something beyond it; some with flat palms [...]

11 12, 2023

How South Africa’s queer underground is remaking ballroom in its own image (DJMAG)

By |2023-12-11T19:19:48-06:00December 11th, 2023|Afro House, Afrobeats, Amapiano, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ Mag, Gay, House Music, International, LGBTQIA+, South Africa|0 Comments

  In South Africa's burgeoning ballroom scene, pioneering figures and DJs are finding their own ‘Ha’ in the country's past, and in the contemporary sounds of gqom, amapiano, and Afrobeats. Tazmé Pillay learns more “DJ, cut the beat.” The room falls silent — an unforgivable sin anywhere else, but this is no nightclub. This is a [...]

10 12, 2023

Eli Escobar opens club in New York (Resident Advisor)

By |2023-12-10T14:36:04-06:00December 10th, 2023|Announcements, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ, Entertaiment, House, House Music, New York, Resident Advisor|0 Comments

  "I always had a sense for what a club should look like from a DJ's perspective," the artist told RA. New York nightlife veteran Eli Escobar is opening his own club in Brooklyn next month.   Called Gabriela, it's located on the site of former Williamsburg venue Kinfolk 90. December 15th is the official [...]

8 12, 2023

Nearly Five Decades Later, Danny Tenaglia Is Just Getting Warmed Up (Miami New Times)

By |2023-12-08T18:22:32-06:00December 8th, 2023|Announcements, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ, Entertaiment, House Music, House Music History, miami, Music News, New York|0 Comments

  Danny Tenaglia will deliver a masterclass in DJing that can only come from someone with nearly 50 years of experience under his belt.   In 1976, at 16, Danny Tenaglia's parents were okay with him playing his first DJ gig at the confusingly named Miami Lounge in Brooklyn. The caveat was that his older [...]

7 12, 2023

‘A project of necessity’: Exhibition on dance music’s foundational clubs to premiere at Miami Art Week (Resident Advisor)

By |2023-12-07T22:34:16-06:00December 7th, 2023|Announcements, Classics, Dance Music, House Music, House Music History, miami, Resident Advisor|0 Comments

Co-curated by Ron Trent, Walk The Night will run across December 8th and 9th. A new photo exhibition documenting some of dance music's most iconic clubs is launching this week.     Premiering at Miami Art Week across December 8th and 9th, Walk The Night is a homage to the pioneers that helped shape the [...]

27 11, 2023

‘Where are the decks?’: 10 DJs share the story of their worst ever set (DJ Mag)

By |2023-11-27T23:14:06-06:00November 27th, 2023|Clubs - Nightlife, DJ, DJ Mag, Entertaiment, mistakes, Music|0 Comments

It’s not all bright lights and fist pumps, this DJ life. Technical issues, travel delays and mis-matched line-ups are par for the course when you’ve been playing out long enough — not to mention the self-doubt many struggle with, even at the peak of their career. But these difficult sets, brutal as they are, can [...]

22 11, 2023

Delia Derbyshire: The Grandmother Of Electronic Music And Her Legacy. (EDM Magazine)

By |2023-11-22T20:55:21-06:00November 22nd, 2023|Biography, Dance Music, electronic music, House Music History, Music, producer, UK, Women|0 Comments

        Pioneering a New Era of Sound: Delia Derbyshire, an extraordinary pioneer in electronic music, embarked on a sonic odyssey that was light years ahead of her time. Born in 1937, Derbyshire’s journey into electronic soundscapes began with her groundbreaking work at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in the 1960s. Here, she melded her [...]

21 11, 2023

The Definitive Guide to Producing House Music in 2023 (Musicradar)

By |2023-11-21T18:33:14-06:00November 21st, 2023|advice, Dance Music, DJ Equipment Tools Software, House, House Music, producer|0 Comments

  It's the genre that gave birth to DJing and clubs as we know them, spanning from black and queer roots in Chicago to arenas, festivals and pop charts across the world - but how is it made? It’s not a competition, but if we were to crown one electronic genre as the one that [...]

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