To celebrate 40 years of house music, we joined Mike Dunn at Chicago's ARC Music Festival and dived into the story behind his house anthem, ‘God Made Me Phunky’ https://youtu.be/-c9T7vWJN0Q?si=B_gRK_48gkSekpmz Mike Dunn shares the story behind the making of his house classic, 'God Made Me Phunky'. Released in 1994, Dunn explains how the track [...]
The community resource directory is a global hub for the best new workshops, courses, grant schemes and more DJ Mag has launched a new community resource directory aimed at supporting electronic music artists and professionals. Launched this week, and set to be updated on a monthly basis, the directory will feature a curated selection of global [...]
“Why? Because everyone deserves a chance to be involved in the rave.” Disabled Ravers Network (DRN) is seeking submissions from disabled, neurodivergent and Deaf artists for a new database. The first-of-its-kind database will shine a light on disabled talent from Manchester and the North of England in a bid to “make the rave accessible.” [...]
The new Kreuzberg institution will allow visitors to try out various machines Synthesizer Museum Berlin has opened in the German capital, exploring history of electronic instruments and their influence music culture. Located in Kreuzberg, this temporary exhibition has a collection of more than 50 vintage, bespoke and unusual synthesisers made between the 1970s and 2000s. [...]
Celebrating a decade of their label Cuttin’ Headz, The Martinez Brothers have reached a landmark moment in their career. With a summer residency at Hï Ibiza, and nonstop club and festival shows around the world, they’re in higher demand than they've ever been, and are showing no signs of slowing. Amy Fielding speaks to [...]
Dance music fans have always sought the records their favourite DJs are playing, but in recent years the hunt for — and provision of — Track IDs has become an increasingly pervasive and at times contentious subject in the scene. With an ecosystem of online communities, websites and apps dedicated to identifying tracks in [...]
Jesse Saunders and Vince Lawrence are among the interviewees featured in the 90-minute film A new documentary digging into the queer Black origins of house premiered at Sundance Film Festival last month. Directed by filmmaker Elegance Bratton, Move Ya Body: The Birth Of House looks at the infamous 1979 Disco Demolition night and its bearing on the [...]
As house music spread beyond its Chicago birthplace in the late 1980s, no city soaked up the sound quite as eagerly as New York. This was in a large part down to an ecosystem of promoters, labels, record shops and artists that extends far beyond the accepted canon of major-name DJs and producers. Here, Bruce [...]
The RANE ONE MKII was part of the company’s booth at NAMM RANE has teased a new update to its motorised DJ controller, ONE, at this year’s NAMM conference in Anaheim, California. The product hasn’t officially been announced by RANE, or its parent company InMusic, yet, but it was present at the RANE [...]
The iconic German electronic group have also added more West Coast dates to their US tour Kraftwerk are releasing three new editions of their classic ‘Autobahn’ LP to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Out on 7th March, the new versions include a 12" vinyl picture disc pressing of the album's 2009 remaster – the first [...]