SANDBOX IS LEADING THE CHARGE FOR EGYPT’S NEWLY BURGEONING DANCE MUSIC ERA (MIXMAG)

By |2024-06-30T10:03:59-05:00June 30th, 2024|Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ, electronic music, Entertaiment, festival, House Music, International|

  Celebrating its 10th anniversary on the Red Sea, Sandbox is a forerunner in Middle Eastern electronics, bringing local and international stars to boutique crowds On a balmy night in May, the Egyptian town of El Gouna is teeming with locals. Old friends are embracing, others clinking glasses over the sound of live music, some [...]

Mike Dunn relaunches influential Dance Mutha label after three decades (DJ Mag)

By |2024-06-28T22:30:20-05:00June 28th, 2024|African American, Announcements, Chicago, Classics, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ, DJ Mag, electronic music, Entertaiment, House, House Music, House Music History, Music News|

  The label will release a new three-track EP in July Legendary Chicago house artist Mike Dunn has announced he will relaunch his influential Danca Mutha imprint after three decades.   Founded by Dunn back in 1988, the label released music by artists such as MD Connection, Gershon Jackson, and I-ROC-T. Dunn also co-founded seminal [...]

Sam Divine: the Queen of Defected Takes Ibiza (DJ Mag)

By |2024-06-27T19:26:23-05:00June 27th, 2024|Biography, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, Defected, DJ, DJ Mag, House, House Music, International, Interviews, UK|

  Sam Divine is the Queen of Defected, and she’s helming the UK house music brand’s first season at Ushuaïa Ibiza this season as its weekly resident and key figurehead. For the the first of DJ Mag's 2024 Ibiza cover stories, Divine speaks candidly about her difficult upbringing, falling in love with house music, lifestyle [...]

Why Are DJs Playing So Many New Dance Cover Songs? (Billboard)

By |2024-06-26T12:17:41-05:00June 26th, 2024|Billboard, Dance Music, DJ, Editorial, electronic music, Entertaiment, House Music, Louie Vega, My House Radio, producer|

  The Beatport charts have been peppered with club-ready reworks of old hits. "Almost all the labels are doing them," says Glasgow Underground founder Kevin McKay. Early in May, the New York house music stalwarts at Nervous Records were enjoying two hits in the top 10 on the Beatport chart: A zippy, heavily syncopated reimagining [...]

How The Chemical Brothers’ ‘Surrender’ became their biggest, brightest album (DJ Mag)

By |2024-06-25T22:51:40-05:00June 25th, 2024|Clubs - Nightlife, DJ, DJ Mag, House Music, House Music History, International, manchester UK, Music, UK|

  Released on 21st June 1999, The Chemical Brothers’ third album harnessed the enormity of trance, the ecstasy of acid house, and the vibrancy of psychedelia to become their boldest statement, and a mirror to the hedonistic mood of the UK at that time. Here, with the help of the duo’s Tom Rowlands, Ben Cardew [...]

Rewiring Nairobi: the new era of electronic music in Kenya’s capital (DJ Mag)

By |2024-06-19T09:58:15-05:00June 19th, 2024|Afrobeats, Amapiano, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ, DJ Mag, electronic music, International, producer, Report|

  East Africa’s first music technology summit, Kilele, brought together artists and industry figures from Kenya and across Africa and Europe for a series of boundary-pushing performances, discussions and collaborations. Martin Guttridge-Hewitt reports on how the event and a bubbling local underground are ushering in a new era for Nairobi’s electronic music scene Exiting your car [...]

AMAPIANO’S SECOND WAVE: HOW INNOVATIONS EMERGE FROM BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN CULTURE (MIXMAG)

By |2024-06-18T20:42:12-05:00June 18th, 2024|Amapiano, Clubs - Nightlife, DJ, International, Mixcloud, producer, Report, South Africa|

  In South Africa, where inequality is rife, young and underprivileged producers are pushing the evolution of amapiano. In the second instalment of our three-part series documenting Amapiano's Second Wave, Jake Colvin explores how community generosity and collaboration helps artists innovate amid challenging conditions This article is the second in a three part-series about amapiano, exploring [...]

LGBTQ+ clubbing history podcast, Memories From The Dancefloor, returns for second season (DJ Mag)

By |2024-06-09T14:33:44-05:00June 9th, 2024|Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, Disco, DJ, DJ Mag, Gay, House, House Music, LGBTQIA+, Trans, UK|

The run of four podcast celebrates Welsh LGBTQ+ venues Memories From The Dancefloor, a podcast that explores and LGBTQ+ clubbing scenes and history, is returning for a second season. The relaunch of the podcast this month coincides with this year's Pride Month, and the second run features four episodes. Over the course of this latest [...]

Introducing the Twitch DJ Program (Twitch.com)

By |2024-06-06T21:30:33-05:00June 6th, 2024|Dance Music, DJ, DJ Equipment Tools Software, Entertaiment, Music, news|

Today we’re announcing a dedicated program that will enable DJs to stream the vast majority of popular music in a new DJ Category. This is made possible by a first-of-its-kind partnership with hundreds of companies, including all of the major labels–Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Sony Music and a large number of independent labels [...]

AMAPIANO’S SECOND WAVE: HOW KWAITO OPENED THE DOOR FOR AMAPIANO’S EVOLUTIONS (MIXMAG)

By |2024-05-31T22:11:51-05:00May 31st, 2024|Amapiano, DJ, South Africa|

Amapiano’s lineage can be traced back to the kwaito music which emerged in apartheid South Africa. In the first of a three-part series exploring Amapiano's Second Wave, Jake Colvin examines what those roots mean for the sound today THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE IT “Amapiano is winning all over the gaff,” Marcus Nasty tells me. “But where it [...]

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