A selection of the DJs, producers, and innovators who gave us hope in 2021 Opening the 2020s in pandemic mode, the dance music stage progressed into a new era with a cohort of young talents and ...

From "pope core" to hardcore remixes of Italian ballads, Polish party crew WIXAPOL S.A. runs down the tracks that have defined its sound over the years. As we’ve written before, Poland’s WIXAPOL S.A.

Ion Dumitrescu: Paul, I wanted to start out by talking about the transitional period between so- called “proto-manele” and today’s manele. I know you’ve extensively investigated the timeframe between ...

A friend recently started an email saying something along the lines of ‘hope you are doing well’… “with the winter and COVID and the fascists.” Living in Romania, where we’re currently torn between a ...

The Icelandic icon speaks to Hans Ulrich Obrist about her revolutionary interactive LP 'Biophilia' in this interview from 2011. In the past, being an ambitious band or musician meant coming up with ...

Leeds native George Evelyn formed Nightmares On Wax in the late ‘80s in a scene teeming with hip-hop and b-boy culture. He got his start dancing before eventually beginning to DJ. Eventually, Evelyn ...

Semi-professional tennis player, student of computer programming, punk rock band manager, chef—Manfredi Romano has worn many hats over the years. Since stepping out as DJ Tennis in 2010, the Italian ...

Spanish music journalist Yasmina Elkak dives into the sound of the country's wildest clubbing route, from its origins in the '80s up to its end in the 90s. As a child raised during the 90s in Valencia ...

Mouse On Mars is the quintessential 1990s electronic outfit. Like many of the groups that emerged during that time, the duo—which consists of Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma—is bent on the denial of ...

Disco re-edit services emerged in the '70s as a way of disseminating remixes, medleys and megamixes among working DJs of the era. They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and that’s ...

Djax-Up-Beats is techno royalty. Founded in 1988 by Miss Djax, the Dutch label helped shape the sound of techno up until the early ’00s, thanks to the funky and rough approach it championed. Simply ...

It’s official, summer is over. While we wave goodbye to what almost felt like a normal summer that wasn’t one, September was jam-packed with events, releases, and content squeezed in to enjoy those ...