Label founders Mad Mats and Tooli sit down with MusicTech to talk about the triumphs and challenges of running an independent imprint Being a tastemaker in music sounds easy enough, right? We can all make carefully-curated playlists that are primed for myriad moods and parties. But when you start a record label, you’re truly committing to the [...]
As revenue streams for artists become more precarious over time, merchandise has stepped in as a dependable alternative. At their best, these items can be artistic statements in their own right. This article is part of Water & Music founder Cherie Hu's guest-edited month of June, featuring specially curated content exploring new possibilities in music [...]
The comprehensive compilation includes club hits such as ‘You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)’ and ‘Dance (Disco Heat)’ A new anthology of music by disco legend Sylvester has been released via Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records. The 26-track compilation, titled 'Disco Heat: The Fantasy Years 1977-1981', is spread over two CDs and features music he released on [...]
“Today marks the beginning of a new era for computing" Apple have unveiled their pioneering spatial computer, the Apple Vision Pro. The headset, which combines augmented and virtual reality, is said to mark “the beginning of a new era for computing". The mixed reality headset "seamlessly blends digital content with the physical world, while allowing [...]
The City of Chicago has announced the full line-up for the 2023 Chicago House Music Festival and Conference taking place on June 23 and June 24, 2023. The city previously announced that this year’s festival will be taking place on the Humboldt Park Boathouse lawn on June 24, 2023 from 11am to 9pm. The initial line-up [...]
Held in Detroit, the birthplace of techno, the three-day festival should be on every clubber’s bucket list On Memorial Day weekend in Detroit this year, Kenny Dixon Jr. was on a mission. Better known as Moodymann, one of the city’s most beloved producers was out to spread the gospel about another legendary local, an architect of Detroit techno. “If y’all [...]
From banging cuts for the ballroom to surprisingly tasteful early big room house, these tracks expose the genre's roots in queer American club cultures. House music is gay music. The sound emerged from the queer black and latinx club cultures of New York and Chicago in the ’80s. Strangely, these roots of the culture are not very well [...]
The controller is the first version to work as a freestanding instrument Push 3, the next generation of Ableton’s Push, has been unveiled. It comes 10 years after the release of the original version in 2013, this time marking the first product in the series to work as a standalone instrument. Push 3 can be [...]
First stop and hit play on the GRAMMY-nominated DJ Disciple‘s ‘Whole World Party’ as you continue to read into the vetted Producer’s eye-opening perspective of the house music culture in conjunction with, Henry Kronk, the Co-Author of the book, The Beat, the Scene, the Sound : A DJ’s Journey through the Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of House Music in New [...]
Beyond Heaven is a series of books that serve as one of the best historical references to the early days of Chicago House Music that we have. Collecting flyers dating back as far as 1981, the books are stuffed with the names of DJ both prominent and obscure and forgotten, and venues that no [...]