ByJordan BassettMay 31, 2018 12:55 pm Concrete jungle where dreams are made of Credit: Rex Features story of the day The Big Apple, the city that never sleeps, the big place in America that’s not LA. Whatever you call New York, it’s sure produced its fair share of amazing records. Here are 13 of our [...]
For some counter-culture genres of music, the digital revolution has been a blessing as well as a curse. It's 6pm on a cool January evening in Bethnal Green, east London. On the top floor of a nondescript building, a group of young, mostly male, music producers mill around, playing pool and throwing darts. A lot [...]
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DECLAN MCGLYNN WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2018 Beatport will soon be allowing users to stream their catalogue to DJ software. As we reported earlier this year, electronic music streaming platform was acquired by Beatport, leading the way for a transition from download store to streaming platform. Beatport did launch it's own Spotify-esque electronic music listening streaming service, [...]
EMI Music Publishing owns or administers more than two million songs, ranging from contemporary artists like Drake to classics by Queen, Carole King, and the Motown catalog.CreditRichard Perry/The New York Times By Ben Sisario Seven years ago, Sony entered a complex deal with Abu Dhabi for control of the EMI Music Publishing catalog, a trove of [...]
Lauryn Hill is embarking on a world tour to celebrate the 20th anniversary of 'The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill'. The European leg of the tour, which will revisit tracks from the r'n'b star's anthemic solo 1998 album, kicks off in Oslo, Norway on November 15. She also plays in Manchester in Birmingham that [...]
Smartphones are making it much easier to access the white stuff OLIVER PAYNE The UK's nearly earned the status of being the "biggest consumer of cocaine in Europe" and the blame is being aimed at smartphones. Ben Wallace, the UK's security minister, outlined that making connections via encryptions and smartphones is making it easier for [...]
Phil Morse May 15, 2018 | Read time: 3 mins Forbes reports today that interactive streaming music services – Spotify, Apple Music, Napster, Deezer, Tidal and so on — now account for the majority of recorded music industry revenue and are growing at better than 50% per year. The numbers, they report, say that the download [...]
We show you how to pick apart a DJ mix so you can learn new tips and tricks that you can add to your DJ toolbox. 17 MAY, 2018 We’ve written previously on how copying other DJs can unlock your own creativity but what we haven’t dived into is how you’re meant to go about [...]
Vocalist Amanda Cruz during a project recording session for Bring Down the Walls. Photograph: César Martínez In 1986, British artist Phil Collins (not the singer, but the Turner prize-nominated artist) was 16 years old when he first attended his first acid house party, and he noticed two things upon stepping inside the Haçienda nightclub in Manchester – [...]