15 02, 2025

House Music Is Black Music: Church On Sunday Highlights Black Pioneers of House Music (The Washington Informer Bridge)

By |2025-02-15T16:22:22-05:00February 15th, 2025|Announcements, black History Month, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ, electronic music, House, House Music, producer, Promotional, Washington DC|0 Comments

  Church On Sunday is set to celebrate Black History Month with a series of events highlighting the Black origins of House Music. Throughout February, the Washington, D.C.-based collective will host DJ performances, discussions, and community activations focused on recognizing the genre’s pioneers and its continued influence. House Music, which has grown into a global phenomenon, [...]

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15 02, 2025

Celebrating Black History Month With House And Techno (6amgroup.com)

By |2025-02-15T16:07:44-05:00February 15th, 2025|black History Month, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, Deep House, DJ, electronic music, Entertaiment, House, House Music, House Music History, Interviews, producer, Techno|0 Comments

  February is Black History Month - Check out the contribution of Black artists in house and techno.     The contribution of Black artists in house and techno are undeniable and pervasive. In fact, the bedrock of electronic music owes much of its legacy to Black artists. From Chicago and Detroit, the cities that started it all, its local pioneers wove dance music culture’s [...]

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15 02, 2025

Kevin Saunderson reveals first e-Dancer album in over 25 years (Resident Advisor)

By |2025-02-15T15:54:43-05:00February 15th, 2025|Announcements, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, Detroit, DJ, electronic music, Music News, New Release, producer, Resident Advisor, Techno|0 Comments

  A new BBC Essential mix from the duo is set for release on Friday February 7. Kevin Saunderson has revealed a new e-Dancer album.   Written and recorded with his son, Dantiez, it's the Detroit techno veteran's "first original" e-Dancer since debuting the alias with 1998's Heavenly. Saunderson and his son previously collaborated when [...]

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15 02, 2025

The Track ID debate: is tracklist secrecy ever justified? (DJ Mag)

By |2025-02-15T15:36:30-05:00February 15th, 2025|Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ, DJ Mag, Editorial, House, House Music, producer, Techno|0 Comments

  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 [...]

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8 02, 2025

New documentary, Move Ya Body: The Birth Of House, premieres at Sundance Film Festival (DJ Mag)

By |2025-02-08T09:04:58-05:00February 8th, 2025|Clubs - Nightlife, DJ, DJ Mag, Documentary, House, House Music, House Music History, serato|0 Comments

    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 [...]

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6 02, 2025

Dance Music Is Black Music (Soho House)

By |2025-02-06T17:27:13-05:00February 6th, 2025|African American, black History Month, Classics, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ, House, House Music, House Music History, LGBTQIA+, Music|0 Comments

  We chat to some of Soho House’s music friends – Carl Craig, Juan Atkins, Norman Jay MBE and Giles Smith (Secretsundaze) – to get their take on dance music and the inspirational figures that made our playlist this month Listen here   With a nod to Black History Month, our new Dance Music Is Black [...]

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5 02, 2025

The Rise of 40+ DJs: Why More Adults Are Hitting the Decks (Skilz DJ Academy)

By |2025-02-05T20:11:45-05:00February 5th, 2025|DJ, DJ Equipment Tools Software, Editorial, electronic music, International, Music, Promotional, Report|0 Comments

  In recent years, DJ schools around the world have noticed a surprising trend—many of their students are over 40. While DJing was once associated primarily with young people, club culture, and underground scenes, it has now become a passion for a much wider audience. But why are people in their 40s, 50s, and even [...]

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4 02, 2025

Meet the unsung heroes of New York’s house music history (DJ Mag)

By |2025-02-04T16:32:11-05:00February 4th, 2025|black History Month, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, Deep House, DJ, DJ Mag, Frankie Knuckles, House, House Music, House Music History, Kerri Chandler, New Jersey, New York, Tony Humphries|0 Comments

  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 [...]

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3 02, 2025

Google Honors Chicago House Music with Animated Doodle for Black History Month (Chicago Defender)

By |2025-02-03T17:42:11-05:00February 3rd, 2025|black History Month, Chicago, Classics, House, House Music, House Music History|0 Comments

  Image courtesy of Google House Music and its legendary Black creators from Chicago got the ultimate shout-out to start Black History Month. On Saturday, Feb. 1, Google highlighted the genre with a Doodle on its search engine.  “In celebration of Black History Month, today’s music video Doodle, celebrates house music, a genre with roots in Chicago’s [...]

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