Jazzy Jeff Interview: “I Lost All My Tunes 5 Minutes Before A Gig” We sat down with hip-hop DJ legend Jazzy Jeff at this past weekend's BPM | PRO show. Phil Morse October 27, 2017 | Read time: 1 min I caught up with Jazzy Jeff backstage at the BPM | PRO Show 2017, following an outstanding DJ [...]
I Was There When: House Music Took Over The World Behind the scenes with Jake Sumner of the new Ch 4 documentary on the dawn of House Music in Chicago. July 11, 2017 In October of last year, I was contacted by people that were working on a music series for Channel 4 in [...]
KUMAR MCMILLAN VIA FLICKR // CC BY-SA 2.0 If you’ve ever enjoyed dance music, you’re familiar with the concept of the remix. It’s so simple: Some producer you’ve never heard of, in a studio you’ve never seen, takes a fun pop tune and stretches it out to five, six, seven minutes. The beats are boosted, the instruments [...]
If you are active in the NYC dance scene, you’re probably familiar with producer and Naked Music co-founder, Jay Denes. After founding Naked Music with Dave Boonshoft in the 90’s, Jay began to find an audience with his romantic take on dance, deep house, and downtempo. Typically consisting of very mature and sensual dance rhythms, Jay’s Blue Six moniker is still [...]
https://www.prunderground.com ****Press Release**** Since June, Love Vibration Nation (LVN) and Its Sub Label R3UK have scored 8 chart positions between Traxsource and Beatport plus numerous other chart positions internationally and have been supported by huge names in Electronic music such as Alex Sforzino, Dj Pierre, Anderson Noise, Treasure Fingers, Felix Da Housecat, Sam Divine, Luigi [...]
“The great thing about charging for your product,” entrepreneur Jason Calacanis recently said, “is that you find out the truth.” The truth, they say, will set you free. The truth also doesn’t care about hurting your feelings or bruising your ego when it’s doing so. When you’re emotionally invested in a product you’re selling, [...]
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Photo courtesy of Channel 4 Channel 4’s ‘I Was There When House Took Over the World’ features Nile Rodgers, Marshall Jefferson, Honey Dijon, and more. British television broadcaster Channel 4, the team behind vital 2001 dance-music documentary series Pump Up the Volume: The History of House Music, have shared a new project chronicling the genre's origins, [...]
In honor of its 35th anniversary, RA's Jacob Arnold looks back at the origins and the heyday of the legendary Chicago nightspot. In the mid-'70s, Chicago was still America's second largest city. Yet after the financial collapse of a number of independent soul labels a few years earlier, its recording industry was virtually non-existent, and [...]
