Jean-Hugues Kabuiku gets candid with The Baron about dance music culture in 2020 JEAN-HUGUES KABUIKU 15 OCTOBER 2020 The COVID-19 crisis and Minneapolis uprising have accelerated conversations around race in the music industry. As a Black producer and DJ, I find myself at the intersection of those conversations and as we go further into [...]
The report looks back at the effects of the pandemic and forward into the future of live events WORDS: TOPE OLUFEMI | IN ASSOCIATION WITH PERNOD RICARD 18 JUNE 2021 A new report exploring the future of nightlife has been published. A collaboration between [...]
House music originator Marshall Jefferson on how the rise of EDM has whitewashed dance music and crippled Black artists MARSHALL JEFFERSON 28 OCTOBER 2020 I remember being on a panel at the New Music Seminar with the late Tony Wilson called ‘America doesn’t respect its Black artists’. In the ready room I was told by Tony that [...]
The long-serving UK house DJ has blasted the UK government's approach to nightlife SEB WHEELER Fat Tony has used an appearance on Sky News to blast the UK government's approach to nightlife during the coronavirus pandemic. Appearing on Kay Burley's show yesterday, the long-serving UK house DJ spoke at length on how the government is currently [...]
Each of the band’s six albums has been remastered at Abbey Road Studios WORDS: PATRICK HINTON | PHOTO: SOPHIE MULLER 2 SEPTEMBER 2020 Sade is releasing a boxset called ‘This Far’ featuring all six albums the band has released across their acclaimed career: ‘Diamond Life’ (1984), ‘Promise’ (1985), ‘Stronger Than Pride’ (1988), [...]
The New York festival is a "leader for change" in dance music WORDS: DEVYN WHITE | PHOTOGRAPHY: DIAHANN WILLIAMS The point of Dweller festival, a series of daytime and night events held across multiple Brooklyn venues at the height of Black History Month, is to educate: to remind people that despite techno’s worldwide success and at [...]
The DJ explained in a statement why he is dropping his alias DAVE TURNER 21 JULY 2020 Joey Negro will stop using his DJ alias. The DJ, real name Dave Lee, announced he will no longer use the alias, a day after The Black Madonna announced she will now go by The Blessed Madonna. Read this [...]
30 OF THE BEST MOMENTS FROM 30 YEARS OF KENNY DOPE Celebrating the master and his work MARC ROWLANDS 21 MAY 2020 Although debuting with Masters At Work slightly earlier, 2020 marks the 30 year anniversary of the first Kenny Dope solo release. In the last three decades, this masterful DJ and producer has brought us timeless [...]
The 1972 track was a favorite at David Mancuso's Loft and sampled by the pop giants like Michael Jackson and Rihanna BILL BREWSTER 26 MARCH 2020 Saxophonist Manu Dibango, who died on March 25 of COVID-19, was an early champion of African sounds in Europe and worldwide, long before the notion of so-called “World music” [...]
Yep. Elon Musk is making progressive house DAVE TURNER 31 JANUARY 2020 Elon Musk is making euphoric progressive house. We bet you didn't expect that one, did you? Elon Musk - a man known more for SpaceX rather than tunes for the beloved Space Ibiza - is a dab hand in the studio judging from his new effort 'Don't [...]
