Ultra Fest Colonel Sanders .@KFC bought Colonel Sanders a slot on the @Ultra main stage, and this happened. 🐔🥚😂 | 📹: @1001TLtv pic.twitter.com/8qZfUZ7G4K — Festive Owl (@TheFestiveOwl) March 29, 2019 This weekend Ultra Music Festival descended on Miami for the 21st annual edition of the flagship electronic music event. Much like previous years, the [...]
Value your health, says The Secret DJ WORDS: THE SECRET DJ | ILLUSTRATION: CALUM HEATH | 11 MARCH 2019 Dear Secret DJ. I’m aware of the risks of burning out but I’m having some success in getting bookings right now and I just can’t bring myself to say no to gigs. It’s not that I’m [...]
Peggy Gou, Lee Burridge, tINI and Josh Wink reveal how they deal with pre-set jitters SCOTT ENMAN | 31 JANUARY 2019 DJs ooze confidence behind the decks, effortlessly mixing tracks for hours on end, the masses pulsing below. Calm, cool and collected, they display seemingly flawless performances night in, night out. [...]
Authorities have shut down the counterfeit vinyl pressing plant Vinyl is expensive. Any collector of wax worth their salt has poured hundreds, if not thousands into their collections over the years and the demand for rare vinyl pressings continues to skyrocket. In Wales, four men were making the most of this demand by [...]
The DJ was found to have 0.3 grams of MDMA on him earlier this month Jamie Macwhirter | 26 OCTOBER 2018 David Morales has been released without charge following his arrest for drug possession in Japan earlier this month. Morales was detained at Fukuoka airport in southern Japan on October 7 when customs officials found [...]
It's all about the ravers on the dancefloor remember WORDS: THE SECRET DJ | ILLUSTRATIONS: ELLIS VAN DER DOES 23 AUGUST 2018 Is it ever OK to sabotage the next DJ’s set if they are a bell-end? Any good stories about cut-throat DJ sabotage? Michael, Aberdeen Clearly it is never OK to sabotage. The [...]
You're entitled to an opinion, but telling a DJ how to do their job isn't one WORDS: DAVE TURNER | ILLUSTRATIONS: LAWRENCE ABBOTT 9 AUGUST 2018 Back Up! Imagine this: you're a chef and a customer enters the kitchen to tell you you're chopping onions incorrectly. Or you're carrying out a gym [...]
The US house icon hits Melbourne and Sydney with Hot Since 82 in November House music heavyweight Kerri Chandler is heading to Australia for the first time in more than five years for Hot Since 82's 'Knee Deep in Sound' series. The deep house pioneer has just been announced alongside DJ J'Nett [...]
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 [...]