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How cartoon crate digger Gene On Earth embraced musical storytelling

Gene On Earth's new album 'Time On The Vine' is darker than his debut with a clear narrative arc. Grant Albert meets the man behind the caricature to talk backstory, old skool sounds, and why a series of setbacks won't stop his momentum

Patrice Rushen: “People are leaning into sampling in a way that is not creative”

Sope Soetan speaks to Patrice Rushen about her underappreciated influence on popular music, making music for love not record sales, and an upcoming new album on the horizon

Scorpion Kings: "Amapiano hasn't even reached its full potential"

Ahead of their highly anticipated 6-hour set at Sónar Festival next week, we spoke to Maphorisa and Kabza De Small about amapiano's world domination

William Orbit: “Anything can happen at the drop of a hat in my life — it's exciting”

William Orbit chats to Ralph Moore about remixing for Madonna, preparing to move to Venice and his new solo album ‘The Painter’

Carl Cox’s first album in a decade: “There are no apologies if it's too hard”

10 years on from the release of ‘All Roads Lead To The Dancefloor’, Carl Cox is back with a new album. We caught up with the legendary DJ to talk new music and his upcoming DC-10 residency

Rony Seikaly: “My NBA teammates weren't always on board with my love of house music”

Since his breakout into the music world near two decades ago, Rony Seikaly has been on an upward trajectory. He chats to Gemma Ross ahead of the launch of his debut album

“It’s fun when people get pissed off at my music”: DJ Fuckoff won't change for you

In an extract from his new book Coming To Berlin, Paul Hanford talks to DJ Fuckoff about making sexually liberated music, loving afterparties, and why the unsolicited opinions of men won't stop her expressing herself

Going turbo: We went raving at Coachella with Dom Dolla and John Summit

Ana Monroy Yglesias spends a weekend hot on the heels of two of the hardest partying DJs in dance music

DJ Minx: "The creativity of Detroit lights me up on daily basis"

Detroit icon DJ Minx shares a mix made-up entirely of sounds from the city

Bonobo: “I try not to let nostalgia control what I'm doing —it isn't healthy"

Ralph Moore sits down with the master of melody to talk Akira, Lewis Taylor and Billie Eilish bringing out Damon Albarn at Coachella

Features

Three ways to slay: An homage to DJ Vjuan Allure

Ricky Tucker and Jay Jay Revlon pay tribute to the impactful legacy of ballroom icon Vjuan Allure

Expressing madness with sound: Rākhis' experimental music is fuelled by raw emotion

After breaking through in acclaimed Indian metal band Reverrse Polarity, Shikhar Yuvraj Manchanda is now making ruckus-raising hybrid music as Rākhis and cultivating the boundary-breaking roster at IncInk Records as its Head of Music

Róisín Murphy: "Clubbing is about being convivial and free — we're not being fed anything"

Irish superstar and dance pop icon Róisín Murphy talks heading back on the road, rollercoaster nights out in Glasgow and finding herself at Trade

"I love opening up": BANKS on 'Serpentina', stillness and self-love

On her new album, BANKS is the most powerful she's ever been. Nicolas-Tyrell Scott speaks to the alternative popstar about her creative and personal rebirth

Jodie Harsh: "My first time in a club felt like waking up from a dream"

Dazzling, dynamic and taking the dancefloor by storm — Ms. Harsh talks us through her personal nightlife revival

“This is what you do when fascists come”: Kyiv producer John Object on fighting for Ukraine

Kyiv's John Object speaks to Paul Hanford about the Russian invasion, rushing to archive his musical legacy, and enlisting in the army to protect Ukraine

Kavinsky: “I want people to talk to me about something other than ‘Nightcall’ now"

Almost a decade since his last full-length release, Kavinsky is back... the French producer chats to Gemma Ross about reclaiming the spotlight

Leon Vynehall: “fabric has always been a mythical club to me”

Ralph Moore catches up with Leon Vynehall to talk solitude, live experimentation and creating his own world in music

Cyclic Revolution: Debit’s radical new album reconstructs Mayan musical history

Martyn Pepperell speaks to Mexican-American artist Debit about indigenous resistance, revolutionary art and the path to her new album 'The Long Count'

How industrial settings and films inspire Theo Nasa's raw and experimental techno

The South London-born techno artist talks fashion, Berghain, and the influence of film and gritty urban locations on his evolving sonic identity, explored in his Gotham After Dark playlist

RIP MC Skibadee: The iconic voice of drum ‘n’ bass who inspired successive generations

Dance music will forever be decorated by the influence of MC Skibadee