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Dankie Sounds is spreading diasporic dancefloor delight worldwide

The London-based collective is going global with its vibrant parties and fusion of sounds from southern and western Africa and the Black dance music diaspora. Shirley Ahura reports from the transcendental Dankie Sounds Ibiza Weekend

“It’s like a new sound”: Brighter Days Family are bringing positive change to dance music

Brighter Days Family are the DJ, MC and producer collective whose shared love for music translates into genre-bending output and a rejection of the industry’s tendency to “act bad”. With a debut album on the horizon, they speak to Meena Sears about their organic formation, disparate influences, fierce loyalty and making the choice to be positive

Oskido: "When the major labels came knocking, we'd already done so much of the groundwork ourselves"

We sat down with legendary South African producer Oskido ahead of his new festival experience, Oskido's Big Day Out, to talk the rise of kwaito, selling records to taxi drivers, and a chance encounter with Black Coffee

5 reasons why Barcelona’s radical music and arts scene is hitting new heights

Ahead of the fourth and final stop of the Burn Energy Tour 2024 in Barcelona, we look at the burgeoning experimental scene helping to continue the Catalan capital's rebellious artistic legacy

Picó sound systems: The beating heart of Colombian bass culture is on its way to global impact

Originating in the 1950s, Colombia’s beloved picó sound systems power some of the most raucous parties in the world, known for an experimental blend of sounds, fierce picotero rivalries, and their own mythology and visual aesthetics. Though there have been repeated attempts to suppress picó culture over the years, the attitudes of authorities and mainstream cultural institutions have started to change, and the associated music styles are connecting with new generations of fans at home and abroad. Wil Crisp reports

Meet the winners of Mixmag and Edmwarrior’s Make It: Melodic House/Techno competition

We get to know Temazkal and In Another Galaxy, the winners of Make It: Melodic House/Techno, the final round of our production competition challenging emerging artists to showcase their prowess in the studio

Here’s what went down at Mixmag and ASOS’ lively party at Colour Factory, The Nightshift

Dankie Sounds is spreading diasporic dancefloor delight worldwide

“It’s like a new sound”: Brighter Days Family are bringing positive change to dance music

Oskido: "When the major labels came knocking, we'd already done so much of the groundwork ourselves"

5 reasons why Barcelona’s radical music and arts scene is hitting new heights

Picó sound systems: The beating heart of Colombian bass culture is on its way to global impact

Meet the winners of Mixmag and Edmwarrior’s Make It: Melodic House/Techno competition

Childlike wonder: Inside the cinematic, reality-blurring world of Iglooghost

Spotlight: Five artists to check out in November 2024

Chloé Caillet is the electronic-punk powerhouse lifting dancefloors to euphoria

Nia Archives: “I've got a lot of respect for what Honey Dijon is doing”

Inside ‘HYPER: The Stevie Hyper D Story’ — could this be the greatest jungle film ever made?

Why dance music needs CCL

Cash Cobain on sexy drill: "Instead of rapping about killing each other, it's about having a good time"

Honey Dijon: “I believe great music has no expiration date”

10 photos from Shimza and Black Coffee’s surprise B2B at Kunye Johannesburg

Meakusma Festival doesn’t stick to a conventional sonic blueprint

"Transitioning together": Ponyboy is Glasgow's hair salon-cum-club night combining music, art, and performance

30 years of Bugged Out! in rave flyers

How underground techno has taken hold in La Serenìssima, ‘the most serene’ city of Venice

Mura Masa: “I felt done with being a set of tools for an artist to use”

Here’s what went down at Mixmag and ASOS’ lively party at Colour Factory, The Nightshift

Dankie Sounds is spreading diasporic dancefloor delight worldwide

“It’s like a new sound”: Brighter Days Family are bringing positive change to dance music

Oskido: "When the major labels came knocking, we'd already done so much of the groundwork ourselves"

5 reasons why Barcelona’s radical music and arts scene is hitting new heights

Picó sound systems: The beating heart of Colombian bass culture is on its way to global impact

Meet the winners of Mixmag and Edmwarrior’s Make It: Melodic House/Techno competition

Childlike wonder: Inside the cinematic, reality-blurring world of Iglooghost

Spotlight: Five artists to check out in November 2024

Chloé Caillet is the electronic-punk powerhouse lifting dancefloors to euphoria

Nia Archives: “I've got a lot of respect for what Honey Dijon is doing”

Inside ‘HYPER: The Stevie Hyper D Story’ — could this be the greatest jungle film ever made?

Why dance music needs CCL

Cash Cobain on sexy drill: "Instead of rapping about killing each other, it's about having a good time"

Honey Dijon: “I believe great music has no expiration date”

10 photos from Shimza and Black Coffee’s surprise B2B at Kunye Johannesburg

Meakusma Festival doesn’t stick to a conventional sonic blueprint

"Transitioning together": Ponyboy is Glasgow's hair salon-cum-club night combining music, art, and performance

30 years of Bugged Out! in rave flyers

How underground techno has taken hold in La Serenìssima, ‘the most serene’ city of Venice

Mura Masa: “I felt done with being a set of tools for an artist to use”

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