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Radical Black rap music needs to be protected from gentrification

Tope Olufemi talks to MAVI and fans of experimental rap about the importance of centring Black voices in the scene

Ready for rebirth: FAUZIA is leaving the club behind

Jasmine Kent-Smith hears why FAUZIA is ready to move on to the next stage of her musical career

The magic mushroom renaissance

Magic mushrooms are back! Joe Roberts charts the history of psilocybin and explains why shrooms are having a medical and cultural renaissance

Romy is flying solo

Romy Madley Croft has swapped brooding introspection for barely contained elation and made the euphoric escapist anthem of 2020

"Like being lost but not losing your mind": The Bug and Dis Fig explain the Tunnel Sound

Seb Wheeler travels into the fog with The Bug and Dis Fig to talk about their album 'In Blue' and their sonic concept, the Tunnel Sound

Shygirl can do anything

Jemima Skala speaks to Shygirl about split personas, filthy diction and taking inspiration from Aphex Twin and Missy Elliott

Aluna: "I get asked daily to be exploited by a white DJ"

Aluna and Conducta discuss being Black in dance music, how to build a better future, and why you should sometimes bite the hand that feeds

"A glass ceiling with razor wire": The harsh reality for women working in dance music

A woman with over 20 years experience in the music industry talks about the coercion, bribery and harassment she's faced in her career

7 DJs tell us why they're so excited about Pioneer DJ's CDJ-3000

Honey Dijon, Benji B, Eats Everything, Monika Kruse, Pan-Pot, Josh Newsham and Etapp Kyle discuss Pioneer DJ's new piece of kit

A guide to Blackout Week

Check out all of the features published during Blackout Week

Overmono is allowing Tessela and Truss to break the mould

Joe Muggs talks to brothers Tessela and Truss about Overmono, the collaborative project that's letting them be spontaneous and free

A deeper African source: How grime and afrobeat is influencing UK jazz

Xaymaca Awoyungbo meets the UK jazz artists who are infusing their music with grime and afrobeat

Marshall Jefferson: Why I quit DJing

House music originator Marshall Jefferson on how the rise of EDM has whitewashed dance music and crippled Black artists

RIP Benji Espinoza, an unsung hero of house music

From its earliest days, the DJ International Records co-founder (left) was a tireless champion of house music

José Padilla embodied the original spirit of Ibiza

Bill Brewster celebrates an original Balearic pioneer

Ty and the history of UK rap

A brief history of UK hip hop, rap and MC culture told by a linchpin of the scene, Shortee Blitz

From the dust: The rise of Pa Salieu

Aniefiok ‘Neef’ Ekpoudom meets Pa Salieu, the Coventry MC on the frontline of UK rap

Why didn't UK funky break the mainstream?

Kwame Safo talks to some prominent figures of UK Funky about why the sound didn't crack the mainstream market

20 Black UK house music acts you should know about

Kwame Safo picks 20 Black UK house acts who are pushing things forward

The gentrification of jungle

Kwame Safo talks to Marc Mac, Bryan Gee, DJ Flight and Junior Tomlin about the futuristic Black art form and why its Black roots should never be forgotten

Nightclubs aren't utopia for every Black raver

Joseph 'JP' Patterson details the discrimination that runs throughout clubland