James Duncan on legendary seminal Toronto dance music producer and DJ Ron Allen on Strobe Records, scene building, A&R and his major contributions to the global dance music scene.

If you know how an Ackermann track starts you can never feel 100% sure how it’ll finish. “Off-kilter” is the word that would come to mind if it hadn’t already been used to describe a hundred other ...

Musica Solida vol 3 is an EP on vinyl to celebrate its owners' 40 years in the business. Their business is records: the Flexi Dischi record store in Lugo, Italy and the Flexi Cut label, a vital pulse ...

On The Way We Glowed, French DJ/producer Mira Lo stirs up the embers of a past relationship, an impressive new work by a new, major house artist.

Michelle is a producer from Uruguay, "rooted in that Montevideo warehouse sound." What does that mean to you? It means 33 rpms in heavy rotation and I was riveted for all of them.

Free, open source and works offline: the latest upgrade to AudioMass, a lightweight but surprisingly robust audio editor.

Amid the phat pants and candy bracelets, the washed out Manic Panic and e-induced lockjaw of the '90s rave scene, labels like Definitive offered lifeline and a strong hint that something undiscovered ...

New remixes from Gavin Hardkiss, Kenny Summit, Scott Wozniak and n808 give new life to this single from the Hardkiss reunion album.

Billy Butler and Just Vibes Radio have announced a new collaboration with Chicago-based Restricted Radio. The project “brings together a team of UK DJs and producers to showcase the sounds of the ...

The first of two dates by musician Steve Lacy was briefly delayed in what authorities are calling an "unsubstantiated" hoax.

Three rough and raw jack tracks that leap out of the speakers and bat your temporal lobe around a bit. Funk System is the latest EP from Black Girl / White Girl, the Amsterdam duo that smother a ...

If you came of age in the Web 2.0 era, you probably remember hearing about if not posting to a website called Digg. Digg was a cultural phenomenon in the early Obama years. It was frequently mentioned ...