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Interview: 5 minutes with Durante

Image: Last Night On Earth Durante lives by his passion. It’s evident in the LA based producer’s work; there’s an obsession with melody and layers of texture that define his explorations at the edge of house and techno. And while he’s informed by the four on the four pulse of

Bendik Giske queers the saxophone on the beguiling new album, ‘Cracks’

Image: Smalltown Supersound In his seminal work Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, the queer theorist José Esteban Muñoz examines queerness as a mode of futurity, distinguishing it from heteronormative futurity as defined by the drive to reproduce and suggesting that rather, queer futurity is concerned with

DJ Seinfeld finds his feet on the new album, ‘Mirrors’

Image: Ninja Tune In a year when dance music was filled with more longing and ruminating on states of isolation than ever before, it’s interesting that Armand Jakobsson, or DJ Seinfeld, should release an album that finds him basking in the glow of contentment. After all, Seinfeld was largely at

박혜진 Park Hye Jin contemplates isolation on her anticipated debut album, ‘Before I Die’

Image: Ninja Tune Who might have suspected that behind the assuredly cool exterior of 박혜진 Park Hye Jin, would lie such vast feelings of loneliness and alienation? Then again, considering that the Korean DJ and producer has practically been nomadic over the course of the past three years, a sense

Apple Music announces new technology that solves copyright for DJ mixes

Apple Music has announced plans for a game-changing initiative to solve the copyright issues behind uploading and streaming DJ mixes, making it easier for DJs to upload their mixes to the platform.  Building on the technology made famous by Shazam, Apple has engineered a system that is able to recognise

Interview: Five minutes with Clara Mae

Image credit: Jonathan Perlmann Now don’t tell anyone but we’ve got a soft spot for the elegant pop artists who are currently making their way out of Sweden. Take Clara Mae, for example, with her breathtaking new single, ‘Crash’ released less than a week ago via Universal Music Sweden.

U.K government shelves plans for mandatory vaccine passports

In yet another U-turn, the U.K government has announced it will be scrapping plans to enforce making vaccine passports mandatory for entry into all clubs and live music venues. The plan had initially been revealed in July, shortly after the re-opening of the country’s nightlife and live music sectors. It

DJ Juba launches second season of The Assurance Podcast with Gina Jeanz

Image: Cicely Grace Berlin’s DJ Juba has launched a second season of her podcast, The Assurance Podcast. The podcast is established to showcase rising women-identifying DJs from developing countries. Juba began the podcast earlier this year as a follow up of sorts to her documentary of the same name, which

Weekly roundup: what we have on repeat

Image: Innellea/TAU From retro-Bollywood funk house to campy, italo disco dominatrix pop, these are the releases that caught our attention this week. In no particular order: Baalti – Kolkata ‘78 San Francisco based Baalti are changing the way we think about South Asian electronic music. The duo have an innate

Lady Gaga’s ‘Dawn of Chromatica’ remix album is a bonkers blueprint for the future of pop music

Image: Sam Rolfes “The Chromatica remix album is so f*cking fuego music is life.” With a single tweet in early August, Lady Gaga sent pop music into overdrive. Until that point, the long-rumoured remix album had been the stuff of legend and sketchy insider information, promising a resurgence of Gaga’s

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