pdqb is an extraterrestrial entity that appears to have infected Sascha Dornhöfer and is using him to create music for the Synaptic Cliffs label. Dornhöfer knows nothing about it. He wakes up with no memory of the night, only to find completed tracks in Ableton Live and records (apparently listened to by pdqb) scattered around […]
Paris-based DJ and producer Francois X has released a new EP, Bound States, through his XX LAB imprint. The four-track EP, which was released on 19 June, follows on from a series of recent releases on XX LAB, including Digital Fever, CEO, Straight Edge Society and The Skin Between Us. Francois X describes Bound States […]
It’s that time again, get set for two hours of quality house music with the Long Live House Radio Show! Previous mixes can be found here. This week’s mix features Ashford & Simpson, Salphunk, Dames Brown, Amp Fiddler & Moodymann, Loveface, Session Victim & Rossano Snel, Clive From Accounts, Yazoo, Soulsearcher, Dam Swindle & DJ Minx […]
Legendary electronic act Fluke have announced their return with a new album project, The Second Bite, which revisits some of the biggest tracks from their catalogue. The album, released on 19 June through Surface Records in association with !K7 Music, featured updated versions of 12 tracks spanning different periods of Fluke’s career, including Atom Bomb, […]
Number 90 in Hackney Wick, London, has announced a series of upgrades, including a new soundsystem and centralised DJ booth, as well as an expanded food offering. The bar said that it is ‘expanding its offering to become a premier destination for canalside food, drinks and live sporting events this summer’, with all England games […]
Bloop Groop, the Dublin community dedicated to electronic musicians, producers, visual artists and music enthusiasts, has announced details of its next gathering, at The Digital Hub in Dublin 8 on Saturday 20 June. The event, which runs from 5.30pm to 9pm, will see around ten short sets from electronic musicians, ranging from newcomers to more […]
As someone who occasionally takes a stab at writing about music, I’m always keen to read those who have already ploughed that furrow: Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus, Robert Christgau… and, more recently, Jon Savage, John Robb, Nick Kent, Stuart Bailie and, of course, Simon Reynolds. The latter has penned a myriad of books about music […]
Joey G ii returns to Orphan Records with his second album, London Skye, a concept record built around an imagined soundtrack to an unfinished video game set in a near-future version of London shaped by corporate power and social decline. The nine-track album, which is set for release on 3 July, is set across two […]
With a return visit to Hang Dai in Dublin scheduled for Saturday 20 June, schooldays pals turned music industry movers and shakers Nick Halkes and Andy Smith, aka Reach Up Disco Wonderland, reveal some of their favourite international DJ travel memories. Yellow, Tokyo, 1996 “There was a point where DJing in Tokyo was the coolest […]
Symphonic Ibiza, the brainchild of DJ and producer Andy Joyce and musical director Steve Etherington, brings its orchestral reinterpretation of Ibiza dance classics to Electric Brixton in London on 20 June. Symphonic Ibiza combines live musicians, vocalists and DJ performances in a show inspired by Ibiza‘s club culture. The show launched at Eden Ibiza in […]
There’s nowhere quite like the ‘Garden of Ireland’ on a warm summer’s day, and at Beyond The Pale at Glendalough Estate, Co. Wicklow, festival goers had the chance to experience three solid days of sunshine – meaning this year’s event was always going to be a bit special. The fifth year of the festival brought […]
Happy Mondays have announced plans to release what has been described as a ‘pill edition’ of their 1990 album Pills ’n’ Thrills and Bellyaches, which is set to land on London Records this August. The release, which is limited to 200 units across four colour variants, reimagines the album through.. ahem.. ‘pharmaceutical’ style packaging, as […]