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After a scary hospitalization last week, legendary UK DJ John Digweed finally updated us on his health. The DJ took it on social media to announce that he no longer needed an IV drip at the hospital where he was checked in after falling extremely sick last week. John Digweed In The Hospital The DJ […]

Kayper—real name Kaajal Bakrania—was born in Croydon, South London and raised in a family of DJ-producers. During the early 2000s, while still at university studying Music Technology, she drew inspiration from Nookie, her cousin and a pioneer in the UK’s jungle and drum & bass community, and she quickly gained recognition for her exceptional skills […]

Soela—the DJ-production alias of Elina Shorokhova, a Russia-born Berlin-based pianist and vocalist—will release a new album on Francis Harris‘ Scissor and Thread. Having released material on such labels including Kompakt, Lawrence‘s Dial, and Shall Not Fade, Shorokhova joins the ranks of the Brooklyn, New York label for this “exquisite album,” we’re told. Across Dark Portrait, […]

Nicolás Jaar‘s Other People label has shared the debut album of Solpara, the Lebanese-American live act and DJ-producer. Born in New York City, Solpara started DJing in the late ’00s when he was living in Montréal, Canada, and he later co-founded the Booma Collective, a label collective and event series focused on experimental techno, ambient, […]

Mau P has been on a tear the last year. This September, the global trailblazer returns to New York City at Under The K Bridge for another all-night-long show under his Baddest Behaviour party concept. After his NY debut at Knockdown Center in February, Baddest Behaviour quickly garnered a reputation and a huge following in […]

The work of Khalil is heavily influenced by the multicultural fabric of London’s nightlife. His sets weave everything from hip-hop and R&B to soul, dancehall, and afro-beats, and they play between the lines of the expected and unexpected, bridging the old and the new, to create a distinct style and sound of his own. It’s […]

Anthony Collins‘ and Francis Harris‘ Scissor and Thread will release a new EP from Will Long. Will Long is an American artist who curates and manages the label Two Acorns. He has been producing music since 2005, in various forms under his own name for DJ Sprinkles’ Comatonse Recordings, and as Celer for his own […]

Marco Shuttle will release a new EP next month. MSP01 is the Italian DJ-producer’s first release on MSP, short for Marco Shuttle Productions, a new platform for his more dancefloor-oriented productions. It comes after a relatively long break following more downtempo and abstract endeavours on his album on Incienso. For more information on Marco Shuttle, […]

The intention of DJ Tara, a resident of New York, is too “amplify artists and uplift the crowds,” she says—through a collage of soulful sounds. She came into music through her childhood, learning from her father, and in particular she fell in love with hip-hop. But through party promoting she decided she wanted to try […]

Following the epic chat 909originals had with Danny Tenaglia during the summer, we were intrigued to hear that a fellow stalwart from the East Coast house scene and former Roxy resident, who boasts a similarly colossal discography (more than 400 credits to his name over the last three decades) has recently put out no less than […]

Sean La’Brooy is an Australian musician based in New York, perhaps best known for his work as part of the duo Albrecht La’Brooy—a collaboration with Alex Albrecht. Aiming to showcase “the gentle side of electronic music down under,” the pair have been putting out a bewitching hybrid of techno, house, ambient, experimental, and jazz for […]

Kelly Moran will release her first new music in five years. Using a programmable Yamaha player piano known as the disklavier, on Vesela Moran breaks from the disklavier’s technical potential in favor of “recreating the humanity of her own playing,” we’re told. The release is inspired by the devastation of heartbreak and Moran’s desire to […]

If electronic music had a global ambassador, it would arguably be Danny Tenaglia – the Brooklyn native has lived and breathed all things dance-related since he started to pick up his first vinyls as a ten-year-old.  As the 62-year-old has stated in the past, the legendary nightclub Paradise Garage had a profound impact on him, shaping […]

Brooklyn-based DJ Disciple, who has performed at the likes of Studio 54, Ministry of Sound, the Southport Weekender, Back To Basics, and Ms Moneypenny’s over a four-decade career, has published a new book – The Beat, the Scene, the Sound: A DJ’s Journey through the Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of House Music in New York City. […]

With any DJ set from Rose Kourts (a.k.a Kourtney), the Brooklyn, New York-based DJ, you can expect dynamic, feel-good energy, with sumptuous groove and funky percussion throughout. (She grew up playing the drums and has always had a particular inclination towards these rhythms,” she says.) She is a resident DJ at Sweet Kicks, one of […]

Growing up, Kareem Ali—a native of New York who now lives in Tucson, Arizona—wanted to be a rocket scientist and his first musical love was jazz. He found an early hero in Miles Davis, whose seminal Kind of Blue LP prompted Ali to pick up the trumpet back in middle school. More than a decade […]


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