house-music
Over the weekend, Camden’s KOKO celebrated its first anniversary since its post-fire refurbishment with a massive Bank Holiday bash featuring a broad mix of UK club paragons. Central to that was Skepta and Jammer’s Más Tiempo event, which featured the two grime-turned-house impresarios flanked by Benji B, Salomé Le Chat, Kitty Amor, DJ Maximum, Ossie and J Kolo. The Más Tiempo […]
Drake is being sued for copyright infringement after he reportedly used an unauthorized sample by Ghanaian rapper Obrafour on “Calling My Name.” In court documents originally published by Music Business Worldwide, Obrafour claimed that Drizzy’s record label Republic Records reached out to him to clear the use of a sample in the Honestly, Nevermind cut. Obrafour, real […]
The weather outside is bleak and humid, with densely populated clouds in the sky obscuring any sunlight. Continental GT’s spirit, however, is far from a reflection of the dull weather this Friday afternoon. He radiates an audacious, bold energy that can be immediately felt on the phone: “My day’s good, man! I have to do one or two […]
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s tragic demise in 2021 was, of course, devastating for fans of the pioneering producer, but it was also a tremendous personal loss to all those that were lucky enough to have known him. One of the last people to have worked with Scratch in the studio was producer Devon James who had built up […]
Having made their debut as a combined force last year with a trio of releases—Here To Stay EP, Starlight EP and “Disconnect”—the Scenarios collective and its rotating cast of members are back to make good on the promise of that debut EP with the release of a new single, “Side By Side”. Stepping up for this instrumental […]
Back in August, a video did the rounds of Skepta jumping on deck for Circoloco at DC-10 in Ibiza. Even for those of us who remember his pre-MCing days when he would DJ for Jme and the rest of Meridian Crew were a little surprised to see him on the 1s and 2s at a house […]
If you produce house music and you’ve got a taste for solid gold vocals to lodge in everyone’s ear, few sources are quite as reliable (and fun to dig through, for that matter), as Diana Ross and the Supremes. And that’s exactly what Skream and his good pal Jansons have done for their latest jam, […]
Haçienda resident and one half of The Other Side of Midnight alongside A Guy Called Gerald, Jon Dasilva was right there at ground zero when Tony Wilson’s famed nightclub had its glorious, era-defining moment in the sun. In fact, he was right there on the frontline, personally sculpting moments in rave history that are still rippling […]
Drawing a line under a busy summer that included a 16-week residency at Amnesia in Ibiza and a string of festival spots including Glastonbury and Reading & Leeds, North London production duo Gorgon City are back with their new single, “Sidewindah”, and they’ve called on Flirta D to provide his unique vocal flair. Gorgon City […]
As another belting season on the White Isle draws to a close, it’s time to get stuck into the closing parties—and there’s a lot to choose from. The latest to announce their plans is Berlin duo Tale Of Us and they’re playing two sets as part of their massive Afterlife farewell. First, they’re taking to Ushuaïa Ibiza. […]
