After featuring on their 2020 album ‘We All Move Together’, Idris Elba teams up with Inner City once more to

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Idris Elba, Inner City, Steffanie Christi’an
Defected

After debuting his new alias Antenna! on Soulfuric Deep in 2020 with three-track EP ‘Algoritmo’, Andrea Bertolini returns to the

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Antenna!
Soulfuric Deep

Funkhut Records is proud to announce the anticipated follow up to “God Is Love” by Sunday Williams with another Gospel

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Sunday Williams, Dav Risen, DjPope, Chujo, More Soul
FunkHut Records

Originating from Copenhagen, Jorn Johansen has recently been featured on quality labels such as Liztomania, Gents & Dandy’s and Moiss

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Jorn Johansen
Large Music

Coming as the debut release on Sef Kombo and Louie Dunmore’s brand new imprint Sondela, enigmatic champion of African house

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Hyenah, DJ Tira, Luke Ntombela
Sondela Recordings

Arizona-based production and multimedia arts company TWELVOTWO, founded by Ojalá Systems members DJQ and REY, has released a zine accompaniment

Continue readingTWELVOTWO challenges police violence with RELLI KIZAN zine

Arizona-based production and multimedia arts company TWELVOTWO, founded by Ojalá Systems members DJQ and REY, has released a zine accompaniment

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Ricky Powell, a legendary hip-hop photographer who worked with Beastie Boys, Run DMC and many more, has died. A prolific

Continue readingLegendary photographer for Beastie Boys, Run DMC, more, Ricky Powell, dies aged 59

Ricky Powell, a legendary hip-hop photographer who worked with Beastie Boys, Run DMC and many more, has died. A prolific

Continue readingLegendary photographer for Beastie Boys, Run DMC, more, Ricky Powell, dies aged 59

Building block legends LEGO have released a new playlist of ASMR-friendly block sounds on their official Spotify account. Described as

Continue readingLEGO release relaxing three-hour playlist of brick sounds

Building block legends LEGO have released a new playlist of ASMR-friendly block sounds on their official Spotify account. Described as

Continue readingLEGO release relaxing three-hour playlist of brick sounds

Native Instruments has announced that Traktor is now compatible with macOS Big Sur. The popular DJ software is now also

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Luca Yupanqui, a toddler in the US, is releasing her debut album that was recorded while she was still in

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Luca Yupanqui, a toddler in the US, is releasing her debut album that was recorded while she was still in

Continue readingBaby records album from inside the womb

Festivals of a smaller scale could take place safely this summer with proper coronavirus measure in place, UK MPs have

Continue readingSmaller festivals could take place safely this summer, MPs told

Festivals of a smaller scale could take place safely this summer with proper coronavirus measure in place, UK MPs have

Continue readingSmaller festivals could take place safely this summer, MPs told

WARNING: This article includes accounts of sexual assault and may be distressing for some readers. Resources for support are listed

Continue readingSeven more people allege sexual assault and harassment against Derrick May

Jossy Mitsu will release her debut EP this month via Astral Black.  ‘Planet J’ sees the 6 Figure Gang member

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Influential UK-based label, Big Dada, is set to relaunch as a platform for Black, POC & Minority Ethnic artists. Pioneering

Continue readingInfluential UK label Big Dada to relaunch as platform for Black, POC & Minority Ethnic artists

A reddit user has described what it’s like to make music on different types of drugs. Posting to the platform

Continue readingReddit user ranks how good different drugs are for making music

An unborn baby recorded an album and it’s coming out this year. Seriously, an album from an unborn baby was

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S. Nolla – Stop In My Mind 05:19 124.01bpm/

Soul Des Jaguar – Africa Soul 08:04 119.00bpm/ Soul Des Jaguar – Everlasting Love 08:13 117.00bpm/ Soul Des Jaguar –

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Themba – Sound Of Freedom feat Thakzin (Extended Mix) 09:59 123.04bpm/

Till Von Sein – Siegfried (Original Mix) 06:25 116.01bpm/

Valer den Bit – Azure 06:45 121.00bpm/ Valer den Bit – Azure (Pippi Ciez Reinterpretation) 06:42 120.01bpm/ Valer den Bit

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Vincent Aché – Taste of Savannah (Original Mix) 07:52 121bpm/Bmin Vincent Aché – Tribal Areas (Original Mix) 07:46 123bpm/F#min

Artisti Vari – Compost Nu Jazz Selection Vol. 3 (Continuous Mix) 01:16:56 129.98bpm/ Beanfield – Cargo 04:35 122.00bpm/ Beanfield –

Continue readingVA – Compost Nu Jazz Selection Vol. 3 – Silent Season – Jazzy Walk – compiled & mixed by Art-D-Fact and Rupert & Mennert / Compost Records

Vian Pelez – Brotherhood 05:51 122.99bpm/ Vian Pelez – Memories 05:47 123.02bpm/

Afro Venezuelan Drums – Tambo 03:54 124.00bpm/ Afronautas – Afroeira 04:54 124.03bpm/ Albert Delgado – Afro Disiaco (Fuego Edition) 06:00

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Toto La Momposina, Bombossa Brothers, Yulia Niko – La Playita feat. Totó La Momposina (Extended Mix) 06:41 123bpm/Bb

Paradox will make debut on Sneaker Social Club next month, delivering his 195th 12” release since bursting onto the UK

Continue readingPremiere: Paradox ‘Octa4’

LWE has announced a Tobacco Dock Virtual rave and gaming experience. London party and festival promoter, LWE, has announced a

Continue readingLWE announces Tobacco Dock Virtual rave and gaming experience

Spain will be open to tourists by spring, the country’s tourism minister says. After Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, stated the

Continue readingSpain will be open to tourists by spring, tourism minister says

Techy tinkerer Guy Dupont has hacked an iPod Classic to stream directly from Spotify over WiFi, and even added Bluetooth

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Tributes to SOPHIE have been pouring in from all corners of the music world since the pioneering musician died in

Continue readingNile Rodgers, Flying Lotus, SHYGIRL and more pay tribute to SOPHIE

China is fuming over a Canadian diplomat reportedly ordering T-shirts with the word ‘Wu-Han’ printed in what looks like the

Continue readingChina’s fuming over Canadian diplomat ordering printed ‘Wu-Han’ T-shirts with Wu-Tang Clan logo

China is fuming over a Canadian diplomat reportedly ordering T-shirts with the word ‘Wu-Han’ printed in what looks like the

Continue readingChina’s fuming over Canadian diplomat ordering T-shirts with ‘Wu-Han’ printed in the Wu-Tang Clan logo

Legendary hip hop photographer Ricky Powell has died. Powell was a pivotal figure in the hip hop scene, working regularly

Continue readingLegendary hip hop photographer Ricky Powell has died

Ten City are set to return with their first new music in 25 years. The dance group, made up of

Continue readingMarshall Jefferson and Byron Stingily return as Ten City with first new music in 25 years

Coachella has been forced to cancel this year’s event. The Southern California festival was forced to postpone in April last

Continue readingCoachella cancelled again due to coronavirus

Spain will open to tourists by the spring. Tourism minister Reyes Maroto said that Spain’s “priority in 2021 is to

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J Maloe, TroyMusiq – Thula (Instrumental) 06:20 122bpm/D#maj J Maloe, TroyMusiq – Thula (Main Mix) 06:20 122bpm/D#min J Maloe, TroyMusiq

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Jhon Roux – Chicago 06:16 125.01bpm/

JollyJ – To The Rhythm 06:33 123.01bpm/

Laura Llorens & The Shadows Of Love,Elbert Phillips – Home Is Where My Heart Is (Elbert Phillips Remix Instrumental) 05:27

Continue readingLaura Llorens & The Shadows Of Love – Home Is Where My Heart Is (Remix EP) / Qalomota

Lee Walker – Tricks (UK Garage Dub Mix) 04:52 126.01bpm/ Lee Walker – Tricks (UK Garage Mix) 04:52 126.01bpm/ Lee

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Local Options – On Beyond 05:50 122.01bpm/ Local Options – The Way You Get 06:01 123.01bpm/

Matt Feliz – Ayijiki 08:56 120.01bpm/ Matt Feliz – Bashonephi 05:44 120.01bpm/

Mr. Moon, Mey, Richard Earnshaw – Let It Rain (Richard Earnshaw SugarSoul Extended Mix) 06:43 122bpm/Dmin Mr. Moon, Mey, Richard

Continue readingMr. Moon feat. Mey – Let It Rain (Richard Earnshaw SugarSoul Mix) / Duffnote

Muzari,Kingzman – Dance In Payette 07:28 121.01bpm/ Muzari,Kingzman – Vilakazi Street 06:40 120.01bpm/

Noden – Das Funk 05:57 124.00bpm/ Noden – The Approach 05:09 114.00bpm/

We’re super excited for Chicago’s Local Options to make their Seven Music debut with the ‘On Beyond EP’! Local Options

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Local Options
Seven Music

Glen Horsborough & Karmina Dai are developing a nice relationship when it comes to collaborating. ‘Going Strong’ is their third

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Glen Horsborough, Karmina Dai
Let There Be House Records

190295156206 | 2021-01-29   Rose rouge Terry Laird Nu Maloya Fusion Mix (7:13) So Flute Ludovic Navarre Amapiano Version 2020

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St Germain
Parlophone (France)

You can listen to a Spotify playlist containing every song SOPHIE produced that’s available on the platform. The playlist was

Continue readingListen to a playlist of every SOPHIE-produced track on Spotify

Manchester DJ and producer Monir will release his new, ‘Still Running’, via MELD this week.  Making his debut on the

Continue readingPremiere: Monir ‘Still Running’

Duke Bootee, co-writer and producer of Grandmaster Flash’s ‘The Message’, has died. Bootee, born Edward Gernel Fletcher, died after suffering

Continue readingDuke Bootee, co-writer and producer of Grandmaster Flash’s ‘The Message’, dies, aged 69

A new book celebrating pioneering women in hip hop has been published. The Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop, penned by

Continue readingThis new book celebrates pioneering women in hip hop

Spain will not open to tourists until the end of the summer. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez made the announcement during

Continue readingSpain will not open to tourists until the end of summer says Prime Minister

ELLLL returns to Dublin’s First Second Label this month with the ‘Housebreaker’ EP.  Following the Berlin-based, Cork-born producer’s frosty ‘Febreeze’

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DJ Mag’s weekly residency for January on Radio 1 Dance Presents came to a close this weekend, with an hour-long mix

Continue readingListen to Mala’s mix for DJ Mag’s Radio 1 Dance residency

SOPHIE’s girlfriend Evita Manji has spoken publicly about the pioneering experimental pop artist’s tragically fatal accident and paid tribute to

Continue readingSOPHIE’s girlfriend Evita Manji: “I managed to tell her I love her and to keep fighting”

SOPHIE has died. The visionary experimental pop artist died in the early hours of Saturday morning in Athens, SOPHIE’s team

Continue readingSOPHIE, visionary experimental pop artist, dies

Police managed to stop an illegal rave from taking place after hundreds of tickets were sold. Organisers of the rave

Continue readingPolice managed to stop an illegal rave that sold hundreds of tickets

Be.Lanuit – Santë Re Union (Original Mix) 05:50 122.00bpm/ Be.Lanuit – Santë Re Union (Sifa Remix) 07:14 122.00bpm/ Be.Lanuit –

Continue readingBe.Lanuit – Santë Re Union / Afroterraneo Music

Bonetti – Life Gets In Your Way (Original Mix) 05:42 123bpm/Abm Bonetti – More Than Magic (Original Mix) 06:19 123bpm/Abm

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Breyth – Darkameni 07:23 124.00bpm/ Breyth – Indiana 06:07 123.00bpm/ Breyth – Tibaron bpm/

Christos Fourkis – Simahen feat. Sayi (Original Mix) 07:50 123bpm/Bmaj

Cipy – Amman 07:31 120.00bpm/ Cipy – Bird In Hand 08:40 122.01bpm/ Cipy – Coupon 08:09 122.01bpm/ Cipy,Knowkontrol,Knowkontrol – Utopia

Continue readingCipy – Bird In Hand EP / Connected

40D,Gashu,Kead Wikead – M.O.T.H. (Man of the House) 06:22 121.97bpm/

Aaron K. Gray, Mark Francis – Resting Place (Mark Francis 201 Church Anniversary Remix) 07:57 122.01bpm/G#maj Aaron K. Gray,Derrick Ricky

Continue readingAaron K. Gray – Top 10 LP / Quantize Recordings

Alexander Wirth – Everyday Sunday 07:52 125.00bpm/ Alexander Wirth – Forever Deep 06:51 120.00bpm/ Alexander Wirth – Isolation Nation (Lofi

Continue readingAlexander Wirth – Perception / Ovum Recordings

Apparel Wax – 008A1 06:11 124.03bpm/ Apparel Wax – 008A2 07:46 125.00bpm/ Apparel Wax – 008B1 06:02 122.00bpm/ Apparel Wax

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Alton Miller – After The Rain 06:16 101.00bpm/ Alton Miller – All We Have 07:02 123.00bpm/ Alton Miller – Headspace

Continue readingAlton Miller – Headspace EP / Forbidden Dance