| Our 'Secret Garden Party' Survival Guide |
we think it still might rank as the most unique, hedonistic, refreshing and down right strange four days of the entire year...
| How New Wave 'Dubstep' is Blurring the Lines |
As the sound that made dubstep so popular begins to hit the mainstream, underground producers have tried to distance themselves from the rude baseline aesthetic that is swiftly becoming a cliche of the genre...
| BLOC Festival | Our Highlights Reel |
Imagine a shopping mall surrounded by bungalow housing areas, with names like 'Starfish Village' and 'Terrapin Crescent', as well as waterslides and a fun fair, crazy golf course and go karting. Imagine inside the shopping mall are an abundance of different nightclubs, each one fitted with state of the art lighting and Function 1 sound systems...
| Juan Atkins @ Content, Manchester |
Juan Atkins needs no wordy introduction, but the man who combined the funk of Detroit motown with the electronic weirdness of Kraftwerk to create techno near-on 30 years ago was on fine form, moving seamlessly from a deep crate of vinyl to Traktor scratch and back again...
| Nico Jaar & Eddie C at Sub Club, 29/1/11 |
The set kicked off with the melancholy Dubliners, and then progressed through a wealth of characteristically slow unreleased material, some of which occupied more hip hop than dance music territory...
