Culture
No Music on a Dead Internet
AI, lost archives, dying media: the internet has run its course, and culture is trapped inside. What to do? Take action.There are many issues hampering modern electronic music culture, judged at varying levels of urgency...
Electronic Music Is Everywhere. So Why Does It Feel Like Nothing?
How will this decade be remembered? Musically, it's unclear. In this special two-part report, Gabriel Szatan examines the forces fragmenting electronic culture today, and where we might go next.
There Is No Sound of the 2020s....
Before Spotify – A DJ’s Essay on What It Used to Take to Get In the Door
A Minidisc, a Pioneer 200 and One Email
I never planned to become a DJ. I didn't have the money for it, the connections, or the right surname. What I had was a Minidisc recorder, an...
Vinyl-Only culture: Is it elitist or just misunderstood?
Back in 2019, DJ Mag asked a question that still has no clear answer: is vinyl-only culture encouraging elitism in electronic music? Seven years later, with vinyl sales hitting record highs and...
Gen Z is the “driving force” of vinyl’s current popularity, survey finds
Gen Z's enthusiasm for vinyl has pushed the format from its longtime "revival" status into the successfully "revived" category, according to a new survey by the Vinyl Alliance calling...
Kraftwerk: The Future of Music Captured in Uwe Schütte’s Book
When you hear the name Kraftwerk, many musicians and fans of electronic music immediately think of minimalist synthesizers, robotic rhythms, and futuristic aesthetics. This German band, founded in Düsseldorf in the 1970s,...
The future of electronic music culture
Like many music scenes, DJ culture is one in flux, always evolving in time with technology, trends, styles and rapidly shifting consumer habits.
One constant among these ongoing changes is the growth of the electronic music world.
The latest statistics from...
Why Vinyl Still Matters
There’s something improbable about vinyl when you really think about it. A diamond needle tracking microscopic wiggles in a plastic disc, somehow reproducing the kick drum from Carl Craig’s ‘Bug in the...
New second-hand record store, Crates R Us, opens in South London’s AAJA Basement
The shop has roots in pop-up record fairs at the address, with the next special event on Saturday 6th December.
A new second-hand record store has opened inside South London bar, radio hub and venue, AAJA...
The Challenges of DJing with Vinyl at Music Festivals
The DJ performer emerged from the clubbing scene of the 1970s where the use of two turntables and a mixer and vinyl records produced new sounds. With advances in digital technology the vinyl record has...
Spotify’s plot against musicians
I first heard about ghost artists in the summer of 2017. At the time, I was new to the music-streaming beat. I had been researching the influence of major labels on Spotify playlists...
Listening to music can help recovery from surgery
Music also reduces stress, according to a new scientific report.
A new scientific report has been published about the positive impact listening to music can have on both mental and physical health.
Among the findings, researchers revealed...
