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Theo Parrish Criticizes the Dance Music Community's Response to Recent Police Brutality
"You better learn to listen with your body, you better play from your heart. It was a preference before, now it's essential."
Beyond the Wizards Sleeve's Decade-Long Search for Modern Psychedelia
Just what is "psychedelic," anyway? As we steer ourselves away from the term's birthplace in the 1960s, we spoke to Beyond the Wizards Sleeve, the electro-psych "sonic brotherhood" of Erol Alkan and Richard Norris.
Need to Get Some Work Done? Listen to Dance Music
Listening to dance music increases performance times and provides an overall higher rate of accuracy.
We Asked 90s Ravers What They Think of Today's Illegal Party Scene
Do they think this is a bold new illegal rave movement our just the next generation copying them?
Inside the UK's Illegal Raves
In 'LOCKED OFF' we explore the current state of illegal raves in the UK, where young people are breaking into buildings to hold parties until the early hours.
LOCKED OFF: Can Partying in a Field Ever Count as Political Resistance?
Is there anything more we can learn from Britain's illegal rave scene, or is it just another generation of kids taking drugs and dancing?
Christopher Port's "Bump" is Classic UK Garage, Straight out of Melbourne
The track signals Melbourne-label Pieater's first foray into electronic dance. And it's bloody good.
If You Hate Calvin Harris, You're Missing the Point
Reports of EDM's death have been greatly exaggerated.
EDM YouTube Comments Might Restore Your Faith in Humanity
Nothing in your paltry, grayscale existence will ever compare to the two hours of ready-made transcendence served up by Martin Garrix on an island in the Danube in the halcyon summer of 2015.
Is It Really That Difficult To Satirise EDM?
Every day another terribly edited "funny" EDM video is uploaded to Youtube, begging the question: who is actually laughing?
Make Music in the Cloud Like Waka Flocka Flame
Splice is offering a cloud-based sampler and sequencer, and Flockavelli's on board.
The ‘Streets of Rage 2’ Soundtrack Still Sounds Amazing Decades Later
We grabbed a staff writer for Noisey and Thump and had him listen to Yuzo Koshiro's 1992 soundtrack for 'SoR2.' Spoiler: he was impressed.