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  • Cinna Peyghamy: Tombak to the future

    Cinna Peyghamy: Tombak to the future

    Interviewing the France-based artist with Iranian roots about his electro-acoustic practice fusing modular synthesis and traditional tombak playing.
    Sep 2026 · Ableton
  • Cuba’s DIY Scene Endures in the Face of Constant Crackdowns

    Cuba’s DIY Scene Endures in the Face of Constant Crackdowns

    Profiling independent experimental artists recording in Cuba during a time of unprecedented hardship.
    Aug 2026 · Bandcamp Daily
  • Hamdi: Life Goals

    Hamdi: Life Goals

    An in-depth profile on the fast-rising Oxford-based dubstep DJ.
    Jul 2026 · DJ Mag
  • Inside The Universe Of When There Is No Sun

    Inside The Universe Of When There Is No Sun

    Ricardo Villalobos, Chez Damier, A Guy Called Gerald, Baris K, SHE Spells Doom, Calibre and more reflect on the ambitious project to reinterpret the Sun Ra Arkestra through a top-tier cast of electronic music producers.
    Jul 2026 · Resident Advisor
  • Ricardo Villalobos: Slipping Through Time

    Ricardo Villalobos: Slipping Through Time

    A rare, in-depth profile on the maverick Chilean artist, based around a long interview in his Berlin studio. Also featuring contributions from Max Loderbauer, Sonja Moonear and Roman Flügel.
    Jul 2026 · Resident Advisor
  • The Caretaker: Ballroom Eternal

    The Caretaker: Ballroom Eternal

    Ahead of his performance in the Blackpool Tower Ballroom during last weekend’s The Black Lights festival, James Leyland Kirby spoke in a rare interview about the unlikely viral afterlife of his dementia-themed project, The Caretaker.
    Jul 2026 · Crack
  • Spekki Webu’s freeform psychedelia

    Spekki Webu’s freeform psychedelia

    A deep-dive into one of the most original artists in the field of high-tempo, brain-twisting techno.
    Jun 2026 · DJ Mag
  • Laura Misch: Of Microphones, Stones & Saxophones

    Laura Misch: Of Microphones, Stones & Saxophones

    Exploring the unique field recording processes of the London-based producer and songwriter.
    Jun 2026 · Ableton
  • Founders of UK festival Bloc open up about disastrous 2012 edition

    Founders of UK festival Bloc open up about disastrous 2012 edition

    The founders of Bloc have gone on record about the events surrounding their ill-fated attempt to hold a festival in London in 2012.
    Apr 2026 · Resident Advisor
  • Recognise: Terrence Dixon

    Recognise: Terrence Dixon

    More than 30 years since his first alien signals transmitted against the grain of techno convention, Terrence Dixon is feeling inspired to push deeper and farther than ever before. Here, alongside an extended mix made up almost entirely of unreleased original material, the low-key Detroit legend tells Oli Warwick about how his home city has nurtured him, his plans to do the same in return, and how parenthood, minimal equipment and everyday life has shaped his singular sound.
    Apr 2026 · DJ Mag
  • How Jeff Mills’ ‘Live At Liquid Room, Tokyo’ forged new futures for underground techno

    How Jeff Mills’ ‘Live At Liquid Room, Tokyo’ forged new futures for underground techno

    Jeff Mills' first commercially available mix, ‘Live At Liquid Room, Tokyo’ set a new standard in visceral intensity for techno - a genre still in development. 30 years on its raw power remains unparalleled. Here, Jeff Mills tells Oli Warwick the story behind this landmark moment in techno history.
    Apr 2026 · DJ Mag
  • The shape of solidarity: standing with Palestine in electronic music

    The shape of solidarity: standing with Palestine in electronic music

    Talking to Yasmin Fedda, Gideon Berger, Dania Shihab, ABADIR, Muqata'a, El-B and Haykal, Oli Warwick explores the evolution of Palestinian solidarity in electronic music — asking where it's made a difference, where it's fallen short, and where it goes from here.
    Jan 2026 · DJ Mag
  • JJJJJerome Ellis: Reshaping time

    JJJJJerome Ellis: Reshaping time

    An interview with the experimental electronic jazz artist JJJJJerome Ellis, exploring the impact his vocal stutter has had on his work, and the production techniques feeding into his music.
    Jan 2026 · Ableton
  • Reintroducing Blake Baxter, Detroit techno’s unsung pioneer

    Reintroducing Blake Baxter, Detroit techno’s unsung pioneer

    From early appearances on Kevin Saunderson’s KMS Records and the seminal ‘Techno! (The New Dance Sound Of Detroit)’ compilation, to his key contributions for Underground Resistance and Tresor in the early ‘90s, Blake Baxter has been at the beating heart of Motor CIty's music history for 40 years, so why isn't he as widely celebrated as his fellow pioneers? Amidst a Tresor reissue campaign introducing his work to a new generation of techno fans, Oli Warwick dials up this unsung Detroit legend to learn his story, and set the record straight.
    Nov 2025 · DJ Mag
  • Blawan: changing tracks

    Blawan: changing tracks

    Blawan has re-moulded our expectations of his sound in recent years, with a series of compelling, confounding and original music. Continuing a trend of misfit exploration, he has entered a purple patch in his creativity by ditching the DJ gig treadmill and letting go of the rules. In this interview he opens up about his renewed trajectory, and the joy and pain that fed into the most compelling music he's made to date.
    Oct 2025 · DJ Mag
  • The Next Step: A New Generation of Artists Is Reinvigorating Dubstep

    The Next Step: A New Generation of Artists Is Reinvigorating Dubstep

    Looking at the most exciting producers pushing 140 and dubstep-related music in exciting new directions. Featuring comments from Beatrice M and Mia Koden. Illustration by Natalia Pawlak
    Sep 2025 · Bandcamp Daily
  • Recognise: Tasha

    Recognise: Tasha

    Neighbourhood label boss and all-round legendary techno / D&B DJ Tasha speaks about the peaks and troughs of promoting, her friendship with the late Marcus Intalex, and why socks are at the heart of Neighbourhood's family atmosphere.
    Jul 2025 · DJ Mag
  • Lechuga Zafiro: A Story behind every sound

    Lechuga Zafiro: A Story behind every sound

    An interview with the Uruguayan producer creating a visceral, original strain of mutant club sounds about his distinctive rhythmic approaches inspired by Candombe and other regional traditional music.
    May 2025 · Ableton
  • Matmos on Boguslaw Schaeffer and the PRES

    Matmos on Boguslaw Schaeffer and the PRES

    A look at the pioneering Polish electroacoustic composer, as told by Matmos who have sampled his work from the Polish Radio Experimental Studio in the ’60s and ’70s. testing
    Dec 2020 · Ableton
  • Saved by the rave: British youth and UK free parties in the pandemic

    Saved by the rave: British youth and UK free parties in the pandemic

    A look at the UK free party scene from the perspective of the kids going to them in the face of the global pandemic.
    Dec 2020 · Document Journal
  • Systems Overload: Britcore and the UK underground

    Systems Overload: Britcore and the UK underground

    Digging into the story of Britcore, an overlooked corner of British music history where the first waves of UK rap took an unexpectedly sped up and punk-y turn that prefigured the emergence of breakbeat hardcore in the early ’90s.
    Nov 2020 · Internation Orange