In his years as a fixture on the Berlin underground, Manchester polymath Mark Reeder brought Joy Division to the city, managed and produced countless punk bands, rented his spare room to Nick Cave ...

“Scratching is more like a transformation sequence, more like the audio parallel of The Thing or American Werewolf, where you see the human transformed into a werewolf, and just before they ...

It’s well-documented that getting your music out there, in 2013, is easier than ever. Whether it’s starting a vinyl label, building the foundations of a one-man Bandcamp empire or indulging ...

The language of the earth is widely used to describe sounds. Words like “dirty”, “gritty” and “grimy” are go-to terms when getting across the character of waveforms and distortion ...

The London-based producer makes fucked-up music to dance, tweak and sweat like a bastard to. He doesn’t discriminate: it could be Dillinja-influenced drum’n’bass, rampaging techno or grime ...

When rumours began circulating of Mark Lawrence’s time on Castro’s hermit kingdom, you couldn’t help but romanticise. Was this to be a story album, a travelogue – The Bass Diaries, if you ...

Download 44 tracks from one of the most intriguing young crews in hip-hop. SpaceGhostPurrp, the Miami producer/rapper who brought his Southern gloom-and-doom to 4AD, is also the leader of the ...

Dance music fallacy #036: house artists don’t make good albums – and if they do, you’ve already heard them. Back… ...

“I didn’t ask for a public apology and I think if he is going to apologise he should do it individually.” Michel’le, the former girlfriend of Dr. Dre who has been vocal in the past about ...

Todd Terje is in London to headline Sunday’s Bank Holiday Special at The Nest. The Oslo DJ, producer and editor… Todd Terje is in London to headline Sunday’s Bank Holiday Special at The Nest.

Originally published by The Vinyl Factory. A companion to his Rainford album. Lee “Scratch” Perry is releasing a new dub record called Heavy Rain, via On-U Sound this December. Its 12-tracks ...