Dance music fans have been telling their parents that “they’ll never understand” for the better part of three decades. Despite that, the culture has been booming since the late ’80s. And we can’t ...

Nightclubs have historically occupied marginalized and ephemeral spaces. Berghain in Berlin and B018 in Beirut are two notable exceptions to that rule. It’s a nameless weeknight and you’re going out.

This week, in an article titled About Vatican Shadow Link With the Far-right, culture journalist Jean-Hugues Kabuiku has highlighted relationships between experimental producer Dominick Fernow—also ...

Yesterday we revived our multi-part feature on Rotterdam by plucking an interview with Clone Records boss Serge Verschuur from the magazine archives. The second installment dives deeper into the ...

In this special preview of our new Summer 2013 print magazine, we present the cover story—an extensive interview with the divisive pop phenomenon—in full. Photo by Robert Carrithers. Lana Del Rey’s ...

Few DJs can claim to have had such a lasting impact as Daniele Baldelli. Throughout the ’70s and into the ’80s he was an instrumental figure in the development of the curious Italian sound known as ...

The Sound and Style of Beat-Driven Culture. Club music and lifestyle at the global intersections since 2000.

Back in the ’90s, Sony’s PlayStation video game console helped to usher in a new era for sound in gaming. The PlayStation was one of the first consoles to use CDs instead of cartridges, which allowed ...

As the yearly festival circuit grows bigger and bigger, A-list DJs like Nina Kraviz, Ellen Allien and Gerd Janson have started to reach for ’90s anthems, which have been, for better or worse, frowned ...

House is a continuation of disco. You can hear that easily in its arrangement and in its sound, which samples and pulls liberally from the popular club music of the ’70s and early ’80s. And, in fact, ...

In this interview taken from our Winter, 2012 print issue, magazine editor A.J. Samuels makes contact with the original Drexciyan and the missing link between Detroit techno and particle physics.

Novelty is rare in dance music these days, which is why our eyes bugged out of our heads when we came across DJ Flapjack. To experience the Los Angeles-based DJ’s various social media feeds is to be ...