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Trance was the first sound that mattered to HACKETT. More than a decade later, he's making a record that runs both directions at once — back toward...

Dance music is getting faster for three reasons: a generation raised on sped-up edits now hears 140 BPM as normal, post-pandemic crowds came back w...

Melbourne is the new Manchester. Here's why the next wave of hard house is Australian.   There's a label in Melbourne called Spinreal that keeps en...

Amsterdam produces some of the world's best electronic talent. So why does Berlin keep stealing them? There's a running joke in the Dutch music sce...

Every producer knows the dream. You’re standing in the middle of a dark, crowded room, the bass is vibrating through the floor, and then it happe...

In the late 1980s, as the Cold War was breathing its last, two cities—Berlin and Amsterdam—became the twin epicenters of a cultural revolution th...

If you’ve been anywhere near a dancefloor, a festival, or the algorithm-driven depths of TikTok and Spotify recently, you’ve felt it. A seismic ...

For decades, the rhythm of electronic music has been synonymous with the rhythm of the night. The strobe lights, the packed dancefloors, the col...

For any independent record label, the process of creating music is a labor of love. It’s the late nights in the studio, the endless tweaking...

The Dancefloor Paradox: Why 50% of Clubbers Say Phones Are Ruining Nightlife (And Why They Can't Put Them Down) The Irony That's Killing Night...

OBSCUUR Returns to Amsterdam for a Night of Trance & Hard House After a sold-out event during ADE, OBSCUUR returns to Amsterdam with ano...

Thank you for being with us this year. 2025 was about music first and always. We released more than fifty records from over twenty countries, reach...