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When the first Unit club opened in Hamburg in 1989, it was embraced as an alternative to other places that ran on tighter curfews and were often in less central locations. Unlike Front, the pioneering ...

Old music technology has been making a comeback with sales for vinyl, cassette tapes, and analog synths increasing over the past few years, but one musician is leaning into our collective retro ...

FACT Rated is our series digging into the sounds and stories of the most vital breaking artists around right now. This week, DJ Python – aka Luis, aka DJ Wey – tells Oli Warwick how his fusion of ...

Rialto, California, sometime in the early '90s: Steve Vasquez’s sister, Jen, was at her wit’s end. Her brother had barricaded himself once more in his bedroom. The only evidence of life therein were ...

Looking back at the Polish techno scene over the last 30 years, it's evident that it has a diverse and unique history. From events as different as artsy raves in the 1990s, immensely popular clubs in ...

Why does it seem like dance music has got so hard and fast recently? Isaac Muk investigates, exploring the impact of a new generation of "play harder" clubbers and artists, social media and economic ...

The history of an experimental music-and-mythos project with Black Diaspora at its core. The Quest’s original album art, as one example, features a blackened Mollweide projection—a map well-suited for ...

The best Detroit techno artists produce the kind of music that practically demands the audience to get up and move. DJ Kelli Hand (K-Hand for short) had it down to a science. "First of all, she was a ...