Éalú Le Grá is a petit bijou music and experiential extravaganza, hosting its fifth anniversary edition over the June Bank Holiday weekend, with a trojan line-up of cutting-edge Irish warriors and international gladiators, including Hammer, Christopher Coe, Fabe, Aoife Nic Canna, Tara Casey, Ronan Ó Snodaigh, and Natural Symphony. There are many other electronic music…
DJ, writer and Balearic regular Rosie Riot chats to Ibiza Global Radio director and DJ Igor Marijuan about IMS, Ibiza’s evolving musical landscape, and balancing multiple projects. Think of Ibiza and you may conjure up images of hyper-club hysteria and sunsets in San Antonio. But for those who have placed themselves behind another facet of…
Melbourne-born, Berlin-based drummer and producer Ziggy Zeitgeist has gathered an array of global talent for his latest Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange album, Inspire/Radicalise, which showcases the collective’s signature ‘hi-tech jazz’ sound. Having performed at venues and events such as Church of Sound, We Out Here Festival and Melt Festival, the current Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange…
Matador, aka Irish producer Gavin Lynch, has been rocking dancefloors since the mid 2000s, cutting his teeth at Dublin venues such as Switch, Tripod and McGruders before going on to play festivals such as Awakenings, Sonus, and Tomorrowland, as well as global venues including Space Ibiza, DC-10, and Stereo Montreal. The Ibiza-based artist is a…
Flatfoot Sam has been immersed in the UK dance scene since the mid 90s, evolving his sound from hardcore to techno to nu-nrg and hosting the Depth Charge boat parties in Southampton in the early-to-mid 2000s. As the first pandemic lockdown hit in 2020, Flatty, as he is affectionately known, harnessed his creative capabilities to…
In January of this year, Beatport recognised Grace Dahl as one of its ‘next class’ of up and coming DJs – the latest acknowledgement for the rising techno talent and SDT Recordings label head. Born in Hungary to a Finnish mother and Hungarian father, and raised in Amsterdam, Dahl was immersed in electronic music at…
Few artists have defied convention over the years like Alex Paterson, figurehead of The Orb – having immersed himself in punk and dub reggae as a teen, he went on to roadie for rockers Killing Joke, worked in A&R for Brian Eno‘s label, E.G. Records, and somewhere along the line not only created ambient house, but…
Formed out of the musical melting pot that was Leeds in the early 90s, Utah Saints were one of the stand-out acts of the dance scene’s formative years, with singles such as What Can You Do For Me, Believe In Me and the Kate Bush-sampling Something Good storming the pop charts. Consisting of Jez Willis,…
Chip E and house music go hand in hand – not only was the Chicago producer the first to put the words ‘jack’ and ‘house’ down on wax (on 1985’s Jack Trax EP), he also followed that up with tracks that helped define the nascent genre, including Like This and If You Only Knew, as well…
There’s not much that you can say about Nicky Siano that hasn’t already been inscribed in the annals of dance music history – as the owner and resident DJ of Manhattan’s The Gallery, which opened in 1972, he helped light the touch paper for New York’s disco scene, paving the way for venues such as The…
