Deeply-felt house and brutal techno – now Akua Grant deserves support
Industry trends and power grabs ultimately suck all our souls dry. So let's return to the originators making the music,...
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Detroit’s “The Scene” dance show, 1980s: Juan Atkins and Halloween
Boiler Room? TikTok? They've got nothing on Detroit's "The Scene," the city's own dance music show of the 70s and...
Bandcamp layoffs reportedly cut deep into customer service
The other shoe has dropped: yesterday, following the sale of Bandcamp from Epic to Songtradr, around half of the company's...
Female artists and AV blockbusters at Tehran Contemporary Sounds
A focus on female composers and electronic artists from Iran - alongside big AV productions like CDM favorites Temp-Illusion -...
CDM Mixes: Meet Moe Nagasi, must-hear Ukrainian composer-DJ-violinist
The best mixing doesn't just jam some bangers together - it creates an emotional topography to traverse. So it's a...
“Trembling Earth” – a compilation for Morocco, plus a Maze DK premiere
Communities inside and outside Morocco are still reeling from the earthquake last month. Berlin-based art Artist Znzl, whose name literally...
Bandcamp union describes workers locked out of systems, layoff threats
Bandcamp United, the staff union recently organized and Bandcamp, is sending out a petition to see that the union is...
Tour Beirut’s music underground in a free PDF, from the inside out
Crises are a given; resilience is a given - to slightly bastardize the author's words on Beirut's Underground Scene, Hajar...
Premiere: In new kāve LP, pre-classical Persian verse meets the machine
Machine Learning Poetry, the new LP from Tehran's kāve, is not pastoral or pretty. It's 10th-12 century poetry made into...
“Exist is a feeling”: Organizers talk about their festival after losing Odai Masri
Palestinian-global festival and music platform Exist reached London this month at Cafe OTO, the latest triumph of adventurous programming and...
