Music with a message: Soul Clap issue a funk-flecked rallying cry on their expansive new album 'WTF (World Transformation Force)' combines irresistible grooves with thought-provoking themes Skream is setting up a new imprint IFEEL The debut release will be a three-track EP from the label boss himself Rapper NEZ & Felix da Housecat team up for a Chicago-inspired collab NEZ's new EP 'Midnight Music' is turning heads from house & hip hop worlds Beatport is the first digital music retailer to accept Bitcoin Beatport will also release the first NFT dance music compilation Listen to the Chemical Brothers new single 'The Darkness That You Fear' The duo are back with their first release since 2019 Beggars Group & Ninja Tune announce plans to become carbon neutral Both indie labels are participating in 'Turn Up The Volume' activities this week helmed by Music Declares Emergency Listen: Fab 5 Freddy talks to LiFTED On Air about his Netflix documentary The Grass is Greener It’s April 20, again Seth Troxler launches an oddball Twitch series, picks up Thailand's Shit Mendy Cooks “Dream Access TV is a nostalgic take on public broadcasting from yesteryear" BLOND:ISH & ABRACADABRA announce a digital festival dedicated to Earth Day Wonderfruit & Rainforest Pavilion will both make their debut in front of a Western audience Justice’s Gaspard Augé releases first solo single ‘Force Majeure' The single lands ahead of a debut solo album titled 'Escapades' Electronic Music Inclusion Initiative launched to tackle harassment & discrimination in electronic music industry Submit to EMII's anonymous survey about harassment and discrimination in the electronic music industry now DMX has died aged 50 "Earl’s music inspired countless fans across the world and his iconic legacy will live on forever," said a representative Sexual harassment is the most common problem women face in the music industry, study finds Nearly two thirds of women survey cited sexual harassment or objectification as a major challenge Nightlife body calls vaccine passports "unworkable" for music venues Nighttime Industries Association says vaccine passports would cause "further anxiety" for operators Clean Scene has published an eye-opening report on the carbon emissions & footprint of DJs who travel The 19-page report collates & analyses the carbon footprint of Resident Advisor’s top 1,000 DJs in 2019 5,000 people have attended a music event in Barcelona with no social distancing The event was staged as a pilot test event to examine the viability of staging large cultural events without leading to coronavirus breakouts. ADE announces a physical event for 2021 As a result of the widespread vaccination campaign & rapid test capacity in the Netherlands, the road to ADE has officially begun UK vinyl spending set to surpass CDs for the first time since 1987 “Vinyl’s exceptional performance despite retail lockdowns confirms its role as a long-term complement to music streaming," said the BPI Chief Executive 'Music, Makers & Machines' is a new free online exhibition celebrating the history and legacy of electronic music It’s available to view online now 87 per cent of musicians say their mental health has deteriorated during lockdown Help Musicians has released findings from its latest survey Justice are taking legal against Justin Bieber Justice have sent a cease-and-desist to Justin Bieber because over the artwork used on his new 'Justice' album 70 percent of DJs retrained due to the pandemic A survey of 20,000 DJs reveals that many have chosen to retrain or learn a new skill because of the pandemic Producers can now submit demos to Charlotte de Witte's KNTXT label Demo submissions are being taken until March 21 for what will be an annual new talent search Elon Musk has been made the ‘Technoking of Tesla’ The company filed official documents to give Elon Musk the new job title Astralwerks teams up with Blue Note Jazz to present Bluewerks The new joint label aims to nourish lo-fi listeners World’s first NFT album earns 3LAU $11.3M in less than 48 hours What would you pay for a re-released album? Leading festival organisers are calling for attendees to require vaccination Two festival directors have called on the government to specify vaccination as entry requirement Jeff Mills has created an electronic music magazine The Escape Velocity is an electronic music magazine specialising in ‘the art of creation’ You can experience Daft Punk's 2017 Alive show in virtual reality The dazzling Daft Punk live show has been recreated in VR A Japanese magazine article from 1999 contains Daft Punk's studio secrets Here’s a list of all the gear Daft Punk used to make ‘Homework’ Future Female Sounds launch survey to research challenges faced by women and non-binary DJs The survey is leading up to a European summit for women DJs projected to be held over the summer in Copenhagen The UK government's used a rowdy drum 'n' bass track on a video telling people not to rave The Home Office's Stay Home ad is soundtracked by heavy drum 'n' bass deadmau5 & Mad Dog Jones team up for 2 cyberpunk cryptoart collections 'Hypervision' is a series of 4 NFT-backed audiovisual artworks The ultimate triple combo collab is Steve Aoki’s Dim Mak vs Capcom’s Street Fighter Hadoken! This is the pop culture crossover that EDM & video games fans dream of Apple Music launches platform for African dance music, Isgubhu It will host exclusive playlists, DJ mixes, and more Techno is the genre “least effective at reducing anxiety” A new study has found that techno is the least relaxing form of music – anyone who's spent the weekend at Movement or Berghain might disagree Malakat Records is a new label focusing on "all musically inclined Arab womxn artists" Malakat says it is the "first womxn focused record label" in the Middle East & North Africa SoundCloud to host a gaming tournament inside Fortnite Rico Nasty & MonsterDface will host SoundCloud Player One on Twitch Fans petition NASA to name a planet after SOPHIE Renditions of the planet bear a resemblance to SOPHIE’s debut album artwork 12” single by obscure producer sells for $40k to become Discogs’ most expensive record British artist Scaramanga Silk now lays claim to Discogs' most expensive record Take a tour of Hitman 3's Berlin-inspired techno club It's just like being in Berghain Ferry Corsten teams up with FaderPro & Armada University for a master class The 4.5 hour master class includes professional A&R feedback for students Create Music Group introduces a credit card to help artists access royalties sooner The card looks to speed up artist payouts The BBC Sound Effects Archive relaunches with 33,000+ recordings & a SFX mixer tool Stay home & enjoy the great outdoors with BBC's Soundscapes for Wellbeing David Byrne, Ryuichi Sakamoto, & Cong Su’s score to The Last Emperor is being reissued on vinyl this March This unlikely trio gave the sounds of Imperial China a modern twist The COMMON Multiverse Initiative by currents.fm welcomes Asia to its line-up The platform will also begin a series of beta upgrades so artists can create their own universes A new BBC documentary details alleged sexual assault & abuse of women in the music industry 'Music's Dirty Secrets: Women Fight Back' looks at recent assault and abuse cases Armin Van Buuren shares a playlist with 1,000 of the best trance tracks ever Listen to the mega playlist published by the Dutch trance legend below Brush up on your D'n'B history with upcoming book Who Say Reload is the story of D’n’B and features the stories of the genre’s pioneers Download a free sample pack made collaboratively by DJs For Climate Action & Greenpeace The catch? 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Music with a message: Soul Clap issue a funk-flecked rallying cry on their expansive new album 'WTF (World Transformation Force)' combines irresistible grooves with thought-provoking themes
Skream is setting up a new imprint IFEEL The debut release will be a three-track EP from the label boss himself
Rapper NEZ & Felix da Housecat team up for a Chicago-inspired collab NEZ's new EP 'Midnight Music' is turning heads from house & hip hop worlds
Beatport is the first digital music retailer to accept Bitcoin Beatport will also release the first NFT dance music compilation
Listen to the Chemical Brothers new single 'The Darkness That You Fear' The duo are back with their first release since 2019
Beggars Group & Ninja Tune announce plans to become carbon neutral Both indie labels are participating in 'Turn Up The Volume' activities this week helmed by Music Declares Emergency
Listen: Fab 5 Freddy talks to LiFTED On Air about his Netflix documentary The Grass is Greener It’s April 20, again
Seth Troxler launches an oddball Twitch series, picks up Thailand's Shit Mendy Cooks “Dream Access TV is a nostalgic take on public broadcasting from yesteryear"
BLOND:ISH & ABRACADABRA announce a digital festival dedicated to Earth Day Wonderfruit & Rainforest Pavilion will both make their debut in front of a Western audience
Justice’s Gaspard Augé releases first solo single ‘Force Majeure' The single lands ahead of a debut solo album titled 'Escapades'
Electronic Music Inclusion Initiative launched to tackle harassment & discrimination in electronic music industry Submit to EMII's anonymous survey about harassment and discrimination in the electronic music industry now
DMX has died aged 50 "Earl’s music inspired countless fans across the world and his iconic legacy will live on forever," said a representative
Sexual harassment is the most common problem women face in the music industry, study finds Nearly two thirds of women survey cited sexual harassment or objectification as a major challenge
Nightlife body calls vaccine passports "unworkable" for music venues Nighttime Industries Association says vaccine passports would cause "further anxiety" for operators
Clean Scene has published an eye-opening report on the carbon emissions & footprint of DJs who travel The 19-page report collates & analyses the carbon footprint of Resident Advisor’s top 1,000 DJs in 2019
5,000 people have attended a music event in Barcelona with no social distancing The event was staged as a pilot test event to examine the viability of staging large cultural events without leading to coronavirus breakouts.
ADE announces a physical event for 2021 As a result of the widespread vaccination campaign & rapid test capacity in the Netherlands, the road to ADE has officially begun
UK vinyl spending set to surpass CDs for the first time since 1987 “Vinyl’s exceptional performance despite retail lockdowns confirms its role as a long-term complement to music streaming," said the BPI Chief Executive
'Music, Makers & Machines' is a new free online exhibition celebrating the history and legacy of electronic music It’s available to view online now
87 per cent of musicians say their mental health has deteriorated during lockdown Help Musicians has released findings from its latest survey
Justice are taking legal against Justin Bieber Justice have sent a cease-and-desist to Justin Bieber because over the artwork used on his new 'Justice' album
70 percent of DJs retrained due to the pandemic A survey of 20,000 DJs reveals that many have chosen to retrain or learn a new skill because of the pandemic
Producers can now submit demos to Charlotte de Witte's KNTXT label Demo submissions are being taken until March 21 for what will be an annual new talent search
Elon Musk has been made the ‘Technoking of Tesla’ The company filed official documents to give Elon Musk the new job title
Astralwerks teams up with Blue Note Jazz to present Bluewerks The new joint label aims to nourish lo-fi listeners
World’s first NFT album earns 3LAU $11.3M in less than 48 hours What would you pay for a re-released album?
Leading festival organisers are calling for attendees to require vaccination Two festival directors have called on the government to specify vaccination as entry requirement
Jeff Mills has created an electronic music magazine The Escape Velocity is an electronic music magazine specialising in ‘the art of creation’
You can experience Daft Punk's 2017 Alive show in virtual reality The dazzling Daft Punk live show has been recreated in VR
A Japanese magazine article from 1999 contains Daft Punk's studio secrets Here’s a list of all the gear Daft Punk used to make ‘Homework’
Future Female Sounds launch survey to research challenges faced by women and non-binary DJs The survey is leading up to a European summit for women DJs projected to be held over the summer in Copenhagen
The UK government's used a rowdy drum 'n' bass track on a video telling people not to rave The Home Office's Stay Home ad is soundtracked by heavy drum 'n' bass
deadmau5 & Mad Dog Jones team up for 2 cyberpunk cryptoart collections 'Hypervision' is a series of 4 NFT-backed audiovisual artworks
The ultimate triple combo collab is Steve Aoki’s Dim Mak vs Capcom’s Street Fighter Hadoken! This is the pop culture crossover that EDM & video games fans dream of
Apple Music launches platform for African dance music, Isgubhu It will host exclusive playlists, DJ mixes, and more
Techno is the genre “least effective at reducing anxiety” A new study has found that techno is the least relaxing form of music – anyone who's spent the weekend at Movement or Berghain might disagree
Malakat Records is a new label focusing on "all musically inclined Arab womxn artists" Malakat says it is the "first womxn focused record label" in the Middle East & North Africa
SoundCloud to host a gaming tournament inside Fortnite Rico Nasty & MonsterDface will host SoundCloud Player One on Twitch
Fans petition NASA to name a planet after SOPHIE Renditions of the planet bear a resemblance to SOPHIE’s debut album artwork
12” single by obscure producer sells for $40k to become Discogs’ most expensive record British artist Scaramanga Silk now lays claim to Discogs' most expensive record
Ferry Corsten teams up with FaderPro & Armada University for a master class The 4.5 hour master class includes professional A&R feedback for students
Create Music Group introduces a credit card to help artists access royalties sooner The card looks to speed up artist payouts
The BBC Sound Effects Archive relaunches with 33,000+ recordings & a SFX mixer tool Stay home & enjoy the great outdoors with BBC's Soundscapes for Wellbeing
David Byrne, Ryuichi Sakamoto, & Cong Su’s score to The Last Emperor is being reissued on vinyl this March This unlikely trio gave the sounds of Imperial China a modern twist
The COMMON Multiverse Initiative by currents.fm welcomes Asia to its line-up The platform will also begin a series of beta upgrades so artists can create their own universes
A new BBC documentary details alleged sexual assault & abuse of women in the music industry 'Music's Dirty Secrets: Women Fight Back' looks at recent assault and abuse cases
Armin Van Buuren shares a playlist with 1,000 of the best trance tracks ever Listen to the mega playlist published by the Dutch trance legend below
Brush up on your D'n'B history with upcoming book Who Say Reload is the story of D’n’B and features the stories of the genre’s pioneers
Download a free sample pack made collaboratively by DJs For Climate Action & Greenpeace The catch? Make a track inspired by the theme “the sound of the future”
