From LWR and Kiss FM to Kool, Rinse and Deja Vu: the illegal radio stations that broke house, jungle, garage and grime in Britain, and what each changed.
AI imageGoing to your first hard techno festival or rave? What the tempo does to your body, what people wear, when the big sets happen and how to last the night.
AI imageWhy DJ livestreams get muted, which platforms license club music like Twitch's DJ Program and Mixcloud Live, and how to get clean audio into OBS.
AI imageHow Cloonee went from metal gigs in the West Midlands to a sold-out Red Rocks, and what his rap-sampling sound says about where tech house is heading.
AI imageWhen a DJ needs a manager, what a manager actually does, the 15-20% commission, manager vs booking agent, and the contract clauses to check before signing.
AI imageWhat PLUR means, where Peace Love Unity Respect came from, how kandi trades and the PLUR handshake work, and whether rave culture's code still matters today.
AI imagePolice found 15,000 counterfeit records in a west London unit. The story of how dance music's blank white labels went from promise to problem.
AI imageJersey club explained: how Newark DJs turned Baltimore club into a global sound, what the kick pattern and bed squeak are, its BPM and the hits it shaped.
AI imageHow to start a record label as a producer: business setup, getting onto Beatport, artist contracts and splits, and where a small label's money comes from.
AI imageParis club Silencio will run a pop-up in the old Watergate space from 30 October 2026 to May 2027. What is known, and what it says about Berlin's club crisis.
German-language guides on GEMA, bookings, clubs and the German music business are in the deutschsprachigen Blog.