With clubbers, hippies and artistic types lining the protest route in Ibiza yesterday, the demonstration had an impromptu, creative spirit.
At every major junction, the protesters would sit on the street clapping and shouting, with the energy building, before all of them jumped in the air in unity.
It was very dance music, and [...]
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Ibiza protesters dance for freedom
Resident Advisor Podcast: RA.114 Aeroplane
Aeroplane fly high with a set of disco pop in this week’s RA podcast.
If Aeroplane didn’t exist, it might’ve been necessary to invent them. Over the course of three singles for the Eskimo label, the duo has produced a spate of disco pop epics that sounds so perfectly formed that they almost have to be [...]
Electronic Groove Podcast: EG.043 Gabbi Lopez
Gabbi started his DJ career in 1995 in Portugal, bagging himself his first residency in 1996 in one of the first Techno clubs ‘X-tema’ in north Portugal. In the same year Gabbi managed to play some of the largest Portuguese clubs at the time (‘Rocks’, ‘Enseada’) as well as doing a radio show on a [...]
Pierce & Jerl - Blanc De Blancs EP
The second record from the cologne duo pierce & jerl! both are active in the techno and electronic scene and have been producing since many years. now they have joined forced to produce two records for mbf. the title track of the second record “blanc de blancs” is focused around a joyfully uplifting techno house [...]
Richie Hawtin Resident Dj on Cocoon Ibiza
Along with Ricardo Villalobos and Sven Väth, Richie Hawtin is resident DJ of Cocoon in Ibiza.
Here’s what Richie had to say about his residency at Ibiza’s biggest techno night.
“Cocoon is always special – I’ve played for Cocoon Ibiza dozens of times over the past few years so I understand how things work in this club, [...]
Playing around: Made to Play on CD
Jesse Rose’s Made to Play label issues its first compilation Playing Around this month.
Made to Play’s philosophy is pretty darn simple: make records for DJs to play. But there is one problem with that. What if you don’t have a turntable? Luckily Rose has thought of that and decided to compile the label’s current releases [...]






































