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Jack Needham

2016 the year in… clubland

2016

Jack Needham

2016 the year in… clubland
From Fabric to free parties, Night Czars to night tubes, this was all the history – good and bad – that was made at night this year.
2016 was the year that… grime lost one of its founding fathers

Music

Jack Needham

2016 was the year that… grime lost one of its founding fathers
2016 was the year grime hit the mainstream, but it was also the year it lost one of its earliest patrons in Darren Platt, founder of Channel U. Here we salute the legacy of one of the genre’s unsung heroes.
from disco to diy: the history of iran’s electronic underground

Music

Jack Needham

from disco to diy: the history of iran’s electronic underground
Before the Islamic Revolution in the 1979, Iran was a musical hotbed that mixed east and west. Now a new generation of young electronic producers is rising up and carrying the torch.
where love saved the day: in memory of david mancuso

Music

Jack Needham

where love saved the day: in memory of david mancuso
As 2016 loses another cultural icon, we celebrate the godfather of disco’s LGBTQ legacy at The Loft, the private club in Mancuso’s house that became a movement.
made to swing: 25 years of nervous records

Interviews

Jack Needham

made to swing: 25 years of nervous records
Nervous Records’ founder Michael Weiss and iconic DJ Louie Vega and give us the inside story of the record label that made house history in NYC.
living the highlife: dance music in ghana

GHANA

Jack Needham

living the highlife: dance music in ghana
As DJ Katapila and Ata Kak begin their tour across Europe, we look into the fractious, fractured, and frenetic history of dance music in Ghana.
how ministry of sound took british dance culture to the next level

Culture

Jack Needham

how ministry of sound took british dance culture to the next level
As Ministry of Sound celebrates its 25th birthday, we speak to some of the people who built the club that changed raving in Britain.
why are london’s police still disproportionately targeting grime?

Music

Jack Needham

why are london’s police still disproportionately targeting grime?
Despite a growing middle-class love for a genre born in London’s project housing, grime still sees the most targeted discriminatory procedures placed upon it than any other genre in the United Kingdom. Here, artists, promoters, venue owners and label…

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