Terry Matthew
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A week after promising to preserve many of the site's most beloved features, Bandcamp's new owner has gutted the company's staff. The writing team at Bandcamp Daily is reportedly down to just 3 people.
Custodians of a dead medium want you to know how MAD! they are that the Ayoras of Radio Impacto 2 won't return their letters.
It should fill us with outrage that some of the most brilliant artists that lived on this planet and in our time spent their last years scrambling for cash for medical expenses while confined to their sickbeds. That Deejay Deeon was able to produce anything of consequence amid these circumstances is beyond belief.
Armond Williams, who once appeared in an MTV reality show hosted by LeBron James, has pled guilty to the March 2019 killing of Sound-Bar doorman Thurmond Bailey.
While posing as a defender of artists and the "creator economy," Bandcamp's former owner Epic Games paid the largest fine in history for manipulating users into unwanted purchases and violating rules intended to protect children.
Molecular Recordings has always had an uncanny ability to identify and amplify up-and-coming techno artists very early in their career. After a decade on hiatus, label head Marco Lenzi returned without skipping a beat.
Videos show Hamas attacking a psy-trance rave in the Negev desert. An estimated 260 attendees as the festival were killed, a number that is expected to climb.
A seven track techno EP from Lefrenk that is made to be played loud, with remixes from Francois DIllinger, Pablo Funk, Kim Cosmik and Adrien d'Elzius.
On Disclosure's fourth album, the lads wind up circling around back to where they started.
Another 10th anniversary edition strips the drums from Random Access Memories though I don't think the drums were what anyone disliked about it.
Risperson's remix of "Lovers" is gorgeous, glorious underground deep house, punchy on the low-end but with a sunny sheen that catches your breath in your throat.
Previously unheard live set from Westbam, recorded live at Chicago rave INFERNO on January 20 1996, from the VBNTS archive by VIVA ACID's Luis Baro.
The Chicago DJ and producer is undergoing dialysis in the hospital and will need support after discharge for outpatient treatment.
Fixed Rhythms drops this crash between high tech and low tech soul from MAL.E, the new alias of Mali Mase.
Epic Games used, neglected and finally divested themselves of Bandcamp in barely more than a year. Intentions of Bandcamp's third owner since February 2022 are unknown.
5 Mag meets Gratts, DJ behind Issue 208's cover mix. Belgian by birth, a resident of Berlin for 8 years and now living in South Australia, his productions over the last few years have truly shined, with a bright and eclectic approach to house music.
Teri Bristol, who held down residencies in Chicago for more than 30 years, including genuinely iconic nights at Medusa's and Crobar, passed away on September 25, 2023.
"I Found Love" sounds like a freight train driving through your living room and blowing open a tunnel to the discotheque next door.
Prince was still alive when Green Velvet released Bigger Than Prince, and that's just a little of what's changed in the last 10 years
A storied company continues to gut staff and reportedly shift product manufacturing overseas under new ownership.
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Brutal layoffs at Bandcamp as new owner slashes 50% of staff
A week after promising to preserve many of the site's most beloved features, Bandcamp's new owner has gutted the company's staff. The writing team at Bandcamp Daily is reportedly down to just 3 people.
