Two decades ago, Mark Knight established the Toolroom label. In the years since, Toolroom has become synonymous with championing innovation in electronic dance music, with the label becoming an essential point of reference for quality and cutting-edge tech-house, house, and techno. The establishment of The Toolroom Academy would set the
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Image: Juliette Leigniel Paris DJ and producer POPOF is a name most tech-house fans would be familiar with, and for good reason. After fifteen years in the game, he’s one of the genre’s most downloaded artists and has become synonymous with music that, well, pops off. From the early synth
Italian producer Matilde Davoli has released her cinematic new single, ‘Il Coraggio di Provare.’ Her first and only track written in Italian, the title roughly translates to “the courage to try” and is lifted from her upcoming album, Home, slated for release on the 5th of November via Loyal To
Avant-pop songstress Josephine Philip recently released her track ‘The Clue’ on 8th October via Midnight Confessions. As one half of the duo Darkness Falls, Philip’s first solo release is a contemporary love song centred around the acceptance of impossible love. The track pays tribute to the Nina Simone version of
UK-based Jet-G is the combined force of electronic producers Jolliffe (on synth, programming and production), ECKOES (on vocals and production), GENTRY (on Piano, synth and programming) as well as Tony Terror (on synth, programming and production). They have just released their latest single ‘Give Me Air’ which came to fruition
Image: youANDme youANDme is deeply engrained in the German electronic music world and especially the international Berlin club scene. As the owner of Rotary Cocktail Recordings, Polymorph, CUTZ.ME, and three other mysterious imprints, he provides a steady flow of music and talent from Germany to the rest of the world.
Romanian-born Toronto-bred DJ and producer Simina Grigoriu is an example of an artist who has put in the work to achieve incredible accolades during her decade-long career. Cutting her teeth in the industry as a DJ, she made the inevitable transition to production. Her sound finds itself amongst the haze
Image: Last Night On Earth Durante lives by his passion. It’s evident in the LA based producer’s work; there’s an obsession with melody and layers of texture that define his explorations at the edge of house and techno. And while he’s informed by the four on the four pulse of
Image courtesy Dispersion PR Roland Leesker lives for and loves electronic music, and has done since well before 1989, the year of his first show as a house DJ on the Frankfurt bar scene. The current managing director of the iconic label Get Physical Records, his passion for music developed
Image courtesy The Echo Agency Auriga’s sound is the sort of techno that can only be formulated by a deep rooted understanding of music. Her dynamic and kinetic productions embrace the sort of melodies, harmonies and textures that add an impossible sense of dimension to the regular time thud of
