Apple Music Grabs Head Trip, But What Does the Livestream Race Actually Buy Dance Fans?
Goldenvoice now splits its festivals across three streaming services. The deals pile up faster than the answers about what viewers really get.
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Vinyl vs Streaming: How We Listen to Electronic Music Now
Fidelity, ritual, and why dance music keeps pressing wax even when everyone owns a phone.
What Is a Drum Machine? The Boxes That Built Techno and House
A drum machine is a box that plays drum sounds by itself. A few of them failed at their intended job and accidentally invented house, techno and everything after.
Switching Genres Mid-Set: How DJs Move Between BPMs Without Losing the Floor
Double-time blends, breakdown resets and bridge tracks — the real techniques behind a clean jump from 120 to 174.
What Is a CDJ, and Why Do Club DJs Still Swear By It?
The digital multi-player behind almost every professional DJ booth traces back three decades — here's how it works, what it plays, and why the CD is long gone.
How Club Sound Systems Work: A DJ's Guide
The PA is the instrument every DJ actually plays — here is how a club system turns your mixer's output into pressure, from booth monitor to line array to subwoofer.
B2B DJ Sets Explained: Etiquette and Technique
Back-to-back sets are the scene's duet format — two DJs, one booth, alternating tracks — with a technique and an etiquette all of their own.
Dance News
How DJs Get Paid: The Fee Economy Explained
Dance News
Berghain Turns 20: What Two Decades of the World's Most Famous Club Built
Berghain opened in a former Friedrichshain power plant in December 2004, and its 20 years remade Berlin's club economy, its building's tax status, and techno's global idea of itself.
Dance News
What Is Amapiano? South Africa's Genre Explained
The log-drum, jazz-piano house style born in Gauteng's townships now has its own Beatport chart and a Coachella headline set to its name.
Dance News
How Streaming Royalties Actually Pay DJs and Producers
What Is a DJ Rider? The Demands Behind Every Set Explained
The technical and hospitality document that shapes every club and festival performance, and why promoters negotiate over it.
Compilation Albums: How Curation Became an Art Form
From scene samplers to boxed retrospectives — what a compilation actually is, who gets paid, and why the best ones are authorship.
AI Tools in Music Production: The Scene's Real Argument
Most producers already use AI somewhere in the chain — the fight is over where the line sits, not whether the tools exist.
Vinyl Pressing Capacity: Why Your Record Waits Months
Demand has outrun the world's pressing plants for years — inside the queues, the costs and the workarounds dance labels use.