Stacey Pullen was born in 1969, a year after the Detroit riots, an event that kick-started the city’s gradual decline into poverty. Growing up against an increasingly dilapidated backdrop of economic uncertainty and civil unrest, music soon became Stacey’s creative outlet. “My uncle was a session drummer,” Stacey explains. “My dad played in motown groups [...]
Nastia’s personal journey towards the summit of the underground dance music scene began in her home country of Ukraine. “The village where I grew up is like one big family,” she begins. “Today people live in the online social networks. You can write something bad on a message board and there are no repercussions. But [...]
It was seeing Stevie Wonder perform at Glastonbury that persuaded techno producer Laura Jones to continue working as a DJ, despite a degenerative eye condition that is gradually impairing her eyesight. “I wasn’t in a good place at that particular time,” Laura explains. “I was thinking of packing it all in. But to see Stevie [...]
Arthur Conan Doyle wrote in A Study in Scarlet (1887): “There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.”And something like that is what Marcos Torres (Ibiza, 1973) has been doing ever since the late [...]
Air – “twentyears” (Warner) Few records left their mark on the late 90s like Air´s debut album did. The French pair made up of Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas Godin called their creation “Moon Safari” and their songs seemed to explore distant galaxies. The opening track, “La Femme d’Argent”, is [...]
Replacing ENTER. on the Space roster won’t be easy, but if anyone can do it, it’s Italian techno visionaries Tale Of Us. Over the last few years, Matteo Milleri and Carmine Conte’s abstract sound has become more defined, evolving into something tangible, something a major superclub could forge a party around. Consequently, when Richie Hawtin [...]
Three years ago, Jackmaster and fellow DC10 DJs Jasper James and Skream rented an apartment behind Pacha. It was Jack’s first full summer on the island and the setup made for an “eventful season.” In 2015, Jack, Jasper and a few friends decided to do things differently, renting a remote villa with one of their [...]
Despite his eleventh hour switch from Sankeys to Privilege at the beginning of May, Darius Syrossian had a truly triumphant Ibiza 2015 after his debuting Do Not Sleep party caught the imagination of thousands of young ravers who turned up at the Vista Club on mass to dance to cutting edge underground sounds. “The creation [...]
We met up with Brianna Price, better known to the world as B.Traits, in late May. Bri was in town to discuss the hot topic of gender equality within the music industry at the International Music Summit (IMS) at Hard Rock Hotel. “These days, gender equality is not as much of an issue as it [...]
ABC – “The Lexicon of Love 2” ( EMI/Universal) It was the gold-digger years at the start of the 80s: Punk had crumbled into hardcore and other kinds of games, new wave had staked its claim and somewhere in between blitz kids and poppers stepped on the catwalk and [...]
