According to a new study drawing from 2,023 interviews, over one-half of the UK's youth consider music to be their main passion.
Carried out by London-based brand agency Amplify, the extensive study - which focused on 18-30 year olds from a diverse range of backgrounds - found that 51% of women and 49% of men deemed music to be their biggest obsession.
Last year, Sheffield-based producer Yak dropped a track that, unbeknownst to him, would end up being picked up by some of the most revered DJs on the circuit. ‘Mido’, an agile and propulsive techno-heater released on Orson’s Version imprint, had all the off-kilter verve of releases found on Hessle Audio and Timedance but wielded enough immediacy and percussive heft to slot comfortably into any set it found itself in.
Four Tet is hosting an all-day party alongside Ben UFO at The Warehouse Project in Manchester Saturday, 6th October.
The event, dubbed Four Tet & Friends All Day Long, is set to run from 2pm to midnight and will feature a solo performance by Four Tet as well as a five-hour b2b set between Four Tet and Ben UFO to kick off the show, according to a tweet. The full line-up will be announced in July.
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MC Akala, the stone cold power-fisted slayer of Charlie Sloth’s Fire In The Booth freestyle session, can also take down any quasi-righteous, over-privileged member of the establishment on Question Time or Newsnight. DJ Mag’s OFF THE FLOOR worked on setting up this interview with him for a year, after seeing him outshine everyone at Grinagog Festival, and selling out Brixton Academy, smashing Shepherd’s Bush Empire, and taking over Saturday night on the BBC talking about Homer (not the yellow cartoon character).
“Eighteen months before ‘Boom’ came out, she was living in a hostel, that’s how fast it happened, the transformation,” Akala – real name Kingslee James Daley – says. “She helped me start a record label, so there’s no doubt my sister helped change the possibilities for the family. She became really successful after I’d left school, she was on pirate radio in our local area.
"Humans are fragile and can do fucked up shit. I have a right to criticise my government without being imprisoned or tortured, to me that is free speech"
Labelling gets us all in trouble. Akala tells stories of himself and doctor mates getting pulled for driving nice cars as critical anecdotes, and explores the systems of profiteering policing, and shoddy media that prays on poverty and fuels systemic racism. His book stands up to educational bigotry, and outlines how the state benefits from purposeful denial and oppression of post-Windrush power. “Obviously I enjoy not being in the financial situation I was in growing up, but does that mean I need to have £10 million quid? No!”
A new survey has reported that 22% of UK festivalgoers, which equates to one in five festival attendees, have experienced sexual harassment or assault.
YouTube has deleted more than 30 UK drill videos from its platform that police claim incite violence.
According to figures obtained by Press Association, Scotland Yard has asked the video-sharing site to remove between 50 and 60 music videos in the last two years. Of these, around 30 have been taken down.
A recent report in The Sunday Times attempted to link a series of violent crimes in London to gang rivalries supposedly catalysed by the “ultra violent new form of music sweeping Britain”.
Rebekah has praised the UK for providing a home for “faster and harder sounds” which she has faced “backlash” from fans for exploring.
“UK artists are more interesting in their choice of sounds and references to their past influences,” the 38-year-old DJ told Four Four. “It’s also a home for the faster and harder sounds to be explored.”
South Wales police and ITV have posted some advice on how to spot an illegal rave rave in your area.
Released via an online news story on the ITV website, the information explains how to identify one of the “unlicensed events” which they say “usually turn anti-social with large-scale disorder, criminal damage and substance misuse taking place.”
After 66 years in print, NME will cease to produce its weekly magazine after Time Inc. announced today that it had pulled production.
An official statement made by Time Inc publishers read, “NME’s free weekly print magazine will cease publication. This week’s issue of the magazine out on Friday will be the final free print edition.”
The era defining music magazine first went to print as New Musical Express in 1952 before launching its weekly free edition in September 2015.
Goldie and Skepta have brought their collective prowess together for ‘Upstart (Road Trip)’. The single is part of a four-track vinyl-only release that will be available via Metalheadz in late December.
