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Cocoon in the Park at Temple Newsam, Leeds
Saturday 11^th July

Sven Väth, Carl Cox, Ricardo Villalobos, Dixon, Enzo Siragusa b2b Seb Zito

One of the biggest UK house music partnerships of the 1990s and early noughties, the Rhythm Masters return to the fold this month with their first release for more than a decade.

The second Brighton Music Conference (BMC) was hailed a resounding success by all who attended at the start of June. The two-day event — featuring panel discussions, tech displays, networking events and more — has quickly built itself up into the UK's answer to the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE).

Voted Best Festival at Best of British Awards 2014, South West Four celebrated its 10th year in 2013 — but this one is gearing up to be their most monumental year yet. Every summer, SW4's headline acts — over two days — have become probably the most hyped announcements among dance heads in the capital, if not the UK.

London-based cover band, Introducing Live, laugh in the face of the impossible — the group perform the albums that others won’t, they play the unplayable. What’s even more impressive is they do this without the help of any laptops, sequencers, or robots. 

The group’s first project was DJ Shadow’s legendary album ‘Endtroducing’, a sample-based album that required the group to reverse engineer all of Shadow’s samples to properly recreate the album for a live setting.

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FIELD DAY, VICTORIA PARK, LONDON
Saturday 6^th June
Caribou, Daniel Avery b2b Andrew Weatherall, Clark (live), Floating Points, Ghost Culture, Hudson Mohawke (live), John Talabot, Kindness, Leon Vynehall, Marcel Dettmann b2b Ben Klock, Nina Kraviz, Mumdance, Shanti Celeste, Ten Walls, Todd Terje & Olsens, Bok Bok, Clarence Clarity & more

As the curtain falls on the 52^nd edition of Southport Weekender, Masters at Work drop Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’ to mark the final tune in its 28-year history.

The main stage celebration of house from New York, Chicago and Detroit, dubbed The Powerhouse, is full to the brim with the Weekender faithful keen to catch a last note of music at the event they’ve loved so much.

Róisín Murphy is the ultimate career woman. From teenage runaway to cult sensation, the mother of two has managed to truly have it all, thanks to a deadly combination of dry wit and raw talent. It’s this talent that might appear — from the outside — to have lain dormant for almost a decade, with the singer releasing what can be best described as “bits and bobs” over the last eight years, but nothing on the scale of her last long play record, ‘Overpowered’.

Tom Demac might've bedded in with Hypercolour in recent times, but he started out raving at free parties in North Wales in the early noughties. He tells DJ Mag that what made him want to start DJing and producing himself was “seeing old hardcore DJ Mark EG smashing records over his head and cutting his record box open with an angle-grinder at Helter Skelter, Bowlers [in Manchester].

Dance music is now a multi-million-pound industry, and like with other multi-million-pound industries it needs conferences and trade fairs in order to keep the wheels turning. BMC in Brighton grew out of this tradition. With the Miami Winter Music Conference (WMC) — or Miami Music Week, as it's now just as commonly known — now more like a series of events than a conference, global attention has shifted to the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE). This is now the primary place where the international dance music industry does business.