French Electronic Music Added to France’s Intangible Cultural Heritage List, First Step Toward UNESCO Recognition The news is spreading like a small collective comeback: French electronic music is finally making its way into the “intangible cultural heritage”, the first step toward UNESCO recognition. After decades of being treated like a suspicious subculture, hearing the word […]
Green Parties, Real Damage: When Our Substances Betray Our Values Edito: On December 16, 2025 in Marseille, Emmanuel Macron announced his intention to raise the fixed fine for drug use from €200 to €500, following a “hit them in the wallet” logic and repeating the idea that “using drugs isn’t festive”. Let’s be honest: our […]
Opinion : Why does everyone want to get paid to party? It has never been easier to self-proclaim yourself a nightlife actor.In just a few years, the electronic scene has seen an explosion of collectives, DJs, micro-media outlets, improvised programmers, Instagram curators, party organizers, booking and management agencies sometimes created in a matter of weeks, […]
“When Night Falls” — Inside Fabrice Catérini’s Photobook Reading When Night Falls means accepting to enter a territory where darkness is never merely the absence of light. For Fabrice Catérini, the night becomes a passage, a crucible, a space where masks fall and inner truths surface. For seven years, he photographed intimacy as much as […]
Maybe it’s time to demystify the image of the tortured artist. If this collective imagination is so deeply rooted in our cultures, it’s partly because of Baudelaire and all those artists fed on ideas, opium and melancholy. Baudelaire’s spleen is that “disgust for everything,” a sadness with no apparent cause that seems to relentlessly haunt […]
Hot Take : Selective Kindness: When Nightlife Protects the Wrong People Kindness in nightlife only exists when it suits you The word “kindness” has taken over nightlife vocabulary. You hear it everywhere. You read it in event descriptions. It shows up in the discourse of DJs, influencers, collectives, clubs, media. A word turned into a […]
Between closures and price spirals: Macadam’s “Support Your Scene” bets on a fair price for nightlife In a scene where clubs are closing in quick succession while others charge eye-watering prices, Macadam (Nantes) launches “Support Your Scene”: a voluntary €20 solidarity ticket to stabilise an independent artistic model without betraying its values. The club’s line […]
Opinion: The Importance of Playing : Why “Small Gigs” Shape Real DJs There’s something deeply accurate in this quote from Theo Parrish that’s been making the rounds again lately: “You gotta take shitty gigs. Eat it.” Voir cette publication sur Instagram Une publication partagée par VinceB 🥷🏻🕶️ |Music-DJS-Psychology-Coach| (@djs_motivation) This is not provocation. It’s not […]
HOT TAKE : Partying is for everyone. Running a party is not. It has never been easier to organise a party.A few friends, a small venue, an online ticket link, a lineup found in DMs, two LED spots bought second-hand, and suddenly we’re talking about a “collective”, a “project”, a “vision”. And honestly, there is […]
We might just be a little snobbish toward progress. So, are we looking at AI the way boomers looked at mobile phones or electronic music? The way acoustic musicians once reacted when the electric guitar appeared in the 70s — as a betrayal. At the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, Bob Dylan walked on stage with […]
Against industry amnesia, Dweller offers Black ravers a true home. When Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson speaks of Dweller, she never describes it as “just a festival.” She speaks of rebuilding a world. Of reclaiming a stolen space. Of restoring a memory that was systematically erased from the global narrative of electronic music. Of recentring Black communities, […]
In a world where women’s words remain suspect, the pen becomes a weapon. Being a journalist and engaged in electronic music means exposing yourself to labels, threats, and sometimes silence. But it also means refusing to stay quiet in an ecosystem that prefers advertising to criticism.It’s now been a few months since I started working […]
