Ireland introduces minimum income for artists: €1,300 per month guaranteed A groundbreaking European initiative In its 2026 budget, the Irish government confirmed the creation of a guaranteed minimum income of €1,300 per month for 2,000 to 2,200 artists and creative workers. This program, called the Basic Income for the Arts (BIA), was first piloted between […]
Paul Kalkbrenner – The Essence Album Review (2025) Seven years after Parts of Life, Paul Kalkbrenner returns with a record that feels like an intimate wake-up call. The Essence is not the album of a producer chasing trends, but that of an artist who, faithful to his own method (as he admits in our interview, […]
YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE UNDERGROUND We’ve stripped the word “underground” of its meaning. Today, it’s slapped onto parties that play techno or house in clubs and festivals, as if choosing a genre were enough to claim belonging. But underground has never been just a matter of style. It’s a culture, a set of values, […]
UNTOLD ONE: THE FIRST CHAPTER OF A NEW ERA SAVE THE DATES: AUGUST 6-9, 2026, IN THE HEART OF TRANSYLVANIA, ROMANIA UNTOLD ONE is the concept under which the UNTOLD Festival 2026 edition will unfold, marking the beginning of a new decade – one unlike anything seen before. From August 6–9, 2026, the beautiful city […]
This Isn’t Hate, It’s Love for the Scene Since we started publishing weekly opinion pieces and amplifying the voices of those who live the dancefloor, we’ve been hit with insults, threats, and harassment. 98% of the time, it comes from the very people our critiques touch. Because criticism stings, it shakes comfort zones and points […]
How the Scene Keeps Young Artists Precarious You have to start somewhere. A first residency, volunteer work, an apprenticeship, an internship: it’s often the beginning of a career. Learning on the ground has always been part of the path (and in our view, essential, even crucial) in the music world. But what once was about […]
Long livestreams don’t lie The way we consume electronic music has radically changed over the past ten years. Back in the days of Be-At TV or DanceTrippin, you could watch entire sets from your couch, sometimes four or five hours straight. The experience wasn’t clean: shaky cameras, uneven video quality, but the essence was there. […]
DJs: Credit Isn’t Optional An hour of digging will never outweigh the hundreds of hours spent in the studio by those who actually make the music. “Track ID?” has almost become a refrain under DJ videos: a kind of ritual where the audience demands, in the name of curiosity and memory, what should already be […]
Everyone should DJ, not everyone should be paid for it DJing has become an everyday gesture. With a basic controller, a few hours of tutorials, and a playlist, anyone can now call themselves a DJ. That’s a good thing: mixing is a way of sharing a part of yourself, of showcasing your influences, of creating […]
MusicToo at PEW: between prevention, sacrifice, and silence This debrief will be a little different. We are missing some figures (those shared by Domitille Raveau from Consentis) and some sociological insights (those from Alice Laurent-Camena). We’ll wait for the official video to do a proper recap. Here, we are mostly sharing our own reflections on […]
Is hard techno the new EDM? And why it keeps denying the far-right in its parties Yesterday at the PEW (Paris electronic week), the conference on hard techno ended up spiraling a bit and left us worried. Voices were raised, and the atmosphere turned tense. I’m going to tell you about it. To clarify: tomorrow […]
Sound Flowers: a poetic counterpoint to AI in music Paris-based studio Tones Garden has just launched Sound Flowers, a new iPhone app designed to rethink how we make music. Instead of sticking to traditional linear sequencers, the app introduces a rotating step sequencer, a circular playground where rhythms and melodies sprout in loops rather than […]
