The Face • 26th March 2024

The Face: How the Israel-Gaza conflict ruptured Berlin’s music and art scene

The city’s world-renowned clubs and galleries attract liberal-minded young people from all over the world. So why are pro-Palestine artists choosing to boycott them?

Financial Times • 15th March 2024

Financial Times: Musician Jlin has gone from the steel mill to the dance floor

Jerrilynn Patton developed her dense, singular sound while working as a machinist.

Hadara • 11th February 2024

Hadara: Eclectic Sounds from the Arab World

Record label Habibi Funk revives Arabic music’s forgotten sounds.

New York Times • 27th December 2022

New York Times: Finding Community, and Freedom, on the Virtual Dance Floor

On any given weekend, there are dozens of parties happening on VRChat, a platform where users assume fantastical avatars of their own design.

Kinfolk • 17th November 2022

Kinfolk: Hunee

Hun Choi outlines his dancefloor philosophy.

New York Times • 20th October 2022

New York Times: A Cutting-Edge Music Festival in Uganda Keeps the Beat

Despite being called “immoral” by some politicians, this year’s Nyege Nyege festival celebrated diversity and innovation in contemporary African music.

The Guardian • 23rd August 2022

The Guardian: Rapper’s delight or weapons-grade nonsense? The app that uses AI to help MCs bust a rhyme

New tech is promising to take rap artists to new lyrical heights. But will its algorithm be able to handle our novice writer’s rubbish rhymes?

Pioneer DJ • 14th July 2022

The Bridge: 10 of the best clubs in gaming history

From the Berghain-inspired dance floor of Hitman 3 to the disco balls of Mario Kart 8, Tom Faber explores ten of the best gaming dance floors.

New York Times • 23rd June 2022

New York Times: For a Kyiv Techno Collective, ‘Now Everything Is About Politics’

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the team behind Cxema parties have shifted its focus, but political engagement is nothing new for the artists.

Financial Times • 23rd November 2021

Financial Times: Radiohead’s interactive ‘exhibition’ pushes music and games into new territory

Created in collaboration with gaming studios, ‘Kid A Mnesia Exhibition’ embeds the player in a rich visual world.

Kinfolk • 16th November 2021

Kinfolk: Fatima Al Qadiri

The shape shifting star of contemporary electronica.

Financial Times • 7th October 2021

Financial Times: Nils Frahm — the piano ‘will always be my medicine’

After an exhausting world tour and a new album with FS Blumm, the German musician is happy to shift back a gear.

Financial Times • 15th June 2021

Financial Times: Why music is the heartbeat of gaming

Guitar Hero and Rock Band became $1bn global successes, and there are strong parallels between playing music and playing games.

Financial Times • 10th May 2021

Financial Times: Pop stars mark out new territory in gaming

The pandemic has accelerated the trend among musicians to reach audiences via video games.

Resident Advisor • 21st April 2021

Resident Advisor: What Twitch Means For Dance Music

From Disclosure to Addison Groove, Amazon's livestream platform has offered artists a way to build audiences and make money during the pandemic—but will it last? Tom Faber investigates.

The Guardian • 31st March 2021

The Guardian: Phil Elverum's songs of loss gave me a language for that shapeshifter, grief

After my first boyfriend died, Elverum’s Microphones and Mount Eerie helped me make sense of a bleak world.

Resident Advisor • 16th March 2021

Resident Advisor: How to Start a Record Label

Tom Faber guides us through the particulars of launching your own outlet, with expert advice from leading label owners.

Pitchfork • 25th February 2021

Pitchfork: Decolonizing Electronic Music Starts With Its Software

With the release of two free programs that encourage experimentation with global tuning systems, the musician and researcher Khyam Allami is challenging the Western biases of music production software.

Kinfolk • 2nd January 2021

Kinfolk: Max Richter

An interview with the classical composer whose delicate compositions fill stadiums.

Resident Advisor • 30th December 2020

Resident Advisor: Palestinian techno DJ Sama' Abdulhadi detained by authorities

More than 50,000 people have signed a petition to help secure her release.