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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Lou Bega’s “Mambo No. 5,” a 1999 dance remix of Dámaso Pérez Prado’s 1949 single, is one of the most love-it-or-hate-it songs of all time — Stephen King’s wife definitely falls in the latter camp. The author recently spoke to Rolling Stone to promote his latest novel, “Holly,” and revealed his wife once threatened to divorce him due to his love of the infamous track, which was a worldwide hit and reached No.

Kate Middleton swapped custom-made gowns for comfy casual last weekend as she headed out to the Houghton Hall music festival, surprising many at the rave event.The Princess Of Wales, who celebrated England's Lionesses' win yesterday, flew under the radar at the three-day event, donning a pair of £120 Veja trainers, black skinny jeans and an off-the-shoulder top. Celebrating art & music in the Norfolk countryside, the techno rave festival featured dance and electronic music and saw a multitude of different stages. It is famed for being the UK's only 24-hour festival.

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The Warehouse Project has released the full line-up for its 2023 season, with some of the highlights including a massive Boiler Room party and Camelphat's only northern headline show of the year.

Thania Garcia SoundCloud will be supporting the careers of five up-and-coming artists with their six-month accelerator program, “First on SoundCloud.” This year’s picks are all over the map in sound, representing the striking evolution of styles that range from Brooklyn bass to Algorave, aka music created using computer code. In tandem with Sony, SoundCloud has selected artists: wolfacejoeyy, DJ_Dave, Nitepunk, Sojabrat, and sim0ne to receive creative support from the platform’s in-house tools for music discovery. Read more about their backgrounds below. “First on SoundCloud” was launched in 2018 and was later expanded into a year-long program in 2021 designed to work directly with each individual artist to connect them with new audiences and fortify connections with existing fans. The program has helped launch the careers of several established acts who got their start on the platform including Kehlani, Baby Rose, Peggy Gou and Little Simz.

Celestial North has released her debut album ‘Otherworld’, which – as its title suggests – is a wash of ethereal tunes that transport the listener into a fully realised sonic environment. In order to achieve this, she fuses elements of dream pop, folktronica, techno and more.“I imagined that I was time-travelling through different and exciting worlds”, she says of writing the record.

Being a royal family member certainly has its perks. Prince William and Kate Middleton on Friday took all three of their children — Prince George, 9; Princess Charlotte, 8; and Prince Louis, 5 — on a royal outing to a Royal Air Force station.The royals got the chance to look at the insides and outsides of a variety of planes as preparations are being made for this weekend's Royal International Air Tattoo show, the world's largest military air show. The mood seemed to be a mix of excitement and deference as the family also explored the exact C-17 transporter aircraft that flew the body of Queen Elizabeth from Edinburgh — which is near Balmoral Castle, where she passed away last year — back to London.

Rosalía is back with her second solo single of 2023. Following January’s “LLYLM” — not to mention March’s RЯ, a joint EP with her romantic partner Rauw Alejandro — “Tuya” is a slick, slow-building jam with a beat by prolific reggaeton producer Chris Jedi.

Lily Moayeri A theme song sets the tone for a series. This is certainly the case for HBO’s awards favorite, “The White Lotus,” which won an Emmy for “Aloha” last year. The jungle sounds, exotic tones, yodels and screams laid over percussive rhythms and high-pitched flutes became instantly identifiable and an echo of the contentious characters vacationing at the Hawaii-based titular resort. Considering how iconic “Aloha” became, changing the theme for the Sicily-based second season was a bold choice. Chilean Canadian composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer drew his original musical ideas from the script and from conversations with series creator Mike White. White “wanted the music to feel like it was boiling under these characters,” de Veer says from his studio in Montréal.

Lily Moayeri The impact of “Renaissance,” the main title theme for the second season of “The White Lotus,” is felt far beyond the screen. Since the season’s premiere in Fall 2022, “Renaissance” has ushered in the Killers as they arrived on stage and Dominic Fike has closed his sets with it. But where the song has really hit is on the dance floor. Grammy-winning DJ/producer Tiësto, a huge fan of the series, began including it in his sets toward the end of 2022. His “Renaissance” remix got its official release, with HBO’s blessing. For the second season, Chilean Canadian composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer drew his original musical ideas from the script and from conversations with series creator Mike White. White “wanted the music to feel like it was boiling under these characters,” de Veer says from his studio in Montréal.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor “Prey” director Dan Trachtenberg wanted his “Predator” spinoff, which is set in 1719, to be shot in a naturalistic way, so cinematographer Jeff Cutter made use of available light whenever possible — especially from fire and the moon. In the movie, Comanche warrior Naru (Amber Midthunder) tracks and hunts down a killer alien through the woods. “I would use fire as much as possible and augment it if we had to,” says Cutter.

‘Cockroach’ serves not only as the debut single from South Korean punk band Sailor Honeymoon, but is also the first release through their Seoul and London-based label Good Good 굿굿 Records, of which the band’s Abi Raymaker is a co-founder.A photographer by day, Raymaker is joined in the band by techno DJ Zaeeun Shin and singer-songwriter Meaningful Stone – though you shouldn’t let any of those tags lead you to form any pre-judgement on what they might sound like. The band themselves switched up which instruments they’d all play once they started rehearsing, in order to bring an extra rawness to their sound.“For us, Sailor Honeymoon is our chance to express ourselves without being edited or corrected in any way”, says Raymaker.

British DJ Patrick Topping is set to make a highly anticipated return to Edinburgh later this year with an extra-special one off performance.

Following a quick techno dance number performed by a slew of costumed “foot soldiers,” Seth Rogen took to the stage to introduce an extended clip from “TMNT: Mutant Mayhem.”We also got a first look at the full cast, namely Hannibal Buress (Genghis Frog), Rose Byrne (Leatherhead), John Cena (Rocksteady), Jackie Chan (Splinter), Ice Cube (Superfly), Natasia Demetriou (Wingnut), Ayo Edebiri (April O’Neil), Giancarlo Esposito (Baxter Stockman), Post Malone (Ray Fillet), Seth Rogen (Bebop), Paul Rudd (Mondo Gecko), Maya Rudolph (Cynthia Utrom); alongside Micah Abbey (Donatello), Shamon Brown Jr. (Michelangelo), Nicolas Cantu (Leonardo), and Brady Noon (Raphael).We open with April talking to the young heroes, where Mikey asks if there are more humans who will accept them.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent British director Joe Wright, who helmed Winston Churchill drama “Darkest Hour” – which earned Gary Oldman an Oscar for his portrayal as the British prime minister – has now changed historical sides.  Wright is at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios shooting high-end TV drama “M. Son of the Century” which chronicles Benito Mussolini’s rise to power. A timely tale because, as he puts it: “Populist leaders are sprouting up all over the world.”  Aesthetically, the show will be “quite outlandish” with deeply saturated colors, punctuated by a “kind of techno score,” the director said during a recent set visit. Though “It’s not told in a vérité style,” Wright pointed out that “All the facts of what happened, they’re all there.” 

Ahead of this Friday’s (April 4) release of her debut album, With A Hammer, Yaeji has shared its final single, “Passed Me By.” Like previous offerings “For Granted” and “Done (Let’s Get It),” the new song highlights her talents as an electronic pop artist after her introduction to the world as a producer and DJ with a penchant for bubbly house and brash techno. These new tracks are bold reconfigurations of her already formidable skill with melody, and “Passed Me By” might be the most beguiling and beautiful one yet.

Laurent Garnier has announced that he will release a new album in May. He also says that if you want to catch him DJing somewhere near where you live, the next eighteen months will be the time to do it, as he plans to step back from touring in 2025.The new record, titled ’33 Tours Et Puis S’en Vont’, will be Garnier’s first solo album for the best part of a decade – the last being 2015’s ‘La Home Box’.

Resident Advisor that Purkis was one of the “trailblazing music heads who first went to Detroit to seek out the makers of the early techno records”.“In 1991, he came to my place and played me a poorly recorded but stunning cassette master of the now classic Storm / Warm EP. Recorded using just two SH101’s triggered by a Roland TR909 and 808, it was due to be the first release on my ART label,” he said.DJ Luke Slater paid tribute on Twitter, writing: “Been a few years since I saw Lee .In Sync – Storm is quite frankly a work of art and one of the most haunting and beautiful records I ever heard in Techno .

report – which identified 27 emerging trends for 2023 – also lists things like ‘gemini hair’, ‘sci-fi fits’, and ‘romcom core’ in their round-up of predictions.“Rave culture will reign in the year ahead,” the report reads. “As Gen Z and Millenials recover from over two years in lockdown, they’ll take over nightclubs, warehouses and house parties all over the globe,” it adds, revealed that techno style, rave fashion and house music outfits are all trending upwards.According to their ‘trending on Pinterest’ statistics, ‘house music outfits’ searches are up by 185 per cent, while ‘Berlin rave fashion’ saw a 250 per cent spike.Other upticks in searches included ‘rave party aesthetic’ (35 per cent), ‘techno style’ (60 per cent) and ‘music mixer’ (115 per cent).“Gen Z and Millennials are reigniting their love for rave culture and its signature aesthetic,” the report continued.

Anna – best known as a techno producer – has announced that she will release her first ambient electronic album, ‘Intentions’, this May.“’Intentions’ captures the purest longing for the universal power of love”, she says. “It’s borne out of a deep well of love that exists inside of me, and an enduring appreciation for all that we call ‘life’”.The album will be her first for Mercury KX, with A&R Manager Cerys Weetch saying: “Anna’s powerful story stopped us in our tracks.

Django Django have announced their fifth album, ‘Off Planet’, which they are releasing in four parts between now and June. The first five tracks are out now, including new single ‘Complete Me’, featuring Self Esteem.“The instrumental for ‘Complete Me’ was made sometime in 2020 or 21 when the world was in lockdown and I was making music in my garden shed studio”, says the band’s Dave Maclean.

An Edinburgh rave descended into chaos after a bouncer tried to drag a topless DJ from the decks during his performance.

A Paisley nightclub has raised vital funds for a suicide prevention charity as it remembers a close friend.

An eccentric 20-something tries to make friends in Amanda, a first feature for Italian writer-director Carolina Cavalli. Premiering in Venice’s Horizons Extra section, it’s a comical, stylized character portrait with a strong central turn from Benedetta Porcaroli. 

plans were going ahead for the redevelopment of the Surrey Quays site into office buildings.In a new interview with Mixmag, Lamé said that hope still remains for the venue to stay open, and that “active discussions are taking place about the possibility of keeping a significant venue as part of Printworks”.Lamé said that Printworks has in fact “not announced its closure” and that “there is hope that it still has a future”.“The teams at Broadwick Live and British Land have done an incredible job turning the space into a major destination that attracts some of the biggest names in electronic music and visitors from all over the world,” she said.“Despite it always being clear that it was a temporary space, the threat of its potential loss is no less raw to the tens of thousands who regularly enjoy a night out at Printworks.”Earlier this month Printworks announced its autumn/winter season for 2022, with Bonobo, Daphni and Shygirl among the artists set to play.The Rotherhithe nightclub, which opened in 2017, is going ahead with its plans to host a series of events later this year, despite the recent news regarding the local council approving plans for a redevelopment.

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Jon Hopkins and Anna have announced their latest collaboration, with Anna creating a ‘night version’ of ‘Deep In The Glowing Heart’ – a track from Hopkins’ ambient album ‘Music For Psychedelic Therapy’.The pair first came together when Hopkins asked Anna to remix his track ‘Singularity’ in 2018. Then, as now, she turned in a brilliant techno rework of Hopkins’ original.

The cream of world techno will again descend on Glasgow this week as the Riverside Festival returns with an electronic bang.

HAAi has shared the final single from her debut album, ‘Baby, We’re Ascending’ – an angular, experimental techno belter titled ‘Human Sound’.It features guest vocals from London artists Obi Franky and Kai-Isaiah Jamal, the former adding a wealth of colour to the mix with her rich and soulful harmonies, and the latter giving it a bold and authoritative punch with his striking, bluntly spoken poetry.“The collapsing begins,” Jamal says in the opening of his monologue. “A sound is a certain way of conjuring – not sure if it gives us our soul or gets its; reminds us of our gut and our ability to forget it; reminds us of what lingers in limbs and our option to sweat it out…”Have a listen to ‘Human Sound’ below:‘Human Sound’ is the fourth single to come from ‘Baby, We’re Ascending’, following the release of ‘Bodies Of Water’ in February, ‘Purple Jelly Disc’ (which also features Obi Franky) in March, and the Jon Hopkins-featuring title track at the start of May.

22 years after debuting at Number 1 in the UK, Fragma's Toca's Miracle is now finally available to stream.