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Elon Musk appears to have refused to enter German nightclub Berghain after taking offence to the night spot’s ‘PEACE’ sign.The billionaire tech mogul took to Twitter to complain about the sign during a trip to Berlin over the weekend.“They wrote PEACE on the wall at Berghain! I refused enter,” Musk wrote.It is unclear whether he was refused entry into the club or whether he was so offended by the sign that he decided not enter Berghain.They wrote PEACE on the wall at Berghain! I refused enter.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 3, 2022A follow-up tweet suggests that it was likely to be the latter, as he added: “Peace. Peace? I hate the word.

Channel Tres has been defying the prescribed boundaries of dance music and hip-hop since his self-titled debut EP dropped in 2018. The Compton producer/rapper has since collaborated with upper-crust artists of both forms, from Tyler to Baauer, Peggy to Disclosure, and beyond — broadening his horizons still further last summer and fall on tour with Thundercat.

Charlie Amter Just like every Coachella, this year’s festival offers up dozens of top international DJs that draw thousands to the desert. But 2022 holds an altogether different kind of dance act sure to draw curious onlookers and dance music fans alike: German techno marching band Meute.“Everyone has heard about Coachella – it’s such a big name and we are very excited about it,” Meute’s founder and trumpet player Thomas Burhorn says via Zoom from his hometown in Hamburg.

Griff Spex and Slic have shared their first collaborative single, "Going Through It." Griff — who makes production-focused, Stones Throw-adjacent hip-hop — and Slic — whose warped pop songs play like stripped-down miniatures of early Grimes tracks — aren't an immediately obvious pairing. But their new collab capitalizes on their mutual penchant for retrofuturist sounds, resulting in an industrial techno bop unlike anything either of them has produced on their own.

Terminal V Festival is all set to welcome techno fans back through its gates after an extremely difficult and trying two years through the coronavirus pandemic.

Techno producer Anna has released new EP ‘Journey To The Underworld’, which sees her expanding her sound outwards from her solely dancefloor-focussed earlier work, while still keeping the club at its core.“‘Journey To The Underworld’ is a very special project to me, I am so excited to finally share it with the world”, she tells Mixmag. “Since March 2020 I am making music without the pressure – that only I put on myself – of creating something that will have a strong reaction on the dance-floor, and this made me relax and experiment with different sounds and styles.

Bonobo has been plumbing the depths of electronica for over 20 years. The Brighton-born producer began his career as a trip-hop pioneer at the turn of the millennium, and has since ventured across the extended universe of the danceable, from downtempo to drum'n'bass, nu jazz to Detroit techno.

Scots DJ Frazi.er recently sold out the OVO Hydro and his success has led to techno music being celebrated for the first time in the Scottish Parliament.

Terminal V has announced plans for a weekend of events next month, running at the new O2 Academy in Edinburgh.

Although their sound has never been entirely conventional, the last twelve months has seen a distinct upwards trend in Änta’s willingness to experiment with production techniques and jumping between genres.Recent collaborations with house producer Solomun (‘Tuk Tuk’) and techno marching band Meute (‘Weirdo’) have seen them stretching out of their comfort zone.

Italy’s vaccination campaign now advanced, the government has finally given the green light for night clubs to reopen next week.

Eindhovens Dagblad, the Dutch city where Spaninks was raised.Serge Clone, from famed Dutch techno label and record shop Clone, wrote a tribute to Spaninks on Facebook (via DJ Mag).He said: “She was a true rebel and always up for some good jokes and some proper techno to stir things up,” he said. “After some health issues she took the DJing a bit slower and became Kundalini yoga teacher and started her Rebelbass DJ school.”Sad news… Our dutch first lady of techno has left us.

Glasgow. And what a line-up Platform can boast under the railway bridges at West Street.The atmospheric setting will play host to the likes of headliner Richie Hawtin, Fjaak, Ben Sims and Luke Slater.

Trainspotting (1996) scene.The MP was seen dancing to techno at the Scottish city’s Bohemia venue into the early hours.

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Peacock is expanding its documentary slate, picking up Downey Wrote That (wt), a docu about influential Saturday Night Live writer Jim Downey.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorGabin Rivoire’s documentary “Laurent Garnier: Off the Record,” which explores the origins and rise of techno music through the eyes of one of its pioneers, is set to world premiere on May 7 in front of a live audience at the CPH:DOX festival in Copenhagen. Anton, which is handling world sales, has released its first official trailer exclusively to Variety.

the VES website.The nominees:Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature “Jingle-Jangle: A Christmas Journey” “Project Power” “Tenet” “The Midnight Sky” “The Witches”Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature “Da 5 Bloods” “Extraction” “Mank” “News of the World” “Welcome to Chechnya”Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature “Onward” “Over the Moon” “Soul” “The Croods: A New Age” “Trolls World Tour”Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode “Lovecraft

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThe most important thing to director Regina King for her directorial debut on “One Night in Miami” was to have everything as historically accurate as possible.Cinematographer Tami Reiker’s research bible was “Goat: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali” by Jeff Koons.

Alex Stedman News Editor, Variety.comCD Projekt Red’s music director Marcin Przybyłowicz was hardly finished with the Polish developer’s last major tentpole, “The Witcher III: Wild Hunt,” when he had to start thinking about its next, “Cyberpunk 2077.”In fact, when CDPR announced “Cyberpunk 2077” in 2012, he was still working on the music for “The Witcher III’s” expansions.

The Music Venue Trust launched a new campaign to save 30 UK venues still in danger of being lost forever in the wake of coronavirus restrictions.MVT’s new #SaveThe30 ‘Traffic Light’ campaign will highlight the venues considered safe, at risk or in imminent danger between now and March 31.

Derrick May has been accused of physical, verbal and sexual assault by four women in a new investigation.Content warning: the following story contains descriptions of sexual assault.The testimonies, brought forward in a new investigation by DJ Mag, span 20 years and are alleged to have taken place in the US, the UK and New Zealand.One woman alleged May invited her to Detroit to work on a festival with him, and while she was being shown around May “spun me around and sat me down on the stairs in

Internationally revered DJ and producer Will Atkinson released his debut album 'Last King of Scotland' last week.

Following her moody and introspective Rated R album, Rihanna opted for something more crowd-pleasing to lead her fifth studio record Loud. Only Girl (In The World) was an iron clad, balls-out banger that would set the tone for the next decade on how to deliver an instant smash. 

Tell your parents: A German federal fiscal court has declared techno to be music, according to German news website The Local. The new legal designation will allow clubs that host DJs to charge a reduced sales tax on tickets: 7%, down from 19%, and on par with the rate enjoyed by the country's more traditional concert venues.

Hyundai Mercury Prize tomorrow night, Georgia has told NME about how she crafted this year’s most vital collection of dance floor bangers – and how victory could see her splashing out on a Tesla.