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The first few weeks of any year can are a quiet time in the world of new releases. Not a bad time to reflect on the year passed and equally ...

Before getting into any new music, some recent festival-related activity worth mentioning.

First up, last weekend saw the return of the quickly-becoming-legendary BLOC Weekend, where a 5000-strong rave-hungry rabble descended ...

Every now and then Irish people - and the press - like to get overly excited about Irish music.

Sometimes it's unjustified and sometimes it seems like it's only us ...

This weekend the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, now known as Movement, hits its tenth anniversary. Over the last decade there have been many changes to the festival, some good, some ...

Kenny Hanlon gets his freak on - for the most part anyway - at Movement in Detroit.

I can't say I'd ever heard of Memorial Day Weekend until around 10 ...

Italo Disco is one of the more obscure and perplexing sub cultures within dance music, inducing a fanatacism that can, to outsiders, seem somewhat odd. After spending years on the ...

Kenny Hanlon goes Dutch via Chicago and Cork in his latest round-up.

As we pass the half way point of the year, it’s maybe not a bad time to ...

**Kenny Hanlon on the art of the revival.**

That one of the biggest releases of this year is the re-issue of Robert Hood's seminal ‘Minimal Nation’ long player ...

**Redshape and the repeat offenders.**

Enigmatic techno producer Redshape delivers his debut long player, the deep and sometimes off-kilter ‘The Dance Paradox’ this month. In a relatively short space ...

**Traxx steps up to the plate.**

With a name like Melvin Oliphant III one could be forgiven for thinking that this Windy City native is more lord of the manor ...