In a recent feature for Resident Advisor, DJ Koze laments the fact that so often “the mood of house music is really limited”, and his second full-length release, Knock Knock, is an electronic album which refuses to settle in one mood or sound, even within the confines of a single track. Knock Knock is an […]
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Delving into… finding a housemate/house
Now that exams are over, January means only one thing for many people, it means the challenge of finding a house for next year. To those annoying people who already have signed contracts, please stop reading. I am directing this to the majority of us who have been thinking about housing for the last month […]
An interview with Blonde
Meet Blonde, aka Adam Engelfield and Jacob Manson, the duo who have been picking up momentum as they take the electro-house music scene by storm. Their energetic, empowering dance music is impossible to resist; their sound stems from their university days where they both discovered their love for house music. Adam attended Bristol University, which […]
Album Review: Disclosure – Caracal
Disclosure Caracal 25 September 2015, Island House is everywhere at the moment: Deep House, Soft House, Tropical House, Chart House, Classical House; you just can’t get away from the stuff now that it’s broken through to the mainstream. The duo that are largely responsible for bringing it to the forefront are back, two years […]
Cellar Door to reopen with House Trap
On Saturday 19 September, Exeter’s fabled dance retreat, the Cellar Door, is set to reopen with Exeter-based residency House Trap. They’ve previously been responsible for some of Phoenix’s best house and funk nights, and resident DJ Lee H was Magic Hatstand’s August special guest on their fluorescent night of mayhem, Quirk! Cellar Door had hosted […]
Hijacked Festival
The first chapter of Exeter’s summer came last weekend with Thick As Thieves presents the second round of Hijacked Festival. With a lineup featuring kings and queens of party-centric house and electronica, Callum Burroughs headed along to a land of bucket hats for a great day of music. [dropcap size=small]D[/dropcap]evon can delight on a regular basis, […]