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Positive Education

Art & Culture

Value Based Curation: Positive Education Festival in focus

Next month will mark the return of arguably one of the most innovative and interesting European music and arts festivals.

Opinion

View From The Side: Is it time to change the way that we look at rave history? Whether the public likes it or not, we are going to see more and more documentaries told unapologetically through the eyes of an individual. This can actually be a good thing, as long as you have the right storyteller...

Opinion

View From The Side: What is truly underground? We explore the commodification of the 'underground'.

Opinion

View From The Side: Has Track ID Culture Gone Too Far? Whilst it is commonly conceived that human beings are scared of the unknown, disc jockeys often disprove such rationale with their white label wax and obscure, unheard sonics.

Opinion

View From The Side – Is It Time To Call Time On Record Labels? What’s the point of record labels?

Opinion

View From The Side: Discogs Should Accept Bootlegs Are Dance Culture Pretty much any of the electronic genres you care to think of were built from an illicit mountain of unofficial releases, cheeky bootlegs and the dodgy reissues.

Opinion

View From The Side: Is dance music suffering from the weight of history? Data hurtles from tiny screens to punchdrunk brains from the moment we wake and clutch for our bedside phones. It’s the information age. When it comes to music, we have the facility to know more than ever before – a trip to Youtube and we can hear every hissing hi hat on a mid-90s Mood […]

Opinion

View From The Side: Lies, Lies, Lies And Jihadi John The bastards are at it again. This week Obama bombed away any lingering hope that he might take a break from America valuing aggression over reason. With depressing inevitability, the Septics announced an air strike campaign against the nebulous, slightly fantastical (sorry, was that meant to read fanatical?) group ISIS -or is that ISIL? Or […]