A story of dance floor culture that starts in 1990 within the euphoric walls of legendary all-night Liverpool nightclub, Quadrant Park and travels through era-defining clubbing institutions such as BackIIBasics…
Some tracks don’t need a video. Then there are the ones where the visual and the music become so completely fused that you cannot imagine one without the other. These…
I have been chewing on this one for months and it is finally coming out, so pour yourself something stronger than coffee. When did dance music, our dance music, become…
Look, I’ll hold my hand up. How this one slipped through the Throwback Thursday net is genuinely beyond me. I think I was mowing the lawn. Whatever the excuse, on…
France has officially added electronic music to its national Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage, marking a decisive step toward a future UNESCO application. The announcement, reported by Le Figaro, highlights…
So, with Christmas comign soon and those socks just won’t cut it for your DJ friend/partner. Whilst you ponder what to get, we figured we’d put together a list that…
As we launch into Episide 6 of our Throwback Thursday series, let’s have a proper chat about a record that fundamentally changed electronic music, shall we? January 1997 was a…
The grid is back online. Disney has just released the trailer for Tron: Ares, and the synth-heavy, neon-drenched world of Tron is pulsing with new life. Slated for release in…
When Daft Punk embarked on their Alive 2006/2007 tour, it wasn’t just a concert—it was a seismic cultural event that redefined what live electronic music could be. After years of…
After select fan and festival screenings this year, the 4K remastered version of Daft Punk & Leiji Matsumoto’s 2003 anime masterpiece Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem…
We decided last week in the Decoded office to have a Youtube day of the best, most influential and strangest music videos we could find…which got us thinking. So here…
Despite having battled with Stage 4 prostate cancer for the last 4 years and received the last treatment in October 2023, UK DJ, producer legend, Ashley Beedle was dealt a…
Thomas Bangalter, renowned founder of the legendary French electronic music duo Daft Punk, has just digitally released CHIROPTERA, the soundtrack for a performance created with artist JR and choreographer Damien Jallet realised by 154 dancers in…
Lee Brackstone, Publisher at White Rabbit, has acquired World rights (excluding the USA and Canada, and Italian, German and Japanese languages) to Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines and Tomorrow’s Music…
With 30 years of memories, parties and lineups, Bugged Out is one of the longest-standing parties to exist in the UK. Championing exactly what old-school rave and hedonism are all…
In an 8 part YouTube series, Daft Punk have released ‘Memory Tapes’ that reflects on the creation of their final album, ‘Random Access Memories’. In the Behind the Scenes series,…
Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter will release his first solo album, ‘Mythologies’, which will feature an orchestral piece he wrote for a ballet of the same name. The album is set…
Hervet Manufacturier is Paris-based furniture brand co-founded by cousins Cédric and Nicolas Hervet. Some of you may recognise the names of one of the cousins… Cédric was Daft Punk’s creative…
After Daft will be a definitive publication on pioneering French music duo Daft Punk and the first book so far to cover their entire career, from formation in 1993 to split…
