Deniz Kaya
Deniz has been in it since vinyl was the only option, and she writes the lineage behind every new record: genres, labels, and the long interview. She gets the credits right or doesn't run it.
Stories by Deniz Kaya
Defected's 2026 Natural Blues names Jacob Lusk alongside Moby, BLOND:ISH and Kiko Franco while retaining Vera Hall and Alan Lomax in the composition credits.
World of Echo bought JD Twitch's record collection. Part one, around 7,000 to 8,000 records, goes on sale in person on Cheshire Street from 14 November.
Roni Size and Reprazent's 2027 New Forms run turns a 1997 drum-and-bass landmark back into a live argument.
Fatboy Slim's Better Living Through Chemistry reissue reopens the loose, sample-heavy big beat language before the later hits took over.
Orbital's Glastonbury 1994 release turns a remembered live set into source-tape, liner-note and format evidence.
William Orbit died on 23 July. DJVibe filed him as a remixer in 2004 and 2009, and on an ambient disc last month. The club work came first.
Germany's Federal Court of Justice ruled Pelham's Kraftwerk loop can stand as pastiche. The order the court reasoned in is the part producers should read.
6 Music's Rave Forever and V&A East mapped Black British dance history in 2026. Goldie spent the same year building the archive from the floor up.
Nico Stojan died in July. A production diary published weeks later shows what a Berlin resident actually contributes: a record pulled from the crates.
Sasha and Digweed's 30th-anniversary Northern Exposure reissue lands 25 September, with a new ambient disc that tests what a long-form mix really trains.
Patrick Gleeson died July 19 at 91. The Different Fur founder played on Hancock's Crossings and Sextant, and was Apocalypse Now's Master Synthesist.
Forty-plus years and no fixed address. What Ibiza's most enduring inclusive party proves about durability in the hyperclub era.