Akashic Books launches website

Edited Press Release Akashic Books announced the launch of its new website, switching from a “practically pre-digital feel” to one that will have original content nearly every day of the week. The Brooklyn-based independent publisher of literary and alternative fiction outlined a schedule of regular features. Mondays Are Murder. Brand-new noir fiction modeled after its […]

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Drum ‘N’ Bass artist Calibre mix album, ‘Fabriclive 68’

Longtime Drum ‘N’ Bass DJ and producer Calibre has mixed “Fabriclive 68,” his first ever commercially available mix CD that’s in stores worldwide, his manager with ESP Agency announced. “This is the first time I’ve ever done a mix CD, so I was a little bit worried about how it would be received because sometimes […]

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BPM Smith 2

November 18, 2007: In this latest mix, BPM Smith churns out a fast and fluid DNB set that includes the latest breakthrough producers like Trei and Psidream while giving a nod to longtime artists from the UK such as Aphrodite and Klute. As always, this mix is presented “unfiltered,” served raw and unedited from the […]

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Social media update

They’re banned no more! I was one of the last holdouts to embrace social media. That should surprise nobody since I’m also still lugging vinyl records around and view DJs who work only off computers as dorks. I ignored Facebook until 2008 because I figured if people wanted to talk they could holla at my […]

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BPM Smith

Sept. 19, 2010: BPM Smith often works Electronica artists into the weekly WORD’N’BASS Show’s Downtempo sets. In this mix, he lulls listeners into a trancelike state with the dreamy atmospherics of Aaron Sontag & Nica Brooke before turning to UK and European artists who’ve defined the genre such as UNKLE, Röyksopp, Smith & Mighty and […]

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DJ Denise

DJ Denise has been a fixture at raves throughout North America since first hitting the decks in 1998. Her debut album, Hard Dance Sessions Volume One, was released in late 2003 with Tripoli Trax, one of London’s top Hard House labels. She plans a second full-length mixed album and is launching a new House label, […]

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