Last night, DFA shared a pounding seven-minute remix of the Rapture’s disco anthem “How Deep Is Your Love?” from the Montreal turntable whiz A-Trak. A-Trak also shared a story about how the idea for the mix’s arrangement came from a conversation with DJ Mehdi, his tragically fallen dancefloor comrade. Grab...

The Ed Banger producer and DJ is rumoured to have died after a rooftop fall

According to Drake and Chromeo, the French dance DJ and producer DJ Mehdi has died at the tragically young age of 34. Mehdi has been a part of the French hip-hop and electro scenes since the late ’90s, but he really rose to prominence after linking with Ed Banger Records. In recent years, he’s remixed [...]

Last night's Dim Mak Tuesdays at Los Angeles's Cinespace started off as a clusterfuck of Ed Bangers (SebastiAn, SoMe, Gaspard from Justice, etc.) celebrating Busy P's birthday. Then Thomas Bangalter surprised the crowd by jumping on the decks, and everybody jizzed in their pants. Twitter lost its mind, obvs. The three song set saw the human afte...

 -- As Bloodshy & Avant, the Swedish producers Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg provided the deliriously great synthetic whizzing noises for jams like Britney Spears's "Toxic" and "Piece of Me", as well as hits for Kylie Minogue and Rachel Stevens. And now they've pulled an N.E.R.D., hooking up with musician Andrew Wyatt (...