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Digit Illinton – Get Your Groove On featuring Tyree Cooper

It was only a few millimeters. And yet, that one tiny hand movement could be felt from the very back of the tent, through the misty crowd, across the bottle-strewn floor, past the shafts of morning sunlight, to the bodies on stage, and the tight, shaking DJ booth.

Luciano smiles, raises a finger towards the sky, and purses his lips for a whistle.

He is the ringleader of a circus, the conductor of chaos, in this festival in Romania. His causality is powerful. His energy is infectious. Wherever Luciano plays, whenever he drops the bass, pandemonium comes.

There are few DJs that can push a dancefloor to that edge, where joy and madness are but foot shuffles apart, warped emotions, at the touch of a button.

And just as he directs dancefloors every weekend through a party ritual that usually ends in hysteria, Luciano doesn’t stop pushing things forwards when he returns to the solitude of his studio in a peaceful village in Switzerland.

How often his thoughts and actions become trends that others follow.

He led minimal techno before it became popular. He brought classic house back to the main stage of the underground club scene, before it was fashionable to look backwards.

He was one of the first to embrace the possibilities of digital, by layering musical elements, loops, and vocals, into his DJ sets.

He sampled children, embraced organic drums, and experimented with sub bass frequencies. His productions are a masterclass in meticulousness at a micro level.

His tracklists are the stuff of legend, essential reading for any self-respecting house or techno fan to devour, and to plagiarize.

He breaks record after record because he either writes them himself, or releases them on his label Cadenza, which too, leads by example.

On so many levels, Luciano is a kingmaker. Our in-depth interview begins on that note.

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Who would have thought that Popof had a softer side? The French underground techno hero gets cute and melodic on his latest cut ‘Brain On The Side’, which is one of the hottest cuts on Beatport this week.

The slamming and heavy hitting tech house on Octave One’s new ‘A World Divided’ is also a killer, as is Santos’ brilliant new wonky techno cut ‘Lania Inesperada’ on Figure.

The Kabale und Liebe and Julien Chaptal Remix of Gregorythyme ‘Summmer’ is worth checking, and be sure to listen to Butch’s amazing ode to classic house on ‘Pump Pump’.

Click through to listen to the full 20.

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Before Justice and Simian Mobile Disco were famous, they played at the Filthy Dukes’ quirky Kill ‘Em All And Let God Sort Them Out club night.

The party began life six years ago as a poorly attended bash in the basement of a pub in London, but soon grew to become one of London’s most popular club events, helping to create the indie dance hysteria that later swept the globe.

The success of their parties soon led to Olly Dixon and Tim Lawton being asked to remix famous bands, even though they had never produced a single track.

After a string of remixes, the Filthy Dukes dropped their debut album ‘Nonsense In The Dark’, and this month saw the release of a new set of club remixes of their LP.

We caught up with the Dukes’ Olly Dixon to find out more about the beginning of their indie dance empire.

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DJ T. discusses drug cartels, war, Afghanistan, and politics in this week’s tour blog, with a dispatch from Costa Rica and Monterrey.

Now 15 weeks into his world tour, the Get Physical boss’ thoughts are getting quite deep.

He also drops a new DJ chart, highlighting his current dancefloor rockers from his world tour.

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Nice mixup between tech house and deep house on Manuscript Records made by the Manuscript Family.

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