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Google launched its 'Music, Makers & Machines' online multi-media exhibition last week to celebrate electronic dance music. 

A new book explores the history of club culture across Africa and Europe from 1960 to 2020.

Titled Ten Cities, the new 500-page book aims to present "a retrospective look at the significance of clubs as experimental fields and protected spaces", while much of the world's clubbing and music venues remain shuttered due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The new online archive celebrating Blackburn’s acid house rave scene of the late '80s and early '90s that we reported on last week (16th April) has launched online.

FLASHBACK is a new online archive comprising images and audio interviews, reflecting on the infamous acid house parties that took place in Blackburn, Lancashire between 1988 and 1991.

A new online archive will celebrate Blackburn’s acid house rave scene of the late '80s / early '90s.

FLASHBACK is a new online archive comprising images and audio interviews, reflecting on the infamous acid house parties that took place in Blackburn, Lancashire between 1988 and 1991.

After its premiere at Glastonbury, Ibiza - The Silent Movie will air this Friday on BBC4. 

Fatboy Slim soundtracked the film, which contains no dialogue and tells the “extraordinary 2,000-year story of dance music’s most influential, charismatic and spiritual island.”

The official soundtrack for forthcoming UK rave culture film 'Beats' is available to stream now.

Produced by Steven Soderbergh and directed by Brian Welsh (whose previous credits include 'Black Mirror'), the film is set in Scotland during the summer of 1994 and follows a pair of friends as they get to grips with the free party scene of the time before they separate as adulthood awaits. In the process, the film's writers Brian Welsh and Kieran Hurley offer a gripping look back to early days of the UK's rave scene.

Rave On: Global Adventures In Electronic Dance Music, a new book written by widely celebrated journalist Matthew Collin, documents the evolution and ever-changing culture of electronic music.

Paul Kalkbrenner has dropped the third installment of his ‘Back To The Future’ mixtape, which sees the German don charting the history of techno in Germany.

The latest installment of his mixtape series features 60 tracks that span the rise of techno in Berlin from 1987 to 1993.

Kalkbrenner went on the ultimate crate digging exercise sifting through over 5,000 productions to find the final 60 he used for the final part of his mixtape series.